Review on 🔌 6 Pin to 8 Pin PCIe Adapter Power Cable - 4 Inches (Pack of 2) by Cable Matters by Erick Hernandez

If you have a smaller 6-pin PCI-e power supply and an 8-pin graphics card, the adapter allows you to PHYSICALLY connect the power supply to the graphics card. Keep in mind that the 6-pin cable is designed to deliver an extra 75W to the card, and using this adapter doesn't magically raise the cap to the actual 8-pin cable, which is an extra 150W. As to what graphics card you can use, you also need to know how much power can be drawn through the PCI-e slot your graphics card is plugged into (typically 75W, but less for some small form factor PCs), as well as the power rating your Power adapter. deliver. So you need to do your research and confirm the specifications. If you understand these limitations, as well as the options to limit GPU peak power consumption provided by software such as MSI Afterburner, you can safely use this adapter with a suitable graphics card. In my personal case, I use this adapter for an EVGA GTX 1660. TI (8-pin PCI-e connector) connected to an HP Z240 Tower Workstation with a 400W 80+ Platinum PSU (6-pin cable/PCI-e connector) is connected ) . For the Z240, I want to keep the GPU power consumption under 150W (75W via the 6-pin PCI-e connector from the PSU + 75W via the PCI-e slot). The data sheet for the EVGA card (which is overclocked by the reference Nvidia) states that the power consumption is up to 160W. So I use MSI Afterburner to limit GPU power to 90% so the max power consumption doesn't exceed 150W.