MSI A1000G PCIE5 - Am i being stupid?

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On MSIs product page it says for graphics cards with 3x 8 pin, plug three individual cables into the power supply pcie which I would expect.

Then looking at the cables they provide, they only provide 2 6+2 pin pcie cables. There is also a 16 pin to 6+2 as well.

How am I meant to plug 3x 8 pin in without using the 16 pin as well as the standard pcies???

Also why isn't there a 16 pin [PSU] to 3x 8 pin [GPU] rather than the 2x 8 pin they provide?
 
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It's the same with this new bequiet atx 3.0 pure power, they are only providing two cables. It seems they have totally forgotten about graphics cards with 3x 8 pin?? I don't get it.

Yes, the graphics card end has 4x 6+2 but the power supply feed is only two cables, and its always recommended to put all 3 separately for 3x 8 pin.

Especially since msi says to plug three into the power supply and they only give two cables...

 
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Solved the Bequiet one.. it uses two 12 pins on the power supply side. Msi still using 8 pins, so doesn't make sense to only provide two 8 pin cables.
 
Tetras said:
I think the non PCI-E 5.0 version has enough ports to connect 3 PCI-E 8 pin cables and 2 EPS 12v, but the PCI-E 5.0 version does not, so you'd have to daisy chain one of them. They seem to assume that if you buy the PCI-E 5.0 version you'll have 2 EPS 12v and be using the 12/16 pin for your graphics card. Which I guess makes sense in a way, because you might as well buy the non-PCI-E 5.0 version for an AMD graphics card or an 8 pin NVIDIA.
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Hmm but there is benefits to all cards with these graphics cards, it's not just the 16 pin.

I don't understand why they can't make a 16 pin to 3x 8 pin cable, or is it thst it'll be limited to 450w (150w x 3)? Why provide a 16 pin to 2x8 pin then? I don't get it

Especially since they could do a 3x 8 pin to 16 pin adapter why can't you do the other way around?
 
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Tetras said:
My impression is that they bundle the 16 pin to 2x8 pin just on the off chance that someone is using a 3 PCI-E 8 pin graphics card and needs that extra cable, so with that cable and one of the 2 bundled PCI-E 8 pin cables, you'll now have enough, but they seem to think that's an unlikely scenario and I'd probably agree IF someone is making their purchase decision in a 'simplistic' way and knows in advance which graphics card they'll have.

Only having 2 PCI-E 8 pin is maybe less inclined to overload the cable pins and will spread the load of a 3 PCI-E 8 pin card between 2 independent cables (the 12/16 pin and 1 of the other bundled cables).

In the marketing description of the PSUs it seems quite clear they think the non-PCI-E 5.0 version is for RTX 3000 cards with 8-pins and the PCI-E 5.0 version is for RTX 4000 cards with 12/16 pins.
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Hmm makes sense, it is odd though that the 8 pin they then give is a pair, so you'll have 4x 8 pins, none of these psu provided cables are good for cable management for 3x 8 pin
 
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