8 Pin Graphics Card Cable
Laila Berri
After a bit of tinkering I found that the interference is caused by the cable from the front panel to the motherboard going right next to the graphics card. When the graphics card is under any kind of load (like even moving windows around) it causes interference in my headphones.
It's hard to move the cable right away from the graphics card as it goes from the bottom back of the motherboard to the top front of the case and doesn't have much slack. So is there any way to shield the cable from this type of interference?
You're going to want to ground the shielding, as well as keep it safe from shorting the motherboard. I'd use a piece of shielding long enough to shield the cable, then secure the tail under a screw or other available place in the case. You may also want to use insulation of some kind (tape, etc) anyplace that the shielding might get close to the motherboard or similar areas.
I fixed a similar problem by disabling the CD audio. I think in my case though it was because the internal CD audio cable was running next to the graphics card. So not sure if this would help in your case, but might be worth the try. It may in fact not be the other cable.
I'm trying to install a new graphics card. I have it in the pcie but there is also a 6 pin for a power cable on the gpu. There isn't any 6pin cables from the psu. However there are 2 empty cables labeled P4 and P5, but I don't know what kind of cables there are. Does anyone know what the empty cables are in the 500-223w? Are they sata cables? If so, do I just need an adapter from sata to 6 pin to power the gpu? Thank you for time and help. I am totally clueless here.
The factory 300W PSU does not support a PCIE GPU (card). You need to purchase a suitable PSU that has PCIE power plugs (usually 6+2 design). It will also need to supply sufficient wattage to handle the unspecified GPU. So now is the time to state what card you bought.
Do I have to buy this cable, which seems both expensive and generally unavailable, to power a graphics card in my ML350 G6, or can I just hook it up to a couple of molex? I'm looking at something like a GTX 750 Ti or better. It's going to be used only for BOINC. My PSUs are 1200W.
You should download all of the manuals for this system while they are still available. Hopefully when you bought the system it came with all of the HP CDs. Maintaining a ProLiant server is not the same as maintaining a regular PC. For example, to update the BIOS you need to use the utilities included on the CDs. There are some Linux based utilties that you can download but the latest version supported is Ubuntu 11.04.
Bear in mind that the ML350G6 is over 5 years old, so it will not support PCIe 3.0, but the 750 Ti will work fine in a 2.0 slot. The 750 Ti is probably a good choice as it uses little power (as low as 60W for some versions). Rather than try and find the graphics power cable, you may want to consider a single fan version of the 750 Ti as there are models that do not require the 6-pin power connector.
Whether you need the graphics power cable would depend upon what else is in the system (how many hard drives, memory modules, fans). Unless you are running a big drive array I imagine that the 1200W psu should handle a low power graphics card running off of the spare molex connectors. But if you have a lot of hard drives installed or opt for a higher end graphics card with high power requirements, you're better off to balance the load on the psu with the proper graphics power cable.
I would be happy to get the GPU cable if I could find one for a reasonable price but so far all the resellers that list it at all are out of stock. I would even make one up myself if I could get the correct 10-pin connector somewhere and knew the pinouts.
3 drives is not a lot with a 1200W psu. We are running 4 SATA drives with a 750W psu. First make a note of what version the BIOS currently is. The challenge will be finding the right version of Linux to install. You'll notice that there are lots of downloads for RedHat, but not many for Ubuntu, and that Ubuntu 9 and 10 list BIOS updates but 11.04 does not. Our system came with a Firmware Maintenance CD, so you'll have to research updating the BIOS / firmware before you attempt it, but hopefully you won't need to. Note that you can still get firmware updates for some of the hardware, but the latest BIOS requires a service contract (you'll find the d/l locked). Many people prefer to update all of the BIOS and firmware but for your intended use you may be safer to leave the system if it's running fine.
That's the 64-bit version. If you need the 32-bit version you should be able to find it easily enough. BTW, I happened upon a US company supplying refurbished parts: Maybe you can get a cable cheap there?
The IGS link didn't have the cable but they do have an ebay store, so my ebay followed search should pick it up if they ever list it using the correct part number. However, having followed that link into ebay I did find another cable which at least looks quite similar to the HP part - although it is in China unfortunately.
For IGS you don't necessarily have to find the part on-line. They have an on-line form for requesting price quotes via e-mail, so just send the server model and part number & description and maybe they have one in stock. I just picked up a spare hard drive, power supply and memory at half of retail (they were used parts).
For the graphics card, I would probably look for older chip sets. These are server machines and not designed to do heavy graphics, so they can be a bit finicky when using 3rd party graphics cards. You might find that a modern graphics card is not compatible with the old hardware. If it's a hobby machine you might want to consider the used market,
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If you use third-party cables instead of those included with your PSU, make sure they come from a reliable manufacturer, like CableMod. Otherwise they can also affect whether you can use a single PCIe power cable for your graphics card.
Hi, I recently got a 6800xt and I'm having an issue where it is killing display port cables. From the best I can tell it happens when loading games and my computer gets hung up. Its happened twice now and I don't want to have to keep buying new display port cables every time this happens. As I briefly said earlier when loading a game and both my monitors freeze I restart my computer using the restart button on my case. Then after restarting my computer the monitor that had the game on it no longer works. I narrowed it down to the display cable be junk both times and I'm not sure what to do. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Let's say they are legitimately killing the cables and there have been enough cables failing to prove that it is the GPU killing them, as far fetched as that seems. I would contact the GPU manufacturer, gather all the cables that died, and try to start an RMA.
This is absolutely a real thing. I have a client with an AMD card in a Dell Precision workstation and it kills her DisplayPort cable about once every 18 months or so. We're on our fourth cable. It's truly bizarre.
Who knew that making an article about riser cables would be so interesting. I have to be honest, heading into this one I thought it was going to be very tedious and uninteresting, but a lot of things have been discovered through our testing. We decided to focus on this because a lot of you have been reaching out and telling us about all the problems you have been having with riser cables. We read those comments, thank you all for submitting them, and then this article we want to do a guide explaining why certain issues exist with riser cables and how to solve them.
To set the stage and simplify a few things, these riser cable issues are only apparent when you have a PCIe Gen4 GPU, a PCIe Gen4 motherboard, and a riser cable in between them. It does not happen on Intel because Intel does not officially support PCIe Gen4 yet, but that is going to come in 2021, and hopefully this article is going to be even more relevant by then. Of course, if the GPU is plugged in directly into the motherboard and you have nothing to worry about. These riser cable issues are also becoming more apparent since up until earlier this year we only had the AMD RX 5000 series that supported PCIe Gen4, but now we have the NVIDIA RTX 3000 series and the AMD RX 6000 series that are all PCIe Gen4. Plus the new Ryzen 3000 and 5000 series CPUs and their accompanying X570 and B550 motherboards have really spread PCIe Gen4 since that platform is just incredibly popular and amazing for games. So there is a ton of new owners of PCIe Gen4 hardware and people are encountering all these issues. As mentioned above, Intel is going to be launching Rocket Lake in 2021 that will support Gen4, so again this compatibility conversation needs to happen now.
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