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Hello everyone and thanks for your help

I have a seasonic s12ii 430 bronze powering a intel q6600 2 2gb ram 2 hdd 2 dvd drives a asus p5p41t le motherboard, and there's a gigabyte 560ti graphics card i want to buy that requires 2 6pin pci power connectors but my psu has a 6+2pin power connector, so i was wondering if i could use a splitter for the psu's pci power connector and connect the splitter to the graphics card, and would the psu power everything fine, or is there a different way where i wouldent need to replace my psu. Thanks everyone :)
 
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You could use a splitter or mosfet-to-6pin adapter, but you might want to consider a new PSU anyways. That 560Ti is a bit power hungry, requiring 31 amps and recommended a 500 watts PSU minimum. The seasonic is an excellent PSU, but its 12 volt lines provide max 30 amps, so you will be pushing it a bit beyond its limits when under load. It will work but on the long run it might fail sooner than expected.
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The gtx 560 ti graphic card should come with a 6 pin / PCI-E adapter ( molex to 6 pin connector adapter ) if not you can buy one from the local shop or buy it online from a site , my friend also have the same graphic card and it came with a molex to 6 pin connector adapter
 
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You could use a splitter or mosfet-to-6pin adapter, but you might want to consider a new PSU anyways. That 560Ti is a bit power hungry, requiring 31 amps and recommended a 500 watts PSU minimum. The seasonic is an excellent PSU, but its 12 volt lines provide max 30 amps, so you will be pushing it a bit beyond its limits when under load. It will work but on the long run it might fail sooner than expected.
 
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Agreed by the way I got a question what do you prefer a molex to 6 pin adapter or sata to 6 pin adapter???
 
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The sata to 6 pin connector is cheaper but the molex to 6 pin adapter requires power from two molex connectors while the sata one require only one sata connector so wouldn't it have any drawbacks ?
 
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WOW thanks for the fast replys

I thought the graphics card will use 150 watts, and the cpu uses 95 watts so it would work on the 12v rail? I could discenect 1 hdd and 1dvd thanks for your help :)
 
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Normally it would all be just the same since it uses the same 12 volt line. Some PSU's have multiple 12 volt lines but usually this doesn't matter.
 
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The Q6600 is rated at 105 watts, and under load your system can draw up to 350 watts. This is close to put the PSU under full load constantly, which is why I wouldn't recommend.
 
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