Point of View 6800GS - Installation

[NickW]

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Hi,

I have bought a Point of View 6800GS and am currently installing it now.

The graphics card has one power lead coming off the card and splitting into power connectors (to the PSU).

The question is: Do I need to connect both power connectors to the PSU or do I just plug in one of them?

Please help me : )

Thanks

 

[slicessoul]

The question is: Do I need to connect both power connectors to the PSU or do I just plug in one of them?

Yep, you must connect it to PSU. Check your PSU's 12v rail, how many amps it have ?

 

[NickW]

Do I need to connect both or just one of them?

 

[slicessoul]

OK, in the VGA card, there's one molex connector. It's more smaller than usual molex connector right ?
You got a Y cable right ? This Y cable has one connector that you have to connect it to PSU and the other is to connect to VGA and the other is to connect to other peripherals such HDD or DVD ROM.

btw, it's PCI-E or AGP ?

 

[NickW]

Both Power connector plugs are exacly the same. They both fit into the PSU plugs.

Sorry my knowledge and jargon are non existant.

Thanks

 

[slicessoul]

Did you connect from PSU directly to VGA card ?

 

[Pain]

Is this your card? Or is this it?

What you have is a Y splitter. The female end of the splitter goes to the power supply. One male end goes to the card, the other male end can go to anything else, or can remain unconnected. It is used incase you do not have enough power supply connectors and need to split one.

 

[slicessoul]

I think he got confuse with the "jargon" PCI-E and AGP.