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Ultra n00b installation help needed!

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Hi everybody,

Please dont laugh at me too much, but I have recently bought one of the X1950 pro's http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-063-OK&tool=3 on the basis that I had a little bit of spare money floating around and fancied giving my machine a bit of a tart up.

Now, I have almost zero knowledge about graphic cards, over clocking etc but having snooped through the forums it seemed like this would be a good upgrade for the price.

However, having now received the card I have realised that it in order to power it i need a "specialized 12V graphics card power connector" in order to run the thing, which I had not seen mentioned anywhere in the product details. I had just assumed it was PCI-express and therefore would just slot in in place of my old card and away i'd go.

However, having installed it i find myself with this 3 pronged power cable thing with 4 pins on the end of each one, one (ill call it a female connection coz i dont know any better) end of which plugs into the card itself and leaves me with a spare female connector hanging off the side, and the other end has a 4 pronged male connector which i can find no place in my machine to plug it into! The only spare plugs floating around are 2 little black 6 pin fellas which i have never known what were for.

The system im running is (for my sins, i told you i dont know much :( ) a Dell XPS 600, Pentium 4 3.2Ghz with 2GB of ram. Its got a dual SLi board which used to have 2 6800's in when i got it until one of them died, and so now just runs with the one 6800 (which i must say seems to have made no difference at all).

So please, if anyone can at least point me in the right direction as to whether there is anything that can be done to get this card hooked up with my machine it would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks very much for reading this far, hope it makes some kind of sense :confused:
 
To run the card all you should need is a single pci-e power cable that comes from your power supply unit (6 pin) like this:

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this plugs into a port that is at the same end of the card as the fan.
If your PSU does not have this type of cable then you will need an adapter.

The other cables you are talking about seem to be some sort of S-video cable which isn't needed to run the card.
 
ok looks like the ocuk card uses a normal molex connector.

is the socket on the card that the plug goes into greyish white ? and is the plug a flat 4 pin design. ?

if so that is a standard molex connector design. now the 3 pronged thing you mentioned does it look like this allthough not that colour lol

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-005-AK&groupid=701&catid=48&subcat=153

now you need to find a molex power connector in your pc. look at the back of the hard drives or the back of the dvd drive. they all used to be pwoered with molex connector allthough lots now use a diff sort. if you have molex in one of them preferably something close to the gfx card. pull that out and plug that into the 1 socket on the 3 pronged thing that it fits into then plug the other two ends one into what ever you just unplugged and the other into the gfx card.


the 6pin power things you mentioned are pcie power connecors and are usually used for powering gfx cards allthough seems your card takes the older molex design if any of this dont match what you have can you get take apicture of yoru card and the cable thing they supplied ?
 
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Hey again, thanks hugely for the quick replies! Im pleased to say that as suggested i was able to use the 3 pronged lead thing to link up with the connector powering the DVD drive and re-jig it from there and its all working like a charm now!

:D Thanks again guys! :D
 
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