I'm a noob and this is my first ant.
I jumped the gun and bought a Corsair CX600M before fully researching. By the time my Ant came there were two schools of thought:

1) It's fine, just plug in the two PCIe plugs and go!
2) You will burn your **** down. Don't do it.

I thought #2 sounded the easiest Cheesy

so I unpacked my Ant, and in 5 minutes was mining! Too easy!

You can see in this pic here that I just plugged in the two PCIe connectors, fed off the one wire:

http://camaro.cdntechnologies.com/bitcoin/ant1.jpg

After 10 minutes of mining, I felt the wires feeding those two PCIe connectors. They were HOT! Like really hot, and I wasn't even overclocking yet. I knew I had to use the CPU wires to split the load.

I didn't know which of the CPU wires were "yellow" (12v) since all the wires on the Corsair PSU's are black. Being a car guy, I grabbed my 12v test light and found out which wires of the CPU plug was live. It's all four of the wires on the "clip" side as you can see here:

http://camaro.cdntechnologies.com/bitcoin/ant2.jpg

I immediately taped the four 12v wires to mark them. Again, it's all of them on that clip side. This way I wouldn't mix up wires:

http://camaro.cdntechnologies.com/bitcoin/ant3.jpg

Then I cut the 12v wires off the CPU connector, stripped 3 of them, and screwed them to the yellow 12v terminals on one of the blades.

Then I cut the remaining 4 ground wires off the CPU connector (all the wires on the opposite side of the clip that did not light up with my light) and stripped and screwed three of them to the black ground terminals on the blade. You can see here now I have two feeds to the Ant: the PCIe on one blade, and the stripped CPU power wires on the other:

http://camaro.cdntechnologies.com/bitcoin/ant4.jpg

I powered everything back on. It's been two hours (not 10 minutes!) and all wires are cold to the touch.

Safe Mining!

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