I have a 780 TI Classified, and I have a Seasonic 1050w Platinum XP3 PSU incoming tomorrow. I've noticed on many modular PCI-E cables, that you plug in one PCI-E 8-pin into the power supply, and then two 8-pin PCI-E connectors are available for the video card. (For this I will call it 1:2). If I were to plug in 2 8-pin PCI-E connectors into the PSU (which would give me 4 PCI-E connectors hanging out at the GPU's end), and take one PCI-E connector from each of those cables (for 2:2), tie back the remaining PCI-E connectors... would this work? (ie: if i have PCI-E cable 1, which yields connector 1a and 1b; and PCI-E cable 2, which yields 2a and 2b... and used cables 1a and 2b for the GPU, then tied back 1b and 2a as "extra connectors.)
Thanks
Jason
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