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mtstans   09-29-2007 at 10:24:05 PM

On my new evga motherboard, there is a plug called power 3 for supplying power to the graphics card. However, my evga 8800 gts has a seperate 6 pin power input on the car itself. DO I need to use both of these plugs? Or do I just disregard the one on my mother board since my card has the power on it?
The instructions are are very unclear on this.
Thanks
MAtthew

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ivanski   09-30-2007 at 12:14:35 AM
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Thats called the "EZ plug-power SLI" or 4pin AUX power connection to use in SLI setup.
It's suppose to ensure that both PCI-Express cards receive optimal power when they don't have the additional molex/PCI-E power connectors.And if using a 20pin power supply connection instead of the now standard 24pin.

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mtstans   09-30-2007 at 04:15:21 AM
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so should i run power to both the pwr 3 on th e mother board and the 6 pin power on the graphics card then?

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ivanski   09-30-2007 at 04:20:34 AM
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Only if you have older cards like 6800's that dont have 6 pin molex power connection.So in your case noooooo

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mtstans   09-30-2007 at 04:43:35 AM
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so just the 6 pin on the card and nothing to the power 3 correct?

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