No Supplementary Power Connectors in my power supply for my new graphics card. What can I do?

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austincgreen

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Hello, I am new to this site and couldnt find anything in the forums that I understood and could solve my problem. I am sorry as I am savvy with technology but have never had to deal with this before since I bought my desktop from HP and didnt have to build it myself. I bought a new GeForce GTX 760 graphics card to replace my AMD Radeon 6850 that I had put into my HP computer when I bought it online. After a lot of work, I got the casing over my power supply opened only to find that there were no Supplementary Power Connectors (that is what http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-760/specifications says is needed for my new graphics card to run.) Everything looks like it was glued/soldered (pardon my spelling I'm not sure what the word for it is) into a board. There are no plastic slots for me to plug the two 6 pin things into. Literally every wire running into the power supply is stuck into the board at the bottom, there are no spaces like I said to plug or unplug something. I would try getting a new power supply but I'm guessing I would need all new wires for my components since one end is attached onto the power supply and I dont feel like it would be safe to remove them. Also, I dont know what any of the cords are so I wouldnt know how to go about buying new ones since there are so many. Finally, my question is, what can I do (if its even possible) to get this to work?

Edit: Here is a link to a picture of what the wires look like running into my power supply: http://imgur.com/ReU97HS
 
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Phillip Corcoran
Am I to understand you've actually opened the PSU itself? You should never do that.

You need to replace the entire PSU, making sure the new one has the connectors you need.
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the picture was not really clear to me but it seems the board circuit for your power supply? did you pry open your PSU box? anyway 6850 use one 6 pin from your power supply. if you lack another one 6 pin using molex will solve the problem if you have 2 free 4-pin peripheral power connector from your PSU.
 
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Sorry for the late response. I had 0 knowledge of anything related to a psu and thought that the molex cord included with my graphic card was supposed to be plugged into the psu. When I found out that the cords went into the psu, I figured I would need to open it and plug the molex cords in. Its an old one and i have since bought a Thermaltake 600w psu as a replacement. I was so upset for the amount of time wasted trying to get into that thing. I guess thats what I get for diving in without knowledge.
 
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