PSU cable

[Amjad07]

Hi, basically my pc has arrived and there are two 6+2 pins spare (from the actual psu) and I don’t know what they are for. My psu is a corsair vengeance 650w and my motherboard is an Asus rog strix f gaming.

[phillpower2]

Welcome to PCHF Amjad07,

It is not very often that you will need to use all cables that come either attached or in the case of a semi or fully modular unattached to/from the PSU.

The 6+2 cables are the PCI-E type that are used for powering a lot of add on video cards, older video cards most often used just the six pin connector but as add on GPUs have gotten better they require more power so the eight pin power connector came about, rather than attach or provide more cables with modular PSUs and to keep costs down the solution was the 6+2 connector which gives folk the choice of both options.

Do you have an add on video card?

[Amjad07]

Welcome to PCHF Amjad07,

It is not very often that you will need to use all cables that come either attached or in the case of a semi or fully modular unattached to/from the PSU.

The 6+2 cables are the PCI-E type that are used for powering a lot of add on video cards, older video cards most often used just the six pin connector but as add on GPUs have gotten better they require more power so the eight pin power connector came about, rather than attach or provide more cables with modular PSUs and to keep costs down the solution was the 6+2 connector which gives folk the choice of both options.

Do you have an add on video card?

What do you mean add on video card?

I have the 5700xt which requires an 8pin and 6pin, i have used that but that’s no longer the issue the issue is that my PC won’t turn on, it has power but nothing has power besides my motherboards RGB

[phillpower2]

Hi, basically my pc has arrived and there are two 6+2 pins spare (from the actual psu) and I don’t know what they are for. My psu is a corsair vengeance 650w and my motherboard is an Asus rog strix f gaming.

Welcome to PCHF Amjad07,

It is not very often that you will need to use all cables that come either attached or in the case of a semi or fully modular unattached to/from the PSU.

The 6+2 cables are the PCI-E type that are used for powering a lot of add on video cards, older video cards most often used just the six pin connector but as add on GPUs have gotten better they require more power so the eight pin power connector came about, rather than attach or provide more cables with modular PSUs and to keep costs down the solution was the 6+2 connector which gives folk the choice of both options.

Do you have an add on video card?

You asked what the two 6+2 cables were for and it was explained.

I asked if you had an add on video card so as to make sure that if you did have such a card that it had any required PCI-E cable/s from the PSU connected to it.

Nowhere in your OP did you mention any issue/s that you may have been having but had you done so one of us would have attempted to help you.

[Amjad07]

You asked what the two 6+2 cables were for and it was explained.

I asked if you had an add on video card so as to make sure that if you did have such a card that it had any required PCI-E cable/s from the PSU connected to it.

Nowhere in your OP did you mention any issue/s that you may have been having but had you done so one of us would have attempted to help you.

Want me to make a new post then?

[phillpower2]

Yes, and be sure to list the brand and model name of all hardware, the issue/s that you are having and what you have tried already.