Re: Help needed with PSU connections
2018/01/22 21:12:25
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You're probably going to have to dig up a custom "CPU port to PCI-E power connector" cable from somewhere to make 5 cards + risers work on an EVGA G2 850 - you just don't have enough ports on the PS to handle 5 cards easily, since EVGA uses different pinouts on the PS side for it's VGA and CPU ports - and even THEN you're going to have to use a 6-pin PCI extender to be able to reach one of the risers from one of your "dual VGA" cables.
Alternatively, if you can dig up a couple of extra "dual" EVGA PCI-E cables, you can do the following.
Use a dual cable on each VGA port.
Use a MOLEX string on 3 the Periph/SATA ports - use only ONE Molex connector per string on each port (EVGA has specified these ports/cables ARE interchangeable).
8-pin connectors on the PCI-E cables power 4 of the GPUs
2 of the 6-pin connectors get used via a dual-6-pin adapter to power card 5.
The other 2 6-pin adapters get "extender" cables to be able to reach and power 2 of the risers.
The other 3 risers are powered from MOLEX.
This leaves ONE Periph/SATA port on the PS to power a couple of fans with, or whatever.
This shortage of ports on the EVGA G2 850 is why all my 5-card rigs are all running Seasonic X-850 or SS-860 power supplies (and when I run out of those I plan to get some Corsair AX-860 as it's basically the SS-860 in a Corsair case) - those have "CPU" ports with the same connection on the PS side as the VGA ports so they end up with *6* ports that can be used interchangeably for CPU or VGA, and they also have 5 SATA/Peripheral ports.
Now that vorsholk has stopped his abuse, I'm returning to folding.
I no longer MOO due to abuses by certain "whales" in the Gridcoin community - so I now work the Distributed.net project directly again.