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Strange Power Supply - Need Help!!

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ak47is1337

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Recently, I bought a new Dell XPS (Delta manufactured) 1kW PSU off eBay for the rock-bottom price of $65. It arrived, and I now see it is the strangest power supply ever.
Just take a look at the cables, especially the power plug in...also it has 24 pin, then a second 20 pin, but no 8 pin. Just for convenience, it features TWO molex connectors!
Then, just to leave me more confused, it has this wierd 6 pin connector that is 3 inches from the PSU. WTF?

Can anybody help me identify and link me to some 8 pin converter cables? Also, is there any way to splice open 6 pin PCI-E cables, since I have 4 of those and only need one lol.

Here's the system I'll have it hooked up to:
Xeon 3220
P5E
2gb PC8500 Tracer Ballistix
Seagate 500gb SATA2 32mb
8800gts G92
Swiftech MCP655 pump
1 DVD-RW drive

So as you can see, this isn't very power consuming, but I am thinking about buying a 320 or 400 watt peltier off eBay to add to the water cooling loop on the CPU. With two molex connections, you can see how that might be a problem...






 
That power supply may have been made specifically for Dell systems.

The 2nd and 3rd pictures are kind of blurry. Can't tell what they are.

Sorry, can't be of much help.
 
i think the second 20 pin atx cable actually fits into the 8 pin cable...strange. also, the 2 pics that are blurry are of the cable that goes from your PSU to your wall, and i showed a pic of that because unlike a normal PSU cable, it goes sideways with the pins...
 
hm...where can i get a pinout of the 8-pin intel connector by the IO plate? I wish to convert a few of the cables to molex or the entire proprietary dell 20 pin to that. any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Google - specifically, any ATX or EPS power supply spec is available online.

As far as the Dell spec - see if Dell has a manual online somewhere. Google will find some of this too - there's a Russian web site with every pinout you can imagine.
 
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