Are Plug-in PC Power Supply Cables Really Incompatible? I Tested It. [DANGER]

Hello, it's Incompetent.

Various power supply manufacturers have announced that plug-in cables should not be reused with products from other companies. However, since the ridiculous price of several thousand yen for a single plug-in cable became absurd, I decided to test it as a guinea pig.

This is the side that connects to the power supply.

Red (bottom) Owltech EVEREST 85PLUS 720W

Blue (top) SILVERSTONE SST-ST75F-P 750W

Graphics cards have 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors, but the photos above show
Red 8-pin, Blue 6-pin
respectively.

The power supply side has 8 pins. The blue cable, being a 6-pin connector, didn't match the pin count. Upon inspection, I found that the cables were simply not arranged to fill all the pins, as shown in the image.

So, an 8-pin type cable is in the form of 6-pin + 2-pin, and tracing the origin of the 2-pin cable on the red side, I discovered that it has the same arrangement as the blue one!!! The color arrangement of both cables also matched, and assuming that in the worst-case scenario, GPUs have protection circuits to prevent abnormal ignition, I decided to be a guinea pig...

Result: It worked! ＼(^o^)／

So, looking at this danger and examples of ignition, it seems many people have experienced burning when reusing SSD or HDD connectors.

Indeed, checking the number of power supply pins for SSD/HDD is too much trouble, so it's better to avoid it...

However, it goes without saying that what I did this time is also dangerous, so do not imitate it.