Seasonic Prime Titanium 650w PCIe cabling question

[jankerson]

Ordered a Prime Titanium 650W and since this will be my 1st PSU with those daisy chained PCIe power connectors as in 2x per cable I have a question. All my other PSU's had 1x connection per cable so this is new to me.

I have a GTX 1080 FTW2 that has 2x 8 Pin power connections and the PSU has 4 total 6+2 pin connections on 2 cables.

Can I use one cable or do I have to use both of them, the GPU is rated at 215w.

Just want to make sure before I hook it up once it gets here. I saw the diagram on Seasonics website, so the reason for the question.

My current X-650w has 4 PCIe cables with one connection per cable and that's what I am used to seeing, that and the other PSU's I have.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You can use one.

 

[James Mason]

Yes, you can use only one of the 6+2x2 cables, if you want t save on clutter.
SS just makes higher quality PSUs so they can handle that.

(just never try to use another PSU with the same cables.

 

[jankerson]

Thanks guys.

Was thinking about it and I just wasn't sure.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Glad to assist , great PSU choice.

 

[jankerson]

Glad to assist , great PSU choice.

Just wanted to swap them out and use the X-650w in another machine to replace an aging PSU since the X-650 is only a year old.

And I couldn't beat the Price, almost too good to pass up compared to what they usually are. 😀

 

[jankerson]

Yes, you can use only one of the 6+2x2 cables, if you want t save on clutter.
SS just makes higher quality PSUs so they can handle that.

(just never try to use another PSU with the same cables.

I was thinking the Prime could handle it since they are such high quality.

 

[geofelt]

Use one dual cable which will supply all the power you need.
The value in the combined cable is cleaner cable management.
A better idea.

 

[jankerson]

Use one dual cable which will supply all the power you need.
The value in the combined cable is cleaner cable management.
A better idea.

That's what I wanted to do, but wasn't sure.

But then the Prime Ti's are so over built I figured it could take it so I asked.

 

[jankerson]

Looks like it will be here today. 😀

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Looks like it will be here today. 😀

Always feels good on component delivery day...Congrats!

 

[jankerson]

Looks like it will be here today. 😀

Always feels good on component delivery day...Congrats!

Thanks, I will post in the new parts forums once it's here and have it installed etc.

And maybe a few here. 😀

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Excellent can't wait to see the beast running your setup.

 

[jankerson]

Excellent can't wait to see the beast running your setup.

Will be a better photos than this since I have to move the machine anyway I will take better ones.

This is with the X-650 and before I added the Noctua fans.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Very nice and clean , looks great!

 

[jankerson]

Very nice and clean , looks great!

Thanks.

Added 3 140mm Noctua case fans to replace the OEM ones so it will be a real update photo wise one I get the Prime Installed etc.

The CM Master Case 5 Pro is a nice case to build in.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Cool , looking forward to the new pics of the setup.

 

[jankerson]

Cool , looking forward to the new pics of the setup.

Changing the PSU will be easier than it was swapping out the case fans. LOL 😀

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

In that clean setup , a PSU change will be a breeze.

 

[jankerson]

In that clean setup , a PSU change will be a breeze.

Yeah it's all wide open, the only one that is a little tight to get to is the CPU power cable because of the Cooler. The rest is easy.

I can get to that though from the top, just pop the top off the case and it's right there.

 

[jankerson]

Well it got here around 8 pm so I will work on it in a bit and post etc.

 

[jankerson]

Here you all go, looks great.

And the Seasonic X-650 I took out.