Hi, I finished building a new computer recently and need some advice regarding my PSU connection.
I have an XFX ghz edition HD 7870 graphics card and a Corsair CX430M PSU.
After I got all the parts ready and tried to put it together I noticed my card needs two power six pin power attachments. With my corsair PSU only a single dedicated PCI-E attachment came.
The next day I went to my local store and I could not find a 6-pin - > 6 pin connector. I found one cord labeled for PCI-E that seemed like it could work.
It had two white large 4 pin connectors that went in to a 6 pin connector. One of the "holes" in the 6 pin is empty.
I took a cord I got from corsair I didn't need. It had two four pin slots as well as another 6 pin with two "holes" empty.
I connected the the two cords together via the 4 pins and then put the 5/6 pin in the video card and the 4/6 pin in the psu unit.
I took a picture because this is difficult to describe!
Is this OK?? My computer seems to run fine. I got some crashes on bioshock1/3, but admittedly those were torrented and I'm not quite sure if it is the system or the software. D3 runs fine with zero crashes. When I run FurMark I sometimes get strange spikes in voltage and VRAM temperature which concern me.
Any advice from the more wise would be very much appreciated!
I have an XFX ghz edition HD 7870 graphics card and a Corsair CX430M PSU.
After I got all the parts ready and tried to put it together I noticed my card needs two power six pin power attachments. With my corsair PSU only a single dedicated PCI-E attachment came.
The next day I went to my local store and I could not find a 6-pin - > 6 pin connector. I found one cord labeled for PCI-E that seemed like it could work.
It had two white large 4 pin connectors that went in to a 6 pin connector. One of the "holes" in the 6 pin is empty.
I took a cord I got from corsair I didn't need. It had two four pin slots as well as another 6 pin with two "holes" empty.
I connected the the two cords together via the 4 pins and then put the 5/6 pin in the video card and the 4/6 pin in the psu unit.
I took a picture because this is difficult to describe!
Is this OK?? My computer seems to run fine. I got some crashes on bioshock1/3, but admittedly those were torrented and I'm not quite sure if it is the system or the software. D3 runs fine with zero crashes. When I run FurMark I sometimes get strange spikes in voltage and VRAM temperature which concern me.
Any advice from the more wise would be very much appreciated!
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