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davey101

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Yes, it should be OK (since it uses an ATX style PSU and seems to have enough room for the GPU). Though I would recommend you open up the case and check with a measuring tape you certainly have enough room for the graphics card.

However, I would strongly recommend you go for this faster graphics card which is also a bit cheaper. Here is a comparison of the two.
 
A HD 6850 will run happily on that good quality corsair 430W PSU. AMD recommend a 500W+ supply, but do this to take into account of people who buy cheap, low quality PSUs that can't delivery much current on the 12V rails.
 
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The card requires 2 6 pin connectors. Does the power supply provide this? Sorry, I'm a complete noob at this hahaha.
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The OcUK product page says it has an 8 pin so I'd presume it does come with 2 6pins in total. If its the same cabling as my CX600, then it does have them.

I'm sure someone will give you a definite answer in the morning, but see if you can find the info yourself in the corsair page for the product :)
 
Indeed the, card needs two PCIE power connectors (thought tbh only just as the power usage can only be slightly over 150W at maximum load) and the PSU only has one hard-wired PCIE power connection.

However, the graphics card comes with a 2xmolex to 6pin PCIE power adapter in the box - so you can hook up all the power connections the graphics card needs and as I mentioned before that PSU will happily power it.
 
You need to have a look inside and see what molex connectors are being used.

There are cables like these if you need them:

Akasa SATA to 4pin Molex Adapter £2.99

Akasa "Y" Power Splitter £1.99

I suggest you don't use the Akasa "Y" Power Splitter to provide the 2 molex power connectors required by the 6 pin PCI-E adapter.

Or perhaps have a look at something like this:

XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £41.99 but unfortunately out of stock

Review

It has two PCI-E power cables but I'm not sure about the 12V regulation.

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If this is correct then it will work with one 6 pin connector as long as you don't go mad with overclocking:

HeX said:
In fact the card actually works fine with a single 6pin, the 2nd is just to add stability when OC'ing.
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Ah I see. I'll take a look inside my machine later. :)

Assuming all four molex connectors are being used, I would need 3, Sata to 4pin Molex adapters. Would that be okay to do?
 
These days Molex connectors are pretty much for redundancy. They are still used for IDE hard drives and IDE CD or DVD drives.

Modern (SATA) hard drives and CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives use the smaller SATA power connectors.

You may find that you only need 1 or two Molex connectors in your current machine.
 
Will almost certainly be find for running hard drive or CD drive, then you can use the in-built Molex connectors for the extra 6-pin PCIe.
 
On the PC World website it says the 6850 card requires Windows 7 Support. Does this mean it won't run on Vista? :( :(

(nothing was here................)
 
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I would remove the link before a mod see's ;) (even tough it's that place)

But yes, it would run fine on Vista.
 
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