8 Pcie cable has 1 "cutout"
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4 minutes ago, Scayron said:So the side with the missing pin goes to the psu even though the psu slot has the pins..? do those get no connection or something?
The PCIe cable has 3x12V pins. The row with 4 pins is ground. The socket on the PSU has a pin there because on the PSU the same socket is also used for the CPU cable which does have 4x12V wires. Since the PCIe cable only needs 3x12V wires the 4th terminal is empty.
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