Rtx cables question

[scottox]

Hi I just built my first gaming pc and I haven't had any problems luckily. A friend of mine visited me and said that I should use 3 different pcie cable for the cable that comes from the GPU instead of using and use the other end of one of them but my PSU only came with 2. I noticed that in the PSU package there's the cable that you can see in the photo. Should I attacht that instead directly from the PSU to the GPU?

My specs are rtx 4080 super

And the PSU MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850w

[Spotty]

1 minute ago, scottox said:

I noticed that in the PSU package there's the cable that you can see in the photo. Should I attacht that instead directly from the PSU to the GPU?

Yes. You only need to use the adapter cable that goes to 3 PCIe cables if your power supply does not have a 12VHPWR cable. Since your power supply has the 12VHPWR cable you can just use that instead of the adapter cable and PCIe cables.

[scottox]

3 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Yes. You only need to use the adapter cable that goes to 3 PCIe cables if your power supply does not have a 12VHPWR cable. Since your power supply has the 12VHPWR cable you can just use that instead of the adapter cable and PCIe cables.

So I just plug the cable in the picture directly from PSU to graphic card?

[Kilrah]

Yep.

[scottox]

Thanks to both of you this also seemed to fix the red light on my motherboard that was turining on during bootup and then disappearing