slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli

wheeljack12 · 07-26-10, 08:18 PM

Today I just went to tri sli gtx 480. Before I did, I went to nvidia's slizone to see if they had certified power supplies which they did for 3 way sli gtx 480. The problem is not that they aren't powerful (all are 1200 watt and above) but they don't have enough pci-e connections on the power supply itself. I had a silverstone strider 1500 watt. The box for it said 3x vga for 3 way sli. BS. It comes with more than enough pci-e cables (each cable has a seperate 6 and 8 pin connector on each) but there are only 4 pci-e connector on the modular connections of the power supply. And I went online to check for wiring schematics just to be sure, and there is only 4 connections. The problem gets worse. About 1/2-2/3 of the slizone recommended psu's have the same problem. The only ones that don't have the pci-e power connection problems are ones by be-quite, pc power and cooling and corsairs new ax1200 gold psu. For all you hx1000 lovers out there, the corsair ax1200 is a 80 plus gold certified 1200 watt psu and has the right amount of connections for 3 way sli. I almost was going to wait for that psu until I was able to get my friend to swap my silverstone for his pc power and cooling 1200 watt that has proper 3 way sli power for 3 gtx 480's since he is only using a single zotac gtx 480 (he doesn't have the mb space for 2 way sli meaning he is using up the pci-e space with 1x cards which he needs for port multiplying esata card and descrete sound card. FYI, he's using the asus p6t deluxe v1 mb)

Ninja Prime · 07-26-10, 09:48 PM

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**snowmanwithahat** · 07-26-10, 11:04 PM

Whatever you were asking.... please put it into 1 sentence.

If your psu doesn't natively have the power connectors, at least a combination of 6x, 6 or 8-pin connectors. Be prepared to have a 1k psu with 80+ Amps on the 12v rails.

You should be fine, if that's what you're asking...

Ninja Prime · 07-26-10, 11:51 PM

Well, now that its translated, I think tech report did something about a tri-sli setup with 480s, seems like they needed a 1400w power supply. Maybe I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: Nm, it was a quad SLI that needed 1.5kw, I'm guessing you'd want 1.2kw though.

wheeljack12 · 07-27-10, 08:06 PM

I have my power supply I need in the pc power and cooling 1200 watt. It has the proper connections I need for 3 way sli. Fortunately I didn't spend a cent since my friend was using in his system. What I was trying to say is that most of the nvidia sli certified power supplies for tri sli gtx 480 minus the ones I mentioned don't acutally have enough connections on the power supply itself to power 3 video cards. They have the wattage though. Why I am pissed, I just had to give up a 1500 watt silverstone strider because the connection schematics don't have 3 6pin and 3 8 pin individual connectors. Really, that much power and you can't connect 3 video cards, duh? And that's the story with most of nvidia's recommended power supplies too.

**john19055** · 08-03-10, 01:51 AM

1200 watts should be plenty and I would have thought a 1500 watt silverstone would be plenty.You would think if it is a 1200 watt it would come with plenty of PCI-e cables.I have a cooler Master UCP 1100watt and it comes with 6 PCIe 6pin and 3 PCIe 8pin ,but it is not moduler.I seen that it is certified for TRI GTX 470 witch I have.I did'nt think it would be enough but I was running three GTX 280 overclocked and nvidia has them rated at 236watts and the GTX 470 is 215watts,but they will be overclocked.So I should'nt have any problems .I would like to have a modular power supply ,but I don't want to speed around $300 on a new power supply when I have one that will do the job just fine.

trivium nate · 08-03-10, 02:32 AM

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wheeljack12 · 08-03-10, 03:16 PM

the 1200 watt is fine for pci-e connectors. It has 3 6 pin and 3 8 pin on it being the one I am using now. It's the silverstone 1500 watt that sucks. The modular connections are 4 pci-e ports with one 6 pin and one 8 pin on each wire. since you can't use both (it acutally physically impossible) pinouts per wire, that means you can have 2 300 watt cards with the silverstone. Like I said, the silverstone is a waste of a power supply for what you can connect. If I could find it, I would get the amatech axe deluxe 1500 watt. The amatech has proper amount of connections for 3way sli as I have read through reviews.

Arioch · 08-04-10, 03:23 AM

So if I am reading it right, my Thermaltake 1200W W0133RU is supposedly certifified to handle 3x480 GTX cards.

wheeljack12 · 08-06-10, 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arioch

So if I am reading it right, my Thermaltake 1200W W0133RU is supposedly certifified to handle 3x480 GTX cards.

supposedly would be correct. Unless you see more than 4 pci-e modular connections on it. It's really dumb, high power psu without enough pci-e connections,duh?

LORD-eX-Bu · 08-06-10, 12:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninja Prime

Wall of Text crits your eyeballs for one million damage.

Your eyeballs die.

07-26-10, 08:18 PM	#1
wheeljack12 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Hamilton,Ontario,Canada Posts: 1,031	slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli Today I just went to tri sli gtx 480. Before I did, I went to nvidia's slizone to see if they had certified power supplies which they did for 3 way sli gtx 480. The problem is not that they aren't powerful (all are 1200 watt and above) but they don't have enough pci-e connections on the power supply itself. I had a silverstone strider 1500 watt. The box for it said 3x vga for 3 way sli. BS. It comes with more than enough pci-e cables (each cable has a seperate 6 and 8 pin connector on each) but there are only 4 pci-e connector on the modular connections of the power supply. And I went online to check for wiring schematics just to be sure, and there is only 4 connections. The problem gets worse. About 1/2-2/3 of the slizone recommended psu's have the same problem. The only ones that don't have the pci-e power connection problems are ones by be-quite, pc power and cooling and corsairs new ax1200 gold psu. For all you hx1000 lovers out there, the corsair ax1200 is a 80 plus gold certified 1200 watt psu and has the right amount of connections for 3 way sli. I almost was going to wait for that psu until I was able to get my friend to swap my silverstone for his pc power and cooling 1200 watt that has proper 3 way sli power for 3 gtx 480's since he is only using a single zotac gtx 480 (he doesn't have the mb space for 2 way sli meaning he is using up the pci-e space with 1x cards which he needs for port multiplying esata card and descrete sound card. FYI, he's using the asus p6t deluxe v1 mb) __________________ asus p8z77-v lk mb, 8gb ddr3-1866 mhz ram in dual channel,intel core i7 3770k cpu,gigabyte gtx 560 1gb soc gpu, creative labs sb recon 3d pci-e,2x ocz agility 3 90gb ssd in raid 0,antec 650 watt 80 plus platunum psu,antec atx case, pioneer bdr-208 15x bluray writer,windows 8 64 bit oem, steelseries 6gv2 keyboard ,asus vg278he 27' 3d vision 2 lcd monitor, steelseries 6gv2 keyboard, steelseries sensei mlg editon mouse,xbox 360 wired controller for windows,lexar 16gb usb 3.0 flash drive, 3d vision 2 kit I'd rather walk with God in the Dark than shine in the light alone. coming soon:2x samsung 840 pro 256gb in raid 0,logitech z906 5.1 speakers,,(2x2x8gb) 32gb team xtreem 2666mhz ram, 32gb kingston datatravler workspace usb 3.0 flash drive,sound blaster z sound card, adaptec 6805e pci-e 2.0 4x sata 3 raid controller,lg 16x bd writer, PNY gtx 660 ti 2gb gpu, corsair vengeance k65 keyboard, intel core i7 4770k cpu, gigabyte ga-z87x-d3h mb

07-26-10, 09:48 PM	#2
Ninja Prime Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Utah Posts: 2,263	Re: slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli Wall of Text crits your eyeballs for one million damage. Your eyeballs die.

07-26-10, 11:04 PM	#3
snowmanwithahat Snowy Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 973	Re: slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli Whatever you were asking.... please put it into 1 sentence. If your psu doesn't natively have the power connectors, at least a combination of 6x, 6 or 8-pin connectors. Be prepared to have a 1k psu with 80+ Amps on the 12v rails. You should be fine, if that's what you're asking... __________________ ---Gaming Rig--- Q6600 3.4ghz (378x9) - 1.5v Gigabyte EP45-UD3P 8gb (4x2gb) OCZ Gold DDR2-800 (5-4-4-12) MSI+ASUS GTX 470 SLI Dell u3011 IPS Display HP 22" Auxiliary Monitor 256gb Western Digital Silicon Edge Blue SSD 5x2tb RAID-5 Array 750W PC P&C PSU Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit & Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit ---Gaming Laptop--- ASUS G53JW Core i7 740QM 16gb DDR3 Nvidia GTX 460m 1tb WD HDD 120gb Corsair SSD Join the NvNews Folding @ Home Team

07-26-10, 11:51 PM	#4
Ninja Prime Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Utah Posts: 2,263	Re: slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli Well, now that its translated, I think tech report did something about a tri-sli setup with 480s, seems like they needed a 1400w power supply. Maybe I'll see if I can find it. Edit: Nm, it was a quad SLI that needed 1.5kw, I'm guessing you'd want 1.2kw though.

07-27-10, 08:06 PM	#5
wheeljack12 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Hamilton,Ontario,Canada Posts: 1,031	Re: slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli I have my power supply I need in the pc power and cooling 1200 watt. It has the proper connections I need for 3 way sli. Fortunately I didn't spend a cent since my friend was using in his system. What I was trying to say is that most of the nvidia sli certified power supplies for tri sli gtx 480 minus the ones I mentioned don't acutally have enough connections on the power supply itself to power 3 video cards. They have the wattage though. Why I am pissed, I just had to give up a 1500 watt silverstone strider because the connection schematics don't have 3 6pin and 3 8 pin individual connectors. Really, that much power and you can't connect 3 video cards, duh? And that's the story with most of nvidia's recommended power supplies too. __________________ asus p8z77-v lk mb, 8gb ddr3-1866 mhz ram in dual channel,intel core i7 3770k cpu,gigabyte gtx 560 1gb soc gpu, creative labs sb recon 3d pci-e,2x ocz agility 3 90gb ssd in raid 0,antec 650 watt 80 plus platunum psu,antec atx case, pioneer bdr-208 15x bluray writer,windows 8 64 bit oem, steelseries 6gv2 keyboard ,asus vg278he 27' 3d vision 2 lcd monitor, steelseries 6gv2 keyboard, steelseries sensei mlg editon mouse,xbox 360 wired controller for windows,lexar 16gb usb 3.0 flash drive, 3d vision 2 kit I'd rather walk with God in the Dark than shine in the light alone. coming soon:2x samsung 840 pro 256gb in raid 0,logitech z906 5.1 speakers,,(2x2x8gb) 32gb team xtreem 2666mhz ram, 32gb kingston datatravler workspace usb 3.0 flash drive,sound blaster z sound card, adaptec 6805e pci-e 2.0 4x sata 3 raid controller,lg 16x bd writer, PNY gtx 660 ti 2gb gpu, corsair vengeance k65 keyboard, intel core i7 4770k cpu, gigabyte ga-z87x-d3h mb

08-03-10, 01:51 AM	#6
john19055 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: GREENVILLE,TX Posts: 3,851	Re: slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli 1200 watts should be plenty and I would have thought a 1500 watt silverstone would be plenty.You would think if it is a 1200 watt it would come with plenty of PCI-e cables.I have a cooler Master UCP 1100watt and it comes with 6 PCIe 6pin and 3 PCIe 8pin ,but it is not moduler.I seen that it is certified for TRI GTX 470 witch I have.I did'nt think it would be enough but I was running three GTX 280 overclocked and nvidia has them rated at 236watts and the GTX 470 is 215watts,but they will be overclocked.So I should'nt have any problems .I would like to have a modular power supply ,but I don't want to speed around $300 on a new power supply when I have one that will do the job just fine. __________________ Intel i7-3820+Corsair H-100+ASROCK X79-Extreme4+16gigs G.Skill PC1600DDR3+2-ASUS DirectCU II GTX-670 in SLI+Crucial 256g-SSD+2- Samsung 1-TB+2-WesternDigtial 640g+LG-12x Blu-Ray Burner+1100w CoolerMaster+Antec-P280 case+50" Plasma PM6700+Logitech Mouse+Keyboard+Pioneer VSX-1020+Polk Audio Speakers

08-03-10, 02:32 AM	#7
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08-03-10, 03:16 PM	#8
wheeljack12 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Hamilton,Ontario,Canada Posts: 1,031	Re: slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli the 1200 watt is fine for pci-e connectors. It has 3 6 pin and 3 8 pin on it being the one I am using now. It's the silverstone 1500 watt that sucks. The modular connections are 4 pci-e ports with one 6 pin and one 8 pin on each wire. since you can't use both (it acutally physically impossible) pinouts per wire, that means you can have 2 300 watt cards with the silverstone. Like I said, the silverstone is a waste of a power supply for what you can connect. If I could find it, I would get the amatech axe deluxe 1500 watt. The amatech has proper amount of connections for 3way sli as I have read through reviews. __________________ asus p8z77-v lk mb, 8gb ddr3-1866 mhz ram in dual channel,intel core i7 3770k cpu,gigabyte gtx 560 1gb soc gpu, creative labs sb recon 3d pci-e,2x ocz agility 3 90gb ssd in raid 0,antec 650 watt 80 plus platunum psu,antec atx case, pioneer bdr-208 15x bluray writer,windows 8 64 bit oem, steelseries 6gv2 keyboard ,asus vg278he 27' 3d vision 2 lcd monitor, steelseries 6gv2 keyboard, steelseries sensei mlg editon mouse,xbox 360 wired controller for windows,lexar 16gb usb 3.0 flash drive, 3d vision 2 kit I'd rather walk with God in the Dark than shine in the light alone. coming soon:2x samsung 840 pro 256gb in raid 0,logitech z906 5.1 speakers,,(2x2x8gb) 32gb team xtreem 2666mhz ram, 32gb kingston datatravler workspace usb 3.0 flash drive,sound blaster z sound card, adaptec 6805e pci-e 2.0 4x sata 3 raid controller,lg 16x bd writer, PNY gtx 660 ti 2gb gpu, corsair vengeance k65 keyboard, intel core i7 4770k cpu, gigabyte ga-z87x-d3h mb

08-04-10, 03:23 AM	#9
Arioch Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 2,087	Re: slizone's psu's for gtx 480 3 way sli So if I am reading it right, my Thermaltake 1200W W0133RU is supposedly certifified to handle 3x480 GTX cards.