STOP Doing This RIGHT NOW - It Kills GPUs

What do you think is the biggest mistake PC gamers make? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!!!

I have a Zotac RTX 3070 amp holo, I need a new psu and looking at getting a Rm750e from Corsair. Can I pigtail my cables because my gpu runs a 6 and 8 pin connecting. The max power draw is 240w.

Okay ima try this. 300w 6900xt on pigtails. Drawing 254w.

Also very important, if your GPU comes with a power cable NEVER use that cable on your PSU as cables must be rated for each PSU and not GPU. Usually when buying new GPU it doesnt come with any power cables for this reason but used ones may, throw that cable away.

If you have 3 8 pin inputs on the card and that card's TDP is well below 150 + 150 + 75 = 375W you are safe to use 2 cables with one pigtail connector. These days if a card draws over 375 you usually have one 12 pin connector that has to come out of 3-4 rails on your PSU. Most PSU's still don't ship with 3 separate 8 pin to 8 pin PCIE connectors.

Where can we get dual non split cables???

I did use a pig tailed cable for my 7900 XT when I first got it and I think I damaged my PSU by doing this. My computer was instantly shutting off needing to power cycle my PSU to get it to work again and also had to power cycle every time I turned my computer on in the morning. This really needs to be talked about more.

So I have a 12700K with a 7900 XTX on a 750W PSU with 2 pci cable that I have to double up on one of them for the three plugs in the card. Am I playing with fire?

Biggest mistake PC gamers make......hmmmm Id say playing fps games with a controller lol. No but i couldnt say this is more dangerous than a power supply issue but buying a monitor that cant fully flex your graphics card is a mistake i see a lot. When trying to budget and your a beginner it might seem like the monitor is somewhere you can cheap on but if it cant do more than 144hz at 1440p you might as well stick with a 1080ti cause it can still crank 1080p at 144hz all day nevermind 60hz

where do you find PSU with three 8pin outputs? I managed to find PSUs that have only two, so for the 3rd 8pin on the graphic card you have to use the 'pigtail'

Okay this makes sense as to why my 3080ti stopped working when I haven’t gamed in over a year and only use it for chrome. I sent it in last week to evga because it was under warranty. I wonder if bedside I did this that it will void the warranty

I got a RM850e and it comes with only 2 PCIE cables (I should've done my research) while my GPU being XFX 7900 XTX needs 3, was wondering in this case would a daisy chain be fine? I currently have a third party PCIE cable but after being warned to not do that, I stopped using my PC all together until I make my next move.. Any comments would be highly appreciated!

Definitely a problem with the 6800XT. My brother recently upgraded to one and not thinking (my fault) just swapped out his old gpu and uses the 6+2 & 6+2 pigtail end of the PCI-E power cable. Was fine in Windows but as soon as a game got fired up PC would crash and shut down. Hes got a good corsair cx750m so we were going through drivers, bios, undervolting.. Then it dawned on me.. the cable. Did a 150mv unndervolt and some lighter loads would crash less but as soon as the GPU hit about 75% load, crash. Wasted hours testing the software when it was just lack of power. Lucky we didn't fry something.

so I had a Vega 56 for about 5 years up until now. One cable pig tails connected entire time. It would crash once in a while, I could tell it was most likely the GPU. However it would run mostly fine if I didnt run it at 100% or too quickly (warm up?). Would the issue in this video be why my GPU had instability?

Rocking a 7900xt now, it wasn't performing up to benchmarks on MW2 for example, 200+ frames online, I would get 100-140. No one had an answer, but I saw a reddit post discussing this very thing and it fixed my performance. Love it.

Can i use pigtail cable on rtx 3070?

Anybody else see the cat freak out when he opened the 3090 box?
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What this means is 'pigtail' cables are effectively useless because they only work correctly on GPUs that unnecessarily have two 8-pin ports.

can I use a pigtail on undervolted rx6700xt? 600W PSU

I managed to get a really good deal on a strix 3080 but my psu only has two 8 pin outputs. Could I get away with using one 8 pin and then a pigtailed cable for the other 2 8 pins on the card? Or would I truly need a new psu for it

This may be a dumb question but I'm still gonna ask.. Can you combine 2 6+2 pcie cable into one male 8 pin so the power draw is spread between the two?

Thank you.

Thank You for making this video you just earned a sub 😊

What if my psu only has pigtail pcie cables and is not modular

Omg i had this bad setup with 1x 8pin split on my 3090 for 2 years. Lucky it didnt melt!

Wish I saw this sooner. My rtx 3080 doesn't work anymore. The cables melted inside and I replaced the socket with a new one, but the GPU only lasts a few seconds before disconnecting. Very annoying. £1,000 for a GPU that only lasted me 6 months.

The cat seems unconcerned.

does anyone know if its ok to pigtail a 4070ti? (totaling in 2 pcie cables)

Glad to hear that it's not an issue on my 175W RTX3060

I am using 2 cables and its still not enough
Psu:corsair rm850
Gpu: rtx 4070ti

Great video, thank you for making it sir.

so for my RTX 4080 that need 3 8 pins at 350w. I have 2 cables. Can I use one daisy chained (pig tailed?)
Otherwise I have to replace my PSU right?

Can you still use a pigtail cable as long as you only use the main connector?

My PSU only came with 2 6+2 pin pcie connectors however the 4080 requires 3 for some reason so I've daisy chained one of the cables and it works perfectly fine. The 3080 was a 350w card and that only required 2 cables so I don't see the issue with using 2 for a 320w card like the 4080.

Just killed my gpu because of that...

Can i use the pigytail instead of the main one ? The 12 cable just doesnt want the main one. Ive tried with both cables im using. So 2 cables, no main connected on one but the pigytail

Omg I've been running my 390w overclocked 7900 xt with a single pigtail cable

If ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, could you use 2 cables, one without using daisy chain, and one using a daisy chain and its second connection, on a card that has 3x8 pin connections?

Never ever Peggy till any GPU never use gust one cable no matter if ur graphics cards power hungry or not ur put GPU to work harder than the norm u get better gameing and and cooler card not working so hard overkill ur stuff in future

Can i still use pigtail connection on my rtx2080?

I have a Corsair RM 1000i and a 1080 ti currently, 6800 xt on the way. I've been using the included Corsair pigtail for over 5 years now, no issues with power limits. The Corsair pigtails are 16 AWG to where the first connector is, so should be fine for handling the full load of 300W. The 1080 ti has 2x 8 pin connectors, so I could get away with one pigtail cable but the 6800 xt has 3 connectors. The plan is to use 2 pigtail cables spread across the 3 connections on the card, run some benchmarks and stability tests and see if I run into power limits. The 6800 xt has a TDP of 300W vs the 1080 ti at 250W. In theory, 2 rails back to the PSU for the 6800 xt should be plenty. Corsair doesn't include any warnings in their documentation about high end GPU's and their pigtails, and ASRock doesn't include anything in the manual saying not to use pigtails. If this is really a problem, they should say something. Anyway, I'm going to try it with the 2 cables back to the PSU and if that works out and is stable I'll go with it, otherwise it's 3 cables I guess. The cables also do not get warm at all with extended use on my 1080 ti.

Also, the logic of "cards just draw more power now" is not exactly true. The R9 295x2 had two GPU's onboard, 2x 8 pin connectors and had a TDP of 550W. Power usage ebbs and flows with die shrink and footprint expansion.

I have a 3080ti and i got 2 PCIE cables running from my PSU should i plug in the 2 main 8 pins and use 1 pigtail for the third 8pin connector

Love that intro! :) Get to da chopper!!!!

what about someone using a non modular psu? is it gonna be a problem

Molex cables to 8pin gpu is also a terrible idea i accualy melted my cables and killed my system by that

BRUH 😑LOL I THOUGHT U WERE GOING TO TELL ME SOMETHING I DONT KNOW. 😴WELL THAT WASTED MY TIME, ..... JUST LIKE PEOPLE READING THIS MESSAGE. YEAT

I did it with 3060ti that go to 250w and i overclocked it, so i cabged to two cables from one with pigitale and the temprature was down in 4-5°

i am watching this at 1.5x speed and it still looks like he is handling gpu very cautiously.. damn.

i have a 3080ftw i just run stock speeds its been so hot this summer.even with air on i have to 90 percent fans on heavy gaming to keep it around 70c any less it spikes 77c even with lots of fans and good airflow case and mine has separate cables all 3 to seasonic 850 psu but no problems with the seasonic psu it just keeps working great

I have a Corsair 1000W PSU and using pigtail on a 3080, no issues so far