kenable 8 Pin PCI Express PCIe Power Cable from Dual 4 Pin Molex LP4 Adapter

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I used a splitter to get to the three GPUs and im aware that the maximum power recommended its arround 290W. If you get a real high end card. using true 6+2 Y cable gives you all the power you need, else the card could throttle to low power mode.

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After introducing 12-pin connectors, NVIDIA also worked for its PSUs with less than 12-pin connectors. Thus, it has also released adapters with two x6 pin connectors. Adapters Or Converters For Connectors The slots here represent lanes. The more you find the number of lanes, the faster the data transmission. In a PCIe x16, you can find data transmission at a rate of 16 bits per cycle; in the older PSUs, you would find Molex connectors. After Molex, the connectors were replaced with PATA and SATA along with time. 2. Can I Plug A 6-Pin Into An 8-Pin GPU? Any Standard motherboard of a CPU nowadays comes with a PCIe x16 connector. This connector mentioned above has 16 slots to offer power to GPUs. In the PCIe x16 connector, the maximum power supply you can expect is 75 watts. Using high-profile graphics cards like RTX 3080 can load the motherboard and consume more power. The terms “PCI Express cables” or “PEG cables” (for PCI Express Graphics) can also be used to describe 6-pin connectors. 8-Pin Connector An 8-pin connector PCIe in the CPUs is an interface standard connecting many superfast components for high-speed data transmission using the power source from the motherboard. You can find PCIe slots in every computer or motherboard that enable users to connect GPUs, SSDs, and raid cards.IF your power supply has only one 8 pin connector, the first thing you should do is to look at the label of the power supply and see how much current the psu can actually supply on 12v (doesn't matter how many adapters you have, if the power supply can only produce 250-300w on 12v) and second ask yourself if you trust the power supply to not lie about its capabilities on the label. If it's from a brand with decent reputation, chances are it's not lying. If it's some cheap model or some chinese psu that came with the case, most likely the psu is inflating the numbers. However, as the launch of the 12-pin, NVIDIA GPU is recent, not many PSUs developed have 12-pin PCIe connectors. Most of the connectors that you can find in standard PSUs include dual 8-pin PCIe connectors or 16-pin PCIe connectors. So, NVIDIA brings you 8-pin PCIe to a 12-Pin PCIe converter cable. This adapter will offer you compatibility with all the latest GPUs. 5. SATA to 6-Pin PCI-E Adapter Cable SATA can also be adapted to an 8-pin power connector. In this scenario, there will be two SATA connectors for one 8-pin connector. Important Note About Adapters

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video cards don't take all power from the 8 pin connector. They can also take up to around 65w from the SLOT. (officially it's 10w on 3.3v and 65w on 12v but recently I think they loosened the standards to allow up to 75w on 12v) The 6-pin graphics connector is usually common in lower and mid-range graphics units. As the name says, the connectors have six-pin connecting slots with a 4.2 mm pitch. These GPU connectors can directly draw up to 75 watts from an external power source. The power even comes bypassing the motherboard. Six-pin GPU connectors are suitable when a graphics card demands a minimum of 150 watts of power. 6-Pin GPU Cable However, you should never mistake connecting a 6-pin connector to an 8-pin slot. Usually, the six-pin GPU cable is only rated to draw 75 watts of power. But when you connect it to an 8-pin connector, it will attempt to draw more power, with the efficiency of an 8-pin connector. This will eventually create a fire hazard and lead to the breakdown of your system. SATA connectors to 8-Pin PCIe adapter cable offer you compatibility with your 8-Pin GPU power cable. Most of the older PSUs have 4-pin SATA connectors, and thus, for one 8-pin PCIe, you would require 2- Pin SATA connectors. This adapter will help you achieve connectivity and draw 225 watts of power supply for your GPU. The pci-e slots are powered by the only 2 (if my memory is correct) 12v wires in the 24 pin connector. So, assume around 200 watts can go into the motherboard through the 24 pin connector, which are then split between fan headers, rgb headers, and possibly 12v to 5v / 3.3v dc-dc converters on the motherboard that may power things like ram, m.2 connectors (m.2 has only 3.3v but because a m.2 SSD may go up to 3A when writing, some motherboards don't use the 3.3v from PSU but use a dc-dc converter to produce clean 3.3v from 12v)

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There are even some exceptional cases where the GPU will have two 8-pin connectors. By adding the numbers together, we get a total of 375 watts, which is an extreme amount. In addition, you still need to power the CPU ( another big energy consumer) and the rest of your PC’s components.