Daisy chained PCI-e

[100radsbarman]

The store that built my pc, made a daisy chain connection from my psu. Basically, the cable that goes out from the psu to the gpu, has a 6 pin pcie connector and then there's another cable that goes out directly from the 6 pin's head and goes to an 8 pin one. They probably used this method because I have a gigabyte 1070 g1 gaming that requires only one 8 pcie connector. My questions is: Can I just purchase a new 6 + 8 pcie gpu and connect the cable as it is or this would cause any damage?

Photo: https://imgur.com/80Wth8B

I'm interested in this specific card which requires 6 + 8: https://www.newegg.com/msi-geforce-rtx-2070-rtx-2070-tri-frozr/p/N82E16814137490?Description=rtx 2070&cm_re=rtx_2070-_-14-137-490-_-Product&quicklink=true

 

 

[Fasauceome]

Yes, you can plug it in that way. Hopefully your PSU is good though, what specific model to you have?

[100radsbarman]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

Yes, you can plug it in that way. Hopefully your PSU is good though, what specific model to you have?

Ippon 550w gold +80

[George.]

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It's a good PSU so it should work safely....given its power capacity isn't maxed out by the system.

 

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, 100radsbarman said:

Ippon 550w gold +80

Unfortunately I don't have any info on that unit

 

2 minutes ago, George. said:

 

Can you share the reviews that you're going by? We could use them to add to the tier list

[100radsbarman]

13 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Unfortunately I don't have any info on that unit

 

Can you share the reviews that you're going by? We could use them to add to the tier list

 

[Fasauceome]

the specs would only tell me if it was bad, not necessarily if it was good. It might have enough current on the 12V, and it might have a decent efficiency rating, but it could still have a lot of other problems that we don't know about.

 

@LukeSavenije have you heard about this unit? (if the PSU above is a specific unit)

[LukeSavenije]

3 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

@LukeSavenije have you heard about this unit? (if the PSU above is a specific unit)

It looks from the outside a lot like a SAMA Forza, but I'm not entirely sure since I can't see much else

[100radsbarman]

Thanks