Why does my 1070 have 8 pin for power but MSI has 6 and 8

[Anthony Mendez]

Does that mean my 1070 is super limited to how much power it sucks up?!?!

 

[Ethanh100]

Yes having less power pins will mean you have less power available to the card. However, it wont matter really at all, because you will never be able to get the gpu to draw enough power to the point where it needs more than a 8 pin, unless you are doing liquid nitrogen overclocking on custom bios, which i am guessing your not. So nothing to worry about

 

[elbert]

Basically if you want to overclock the 6 pin will limit you where the 8 pin doesn't. At what clock depends on your GPU as all chips are not equal. From what i have seen dont expect to break 2Ghz on the 6 pin.

 

[Anthony Mendez]

Yes having less power pins will mean you have less power available to the card. However, it wont matter really at all, because you will never be able to get the gpu to draw enough power to the point where it needs more than a 8 pin, unless you are doing liquid nitrogen overclocking on custom bios, which i am guessing your not. So nothing to worry about

Well when I bought it I knew I couldnt go past 1.xxV ( i forgot but I knew at the time) and the dude told me his friend got a custom BIOS to go past that on the ASUS cooler, and I was shocked and I've been searching all over but I can't find it and I'm thinking that was the problem.. How can I for future reference see what gpu can take the most power out of what?

 

[Anthony Mendez]

Basically if you want to overclock the 6 pin will limit you where the 8 pin doesn't. At what clock depends on your GPU as all chips are not equal. From what i have seen dont expect to break 2Ghz on the 6 pin power versions.

how would I know what brand GPU has what next time?? This is the first time I got an ASUS and I'm pretty upset now that I know that MSI (who I have always bought) has the most power draw...

 

[elbert]

Basically if you want to overclock the 6 pin will limit you where the 8 pin doesn't. At what clock depends on your GPU as all chips are not equal. From what i have seen dont expect to break 2Ghz on the 6 pin power versions.

how would I know what brand GPU has what next time?? This is the first time I got an ASUS and I'm pretty upset now that I know that MSI (who I have always bought) has the most power draw...

Go to newegg and find the card. Click on specs and its under power connector. See this model has both.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127959

And this one only has the 8pin.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487265

 

[TJ Hooker]

Well when I bought it I knew I couldnt go past 1.xxV ( i forgot but I knew at the time) and the dude told me his friend got a custom BIOS to go past that on the ASUS cooler, and I was shocked and I've been searching all over but I can't find it and I'm thinking that was the problem.. How can I for future reference see what gpu can take the most power out of what?

Saying your friend can go beyond 1.xxV would imply he's overvolting his GPU to 2+ volts, and I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Anyway, there's not really any reason you couldn't flash a custom BIOS yourself, just need to make sure it's one that's compatible with your specific graphics card.

 

[Ethanh100]

Basically if you want to overclock the 6 pin will limit you where the 8 pin doesn't. At what clock depends on your GPU as all chips are not equal. From what i have seen dont expect to break 2Ghz on the 6 pin.

This is so false. pretty much all 1070s will break 2ghz, while not even overclocked. an 8pin card will have 225w available to it (75 from the pcie slot, 150 from the 8 pin) that is 75w more than the stock tdp, which you will be burning your card if you were to overclock your card to be drawing 225w, even if you were on water.

 

[Anthony Mendez]

Well when I bought it I knew I couldnt go past 1.xxV ( i forgot but I knew at the time) and the dude told me his friend got a custom BIOS to go past that on the ASUS cooler, and I was shocked and I've been searching all over but I can't find it and I'm thinking that was the problem.. How can I for future reference see what gpu can take the most power out of what?

Saying your friend can go beyond 1.xxV would imply he's overvolting his GPU to 2+ volts, and I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Anyway, there's not really any reason you couldn't flash a custom BIOS yourself, just need to make sure it's one that's compatible with your specific graphics card.

I spent a lot of time looking but couldn't find, about 2 hours. I'm not being lazy, I have college and i'm doing computer engineering. Is there anyway oyu cna link me to one or somewhere that can help me get it easily?

 

[elbert]

Basically if you want to overclock the 6 pin will limit you where the 8 pin doesn't. At what clock depends on your GPU as all chips are not equal. From what i have seen dont expect to break 2Ghz on the 6 pin.

This is so false. pretty much all 1070s will break 2ghz, while not even overclocked. an 8pin card will have 225w available to it (75 from the pcie slot, 150 from the 8 pin) that is 75w more than the stock tdp, which you will be burning your card if you were to overclock your card to be drawing 225w, even if you were on water.

Do understand I was talking about the 6 pin only. The 1070 stock works at only 150w thus only plug the 6 pin should work but will limit about any overclocking. IE the PCI_e 75W and the 6pin 75W is 150W for stock 1070. The 8 pin can overclock to the moon without question.

 

[TJ Hooker]

@elbert but no one is talking about a GTX 1070 with only a 6 pin power connector, because those don't exist.

 

[elbert]

@elbert but no one is talking about a GTX 1070 with only a 6 pin power connector, because those don't exist.

Granted but some people have PSU with only a 6pin power plug.