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What cable for 3060?

Joe_
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Use all of them. The 3060 is low enough power that if you don't have a second PCIE cable, you can just use the pigtail that sticks off the current connector you're using.

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I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Just now, IkeaGnome said:

Use all of them. The 3060 is low enough power that if you don't have a second PCIE cable, you can just use the pigtail that sticks off the current connector you're using.

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I'll have a smaller 2 pin connecter just hanging not connected to anything is that okay?

Sorry for bad quality picture idk why it's doing that

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2 minutes ago, Joe_ said:

I'll have a smaller 2 pin connecter just hanging not connected to anything is that okay?

Sorry for bad quality picture idk why it's doing that

It's fine. That is designed to be 6+2 pins instead of just 8 in case you only have 6 pins on the GPU. 

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Joe_ said:

I'll have a smaller 2 pin connecter just hanging not connected to anything is that okay?

Sorry for bad quality picture idk why it's doing that

Yes, that's perfectly fine. Those two pins are used if your graphics card has two 8 pin connectors, and they're able to be separated in case you need a 6 pin connector (like you do). 

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41 minutes ago, Joe_ said:

do I need to use all of these or will my 8-pin do fine?

complicated answer

 

your GPU doesnt need additional power the 6-pin provides, but it would need it to boot because most cards refuse to boot up if it detects that it's not plugged into PCIE power

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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