Well, got round to unwrapping it at last.
First issue is that it seems to be a few millimetres too long to fit
without fouling the hard drive cage.
This is not insurmountable as I have more drive bays but it is a pain.
Second issue is that when I power it up it asks to be powered down again
and a PCIe power cable (or two) to be fitted.
This is all new territory for me as I haven't been building new PCs for
a long time.
I can see the two 8 pin power sockets on the top of the card.
However I have not yet worked out where the power is taken from.
The nearest is a 6 pin from the PSU.
I shall be trawling the Internet, but meanwhile any hints would be
welcome.
Well, got round to unwrapping it at last.
First issue is that it seems to be a few millimetres too long to fit
without fouling the hard drive cage.
This is not insurmountable as I have more drive bays but it is a pain.
Second issue is that when I power it up it asks to be powered down again
and a PCIe power cable (or two) to be fitted.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:55:21 +0000, David wrote:
Well, got round to unwrapping it at last.
First issue is that it seems to be a few millimetres too long to fit
without fouling the hard drive cage.
This is not insurmountable as I have more drive bays but it is a pain.
Second issue is that when I power it up it asks to be powered down
again and a PCIe power cable (or two) to be fitted.
This is all new territory for me as I haven't been building new PCs for
a long time.
I can see the two 8 pin power sockets on the top of the card.
However I have not yet worked out where the power is taken from.
The nearest is a 6 pin from the PSU.
I shall be trawling the Internet, but meanwhile any hints would be
welcome.
Corsair 400W PSU
Never even considered there might be an issue.
I have a big PSU in another case (800W I think) sized for graphics cards which were never bought.
I think I may be in for an extended shuffling of bits around.
Grump
Dave R
Well, got round to unwrapping it at last.
First issue is that it seems to be a few millimetres too long to fit
without fouling the hard drive cage.
This is not insurmountable as I have more drive bays but it is a pain.
Second issue is that when I power it up it asks to be powered down again
and a PCIe power cable (or two) to be fitted.
This is all new territory for me as I haven't been building new PCs for
a long time.
I can see the two 8 pin power sockets on the top of the card.
However I have not yet worked out where the power is taken from.
The nearest is a 6 pin from the PSU.
I shall be trawling the Internet, but meanwhile any hints would be
welcome.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:07:40 +0000, David wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:55:21 +0000, David wrote:
Well, got round to unwrapping it at last.
First issue is that it seems to be a few millimetres too long to fit
without fouling the hard drive cage.
This is not insurmountable as I have more drive bays but it is a pain.
Second issue is that when I power it up it asks to be powered down
again and a PCIe power cable (or two) to be fitted.
This is all new territory for me as I haven't been building new PCs for
a long time.
I can see the two 8 pin power sockets on the top of the card.
However I have not yet worked out where the power is taken from.
The nearest is a 6 pin from the PSU.
I shall be trawling the Internet, but meanwhile any hints would be
welcome.
Corsair 400W PSU
Never even considered there might be an issue.
I have a big PSU in another case (800W I think) sized for graphics cards
which were never bought.
I think I may be in for an extended shuffling of bits around.
Grump
Dave R
So - EVGA Nvidia GTX 1070 FTW.
I had no idea there were so many variants.
75W from the PCIe slot
75W from the PSU via cable.
The Ti variant only has one 8 pin power connector and will allegedly run
on a 450W PSU, but this is looking one step too far.
I have seen 6->8 pin PCIe power cable adapters, but it does make you
wonder what the extra 2 pins are for.
So - EVGA Nvidia GTX 1070 FTW.
I had no idea there were so many variants.
75W from the PCIe slot
75W from the PSU via cable.
The Ti variant only has one 8 pin power connector and will allegedly run
on a 450W PSU, but this is looking one step too far.
The Ti is *more* power hungry than the base 1070, so it's more a matter
of bad tech specs. Those 75W figures are the max theoretical plus safety margin. The 1070 isn't a particularly thirsty card.
For reference, my i7-8700k with RTX2080ti 32gig etc never goes over
about 280W draw even in benchmarking, in gaming about 230W is max.
A 450W PSU (if it's a quality one, not actually 150W crap) will be fine.
But without the GPU power connectors you'll need to swap things around
like you said.
I have seen 6->8 pin PCIe power cable adapters, but it does make you
wonder what the extra 2 pins are for.
More square millimetres of copper wire. Those GPU power connectors only supply 12V and ground links; the more wires are merely for more amps.
Your 1070 asking for 2x8 power connectors seems a bit like
showboating... baked bean can exhaust equivalent!
Cheers - Jaimie
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