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Small quick problem 4870CF (power cables)

Born_2_Kill_83

Born_2_Kill_83

Born_2_Kill_83

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My 2 4870's arrived this morning at 730am (great service OCUK but you woke me up!) upon opening one of the boxes there wasnt a 6 Pin PCI power connector (not supplied probably). My PSU only has one pair of 6 pin PCI connectors, how can I crossfire? I need a quick solution wanting to get this up and running ASAP! :cool:
 
You should only need one mate, they can be connected together :)

The male connector to the first 6pin adapter, then the second one ajoined to the first?
 
Loowi_ashley said:
Thinking you could be right but I seriously doubt I have 4 spare molex's
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Just unplug some non essentials! ;)

Incidentally, what PSU do you have? Many mid to high end units that i've used have between 9 and 15 molexes. Even in a large system the use of splitters for HDD's and optical drives could leave you with enough spare. :)

gt
 
Loowi_ashley said:
I cant picture how that works?
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Haha just tried myself and realised a flaw. I thought each adapter had 1 female molex and 1 male, but apparently they have 2 male :confused: well you only need to connect 1 molex from each adapter they don't both have to be connected.
 
gt_junkie said:
No way... only 6 molexes. :( HERE

Do you have any standard molex splitters? Also, what stuff do you have your molexes running? I'm sure you could juggle some bits and bobs around.

gt
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Currently running, one dvd-rom, 3 hard-drives (one of which I dont use). So I could have 3 spare, but is it a good idea to split one into 2 when its going to a 2nd GPU?
 
Loowi_ashley said:
Currently running, one dvd-rom, 3 hard-drives (one of which I dont use). So I could have 3 spare, but is it a good idea to split one into 2 when its going to a 2nd GPU?
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I've read that in most cases PSU's with multiple rails actually still only have one fundamental rail so it should not matter anyway as they all come from the same source.

If you can track down a single molex to double molex adapter to run the two HDD's you actually use then you'd be laughing.

I personally wouldn't worry about it too much.

gt
 
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