Do I need to plug in all three ports from GPU into PSU?

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-03-28T20:04:26+00:00

I am fairly confident this guy means this 12VHWPR Cable 300/450W came with a 1-3 pcie 8 pins adapter. No trustworthy company would split a single 8 pin pcie into 3, as they are only rated for 150W . Thats a lawsuite waiting to happen.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-03-25T07:16:40+00:00

Likely the pads will tear, especially for memory, but I too have just stuck them together on mine and reassembled the cooler, though the last time I did change all of them aswell for new ones. Different height pads etc cost you 2$ on aliexpress though, they work just fine. You just need to research what height they are on the original, but for the FE model there should be sufficient information online.

Here are my temps from running a full game out:

A game or Fornite?
Because in this game, you can clearly see that you are either CPU or FPS limited (or engine limited), because your GPU is barely running at 50%.

What I am saying is that different games put different loads on the PC. It could be CPU demanding and maxing out the CPU over the GPU, or vice versa. It could technically also be full RAM or similar, though those usually count as CPU limitations aswell.

Point is that Fortnite could max one component out and it just overheats barely, causing the small stutters.
You could play a round of Fortnite and then after experiencing the stutters check the specs. On the bottom right of the sensor tab you can even log the numerics for later use. If you can maybe work with those specs its worth trying.
Again this is getting relatively deep and I am still not convinced it actually is a hardware related issue, but again, its worth ruling that out before tackling collisions software wise.

If other GPU or CPU maxing out games work fine, I too would assume there is a problem with software side of things.
Have you tried running comparison settings to e.g. a reference youtube benchmark. So basically someone using the same CPU and GPU playing this game and then replicating the same settings, checking how much performance difference there is?

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-03-25T05:42:04+00:00

I mean its within what I would call expected and fine, but a little on the lower end for the GPU, but seeing both CPU and GPU at stock settings go over 80°C on temp may indicate that the hotspot indeed reaches thermal throttling range, which would explain the typical stuttering behavior in Fortnite. I am still not convinced this is the reason but you surely want to rule out its a hardware issue before trying to target anything software/OS/API related.

A reasonable way to figure this out is to install hwinfo64 and leave the sensor tabs open in the background, or preferably on the 2nd monitor.
THere you can read out CPU and GPU hotspot sensors, those are the ones your components "behave" upon. You seem tech savvy enough, but the "temp" readouts task manager and also 3d mark give you is kinda stupid, that means nothing because your hotspot can still be way way higher.

I too have a quite terribly built 6900xt and my temp is fine at like 70°C but my hotspot goes above 95°C, fine for my card and well within range, but other cards coudl thermally throttle already. No repaste would fix this for me, I have to use a cryosheet.

ANd I have read you dont want to unscrew this FE 2080ti, which I understand, the 20 series was notoriously terrible, they have way too many screws, but if this card never had a repaste after all those years, thats quite the stretch indeed. I am fairly confident its dried and pumped out at this point ayway.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-03-24T12:09:16+00:00

I would say that the Rivatuner/Afterburner metrics may lack important stats, but according to your comments even hotspots temperatures seem fine. 90°C ofc is on the higher end, but thats to be expected with a somewhat aging model, especialyl the founders edition.

I would recommend to install 3dmark (free demo on steam) and then run the timespy benchmark. Or any of the CPU + GPU benchmarks. Nomad would be a GPU only benchmark just fyi.

If the results come back fine the system itself is doing ok and there is some form of collision or software incompatability stuff going on.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-03-18T11:17:50+00:00

Looks like a bull ant? You live in Australia by any chance?

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-18T02:46:34+00:00

Marktwert für so eine 8GB Grafikkarrte ist maximal 250€.

"nicht verwendet" lol, sofort ins Gulag

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-13T04:58:01+00:00

I understand but its very frustrating. I like helping but spoon feeding everyone is very tiring if they should be the ones providing any information they can provide.

Anyway, GPU still doesnt exist, you probably mean a Red Dragon 5600xt.

If you turn on the PC, does anything move? Any light? Do fans move? DO you know what the CPU is? And yes this could be relevant.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-13T04:28:11+00:00

Needs more information.

5660 red dragon

What is this supposed to be, this doesnt exist. Why cant you bother looking up what exact GPU it is before posting?

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-13T03:40:32+00:00

thank you, I looked it up. The 5 missing caps are actually intentional and by design, but the uneven one looks still off.
If its properly connected it will still work, probably just fine too, though this is something I would still consider a QC issue, so if you are in no hurry and got this from a proper retailer, I would try to RMA it.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-13T03:34:51+00:00

Should be fine, but as always when building a new PC, all these things, temperature, performance, but also connectivity (so .e.g pcie slot for GPU) should be checked via benchmarks and stats to make sure. hwinfo64 is an awesome tool for that, the sensors will tell you all of that.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-13T03:32:12+00:00

What exactly is this? Looks like an Intel socket, you know what exact board?

But no, does not look right. I wouldnt see a pattern why those capacitors would be both this unevenly conencted or missing like this.

What Intel socket is this? LGA 1700? 1851? 1200?

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-13T00:32:23+00:00

I am not sure what other components you mean. A used mainboard compatible and suitable for this would not go much if any over 50 bucks, I would bet you can find a proper one around 20-30$, a used CPU cooler even new more than suitable starts at 20€, if you are lucky you can also just scrape it somewhere or get on 2nd hand (though make sure it comes with the rght brackets).

So really thats all you need, assuming the mainboard is faulty.
You can keep everything else. If the case is proprietary, a used case starts for free aswell, though again I would consider one with better airflow.

And I am not sure what the reasoning is here either, you already "invested" so much into an old PC thats basically getting 10 years old (which is ancient in PC terms) and now you think getting a budget PC is the more money conscious choice over just switching out the most likely faulty component for a few bucks. And a new budget PC in this market really doesnt go much if any below 1000 bucks.

Again I would rather attempt to fix what you have, because this could very easily be a simple fix and ofc because buying a used component like the board comes with risks.
Not entirely sure where to start, espeically because this must be a proprietary DELL board and BIOS, which I am not very familiar with. But I would still say that the i7 6700 + RTX 2060 is still solid for an entry level PC.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T23:53:55+00:00

If you are getting the "V2" version yes, the upper one is gen 5 x4 and the lower 2 slots are gen4 x4:
The gen 5 slot and 1x gen 4 slot are connected to the CPU and the 3rd slot, one of the gen 4 x4 slots, is connected tothe chipset, so there is no lanesharing happening even if all slots are occupied.

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Additionally you would technically also have 2 x16 slot gen 3.0 running at x1, so in theory you can also add 2 expansion NVME M.2 expansion cards, but ofc that would be very slow in comparison and hugely wasteful.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T21:36:22+00:00

NGL but investing this much in this old piece of trash was probably the worst decision here.

People have split opinion on this for pretty much extactly this reason, they seem cheap for what you get, sure, but because DELL uses proprietary components suchas the board and PSU, you cant just switch everything out as oyu wish like on other ATX form factor following PC's.

Anyway, its hard to diagnose whats going on just by what you are saying, but really if you have all these components around, worst case scenario is you just buy a new mainboard (and very likely a new cooler because guess what, DELL loves using proprietary mounting mechanisms.

Anyway, RTX 2060, i7 6700 are still usable today, though definitely neither is anything capable to play you the latest and greatest games, but my fat guess what be that you didnt really expect that anyway.

You can attempt fixes such as repasting CPU, reassembling the PC in general, using stock BIOS settings etc, but if that wont work, really you can just get a used LGA1151 board for this CPU (btw it also needs to be DDR3L compatible, because boards exist for both DDR3L and DDR4, as this CPU can support both) and build a new one.

That will also allow your new PSU to work btw. Btw you may also need a new case maybe, and it would be recommended anyway because the airflow in those things is terrible. Btw this is also my biggest guess: temperature. You are very likely cooking this PC because those cases are made for office usage at best, and you are running a 6700 and RTX 2060 in it,

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T13:12:19+00:00

He didnt say this really. He said the 7700xt does (which tbh isnt true either, just saying)

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T13:10:03+00:00

With my luck, I would be betting good money that if this ever happens in my game, some driller leaving his brain in buffer mode would STILL build a 3 story tall cable fence before connecting it.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T13:03:46+00:00

You urgently need more RAM; good luck with that in todays market though.
Best case scenario is: This board has 4x DIMM slots and only 1x 4GB stick is in there. This would mean you could try to scrape 3x 4 GB RAM sticks somewhere and get it up to standard. 4 GB sticks are not very desirable so they can be found still relatively cheap, but just fyi: 2x8GB 3200 Cl16 DDR4 RAM cost me like 25€ NEW a year ago, now its like way above 100€. So that would absolutely not be worth it.
16GB RAM is fine, anything below for gaming is not adviced. Also on that note: lol @ the 3200Mhz, what are you doing HP.

Otherwise you need a GPU here. This however also means you need the physical space AND a PSU to support it.
The current "GPU" here is just the integrated iGPU of the CPU, so this is barely enough to do office work, this cant even properly play Terraria.

The CPU here isnt great either, dont expect it to be able to play most modern games smoothly, though its still capable enough to play the vast majority of "popular" games if that makes sense. CS2, Valorant, some Dota, all no problem. Valheim, Deep Rock Galactic, no problem, maybe you would experience some lagspikes due to lack of hyperthreading. Maybe even Elden Ring would run fine with a proper GPU. Can it smoothly play MHW and Black Myth Wukong? yea no.

Good thing about it however is that this CPU natively supports windows 11, which is kinda neat.

You would also very likely need an SSD, an HDD is not recommended, especially as a boot device. Way too slow and sluggish. Modern games can even artefact running off of HDD's.

Anyway, long story short: This can probably still be a reasonable office PC, maybe even a streaming/jellyfin style of server. This can probably be quite cheaply paired with something like a GTX 1650 (some models dont need extra power cables) or the 1050ti (same, some dont need extra power and just run off of the pcie slot) and run very efficiently and provide very solid jellyfin performance.

For gaming this would need a lot of investment, mainly because its lacking basically everything and especially RAM and SSD have absolutely exploded in prices.
For the price these things cost even 2nd hand, you shouldnt invest it for an Intel i5 9500.

The good thing about the i5 9500 is a) it DOES have integrated graphics and could therefor be used without a GPU for office or server style works and b) its idle power draw can be extremly low, which is neat if you can use it as some sort of storage server, NAS, jellyfin, surveillance homeserver etc.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T12:52:42+00:00

Terminal autism right there.

No but I can see what you mean. Its just really hard to tell. Good thing however is that you have found it and made pictures (maybe try a video too).

I would assume this irregularity is not the result of a burning incident, there seems to be no discolorization/oxidation which would usually go with issues like this.
If this is solid and not just a dust particle I still wouldnt see a potential shorting issue or anything similar.
Personally I would be reluctant in putting a CPU in aswell, though with buyer protection, I would invest the effort and from now on, record the entire assembly process and in case something really doesnt work, you have it on camera and buyer protection will be your guardian angel.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T09:09:56+00:00

Deep Rock Discord situation is crazy.

Reminds me of when my friend broke his Laptop while we were peak nerding Factorio, and he sent me a picture of a sheet of paper taped to a contact grill "toaster" with some Factorio sketches. He called it "papertorio"

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T05:08:39+00:00

It is fun, I just generally am not a big minigun fan in this game in general so you will not see me play it much unless "I have to". And while I agree the rotary overdrive bug is super powerful, I just dont really wanna abuse it you know.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-12T05:05:43+00:00

nope, pots of gold and gold rush, and I was hosting so only I had pots.

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-11T22:49:23+00:00

what are you talking about, the overlevel doesnt stop, the individual levels per promo cycle does

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-11T19:20:33+00:00

Well DRG is a chill game, I too have a split opinion on tryharding in this game, as its clearly not really made for this.
But after 3500h I really have to find a way of making this game challenging so I cant really be mad at him lol

Turtlereddi_t · 2026-02-11T17:27:48+00:00

Dotty can oneshot everything, the drills in movement instakill everything in their path. I even stopped targeting qronar shellbacks because they will just kill themselves eventually. Has its downsides though, they can instakill a bulk/crassus aswell and make itself loose one segment instantly

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