Xonar dx confusing question about plugging in additional power

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I have a xonar dx which has a floppy connector auxillary power requirement. I just bought a new PSU (hx850 corsair), it says in the manual that PCI-e cards must be fed from the blue 8-pin PCI-E output on the PSU. I have 2 options:

1) Ignore the instructions and play safe plugging the floppy connector via the black output (fans, hard drives, floppy drives).

2) Plug a black molex into the blue PCI-e slot which mechanically will fit and hope that the pinouts are correct such that the hole thing doesn't go up in smoke.

The reason I haven't already gone with option 1 is because that Corsair obviously wants to separate fans, hard drives, floppy drives ect. from PCI-e stuff connected to the motherboard. Since I bought a new PSU because my system was unstable this is an important point.

I'm googling myself but its a bit of an obscure/geeky question.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/connectors.html
 
Nevermind the connector would not fit anyhow. Although I think the best idea would be to have checked the voltages with my multimeter, since my previous modular PSU cables were clearly different.
 
The 8-pin is designed for graphics cards. It's your psu manufacturer's fault for stating pci-e cards in general instead of just graphics cards.

The xonar just takes a normal floppy drive connection and takes no more power than a floppy drive so connect your standard floppy connection from your psu.

If your cable had fitted the 8-pin pci-e socket and you had connected your xonar I think you would have had a dead xonar by now.
 
Is it just me or do those damn floppy connecters seem to fit both ways around..?

That's fine on a cheaop floppy drive (where the lights just light up) but who knows what damage it would do to a Xonar...

Be lucky..
 
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