June 2019
APEX related grpahics and system crashes:
Building a new pc? Excited to play APEX? Do not worry, connect your GPU to your power cables and enjoy a lifetime of crashes and frustration!
Now that youre here, an elegant solution might be at hands, free of (rock solid) oc-resets and operative system restores - Sound promising?
Please continue, you might learn a thing or two.
BIGBOY VEGA56 Power draw is 210watts - Keep this in mind.
GPU Power pin holes? (8) + (8)
One (6+2) Power pin Cable has a wattage of 75W. A solid (8) pin Power Cable has 150W.
Are you sure you connected your power cables correctly?
2x (8 pin): = 300w 2x (6+2 pin): = 150w VEGA 56 Power draw = 210w
GPU usage in procent while playing apex? 100%
Sorry buddy, EA was screwing you with their SFCs /scannows all along.
SOLUTION:
Make a nice picture at the start of season 2 telling people the difference between the cables and their draw. People get crashes on really lovely cards, new pcs, you get the picture. Its not drivers, its not apex.
Two (8) pins solved all problems that SFC couldnt.
Spare yourselves some time, pain and frustration - Check your cables!
June 2019
You're saying don't use Multi-Rail PSU's that are unable to power a GPU ? or that some cables have high resistance making them useless at the job they were tasked for ?
June 2019
No, not at all. I feel that ive explained the problem in sufficeint detail in my post, however, not all psus' are fully modular or semi for the matter.
In my case, my AMD VEGA56 requires Close to 200watts of Power.
A cheap 100 dollar psu that is not always modular, therefore semimodular or not at all. The semi modular ones or the nonmodualr ones have a bundle of Cables that are 6pin +2pins, (2 extra for grounding) - these come bundles with the psu like a octopus tentacles.
The Power output of a (6pin+2) is 75watts compared to one (8)pin which handles the full 150 watts. My card requires two solid 8 pin connectors due to its Power draw. The draw is not stated on the gpu box or in the manual. Yet the pins, that is (6+2) fit exactly the same as a 8 pin, but deliver far less ammount of Power from the PSU.
PSUs dont state the Power draw in their manual and pins fit like pins. In my case, i used a 750w PSU that i did not use the standalone 8pin Cables in the modular part of the psu and used the ones that were bundeled.
I hope my Point comes across