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I was planning on upgrading my son's PC with my old Palit RTX 3050 StormX OC. The PC is an adapted Dell T3500 with the original PSU, which is around 500w.
He's currently running a MSI GTX 1050 ti and the fan is getting increasingly noisy, hence considering replacement. I think it's fan bearimgs but this isn't the kind you can oil without removing the heatsink.. It's under a 75w card so doesn't need to be plugged into the PSU directly.
Generally he's happy with his PC's performance for the games he plays.
On closer inspection the PSU has just one 6 pin pci-e connector. The card has an 8 pin socket. Card TDP listed TDP is 130w
Now to my mind 130w should fall within the limits for a PCIe slot plus 6 pin connector (150w). A note of caution is that in the techpowerup review of this card they measured 20ms power spikes up to 156w, though generally gaming use was not far off listed TDP.
So a couple of questions:
1. Will the card work with just a 6 pin connector plugged in or does it need 8?
2. I'm thinking that if it's just 20ms spikes going over the rated max for the cable / pci-e slot by 6w, this is unlikely to cause a problem. Is the most likely scenario if the PSU doesn't cope here GPU instability?
3. Would anyone be concerned about using a 6 pin to 8 pin adaptor or just running off 6 pin in this situation?
He's currently running a MSI GTX 1050 ti and the fan is getting increasingly noisy, hence considering replacement. I think it's fan bearimgs but this isn't the kind you can oil without removing the heatsink.. It's under a 75w card so doesn't need to be plugged into the PSU directly.
Generally he's happy with his PC's performance for the games he plays.
On closer inspection the PSU has just one 6 pin pci-e connector. The card has an 8 pin socket. Card TDP listed TDP is 130w
Now to my mind 130w should fall within the limits for a PCIe slot plus 6 pin connector (150w). A note of caution is that in the techpowerup review of this card they measured 20ms power spikes up to 156w, though generally gaming use was not far off listed TDP.
So a couple of questions:
1. Will the card work with just a 6 pin connector plugged in or does it need 8?
2. I'm thinking that if it's just 20ms spikes going over the rated max for the cable / pci-e slot by 6w, this is unlikely to cause a problem. Is the most likely scenario if the PSU doesn't cope here GPU instability?
3. Would anyone be concerned about using a 6 pin to 8 pin adaptor or just running off 6 pin in this situation?