Powering new GPU

[NeonEpsilon]

Hello fine ladies and gents,

 

I have a question regarding powering my new GPU (ASRock AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT

Phantom Gaming 16GB OC). The manual is unclear so I'd like to ask: how do I connect this to the power supply, if that's possible with the amount of connections needed? I presume I need three seperate 8 pin PCIe's or can it also be plugged into the SATA ones?

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, NeonEpsilon said:

Hello fine ladies and gents,

 

I have a question regarding powering my new GPU (ASRock AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT

Phantom Gaming 16GB OC). The manual is unclear so I'd like to ask: how do I connect this to the power supply, if that's possible with the amount of connections needed? I presume I need three seperate 8 pin PCIe's or can it also be plugged into the SATA ones?

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

DON't plug it into the sata ports of the psu. Those only give a very small amount of power each (under 50 watts i think) Yes you need to plug three pcie power connectors into the psu side and into the gpu

[NeonEpsilon]

6 minutes ago, filpo said:

DON't plug it into the sata ports of the psu. Those only give a very small amount of power each (under 50 watts i think) Yes you need to plug three pcie power connectors into the psu side and into the gpu

Alrighty, that means this power supply won't fit with the card then, is that correct?

[filpo]

Just now, NeonEpsilon said:

Alrighty, that means this power supply won't fit with the card then, is that correct?

Wdym by that? Also do you have the cables needed for the gpu and how many watts is the psu?

[PDifolco]

10 minutes ago, NeonEpsilon said:

Hello fine ladies and gents,

 

I have a question regarding powering my new GPU (ASRock AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT

Phantom Gaming 16GB OC). The manual is unclear so I'd like to ask: how do I connect this to the power supply, if that's possible with the amount of connections needed? I presume I need three seperate 8 pin PCIe's or can it also be plugged into the SATA ones?

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

You can't use the SATA cables they have only 6 pin... Use the ones with 8 pins, all 3 if possible though it should work with 2 and the pigtails double connectors, up to 400w on a good PSU 

[BedlessBlade]

4 minutes ago, NeonEpsilon said:

Alrighty, that means this power supply won't fit with the card then, is that correct?

It will work fine. You don't need 3 separate cables for this card most likely. Just use the second connecter on one of the pcie cables

deffidently DO NOT plug them into this 

[NeonEpsilon]

The PSU is an 850 w PSU, I do have the cables (the ones labelled PciE, right?) What I meant by the PSU not fitting is the fact that there's only two PcIE ports on the PSU other then the one required for the CPU. I'm honestly not that knowledgeable so correct me if I'm wrong.

[NeonEpsilon]

2 minutes ago, BedlessBlade said:

It will work fine. You don't need 3 separate cables for this card most likely. Just use the second connecter on one of the pcie cables

Didnt know that was a possiblity, so you're saying that I can just use two connectors on one cable?

[PDifolco]

2 minutes ago, NeonEpsilon said:

The PSU is an 850 w PSU, I do have the cables (the ones labelled PciE, right?) What I meant by the PSU not fitting is the fact that there's only two PcIE ports on the PSU other then the one required for the CPU. I'm honestly not that knowledgeable so correct me if I'm wrong.

There's 5 8pin connectors, 2 for the CPU (usually 1 is enough anyway) then 3 remain

I have the same PSU and it powers my hungry 7900xtx without any issues