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I'm buying a MSI 7970 Lightning this friday and need help.

RetrogamerX

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Ok here are pic's on my psu and the connectors cables I have. I want to make sure I hook this thing up right. I've never done this before, My friend does it for me, but he's not around.

The MSI 7970 Lightning does 2 8pin's for power, but in the pic's I have I only have one 6pin to 8pin that's what I'm using now for my 7850, but the other one as pictured below it's a 6 pin to 8pin, but as you see last 2 pic's only has 8pin adapter but only has 6 wires going in? Will MSI give right cable to hook up right? also the pin that goes into psu is only 6 pin? is that ok? so can it be 6pin in psu and other end for gpu will be 8pin?


I don't want to blow the new card up:eek:

Any help would be grateful:)

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you need to get the right connectors for your PSU that have real 8-pin connectors on the other end

you have a spare socket on your PSU so this needs to be populated also if you end up with 4 6-pin connectors then you'll need 2 6-pin to 8-pin converters to give you what you need

the 8-pin-a-like-with-only-6-pins is a bad idea
 
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I recently bought an MSI 7950 and it came along with a 6 to 8 pin adapter so you should be fine there I think.
 
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I recently bought an MSI 7950 and it came along with a 6 to 8 pin adapter so you should be fine there I think.
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a 6-pin to 8-pin adaptor needs 2 6-pins in to 1 8-pin out, so he'd need 4 6-pins to create the 2 8-pins that the card needs (he currently only has 2 6-pins total unless he can find the missing PSU cable for the empty socket in the photo above)
 
6 to 8, it has an extra cable going into the 7th pin. Probably worth finding out if MSI provide an extra 6 to 8 in the 7970 package then.
 
8 pin into psu with 6 pin on other end which then plugs into adapter. should be fine unless andy is right!! just give ocuk a call or post in customer service technical.
 
You need one with 8 pins on either side. One end into the socket on the PSU, the other into your graphics card.

Otherwise 6 pin -> 8 pin adaptors are required.
 
I thought the difference between 6 and 8 pin are 2 extra pins which don't actually provide much/any power?

Two adaptor's should be fine but I'm not 100% sure.
 
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