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July 15th, 2020 17:00
Aurora R11, PSU, two 6-pin connectors available?
According to rumors the new gen of FE NVIDIA GPUs are going to require two 6-pin connectors from the power supply. Does the 1000w PSU in the Aurora R11 have two 6-pin connectors available that I could use to hook up to the gpu?
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r72019
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July 15th, 2020 21:00
And that photo that you have showed two 6 PIN connectors, plus two 6+2 PIN connectors. Since 1000W is the highest PSU option in this PC, I think it's safe to mark this solved.
GTS81
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July 16th, 2020 09:00
@r72019 , @Anonymous :
@kelvin was referring to rumors of the NVIDIA Ampere a.k.a RTX 30xx cards coming with a 6+6 new connector. That is still pretty much unknown and I'm sure industry players are currently scrambling to nail that down. In terms of raw power draw, there shouldn't be much of a difference with RTX 2080 Ti 8+8 which is already supported by the R11 PSU. Once Dell starts shipping Aurora R13? with Ampere cards, you can ask them for that new PSU cable if they reuse the R11 PSU.
r72019
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July 16th, 2020 20:00
Yeah, but I thought the rumor was you can plug in two 6 PIN connectors to get it to work. Seems odd if Nvidia would require a new 12 PIN connector/adapter (that couldn't be connected to two 6PINs) in order to use the GPU, I mean there's no mainstream PSUs in the market that currently offer a 12PIN GPU connector.
"It seems like users with good PSUs can still plug in two 6-pin power connectors given they meet the high efficiency required to sustain an enthusiast-grade graphics card. But then again, anyone running a $500 US+ graphics card would already be rocking a pretty decent quality PSU.
So it looks like the addition of this new 12-pin power connector won't require any big changes and you will indeed be able to run the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series Ampere gaming graphics cards without having to worry about buying a new PSU that falls in the standard of your brand new graphics card."
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-30-ampere-gaming-graphics-cards-new-power-connector-rumor/