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Basically I have the superflower leadex v 1000w gold PSU, and it only came with 4 8 pin connectors. And I need to power a 3080 ftw3 ultra (3x8 pin) and a gigabyte gamer oc 3080 (gonna be mining non stop on this on a riser) and gaming/mining on the 80. Am I safe to use two cables per? maybe 3 whole strands on the ftw3 (since its gonna game and shit) and a single strand plugged into both ports for the giga 80. 

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Yeah, plug the whole set of cables in.

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2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Yeah, plug the whole set of cables in.

In which order

5 minutes ago, Slizzo said:

If you don't plug in all the power connectors, usually the card refuses to work.

Alright. But how many strands per card.

 

 

Also is it safe to use a CPU > VGA cable adaptor?

 

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I think youll want another psu for that other 3080, since its gonna be connected only via a riser and im skeptical that a 1000w psu is gonna be enough to power 2 3080 cards

 

I dont think the usb cable on the riser transfers any power so i think just connecting the gpu + riser to a seperate psu is safe but correct me if im wrong

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1 minute ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

I think youll want another psu for that other 3080, since its gonna be connected only via a riser and im skeptical that a 1000w psu is gonna be enough to power 2 3080 cards

 

I dont think the usb cable on the riser transfers any power so i think just connecting the gpu + riser to a seperate psu is safe but correct me if im wrong

Cant have another PSU, and it should be fine. One will pull 240 watts while the other pulls upto 320 during gaming (or whatever it can) and then the rest of the time their gonna be 240 or less

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2 minutes ago, Caroline said:

Don't use adapters, if the PSU lacks the connectors it's usually because it can't output that much power anyway.

Adapters are a grey zone

 

Some people swear by them

Some people hate them

 

Tbh adapers are a good way of getting a 6 or 8 pin connector on a 500w or something psu that doesnt have them, but the amperage on the 12v rail needs to be checked first cause if it has a rather low amperage and the 3.3 or 5v rails have higher amperage than the 12v rail than its not reccomended, did this anyways cause i didnt know any better but im powering a gts 250 so not surprised that it hasnt caught on fire

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1 minute ago, CalifornianKing said:

Cant have another PSU, and it should be fine. One will pull 240 watts while the other pulls upto 320 during gaming (or whatever it can) and then the rest of the time their gonna be 240 or less

Only way to test if it works is to try it in real life, though prepare for your psu to randomly shutoff if it cant deliver enough power, esp since the 3080 and up have power spikes

 

I use cheap hardware and since its old its bulletproof so even if my psu explodes my hardware will prob be fine anyways plus replacing it is cheap,  but newer hardware seems to be abit more fragile than older hardware and its expensive to replace so i dont reccomend doing this

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3 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Adapters are a grey zone

 

Some people swear by them

Some people hate them

 

Tbh adapers are a good way of getting a 6 or 8 pin connector on a 500w or something psu that doesnt have them, but the amperage on the 12v rail needs to be checked first cause if it has a rather low amperage and the 3.3 or 5v rails have higher amperage than the 12v rail than its not reccomended, did this anyways cause i didnt know any better but im powering a gts 250 so not surprised that it hasnt caught on fire

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1 minute ago, CalifornianKing said:

This any good? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08YR6KRFQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

I think its ok but dont split it more than once cause the cables might get really hot and become a fire hazard or literally catch on fire

 

At this point if you are gonna use an adapter like that its a potential fire hazard

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1 hour ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Only way to test if it works is to try it in real life, though prepare for your psu to randomly shutoff if it cant deliver enough power, esp since the 3080 and up have power spikes

 

I use cheap hardware and since its old its bulletproof so even if my psu explodes my hardware will prob be fine anyways plus replacing it is cheap,  but newer hardware seems to be abit more fragile than older hardware and its expensive to replace so i dont reccomend doing this

It should be able to provide all the power it needs. Two 228 w pins + 75W from the motherboard

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1 hour ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

I think its ok but dont split it more than once cause the cables might get really hot and become a fire hazard or literally catch on fire

 

At this point if you are gonna use an adapter like that its a potential fire hazard

I am going to have two strands (each delivering 228 watts, only one plugged in) per card and a single adaptor cpu > VGA on the ftw3 (it will get 2 8 pin regular cables, and one adapted)

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Don't use CPU EPS power for GPU, to my knowledge they're usually wired up different.

 

Since you have a 1000W PSU, you should have some straight PCI-E to 8pin PCI-E, and a couple PCI-E to dual 8pin PCI-E cables. Use two straight PCI-E to 8pin, one per card, and one PCI-E to dual 8pin PCI-E per card.

 

 

What "1000W PSU" do you have?

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1 hour ago, Slizzo said:

Don't use CPU EPS power for GPU, to my knowledge they're usually wired up different.

 

Since you have a 1000W PSU, you should have some straight PCI-E to 8pin PCI-E, and a couple PCI-E to dual 8pin PCI-E cables. Use two straight PCI-E to 8pin, one per card, and one PCI-E to dual 8pin PCI-E per card.

 

 

What "1000W PSU" do you have?

Superflower Leadex V gold. I have four cables which each daisy chain into two pins. I was going to use a cpu to VGA adaptor on the cpu

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2 hours ago, Slizzo said:

So it comes with 4 6+2pin PCI-E cables. See if you can't purchase more from Superflower, or if they'll send more to you.

Tried and they wouldnt sell me more. It comes with 4 2x6+2 pin cables. Im daisy chaining em and its working fine so far

 

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On 7/20/2021 at 3:38 AM, CalifornianKing said:

Its a 1000w psu...

Yes and? The 3080 can spike as high as 350w with ease.

 

If the psu does not come with the cables it is not meant to output that much power. That is a first indication of a psu's limits.

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7 hours ago, jaslion said:

Yes and? The 3080 can spike as high as 350w with ease.

 

If the psu does not come with the cables it is not meant to output that much power. That is a first indication of a psu's limits.

It seems to be working fine. Not using the adaptor cable.

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13 hours ago, CalifornianKing said:

It seems to be working fine. Not using the adaptor cable.

Good. Your psu has the cables to power the 3080's and is on the edge of being able to do so. So it should be fine but if you ever notice some weird instabilities you know where it may lie.

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1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Good. Your psu has the cables to power the 3080's and is on the edge of being able to do so. So it should be fine but if you ever notice some weird instabilities you know where it may lie.

Yea. Ive been having tons of issues with it crashing while mining past few days. Changing out the riser seems to have hopefully fixed it

 

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5 minutes ago, CalifornianKing said:

Yea. Ive been having tons of issues with it crashing while mining past few days. Changing out the riser seems to have hopefully fixed it

 

A bad riser that cannot deliver the full slot power or has data line issue can easily cause it.

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