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July 07, 2011, 01:26:26 AM |
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What's the best way to do this? Most PSU's only come with 4, and my 4x5830's need 2 each.
What are most people doing to make this work with one PSU?
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July 07, 2011, 01:29:28 AM |
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Molex -> PCIe adapters. Your cards most likely came with some.
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vivithemage (OP)
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July 07, 2011, 01:36:05 AM |
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I have never seen cards come with molex to PCIe.
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July 07, 2011, 01:43:47 AM |
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He's right, they only come with older cards. I got a bunch with 5830's, but never with anything more recent than those.
Even then it's manufacturer specific. Diamond could give two, Club3d/sapphire one, and others either one or nothing.
Newer cards just have 2x6pin to 8-pin adapters.
You could see if Cablesaurus sells them, though.
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July 07, 2011, 01:44:04 AM |
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I have never seen cards come with molex to PCIe.
my 5830s came with 2 each i think, off to check the boxes i go edit: yep 2 adapters in each box i am assuming since the first box had two in it. its even in the pics at newegg now that i went there and checked also |
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Auspician
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July 07, 2011, 01:45:44 AM |
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I use a shielded version of this that I picked up locally. If you need 8 pin adapters its just as easy to adapt one 6 pin to one 8 pin. Since the other two pins are merely grounds it doesn't make a difference if your PSU's rails can support the output needed. |
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July 07, 2011, 02:00:45 AM |
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He's right, they only come with older cards. I got a bunch with 5830's, but never with anything more recent than those.
Even then it's manufacturer specific. Diamond could give two, Club3d/sapphire one, and others either one or nothing.
Newer cards just have 2x6pin to 8-pin adapters.
You could see if Cablesaurus sells them, though.
That's not completely true. They don't come with "newer" cards because the more recent cars use 8 pins. Any card uses 6 pin should come with the adapter. |
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July 07, 2011, 02:06:51 AM |
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I have never seen cards come with molex to PCIe.
I've seen them every time I've opened up a new 5830, 5850, 5870 from various brands. |
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July 07, 2011, 02:11:56 AM |
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I have never seen cards come with molex to PCIe.
I've seen them every time I've opened up a new 5830, 5850, 5870 from various brands. Good to know, i'll use those  |
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July 07, 2011, 01:25:36 PM |
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My Vertex 3D (it's made by Powercolor) HD 6850 came with no molex -> PCI-E connector, but both of my Sapphire HD 5850s came with 2 each.
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July 07, 2011, 08:40:04 PM |
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I've seen them every time I've opened up a new 5830, 5850, 5870 from various brands.
Yeah, I think the last $109.99 5830 I got from NewEgg had them. |
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July 07, 2011, 08:47:51 PM |
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July 07, 2011, 10:18:33 PM |
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No, not with the 11.7 drivers. |
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July 08, 2011, 12:39:21 AM |
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sweet  Where can I get 11.7? |
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July 08, 2011, 07:27:31 AM |
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Actually, I bought an XFX 6850 brand new and it came with nothing, no cables, no adapters. Just the card, a CD and instrution manual.
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July 08, 2011, 09:43:09 AM |
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My cards never came with an 8 pin power adapter, and local store didn't sell them.
I tried powering it with 2 pin connections, instead of the required 6 pin + 8 pin, and seems to work fine.
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