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Correct, you don't want to push voltage to the mb v out, prob wouldn't end well.
Are you saying that pushing 12v power down into the motherboard from the pci-e slot is somehow bad? I don't think it works that way. If you think it would fry your computer, then why would a product like this be sold from a big name GPU brand?
How about with two psu's? one low powered controlling the motherboard, 24pin + 4pin cpu (psu 1). then using a different psu to power the gpus 6pin power sockets and "pcie plugin power thing" (psu 2).
it is 1x so you can pump ~ 6 amps into the slot, I can see one of 3 things happening;
1 - the ground on the "pcie plugin power thing" just grounds the 12v you are pumping in (from psu 2), so the psu is just powering that one slot, effectively doing nothing, and potentially burning the socket and/or psu.
2 - The big psu (2) is now dumping 6 amps into the low powered psu, whilst sucking 6 amps of the socket, effectively doing nothing but stressing both psus and the socket (potentially burning all three out)
3 - By some magic the switching supplies cope and everything works how it is supposed to.
it is a shame that XFX have blurred the backside of their connector. if anyone can post images of both sides and what pins are attached, I will make one, try out the above, and see what happens
