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DOH! should have thought of that they nearly always come with one!
Probably still hungover from Xmas
new comp, boxed or build your own.
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DOH! should have thought of that they nearly always come with one!
Probably still hungover from Xmas
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eesh they usually sell them little pieces of plastic for about £5.. con artists...
hopefully this will be the last bit of help i need, turned it on this morning and getting a high pitch screem coming from it nothing on the monitor, hafd a look inside and the fan on the gfx cards not spinning, read the instructions, took the card out put it back in again same thing.
i have noticed on the gfx card theres a socket that matches a connector from the pcu that says pci e on it, but in the install instructions it doesnt say anything about connecting that, could these instructions be for a older version of the card?
On the motherboard i have connected the ATXPWR1 ATX12v1 and the ATX4p1 power.
Just dont want to connect the PCI E to the gfx card with out asking first?
all info on spec is at the top of the thread
i have noticed on the gfx card theres a socket that matches a connector from the pcu that says pci e on it, but in the install instructions it doesnt say anything about connecting that, could these instructions be for a older version of the card?
On the motherboard i have connected the ATXPWR1 ATX12v1 and the ATX4p1 power.
Just dont want to connect the PCI E to the gfx card with out asking first?
all info on spec is at the top of the thread
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You should connect up the PCI-E connector to the graphics card, the PCI-E slot can't supply enough power for the card without the additional input direct from the PSU. It will start up and display but won't work properly for graphically intensive games without it.
I'm not entirely sure why on the new standard (PCI-E as it was) they didn't allow for more power passing through the slot at the time but I'm assuming it would have caused more problems than it would have solved.
//edit once you've done that and if everything seems to be in order you may want to do some stability testing and/or benchmarking. Don't get too hung up on the results but as long as you are in the right ballpark it is fine. I don't know offhand exactly what you should be looking for in terms of figures but in the graphics card subforum there will be 3Dmark results for similar graphics cards and in the CPU sub-forum there will be results for similar CPUs and descriptions of exactly how to test.
I'm not entirely sure why on the new standard (PCI-E as it was) they didn't allow for more power passing through the slot at the time but I'm assuming it would have caused more problems than it would have solved.
//edit once you've done that and if everything seems to be in order you may want to do some stability testing and/or benchmarking. Don't get too hung up on the results but as long as you are in the right ballpark it is fine. I don't know offhand exactly what you should be looking for in terms of figures but in the graphics card subforum there will be 3Dmark results for similar graphics cards and in the CPU sub-forum there will be results for similar CPUs and descriptions of exactly how to test.
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