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AMD FX-8320
8gb ram
2x750gb 5400rpm laptop hdd's
XFX R9 380 4gb
****** PSU
My GPU is 8+6 pin and I have only 6+6 pin plugged into it so I am kinda running into problems. No crashes yet though. Waiting for an adapter from Ebay.
I won't post benchmarks for it yet as I have an issue with my PSU only having 6 pin connectors so I am buying an adapter on ebay for $1 to actually run it properly.
It has an 8+6 pin adapters which means 150+75w + 25w for PCI to allow 250w max (it won't use that much though) where I am currently using 6+6pin + pci = 175 total watts meaning the card actually won't get to its peak and it will be bottlenecking itself for me as the card generally pulled about 200w under load.
I would not recommend to anyone else to plug 6 pin connectors into an 8 pin for long periods of time but I am playing around this I even lowered the power limit to factor in the reduced power. I am not an expert on electricity but I know a thing or 2.
8gb ram
2x750gb 5400rpm laptop hdd's
XFX R9 380 4gb
****** PSU
My GPU is 8+6 pin and I have only 6+6 pin plugged into it so I am kinda running into problems. No crashes yet though. Waiting for an adapter from Ebay.
I won't post benchmarks for it yet as I have an issue with my PSU only having 6 pin connectors so I am buying an adapter on ebay for $1 to actually run it properly.
It has an 8+6 pin adapters which means 150+75w + 25w for PCI to allow 250w max (it won't use that much though) where I am currently using 6+6pin + pci = 175 total watts meaning the card actually won't get to its peak and it will be bottlenecking itself for me as the card generally pulled about 200w under load.
I would not recommend to anyone else to plug 6 pin connectors into an 8 pin for long periods of time but I am playing around this I even lowered the power limit to factor in the reduced power. I am not an expert on electricity but I know a thing or 2.