I want to say I saw "special" crimp pins on digi that were purpose made for certain wire gauges. Maybe there are ATX crimp pins with longer wings for larger gauge wire?
I know the EVGA 1.5k supernova I have uses special crimp pins, they have a super wide flange that crimps down onto the individual wire sleeving so they don't have to use heatshrink. I've also often wondered how the double stacked wires on a single pin work, from the few I've looked at it seems they are just much better at cramming two wires, holding the pin, and crimping it all clean than I am, because the pins look the same...
I know the EVGA 1.5k supernova I have uses special crimp pins, they have a super wide flange that crimps down onto the individual wire sleeving so they don't have to use heatshrink. I've also often wondered how the double stacked wires on a single pin work, from the few I've looked at it seems they are just much better at cramming two wires, holding the pin, and crimping it all clean than I am, because the pins look the same...
It may be very possible, someone would have to source those larger pins if they do exist. If we can get manufactured 14AWG wires directly though that would likely be the most economical.
Each of the PCI-e wires doesn't need to be 14, that's crazy. I'm running 12awg from the power supply to 8" from the cards, where they split off into 4 pci-e connectors with standard 18awg wire. 18awg can handle a lot of power in short length.
Right, this is what I've done with my rigs, 10AWG from the power supply x 4 per polarity (yes its overkill, 2 or 3 would have been fine) from there to a distribution block, then 14AWG x 2 to an 8 port push connector (one for each polarity) for each graphics card, leaving the push connector to the card I use the 16AWG cables.
