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 5 weeks agoThe 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.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Bezier@suppo.fi 5 weeks ago
I saw 8 solder blobs, but I’m not sure if it’s actually an 8 pin anymore.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
Successful_Try543@feddit.de 5 weeks ago
If you look closely on the upper picture in this reply, you can see, that there is only a 6-pin connector, the 2 extra soldering points are unused.
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That gpu looks like it only has 6 pins, not 8, so it could be fine.