PC Graphics

[Pippy1916]

Long story short I'm building my first pc and I chose the sapphire 7800xt as my graphics card. I knew it took a 16 pin power connector but I saw most cards that took that connector came with one so I was working under the assumption this card was no different. I was wrong. Now I cannot for the life of me find a power connector that is compatible that doesn't look like a scam. Any ideas on where I can find one that'd work? 

[goodplay]

Just use two separate 8 pin pcie cables from psu to card, no need for a 16 pin adaptor.

[Pippy1916]

The psu I got was modular (corsair 850rmx) and it had 2 extra 8 pin to 8 pin wires but they physically did not fit into the card. You know how pcie cables have like round and square patterns to prevent incorrect usage? They didn't line up correctly to fit. Pardon my ignorance but would gpu and cpu pcie wires have different configurations of the same 8 to 8 wires and I just had cpu spares and I need gpu ones? 

[goodplay]

My cables have PCI or CPU printed on the plug-in, so didn't inspect them. Though one of the 6+2 was troublesome/fiddly to fit. 

[ardankyaosen · Accepted solution]

According to this:

https://superuser.com/questions/849265/is-there-a-difference-between-8-pin-eps12v-and-pci-e-connecto... 

There's an EPS 8 pin connector and a PCI-E 8 pin connector.  You ought to have at least one set labelled PCI-E for the graphics card.  If not, I guess I'd ask Corsair about it.