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9800GX2 using only 6 pin pcie cables

Makunouchi BFG 9800gx2 came with a 6pin to 8pin adaptor (the short fat cable on the right in the first picture)

(I don't know if other brands of 9800gx2 come with one)

Makunouchi said:
Well it came this morning, never had any probs with CityLink despite their bad rep. Then i'd forgotten i'd lent my set of screwdrivers to a mate and had to wait till and hour ago to get them back. Heres some pictures of me fitting the GX2 into a Lian Li PC-7 Midtower.

Here it is in all its massive hulking £400 costing glory, with all the trimmings you get with it, including an HDMI cable:
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Once my BFG 8800GTS 320 was taken out it left this hole, as you can see i had to move my raptor HDD down in the cage and slightly forward to make room for the new card:
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Here it is installed, i had a bit of trouble getting it in but that was my own brains fault, and dont say anything about the cable management! I know its rubbish but Lian Li's are hardly designed well when it comes to cables:
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Heres a shot of the 8 pin power cable adapter that comes with it. I want to say here that after the little spurt of histeria (sp?) surrounding the whole power cable thing, it was nice to see that the world hasnt in fact ended, and BFG had come through as expected. Very easy to install, decent quality connector:
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Drivers installed fine, used Nasty File Remover, to clean out my old drivers.
First thing i did was check out Crysis. For some reason it didnt want to work on High settings, it was really sluggish and some textures were missing, ive no idea why. When set to Medium it was fine however and going from a 320 GTS to this was amazing. It was so smooth it makes me want to play it all the way through again, its like a totally new game. And the AA was sweet, i didnt really have the power to have it on before, but now the edges are so crisp and sharp, it makes the great graphics even more realistic. I had a peak of 60fps, a low of 25, and probably a medium of 45-50, which is absolutely fine for me.
Then i checked out TF2 and HL2, hardly the best games to test the GX2 out on, but both games saw 180+ fps average, it was mainly just to test that the card was working on a range of games.

Now to see how far it overclocks, ill do some playing about with Rivatuner and let you guys know how it went.

/putting fears to rest since five to five on a Wednesday afternoon.
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Thanks, Ive also just seen the specs for the bfg one are an 8 pin and 6 pin or 2 6 pin and they have a 6 to 8 converter in the box also so I guess it's fine.

I see the bfg one specs 40A on the 12v rails, my 500w liberty only has 32A so I guess even though 500w will be more than enough the amps on the 12v rail arent enough.

Hmm, just looked on inno3d site and they specify a minimum of 500W psu with 30A on the 12v rails.
 
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As above, you'll be fine.

Edit: To expand a bit, about the recomended Wattage and Amps per rail etc, they always recomend well over what you actually need to cover themselves incase someone complains.
 
According to EVGA those adapters are not to be used, they could damage your cards, and are a fire hazzard, so they won't supply them with theirs, according to them you must have a new PSU that has the 8x Pin connector, if not, you'll have to buy one.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
According to EVGA those adapters are not to be used, they could damage your cards, and are a fire hazzard, so they won't supply them with theirs, according to them you must have a new PSU that has the 8x Pin connector, if not, you'll have to buy one.
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What a crock, lol
As long as the PSU's wires are of sufficient gauge to carry the amount of amps demanded, which isnt that thick, there is no fire risk.
 
The 2 extra pins are grounds anyway so EVGAs point is rubbish really. People have shorted the two extra pins without issue.
 
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