On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:31 +0000, Peter Onion wrote:

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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:00 +0000, Peter Onion wrote:

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Does anyone have any experience with PCI-E graphics cards ?

I've purchased a ATI X800-GTO to put in my new AMD 64 box, but I'm

confused

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by what it says on the box ... "Mother board must support specialized

12V

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connector for graphics cards" (Or words to that effect).

Now there is space on the graphics card for a 6 pin (2x3) socket but

there

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is not one mounted there, so I'm guessing that I don't need to provide

this

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particular version of the card with any additional power (other than

what it

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can draw from the PCI-E connector).

Any thoughts ?

Peter

Hi Peter,

On both of my PCI Express equipped machines, there is a Harddrive style power connector right next to the PCIE slot which needs a power cable plugged in. This is in addition to the square 4pin connector that gives 12v to the processor.

Hope that helps

Mine has both of them as well, but it's obvious what to plug into them ! :-)

My problem is the box for the graphics card seems to suggest there should be a power connector on the card itself, yet the space is unpopulated.

Peter

It varies from card to card. You'll find the babies of the range don't have it, yet the more powerfull cards do. I have an Nvidia 6200 card, which has the solder points on the board for the socket, but no socket. It works perfectly without it.

So if the manufactures never fitted the socket to the board, chances are you wont need it!

HTH

Chris