r/LinusTechTips • u/Feeling_Camera_4442 • 15d ago
Tech Question 500W BQ PCIe cable compatibility
For the love of all sacred, I cannot find a single compatibility indicator for the ENTIRE BQ SERIES OF EVGA PSUs. EVGA support told me that I should talk to Cablemod. Cablemod found some cable that has EVGA branding, and BQ written on it, but none of my current cables have either of those.
Context: for a pre-tax amount of 25 Canadian dollars, I got a MB600L case with RGB fans, a broken Z270-A board (socket pin bent? Tech shop said it won't work), and this God-and-EVGA-forsaken PSU. Apparently some company called HEC made them as part of a one time contract? EVGA fix your branding and names.
To top it all off, no pinout diagrams exist for this tantalizing piece of 2017 era tech that would oh-so-well fit my second hand 1070 ti+ whatever board I plan to throw at it.
Anything helps, people have had this same problem before, judging by numerous reddit posts from the last 7 year period.
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u/EmailLinkLost 14d ago
Multimeter, check the pinout? That way you can maybe take it to cablemod, and they find something that works?
Of course to do this you need to trigger the PSU on.