Trying to buy some sata power cable for a lenovo sff pc, the seller did not clarify what size

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You mean sth like this?

  sata power

  In my machine it’s part of the PSU cable salad; probably “adapted” to the main trunk with something like above.

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• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So you needed SFF, the seller didn’t say theirs was SFF, and when it came it wasn’t SFF? Am I confused?

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• brokenlcd@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s literally a cpu connector. If you can solder you can jerry rig a new cable. Hell. i made a whole wire loom out of one of those sata ports.

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  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lol, what a solution. Xrazy build. I wouldn’t worry too much about thermals. Even 80-90°C should be still acceptable, with the card only throttling above 90

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    • brokenlcd@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In the end i managed by adding two fans under the desk. And wiring them through a switch to one of the free MOLEX. Now it never goes over 77°C. Even at full tilt

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  • Ascend910@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is insane

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    • brokenlcd@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The wiggle room on the actual pins saved you :-). I’m frankly surprised lenovo didn’t change pinouts between versions. They are more than capable of that.

      It’s a thinkcentre right?

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• scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks like EPS power, which is to power the CPU.

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• Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You should be able to put your model number into here and find the exact part for your computer: support.lenovo.com/us/en/parts-lookup

  You might have problems with it not being the right pinout if you get a generic part as I think their solution is proprietary (and psu pinouts aren’t even standardized anyways, though I imagine it goes though the motherboard in this case).

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