Power output (urgent)

[Thenerd-err]

Does molex and sata power cables have same power output? 

Im running usb 3.0 extension card that came with sata to molex cable for power. I was wondering if i can just use the molex cable directly from psu (Perif 1 port) to power it up.

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[Electronics Wizardy]

both molex and sata have more than enough max current for any usb card.

[Derrk]

Molex provides mores amps than sata

[Sauron]

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I'm not convinced it was...

 

But yes, you can use the adapter to power your card. They probably wouldn't exist (least of all come in the card's box) if they didn't work.

 

You could have also used google for 2 minutes and found this

[Derrk]

7 minutes ago, Sauron said:

I'm not convinced it was...

 

But yes, you can use the adapter to power your card. They probably wouldn't exist (least of all come in the card's box) if they didn't work.

 

You could have also used google for 2 minutes and found this

always surprises me when people take the time to start a thread here before going to google

[Thenerd-err]

10 minutes ago, Derrk said:

always surprises me when people take the time to start a thread here before going to google

I did google it, there were some people saying that they provide different powers and some said that they are same. It got me confused, so i asked here.

[Stefan Payne]

4 hours ago, Thenerd-err said:

Does molex and sata power cables have same power output? 

No, Molex is like 3times the current of S-ATA

 

4 hours ago, Thenerd-err said:

Im running usb 3.0 extension card that came with sata to molex cable for power. I was wondering if i can just use the molex cable directly from psu (Perif 1 port) to power it up.

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Some don't even need that and work well without a power connection, some do.

 

The reason for that is the high amperage of USB 3.0.

In my case its like 5A for all Ports.