Riser sata cable burned!

[Ryuh]

I remember when i put 4 molex risers on one cable. Oh boy!
Good thing that i was in the room and smelled trouble brewing .
The smell of hot cable in the air was very noticeable. I quickly touched all the cables on the PSU and almost burned myself on the riser one.
Turned of the rig and never did that again. Disaster averted!

[mayankvig0]

Always connect 1 gpu to 1 sata cable.

[Oakey22]

Always connect 1 gpu to 1 sata cable.

That is not possible with a standard ATX PSU and 6 cards, you have to double up on some

[philipma1957]

Always connect 1 gpu to 1 sata cable.

That is not possible with a standard ATX PSU and 6 cards, you have to double up on some

he has the hx1200i

he can buy six oem cables direct from  corsair  the link is above
if he runs:

smos
no0019
windows 10

on usb sticks

 https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-JumpDrive-128GB-Flash-Drive/dp/B00S5V5PJC/ref=pd_sbs_328_2?

he does not need the sata cables for anything but  his risers

[dragonmike]

I won't parrot what everyone's already said in here to increase their post count, but I'll just add that you should be careful to buy the sata cable from the same brand as your PSU. More often then not, the cables are not interchangeable between brands. They must be using a different plug/socket design just to force users to buy aftermarket cables from them too...

[foldingextra]

If your PSU molex can supply enough power for 4 sata to riser, then it is the issue of bad quality of the sata cable. I remembered I watched a video mentioning bad quality of sata cable sometimes designed for harddisk usage only because harddisk draws less wattage from PSU.

[adaseb]

Nothing but bad advice in this thread.

You should NEVER connect any GPUs (unless its the older 7970/280x/290) on any SATA powered cable for the riser.

Since these GPUs take less power from the PCIe connectors (from PSU) they pull more power from the Riser +12V. Most RX series cards use about 40-50 Watts, which is 4 AMPS which the SATA connector cannot handle.

If you have a R9 280X, then you can use the riser SATA.

[solarion]

I won't parrot what everyone's already said in here to increase their post count, but I'll just add that you should be careful to buy the sata cable from the same brand as your PSU. More often then not, the cables are not interchangeable between brands. They must be using a different plug/socket design just to force users to buy aftermarket cables from them too...

For cost consumption issue some of the people go for cheap data cables. If we go with the same brand cable you will find more issue like heating issue and bursting.
In same board you have to use the same graphics card in all riser line to do not find the issue.

[dragonmike]

Nothing but bad advice in this thread.

You should NEVER connect any GPUs (unless its the older 7970/280x/290) on any SATA powered cable for the riser.

Since these GPUs take less power from the PCIe connectors (from PSU) they pull more power from the Riser +12V. Most RX series cards use about 40-50 Watts, which is 4 AMPS which the SATA connector cannot handle.

If you have a R9 280X, then you can use the riser SATA.

I believe you are mistaken, my fellow bitcointalker.
SATA = 3 pins rated @ 1.5A each, so max 4.5A in total.
At 12V this equates to 54W which is perfectly fine.
So 1 riser = perfectly safe. 2 risers, well, it's above spec, but many people still consider it as ok (as long as ambient temp isn't too high). Anything above and you're seriously asking for trouble.

[huntingthesnark]

I won't parrot what everyone's already said in here to increase their post count, but I'll just add that you should be careful to buy the sata cable from the same brand as your PSU. More often then not, the cables are not interchangeable between brands. They must be using a different plug/socket design just to force users to buy aftermarket cables from them too...

Yeah, and EVGA psus come with x4 in one molex cables. Been running them for months, no issues *yet* <runs off to check rigs>....

[dagarair]

I won't parrot what everyone's already said in here to increase their post count, but I'll just add that you should be careful to buy the sata cable from the same brand as your PSU. More often then not, the cables are not interchangeable between brands. They must be using a different plug/socket design just to force users to buy aftermarket cables from them too...

Yeah, and EVGA psus come with x4 in one molex cables. Been running them for months, no issues *yet* <runs off to check rigs>....

HMM...  All I use is EVGA 1300 and the molex is
2 cables with 3 molex connections
4 (maybe 3) Sata with 3 Sata connections
6 PCIE connections with 4 being single 6+2 and 2 of them being 6+2 and 6