- Using the same board for higher power GPUs to save on development/manufacturing costs. If they can take the same board and drop an RTX2070 Super or RTX2080 in there, why not.
- Overclocking potential, even factory settings. If they have tweaked the card's BIOS to be able to consume more power, than it may very well need that power under a full load. Pretty sure Nvidia frowns on this, so it is probably just marketing.
- Either way, they hooked up the voltage sensors to the connector. You have to plug it in.
I would consider that PSU undersized even with a single 8-pin connector GPU. A bit surprised they included it.
With adapters you risk the power supply failing and taking the PC with it. Or worst case, it could start a fire when either it blows or the wires melt. Adapters always create additional points of failure, and poor soldering (or not soldering at all) is rampant amongst adapters.
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- Using the same board for higher power GPUs to save on development/manufacturing costs. If they can take the same board and drop an RTX2070 Super or RTX2080 in there, why not.
- Overclocking potential, even factory settings. If they have tweaked the card's BIOS to be able to consume more power, than it may very well need that power under a full load. Pretty sure Nvidia frowns on this, so it is probably just marketing.
- Either way, they hooked up the voltage sensors to the connector. You have to plug it in.
I would consider that PSU undersized even with a single 8-pin connector GPU. A bit surprised they included it.
With adapters you risk the power supply failing and taking the PC with it. Or worst case, it could start a fire when either it blows or the wires melt. Adapters always create additional points of failure, and poor soldering (or not soldering at all) is rampant amongst adapters.
The psu is from another build...guess i will have to buy a new psu now...thanks for the enlightenment....