Do you get those nightmares where you're trying to solve some problem but you don't have the right cables, and then the dream evolves into searching for the cables, but they're all wrong, and what was it you were trying to fix in the first place? Maybe this is why every drawer is now overflowing with cables.
Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
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Re: Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
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Couldn't you still fry a PSU if the cable assumed multiple common pins to the PSU, but the PSU had different voltages across those connectors?
I guess, but that seems unusual. Pins are split all the time, for instance to turn a 6pin PCI connector into a substandard 8pin one, but the reverse? Merging multiple source pins into fewer output pins by shorting them together? Visual inspection would normally catch situations like that, and then you might be able to figure out if it's okay with continuity checks and voltage checks with a multimeter on the relevant…
You don't need to be merging multiple source pins into fewer output pins; it's very normal for multiple ground pins to appear on an output connector, and for the 12V GPU and motherboard pins you see multiple output pins at 12V as well.