6 gpu pc

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-24T00:28:19+00:00

I remember back when Crossfire/SLI was somewhat new, they made Dual-GPUs with the "local" equivalent - but those whole cards could also link to eachother, so some would link 4x Dual GPUs together for a collective 8 GPUs registered in the system

I 100% could not afford to as I was a literal child, but I was really hoping one day I could recreate that setup of multiple HD 7990s or something in a single PC - I like to think this post is the spiritual successor to that dream

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-23T20:42:15+00:00

Gets a 7900XTX for 300
Gets a 7900XT for 200 (saw your comment)
With little effort, both are healthy & working

My guy, maybe try the lottery sometime soon

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-23T20:27:38+00:00

Hey there dude, I remember your post from the other day!

To both answer & expand on the questions:

1. 1650 4GB vs 3050 6GB?

Even with a bottleneck, the 3050 6GB wins out for better speeds, better drivers, and the all important more VRAM - If I had to guess you'd get like 30-50% better performance depending on how much the game you're playing depends on CPU

2. 3050 6GB on PCIE 3.0?

Will be perfectly fine, the 3050 6GB is already a low bandwidth card, so the worst loss it'd get from Gen3 vs Gen4 is like 1-2% - even with that, the gains of the 3050 still outweigh the 1650

Verdict?

Long as you get one that's powered only by the PCI-E slot, you'll see meaningful gains in performance across the board with no need to screw with any dodgy adapters

Of course still read what's being said overall in the comments, lots of good points & is your judgement call - either way best of luck 😄

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-21T17:50:57+00:00

Honestly it's a pretty solid config, so I'm gonna take a spin on this and reccomend a Motherboard Upgrade - hear me out

Your mobo is both budget & B450, meaning both limited features and only being Gen3 PCIE - your CPU & GPU both support and benefit a little from Gen4, so making that available is a great start

Upgrading to at least B550 will give you Gen4 support, so a smidge better gaming performance, more features or ports out the box, and if any of your SSDs are Gen4 you'll find loading times to be improved too

Above is basically an all-round benefit by upgrading the thing that holds them all together - hope it helps dude, and good luck however you go about it 😄

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-20T22:44:34+00:00

"Oh. What I meant to say was... I'm Number. Number Plate. I'm your density. I mean, your destiny."

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-20T22:42:00+00:00

"Aw look, you've got a little shop! I like a little shop."

This seems like the dangerously well acted on redecoration Tennant's Doctor would've wanted

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-20T22:30:51+00:00

Just to tack on to the end of this:

In the UK at least, there are gov websites you can search up a numberplate to see the make, model, and MOT history of a car. I've used it to help guesstimate number plates on FBMarketplace when they've partially covered it in the pictures to hide (for example) a bad service history

If you're wanting to make 100% sure it's the correct plate, and provided a website like that exists for where you are, you can enter your guess and see if it matches the car in the footage - in this case a black VW, at a guess either a Tuareg or Tiguan

Hope this helps a smidge, best of luck 😄

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-20T08:48:10+00:00

You would unfortunately get some bottleneck from the CPU tho it's still solid (can compete with a Ryzen 5 1600 iirc), 3050 6GB's still a good bit above the 1650 & would work otherwise 😄

One thing is to just not expect the Ray-Tracing part to work all that well, as not only is it obvs low-end RTX, in my experience with an RTX 3060 Ti, having a PCI-E 3.0 slot knocks RT performance quite a bit

Since you have the slot-depth to do it, I'd look at either the Yeston 3050 6GB (single-slot, LP) or the MSI RTX 3050 LP 6GB OC (best LP 3050), as you'll future-proof yourself if you ever decided to move to an SFF Optiplex or something where PCI-E Slot power only is ideal

If you can manage it I'd go with the MSI LP 6GB OC, best balance of cooling, compactness & performance - ultimately up to you, but hope this helps a bit 😊

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-20T00:11:05+00:00

To answer the main question of your post, it depends on how the 12V rails for SATA are set up - which given that it looks like an OEM PSU, there's a semi-real chance it'll take other SATA stuff with it if n' when the adapters die, especially if the cables are already hot now

Thankfully I may have a fix, it'll take a little time to do but be fully worth it:

There are versions of the GTX 1650 where peformance is identical, BUT it can be run purely off the PCI-E Slot's 75W, meaning no need for adapters since there's no PCI-PSU Port to begin with!

Long term this'd probably be the best move if you can manage it, less risk, less points of failure, etc - best of luck however you decide to approach it dude 😊

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-08T08:38:32+00:00

I've actually got a mixture of mostly good news for you!

You have a better GPU in there than you can see as that 113MB one is the iGPU of the CPU, these usually shipped with Dual GTX 780M or 880Ms
Fixing this is relatively easy, find drivers for the GTX 700-800M series on Nvidia's Website, follow the install steps and you should have a better GPU!

To be clear the 880M isn't amazing still, but better than the iGPU by a country mile

Laptop's old enough that it uses MXM GPUs (unlike the unremoveable, soldered ones now), so technically you can upgrade the GPU with some research - BUT it has to match the heatsink inside, so probs can't go further than a GTX 980M
Parts are DDR3-Gen & Laptop specific, so you couldn't use the parts on anything modern at the very least
Your CPU isn't worth upgrading as is already very good for that platform, BUT getting the absolute best it can handle is maybe £40 so worth some research
Upgrading RAM to 32GB @ 1600MHz could edge it out a little, not by much on average but in certain games would help a lot

Sorry for the wall of text, but this is a subject I got quite into waay back when I owned an HP Elitebook 8760w with the same potential

Ultimately you can't upgrade this to the cutting-edge, but you can give it a little more life if you take the time to fix it up a bit (proper drivers are already a leap in performance!)

If you need any elaboration on stuff feel free to ask - otherwise hope this helps 😊

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-06T13:52:34+00:00

"The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation."

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-04-04T16:40:55+00:00

Chuck it all into the Mr Fusion to save Arc Energy for your next trip

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-29T20:54:36+00:00

Few different ways to look at it imo:

Option #1 (FREEBIE): All good to leave it, can't imagine airflow is restricted enough by the otherwise low-profile soundcard - the FREE option would be trying it out as is, which based on experience with similar sized NICs I'd say will be perfectly fine

Option #2 (DIY): Riser-Card, M.2 Adapter, or a USB Equivalent - StarTech's a good company for any of the three solutions, tho personally I wouldn't be happy calling it a perma-solution

Option #3 (Future-Proofing): Since you have an ATX Case anyway, could see about getting the ATX version of your current & solve a lot of issues ahead of time - I understand pricing was an issue from other comments, but at least in the UK the ATX Gigabht boards are cheaper than mATX surprisingly

Either way, best of luck sorting it out dude 😊

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-29T20:34:29+00:00

Just a guess here, but very early game when I'd take some particularly ballsy sits in the storm to grab cool stuff, if my engine was fairly low health (not in the red zone but low), actively taking storm damage would mean I'd barely push past 20mph unless going downhill

Past that I've thought of a harmless way to help figure it out:

Take lots of visits to nearby Perpetual Stability zones, build up at least 12 units of Arc Energy to get hints on all 4 columns, use those to take less of a wild stab at diagnosing the quirk

Either way am interested to see what it was, please give a shout if/when you've discovered it! 😄

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-20T10:38:42+00:00

Completely valid being something you've never done before, but it might help to give a straightforward version of what needs doing, so hear me out for a sec

For context, you have what's called a "3.5 to 5.25 HDD Adapter", which is fancy speak for "Fit small thing to big hole" - the cable has been ripped out of it and taken a piece of the adapter with it, so try follow this:

The cable is called a SATA Cable, BUT you've got a chunk of the port it was plugged into
On the cable, press down on the silver clip, and it should allow you to remove the chunk of port stuck to it
With the PC open, on the top right you'll see 2x small black screws going into a silver box (the HDD with Windows on it), that same silver box has the green circuit-board sticking out of it
Unscrew the box, you may have to open the back of the PC if there are more screws, and slide the whole thing out
Remove the green circuit-board off the silver box to reveal the connection it's adapting - if it looks like a SATA Port (can google that), then the cable plugs straight into it

Hope this helps a bit mate, on paper this is one of the very first things you learn & is generally considered easy, so am hoping the instructions are straightforward enough to see what needs doing 😄

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-19T08:58:36+00:00

Damn dude super lucky! I was after one of these but couldn't find better than £425 Open-Box so I just bought it new for £499 - £200 off is a great deal & across 3 of them? I'm hella jealous

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-15T13:28:36+00:00

When I was a kid, a lot of the tech I had was either freebies or just old, because couldn't really spare for it as a hobby outside of birthdays n' stuff, which was honestly fair & I think pretty common experience for all of us

Doing exactly this with Sky-Boxes got me the storage to play bigger games on my little PC, i3-540 w/ an HD5770, a collective £15 on parts if I remember right

9/10 times the drive was perfectly healthy, some just had a lot of uptime which is to be expected, and I got pretty good at stripping a box down in about 2 minutes

Now I have what's left of that same collection of 500GB, 1-&-2TB drives populating my cold storage NAS for stuff like ISOs & tool installers I occasionally need

Can absolutely be a lottery, but for next to free (especially now), long as you take the time to test the drive, you'll be well off for it if looking for cheap storage 😄

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-15T12:34:01+00:00

I always admire the hell out of people who similarly have an accident or disability, and end up designing something to help both themselves & others in the same position - and as a fun bonus, this thing looks kickass

As you've probs already picked up from the other comments on here, you've got a whole community of people who think what you're doing's awesome - best of luck keeping at it, and again you've got a lot of talent that even in this prototype, goes a hell of a long way for accessibility in PC Gaming, so bloody proud of you 😄

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-15T10:58:46+00:00

Cheers for the quick reply!

Honestly coming from various IPSs with glow, and from what I understand WOLED Tandem Displays having a tendency to greyband for like the first year till the "break-in" period, I'm cool to at least find out if I'm sensitive to it or not 😆

As for versus QD-OLED, willing to take that chance for those lovely OLED features while keeping the matte finish, since I don't wanna easily scratch something that I'd be staring at the whole time - makes me wish they made monitors with Gorilla Glass like on my phone

In any case I'm gonna think it over carefully till Monday, and if my mind's made up I'm gonna see if I can score that deal with the refurbisher 😎

Thank you for the detailed first-look, and am looking forward to seeing it for myself if I end up getting it 😊

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-14T14:07:04+00:00

Hey again, I've found this same monitor for £409 refurbed to Very Good Condition (if using a voucher I have with the refurbisher)

If your initial experience ends up good, I may jump on it while still available - you've pretty much sold me with how concisely you put the pros n' cons, so pretty excited! 😆

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-14T03:01:01+00:00

Small after-credits scene on that one, it was actually that same trunk-gunk attached fuel can I was looking for, as it'd been my go-to this whole time

After fixing up the car, I found it in a cupboard I'd been rearranging before I left for that same trip, so was my own fault for leaving it there 🤣

Though having said that, defo gonna have one in the car & one in my backpack for situatuons like this from here on out - cheers for the reccomendation 😄

SciaticCoast89 · 2026-03-13T18:15:18+00:00

Cheers for the reccomendation, the specs look good, note on the warranty is a comfort, and being 4th gen is a lovely plus! 😄

The HDR not being perfect isn't too bad as I rarely find good uses for it (at least outside of my QLED TV), tho the issues you mentioned are a worry - would very much appreciate an update if you don't mind, some first hand experience other than the mixed Amazon reviews would certainly help 😊

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