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6800XT connected to PSU via single cable
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I saw this picture while looking at overclocking guides and I wondered if I may have my power setup incorrectly. My GPU is currently connected exactly like the don't do this diagram.
As long as you’re not overclocking you’ll be fine. If you can share a cable for 2 3 8 pin gpus then why wouldn’t you be able to do the same for 2?
If you’re trying to overclock the snot out of it then you should theoretically get better performance out of two cables.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted to hell. This is actually correct. They put the second connector on there for a reason. People including myself have done the maths on this before and it's all above board. Only fringe cases involving power transients, out-of-spec cards, and obviously overclocking should actually make this a problem. Even then the 12VHPWR uses the same current density if not more than a daisy chained 8 pin setup.
The duality of lemmy
The PC community is full of FUD/just straight up ancient information that's no longer applicable. I'm definitely not perfect, but it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out a lot of these things if you sit down and double check your info.