Is this a safe daisy chain of ATX connectors?

Lou Chou · Feb 22, 2014

Okay, this'd be super easy to draw, but I'm not sure how easy it'll be to write, so bare with me...

I have 4x 4-pin connecters, 2x 4-pin-to-6-pin converters, and 1x 6-pin-to-8-pin converter
The aim of all these converters is to create an additional 8-pin connection. As you may have guessed, the 6-pin converter requires 2x 4-pin connections, and the 8-pin converter requires 2x 6-pin connections.

This is one big daisy chain leading to an 8-pin because my PSU only has one 8-pin, currently being used by my CPU.

Is this a safe daisy chain? My PSU is 700w, and, as fas I'm aware, is 100w beyond the wattage required. So I'm not sure the actual supply of power would be an issue, it's more that I've never daisy-chained so many connectors before, so I'm unsure if it'll work, and not just blow everything up?

Apologies if this is quite a confusing question, if you need follow-up details I'll try my best to provide...

cin19 · Feb 22, 2014

1) What is you PSU? Looks like it is a little bit old, because most newer one has at least one of either 6 pin or 8 pin pcie connector.
2) What GPU do you have?

If it like you said it is 100w beyond the wattage required. I will recommend don't try it because if the PSU is not good, I means if it is not the 80+ psu, and you don't know when it will burn out and that time it will bring down other pc components with it.

Lou Chou · Feb 22, 2014

cin19 :

Thanks for the reply. You're right about the PSU, it's a Xenta 700w - bought rather cheaply initially, and is now about 3 or 4 years old. The GPU is a GTX 770, and requires a 6-pin and 8-pin connector.

It sounds like it'd be a rather big gamble for me to go ahead using this PSU with such a big card, is that right?

cin19 · Feb 22, 2014

Yes. I will recommend to get the new PSU because the one you had now, it may be have problem to power gtx770 even the PSU only requires less than 600W PSU. When you get the new one make sure the new PSU has the 42A on the +12V rails and 600W or 550W. Like XFX, seasonic, antec, and one of the review http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/80-plus-platinum-power-supply-efficiency,3327.html

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