SLI Variable Tube Connector

[PeggersXtreme]

Hi,

 

I am going to be redoing my loop very soon and wanted to ask a question about the SLI variable tube connectors, at the moment I just cut a piece of tubing to fit in between on to the fittings however this time I was thinking of going with a variable tube connector. I see they come in different sizes to fit depending which slots your graphics cards are in my cards are in slot 1 and 5 so would that mean I need a variable connector of 3 slot as I am assuming it is the amount of slots between the cards that they mean when they say 3-slots, sorry if this is a stupid question the website I am buying it from has very little information.

 

Thanks.

[blu4]

Hi,

 

I am going to be redoing my loop very soon and wanted to ask a question about the SLI variable tube connectors, at the moment I just cut a piece of tubing to fit in between on to the fittings however this time I was thinking of going with a variable tube connector. I see they come in different sizes to fit depending which slots your graphics cards are in my cards are in slot 1 and 5 so would that mean I need a variable connector of 3 slot as I am assuming it is the amount of slots between the cards that they mean when they say 3-slots, sorry if this is a stupid question the website I am buying it from has very little information.

 

Thanks.

I had one of those with my old system. I bought it because I though it looked cool. Anyways, I would recommend using a proper tube piece because if you fully extend the connector it might actually come out. I had mine extended to the max and I was worried it would leak. Just use a tube. It's safer this way.

[Naeaes]

The distance between two neighboring slots is 20mm. If by slots 1 and 5 you mean the first one from the top and firth one from the top, I'd say, you need 4-slot connectors. You'll need connectors that are 80mm long. Probably a bit shorter, which is where the variableness comes in. They'll need to have enough leeway to counter for the thickness of the block.

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure they make them that long. It might be best to stick with bits of tubing.

[PeggersXtreme]

I had one of those with my old system. I bought it because I though it looked cool. Anyways, I would recommend using a proper tube piece because if you fully extend the connector it might actually come out. I had mine extended to the max and I was worried it would leak. Just use a tube. It's safer this way.

That's one concern I had about them might just use a tube again then.

[blu4]

That's one concern I had about them might just use a tube again then.

If your cards are sandwitched it's ok, but I'd just use a tube instead.

[PeggersXtreme]

The distance between two neighboring slots is 20mm. If by slots 1 and 5 you mean the first one from the top and firth one from the top, I'd say, you need 4-slot connectors. You'll need connectors that are 80mm long. Probably a bit shorter, which is where the variableness comes in. They'll need to have enough leeway to counter for the thickness of the block.

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure they make them that long. It might be best to stick with bits of tubing.

Yeah I'm using a MSI Xpower x99 board the recommended layout for gpu's is slot 1 and slot 5 running 16x - 16x there is 3 other slot between the cards.

[PeggersXtreme]

If your cards are sandwitched it's ok, but I'd just use a tube instead.

They are 3 slot's apart at the moment I have them in parallel with two tubes in between which makes it complicated to get both tube exactly the same but once I have just the one loop and one tube in-between if should be easier to cut and get it the correct length, I will do that saves me having to buy a sli connector.  

 

Current loop:

(-My XB270HU is in for repair with Acer hence why I am using the crappy HP one lol)

[Naeaes]

Yeah I'm using a MSI Xpower x99 board the recommended layout for gpu's is slot 1 and slot 5 running 16x - 16x there is 3 other slot between the cards.

Yeah. If you look closely, the other 16x slots don't have all the pins in them, just 8x worth. So to get all that you can out of the thing, you're stuck with those two slots. But I do believe, the benefit over 16x/8x or even 8x/8x is minimal at best. You happen to have a balling-ass mobo+CPU but 99% of the customers getting gaming-grade GPUs don't.

[PeggersXtreme]

Yeah. If you look closely, the other 16x slots don't have all the pins in them, just 8x worth. So to get all that you can out of the thing, you're stuck with those two slots. But I do believe, the benefit over 16x/8x or even 8x/8x is minimal at best. You happen to have a balling-ass mobo+CPU but 99% of the customers getting gaming-grade GPUs don't.

I went all out on my most recent PC just because it was the first time I could get such a beast but the motherboard choice was all down to the features it had over the cheaper boards, I could have probably gone for a cheaper board but it wouldn't have looked as cool and would have lacked features like M.2 slot, two usb 3.0 headers, Sata express etc.