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AGP card: has requirement for "2x3 connector"

GreatWaves

GreatWaves

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Please forgive my ignorance of gfx cards and newer mobo's. I've been buying laptops exclusively past several years. Been many years since I built a PC.

I'm putting together some old hardware for crunching purposes and I found a new fairly good AGP gfx card that I thought I would put on one of them (was surprised to find a new AGP). I thought about putting it on one of my IC7 mobos or NF7 mobos.

The issue: The gfx card manual says it requires a "2x3 power connector" from the PSU. The gfx card has on it the usual 4-pin external power connector, so what is this "2x3 connector" requirement about?? By "2x3" does it mean the 6-pin PCI-E connector for the newer mobos?? Why would the AGP gfx card require that??

Anyway, my older mobo's of course have no such power connections for a 6-pin or "2x3" connectors. So will this AGP gfx card still work on my older mobos (IC7 G or NF7 S v2)? I can give it external power via the 4-pin connector on the gfx card itself, so it should work right?

Thanks
 
Was the card you are using made as a PCIE model?

If so then it's quite simply down to the manu being tight and not making a proper manual for the AGP version, instead showing how to set up the PCIE one.

As for whether it will work in those boards? Suck em and see I guess.
 
It's an AGP card, but I guess there is also a PCI-E one too.

Thanks for help. Yeah it must be that they forgot to change that part in the manual, because the rest of the manual talks about the "AGP" card and the "AGP slot". So it's just a mistake in the manual... I'm glad to hear that. Thanks.

Just before reading your reply, I found a picture of a "2x3" connector on another gfx card.... NOT what's on my AGP gfx card. It has the regular 4-pin connector.

I thought they meant an "additional power connector that goes in to the mobo" because I could see no such connector on the card itself. So I thought that was some "extra requirement" for this particular AGP card, but not so. That was confusing.

Thanks :)
 
You say the card has a 4 pin connector, is it a standard molex connector? (Chunky 4 pins in a row).

What is the card make and model?
 
HazardO said:
You say the card has a 4 pin connector, is it a standard molex connector? (Chunky 4 pins in a row).

What is the card make and model?
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Yeah it's the standard molex.

It's Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 4650 AGP (1 Gig DDR2, 128 bit). I know that's probably nothing to special to most guys here, but for my purposes (a couple of RC flight sims) it should be very sufficient.

Anyway I just spotted it on a clearance shelf the other day. Apart from the fairly good specs, I saw "AGP" on the box and grabbed it, because all my old OC'ing mobo's are AGP. It'll be an upgrade for one of my crunchers that I'm putting together again.

Are some of the ATi GPU's also compatible for DC projects?

Cheers

edit: On the box it refers to the RAM as "GDDR2" ... I don't know what the "G" means.
 
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