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It's a little bit limiting though?<br><br>

If an 8-pin can only provide ~150w and the GPU's can brush against 220w power limit with 1.25v. That's a lot of power to suck from pci-e slot.<br><br>

No reason to casually violate power connector specs just for aesthetics</div>

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The standard of PCIE is 75W.<br>

Also either 75Wx2=150W from the normal two 6-pin connections, or 150W from a single 8-pin connection.<br>

So a 225W is possible and fine and by the spec either way.<br>

Nothing wrong here. There is no violation of power specs in any way.<br><br>

The reason the card has only two 6-pin connectors in the first place, is to give people with older systems which have only 6-pin power connectors from the PSU a chance to buy this card. Making it a single 8-pin is for saving space and cables.