Graphics Card Confusion

flamingkitty27 · Dec 26, 2013

Hello, I am in the middle of building my gaming computer as I speak. I am watching a tutorial on building computers on youtube and trying to follow, but I have run into some difficulties.

On my Graphics Card, when I went to plug the PCI Express Cable from the power supply, there were 2 6 pin slots for them. However, in the tutorial, there was only one and I'm confused. Is my video card messed up or is the tutorial messed up?

Btw, my GPU is a XFX Radeon 7870.

Brantyn Gerik · Dec 26, 2013

You may have watched a tutorial for a different card. Usually in the description of a card when you are buying it, it will say what connectors it requires. The tutorial must have been done using a different card from the one you bought

todd1780 · Dec 26, 2013

Some video cards use 1 PCIe connector and others will use 2. Which video card did you buy?

Kari · Dec 26, 2013

and you'll need to connect both of them.

jackson1420 · Dec 26, 2013

Your GFX card will take the 6 pin PCI adapter. These sometimes have an additional 2 pins. You may have two of these connectors because your power supply is ready for SLI or Crossfire.

Either one will work no problem.

Brantyn Gerik · Dec 26, 2013

Hopefully your psu has another 6 pin connector, otherwise you will need to buy something called a molex to 6 pin adapter, which will have a 6 pin male (will plug into gpu) and two 4 pin molex connectors (will be plugged into from molex from psu). If you are curious about what molex is, it is a flatter, somewhat older looking connector with 4 pins, or pinholes in it that are slightly larger than the pci holes, and the holes will not be individually seperated by plastic (google images helps loads)

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