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• Successful_Try543@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looking at the Asrock product page, there is only an additional 8-pin-connector at the top left, no 4-pin.

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• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The 6-pin connector? That very much looks OK to me. I don’t see where it would go.

  However there’s disconnected 2 pins on the graphics card.

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  • magiccupcake@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That gpu looks like it only has 6 pins, not 8, so it could be fine.

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  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It looks to me like that’s a 6+2 connector and they only needed the 6-pin so the +2 is just left dangling, which afaik is fine.

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    • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I saw 8 solder blobs, but I’m not sure if it’s actually an 8 pin anymore.

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      • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, yeah, okay, good point. I didn’t notice the solder. I’m not sure if it’s actually a six pin anymore. I have zero clue how an 8 pin GPU would react to only having 6 pins.

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s plugged in. I believe those are extra for something else thar he ziptied to the graphics connection. Here are a couple images.

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  • AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It's fine. The PCI-e is another one for a graphics card that requires more connectors to be attached.

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