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Need Help A Lot   03-12-2008 at 11:15:09 PM

Please can somone help me i found the perfect graphic card for my comp.However all power supplys are taken inside the motherboard and i cant put the powersupply for the graphic card can someone help me??

Oh yah almost forgot the graphic card is an Radeon HD 3850 256 MB.

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ohiou_grad_06   03-12-2008 at 11:23:19 PM
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Do you have any molex connections left? If your card needs the 6 pin plug, you can buy adapters. Also, look around, do a google search, if you need more molex connections, they do make a splitter. It's like a Y cable, you plug one connection into it, and it gives you 2 plugs.

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Need Help A Lot   03-12-2008 at 11:28:31 PM
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hmmm a Y cable???ok i get it but what i really mean is all the powersupply has been taken for my psu and i dont have a single molex left.

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ohiou_grad_06   03-13-2008 at 01:47:09 AM
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Right, but get the y connector, or even a couple, take one connection from one of your drives, plug it into your y connector, then take one of the y connector connections, plug it into your drive, then you'd have an extra molex left from the y connector.

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major53   03-13-2008 at 02:40:48 AM
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Need Help A Lot what is ps spec





ohiou_grad_06
Do you have any molex connections left? If your card needs the 6 pin plug, you can buy adapters. Also, look around, do a google search, if you need more molex connections, they do make a splitter. It's like a Y cable, you plug one connection into it, and it gives you 2 plugs.

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betunn   03-13-2008 at 03:02:59 AM
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I think that he means that all of his PS connectors are taken and it has no power connector left to plug his GPU.
First find the Make and model of your Power Supply.
I think you'll need to upgrade you PSU to be able to use your GPU.

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ohiou_grad_06   03-13-2008 at 04:37:32 AM
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Granted that may be, I know the thought crossed my mind, but isn't the 3850 supposed to be less power hungry than others?

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Need Help A Lot   03-14-2008 at 02:08:50 AM
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well i checked inside my comp. and i managed to find one molex all the way in the corner.curse dell they always do everything terrible at least the comps. are cheap.anyway the molex is at the very top corner and i guess i need a y jumper and i appreciate everybodys help.


Message edited by Need Help A Lot on 03-14-2008 at 02:17:13 AM
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kpo6969   03-14-2008 at 07:11:05 AM
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If you have any free Sata connectors (unused drive bays) you can get one of these:
http://www.performance-pcs.com/cat [...] s_id=20580

If your going to use the Y-splitter (in a Dell) you should really use 2 molex instead of 1. Trust me on that.

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Need Help A Lot   03-15-2008 at 12:21:29 AM
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hey thanks kpo6969 ill definitally need that man i have lets see 2 unused and if i use a y cable i have plent enough for me to add another gfx card sweet.oh yah and just to tell you i found out that the Radeon HD 3850 just uses 98W.so that means my comp can sure take it.


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