rikkey
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Greetings I have an MSI GTX 780Ti GAMING 3G VGA and I will connect it to EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 PSU. In the back of the PSU there are these connectors:  In the product's manual it gives this table:  The VGA requires a 6+2pin+6pin cable. So, my question is this: (if I got this right) should I connect it to either connector VGA5 or VGA6 only? i.e. if I accidentally connect it to one of VGA1 to VGA4, it may cause damage to the PSU? I'm asking because it doesn't mention explicitly in the manual that in such cases where the VGA requires a double-end cable, only VGA5 or VGA6 should be used or else damage may occur. Thank you
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Erik
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Re: A question about connecting a GTX 780Ti to SuperNOVA 1000 P2
2014/08/14 11:23:34
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It's probably probably best to use the one indicated in the manual but now that you posed the question I realized I've got my 6+2 + 6 pin cable in the VGA port for 6+2. It will likely not cause an issue if you did it accidentally, like I have (several months now on a GTX 780) but it's such an easy thing to do that I'd recommend the VGA5/6 connection.
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Re: A question about connecting a GTX 780Ti to SuperNOVA 1000 P2
2014/08/14 18:09:07
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The table just lists out the cables in order. Since this is a single rail PSU, you should be fine connecting it in any of the PCI-E connectors.
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Re: A question about connecting a GTX 780Ti to SuperNOVA 1000 P2
2014/08/20 00:37:59
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You could connect VGA1 into the 6+2pin port, and VGA6 into the remaining 6pin port, leaving a 6+2 pin connector free on that chain. If you wanted. Whichever cables you like. It's fine in any combination, although I would recommend using 2 cables (one for each port on the 780Ti) just to be safe.
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rikkey
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Re: A question about connecting a GTX 780Ti to SuperNOVA 1000 P2
2014/08/20 11:35:20
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Thank you for the replies. Sorry for the delayed reply, but the PSU proved to be faulty (it shut down while playing a game and then it wouldn't turn on at all) so I did an RMA. daemonowner
You could connect VGA1 into the 6+2pin port, and VGA6 into the remaining 6pin port, leaving a 6+2 pin connector free on that chain. If you wanted. Whichever cables you like. It's fine in any combination, although I would recommend using 2 cables (one for each port on the 780Ti) just to be safe.
I had the same question, but haven't read anywhere that it's more preferable to use two cables instead of one. I think that the proper way is to use 1 cable because it will keep the wiring simpler and because it's designed to give the two connectors all the power they need.
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Re: A question about connecting a GTX 780Ti to SuperNOVA 1000 P2
2014/08/22 12:22:17
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I use the one cable setup (one cable per card) with my ti's in sli and it works fine. I have my cards overclocked to 1256 on core and 1875 on the memory with 1.212v for everyday gaming and they go even higher when benching.
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Re: A question about connecting a GTX 780Ti to SuperNOVA 1000 P2
2014/08/24 09:44:06
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Sorry to hear you got a bad one, hope EVGA will get you fixed up quickly!
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Re: A question about connecting a GTX 780Ti to SuperNOVA 1000 P2
2014/08/24 09:55:11
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rikkey
Thank you for the replies. Sorry for the delayed reply, but the PSU proved to be faulty (it shut down while playing a game and then it wouldn't turn on at all) so I did an RMA.
daemonowner
You could connect VGA1 into the 6+2pin port, and VGA6 into the remaining 6pin port, leaving a 6+2 pin connector free on that chain. If you wanted. Whichever cables you like. It's fine in any combination, although I would recommend using 2 cables (one for each port on the 780Ti) just to be safe.
I had the same question, but haven't read anywhere that it's more preferable to use two cables instead of one.
I think that the proper way is to use 1 cable because it will keep the wiring simpler and because it's designed to give the two connectors all the power they need.
When you get the replacement PSU let us know how that goes.
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rikkey
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Re: A question about connecting a GTX 780Ti to SuperNOVA 1000 P2
2014/10/11 10:23:14
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I've received the replacement PSU about a month ago, and no problems so far :) Just to be sure, in that, I've connected my 780Ti to the VGA5 connector. Also, I've not switched-on the ECO switch to the new PSU (it was disabled by default). But, I had enabled that to the first PSU I had.And because, that PSU didn't not belong to that faulty batch, which EVGA recalled (I checked it's s/n in ) I've come to this conclusion: that the ECO switch doesn't work well in cases where there's high power consumption (in my case mostly due to my VGA)i.e the PSU is not sufficiently cooled by the fan all the time,so, I suspect that the ECO switch might caused the fault of the PS, to shut down and not be unable to power on again. Thanks again for the replies and your concern!
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