LTT VARIOUS OLD PARTS LAYING AROUND.

[LINUXXUNIL]

Good afternoon, Everyone. I woke up this morning, and started rummaging around in my closet. Just plain bored today. I grabbed a bunch of parts and, threw this together.

I didn't really have a "Goal." in mind.........there wasn't any rhyme, or reason.

I was curious about?................. what looks like a small length of cable coming from the end my GPU plug?

I had four of these cards laying around,( Asus Turbo GEFORCE GTX 1070) and decided I would add another.

I am going to run (2) cards SLI with a bridge.

I haven't built anything, in about 7 years, and I am unfamiliar with this plug.

Blah, Blah....Blah...O.K.

Question: Do I put the 6+2 together, and plug it into the lower card (8) pin female?

Or, do I just run another cable from the PSU directly to the other card?

I don't want to damage anything?

I appreciate your time.Thanks.

[Fasauceome]

You can power both cards with that cable, but it is ideal to have 2 separate cables for max power overhead.

[kaiju_wars]

If you haven't built anything in 7 years, how did you just happen to have a 7600K, a 1070, and an NVMe SSD just laying in your closet?

[lookpuppy]

12 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

If you haven't built anything in 7 years, how did you just happen to have a 7600K, a 1070, and an NVMe SSD just laying in your closet?

Yeeeeeeee

[LINUXXUNIL]

15 hours ago, fasauceome said:

You can power both cards with that cable, but it is ideal to have 2 separate cables for max power overhead.

Hello. I thought Corsair was (1) saving money in manufacturing cost, and (2) possibly making it modular (to a degree.) for (4) pin cards etc. or what have you.

I was 90% on running another cable, Soooo, that's what I'll do.

I appreciate your help.

[aezakmi]

39 minutes ago, CUDAcores89 said:

Are, you you linustechtips or something and just has random high end GPUs laying around?

pf, who doesn't has 4 1070s in their closet?

[Fasauceome]

5 hours ago, LINUXXUNIL said:

Hello. I thought Corsair was (1) saving money in manufacturing cost, and (2) possibly making it modular (to a degree.) for (4) pin cards etc. or what have you.

I was 90% on running another cable, Soooo, that's what I'll do.

I appreciate your help.

it's super common practice to have split power cables like that, it's on every PSU I've ever owned. Also, no such thing as 4 pin PCIe inputs (just nitpicking)

[LINUXXUNIL]

22 hours ago, fasauceome said:

You can power both cards with that cable, but it is ideal to have 2 separate cables for max power overhead.

Hello. I ran a separate cable to the other GPU.

I also just ordered (2) more sticks on RAM to populate the other (2) DIMM slots.

At this point........There isn't any need for more than 32GB.

I'm calling this 90% done.

Again, I appreciate your input. ( Pun, intended.)

[LINUXXUNIL]

Hello. I ran a separate cable to the GPU.

i also ordered (2) more DIMM cards to populate the other slots.

I'm considering this 90% done.

Again, I appreciate your input. (Pun, intended.)

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, LINUXXUNIL said:

also ordered (2) more DIMM cards to populate the other slots.

What is that ram cover you're using?

[LINUXXUNIL]

2 hours ago, fasauceome said:

What is that ram cover you're using?

Hello. The first photo is of the ram in the system. (Red Light Only.)

The second photo is the ram, I ordered today. (RGB) (Both of them are sold as kits.)

THE LINK IS FOR THE FAN ONLY. (RGB)

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Accessories-|-Parts/Dominator-Airflow-Platinum-RGB-Fan/p/CMDAF2