SN25P and Connect3D X1900 XT

[Kiyoshi]

Well I ordered the two above, and thought I'd have a go at setting it all up this weekend. But when I came to connecting them it appears there is no way to do so.

The SN25P only comes with standard 4 pin power cables, whilst the X1900 needs the 6 pin power cables. This strikes me as odd, firstly that the SN25P is a PCI-E barebones yet comes with no PCI-E cable. Secondly that neither the SN25P or the X1900 come with an adaptor for just such a case.

Am I being unreasonable, or has nobody ever found this before? Well it looks like a trip down to the big PC company tomorrow morning, can't wait to try and explain the cable I need.

Miffed

 

[Kiyoshi]

I find it pretty amazing neither Shuttle or Connect3d thought it might be useful to put a PCI-E power adaptor in one of their boxes. I mean you get enough other useless cables with graphics cards these days.

It just never occured to me I'd need to think to buy an adaptor because a PCI-E shuttle and a PCI-E card wouldn't come with some means to connect together.

 

[Kiyoshi]

After several hours of messing around I finally found a place which sells an adaptor, it looks like:

Now if I connect the X1900 up without powering it directly, the SN25P boots and says the graphics card needs power (fair enough). If you connect power to the graphics card using the above adaptor, the whole system will not power up at all afterwards.

Any ideas? I have tried a couple of combinations using different male-female plugs, but there's not that many actually inside I can use. Am I missing something obvious before I go back into town and try another adaptor replacement?

There are only 3 pins in the 4-pin molex adaptor, as you can just make out above. Is this normal? I presumme it's because each one goes to the other end making 6 pins for the PCI-E side. It just seems like power isn't running through the whole system when this cable's attached, so nothing powers on.

 

[Kiyoshi]

Well as I said I thought there would have been an adaptor in one of them too, at least the graphics card box but there isn't.

I can't see a 'contents' section on the graphics card packaging, but I've been through it several times and there is no adaptor. The only reference to this I have found here is:

every x1900xt(x) are the same (BBA models) if the Connect3D is the cheapest i would go with that one. But the connect3d does not have the 6pin PCI-E converter but it does have all the HD cables, DVI convertors(X2) ect.

One thing to be aware of m8ty , The Connect 3D does not include a 4 to 6 pin molex cable with its package , should you have a slightly older spec PSU without a dedicated 6 pin line and you dont already have one one kicking around you are going to have to fork out on one of these ~

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Other_Cables_153.html

Akasa PCI Express 6 Pin to 4 Pin Power cable adaptor for PCI-E Graphics Cards (CB-018-AK)
Allows you too use PCI-Express graphics cards with a 6 pin connector with older Power Supplies that only have 4 pin molex connectors.

Price: £2.95 (£3.47 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Which is true for me. I can't believe nobody else has had this problem other than me? Especially with this graphics card being on offer this week.

 

[Kiyoshi]

I had to order one seperately.