Since NVIDIA did not even want to reveal how the adapter’s logic works to board partners and power supply manufacturers, only their own lab remained.Ī small preliminary remark is also important: For all pinouts I consider the 12VHPWR as male and the four 8-pin connectors as female, so that the pinouts are mostly mirror-inverted to what you usually find on the internet for the respective connectors.
It is in the nature of things that it works, but you also have to know how this adapter works. I had said in the launch video that the card could theoretically be operated with a single 6+2-pin cable and was then severely criticized by some. Of course, one could have simply unraveled (and thus certainly destroyed) all of this, but first, I don’t have that many adapters, and second, it’s always a sporting challenge to get such details out that way, too. Try & Error The trick with the smart adapter However, it was exactly this circumstance that aroused my curiosity, because there were definitely problems in the interaction of the “smart” adapter and the firmware of some on-board partner cards that should not have occurred like this.
It also doesn’t matter which of the four ports you leave free. Who doesn’t know it, the funny adapter from NVIDIA, with which you can merge four PCIe 6+2 pin cables to be able to run graphics cards with up to 600 watts? If you only connect three plugs, you’ll only get 450 watts and with two plugs, the PC won’t start at all with a bit of bad luck.
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