I really appreciate you teaching me that information. I will probably wait for the newer AMD CPUs to upgrade and stuff. Since you seem like a genius to me one last question. Ive seen people talk about the power connectors for new GPUs. I believe i have 2 8 pins going in but im not sure each one connects to the power supply separately. (i had no idea how to explain it so you could imagine it so i hope you understood that) Do you think this could be an issue?
Yeah, I bet the next generation of AMD CPUs will be badass - a new socket means more opportunities for adding different features, they might shrink the process node from 7 nm to 5 nm which would be great, and I'm
very interested to see what industry-wide platform adoption of DDR5 memory will do for PC gaming in general. However, if as pointed out by the other poster, your motherboard
is actually compatible with a Ryzen 5000 series CPU, you'd benefit a lot by doing an upgrade now as a stop-gap solution until you upgrade your whole system down the road. Heck, I read an article a day or two ago that the Ryzen 5800x is on sale for $399 on amazon.com.
As far as your question is concerned, I know what you are talking about: 2 separate cables each with their own 8 pin connector and a single cable with two 8 pin connectors on it.
There are two different views on this:
- 1 cable with two 8 pin connectors is a bad idea. Each cable is supposed to carry 150 watts on its own rather than 300 watts. Doing this can cause system instability or overload your PSU.
- If a PSU ships with cables that end with two 8 pin connections on the end, then the PSU manufacturer must have faith in the PSU's ability to deliver up to 300 watts from a single PSU connection and over a single cable, otherwise they wouldn't have included the cable in the box and shipped the PSU with a warranty.
I generally fall in the latter camp. I'm not an electrical engineer nor doesn't my experience dictate what everyone else should be doing, but I don't see the need to run separate cables for ever connection, nor do I want the clutter of two wires running to the GPU with the auxilary 8 pin connectors hanging off the cables and cluttering things up visially. I really don't see the need.
But its up to you. If you sleep a bit better at night knowing you have separate cables for each 8 pin connector, be my guest. If you use the daisy chained cables and have no regrets or performance issues I wont judge you either. Some computer issues have 100% right/wrong answers, but this one is more of a "do what works best for you" kind of thing.