- Jan 19, 2015
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Hi,
Sorry for what might be considered a stupid question but I'm a novice when it comes to power supplies, my work recently purchased a GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 gaming card, and I'm about to put it into our PC to try it out.
When I opened up the PC and removed our current GPU I found our PSU provides 2x 6 pin connectors, and the GTX 980 requires 2x 8 pin connectors. First thought was "ah heck", but then I looked at the cables Gigabyte had provided, and the 8 pin connector they gave me was only actually using 6 pins, 2 are empty, lacing any wires going into it, and no pin in the connector itself. So this means that even with the 8 pin connectors, I would be providing 6 pins worth of power?
My main concern is the layout.
On the cables they provided the pins look like
OOXO
OXOO
With X being the missing pin, and if I were to plug in my 6 pin connector directly, it would be:
XOOO
XOOO
I worried this might cause some damage to the card so I decided not to try it.
So my question is, do I need a bigger PSU for this? Would the card even work with 2x 6 pin connectors?
Thanks for any assistance.
Sorry for what might be considered a stupid question but I'm a novice when it comes to power supplies, my work recently purchased a GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 gaming card, and I'm about to put it into our PC to try it out.
When I opened up the PC and removed our current GPU I found our PSU provides 2x 6 pin connectors, and the GTX 980 requires 2x 8 pin connectors. First thought was "ah heck", but then I looked at the cables Gigabyte had provided, and the 8 pin connector they gave me was only actually using 6 pins, 2 are empty, lacing any wires going into it, and no pin in the connector itself. So this means that even with the 8 pin connectors, I would be providing 6 pins worth of power?
My main concern is the layout.
On the cables they provided the pins look like
OOXO
OXOO
With X being the missing pin, and if I were to plug in my 6 pin connector directly, it would be:
XOOO
XOOO
I worried this might cause some damage to the card so I decided not to try it.
So my question is, do I need a bigger PSU for this? Would the card even work with 2x 6 pin connectors?
Thanks for any assistance.
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