Quote from: Dhx on July 15, 2017, 03:02:01 AM

Quote from: fullzero on July 11, 2017, 10:34:19 PM

Quote from: Dhx on July 11, 2017, 04:03:03 AM

Quick question that I'm sure many of you have solved various ways. Any thoughts on the safest way to power the 7th GPU(1070)/riser with an EVGA 1300 G2? Custom adapter cable? Molex to 6+2? Two of the VGA cables have a split connection from the PSU, but I didn't want to connect two cards and two risers split twice from the same cable.

Thanks for any quick thoughts.

There are dual molex to pcie 6+2 adapters; if you use both molex cables 2 different molex cables(from the psu each from a different molex port) into one adapter it should be able to handle 160 watts. I would keep it below 135 if you use this method.

Thanks for the reply, fullzero. I had to do something a little more taxing due to a bad riser. One of my risers is molex and I'm currently feeding that directly from the PSU with no desire to use a SATA adapter.

Is the following a terrible shorterm solution (until I can get another working 6 pin riser)?

MOLEX Riser (Zotac 1070 powered from VGA on card)
MOLEX < MOLEX to 6 PIN adapter
PSU (1300 G2) < > 6 PIN Y to dual 6+2 > 6 PIN Riser + Zotac 1070
MOLEX < MOLEX to 6 PIN adapter

Two molex from the PSU. One feeds a molex riser with a 1070 in that riser (powered from VGA on the card) as well as one half of the dual molex to 6 pin adapter. The other half is fed clean from the PSU. All cards are at 125 PL. It's currently running but I'd like a second opinion.

I'm not sure how much power the the 1070s pull from the pcie slot; but with a 125 pl I think this setup should be ok.