3870X2 Power

[Electronic Punk]

Installing two of the HIS cards and they both have 6pin and 8 pin power - do I need to use both of them ?

 

[Adam_D200]

Yes although if you only have 2x6 pins per card then it still works but you cannot use the overclocking options in the drivers.

 

[Banny]

The overclocking options in the drivers are rubbish anyway.

 

[Electronic Punk]

Thanks, I'll get both of them hooked up

 

[jambus]

Yes, four six pins (two to each card) should work fine, however you won't be able to overclock them using the catalyst control centre. To be perfectly honest however, this isn't such a bad thing, as every time I've touched that my computer's been unstable.

 

[Electronic Punk]

Well I have both hooked up and connected to each other using a crossfire cable, but I only see 2 of them in CCC but all 4 are displayed in Device Manager.

Did I miss doing something? Or is it only showing 2 cards as there are only 2 physical cards and it really is working?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

looks right to me.

 

[Adam_D200]

Looks fine to me, my single card shows 2 in device manager and one in the catylst software

I want two lol just receive the power cables to allow it so no stopping me now!

 

[Electronic Punk]

Thanks guys.

Almost had the mobo out having spent 3 hours putting it together before I had the 3am revelation that maybe it needed both power connectors doing something!