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First of all, hello everyone, this is my 1st post!
I considermyself an "average" guy when it comes to computers, but have always been affraid to take the "next" step and doing installations, tweakins on my own. I have always had people with more knowledge help me build my PCs. With those people gone, I guess this is the time for me to learn so here I go.

I got a RADEON 4870 HD card.

The card has two 6pin (i think) connectors (black) and it comes with 2 cables that go from 6pin to tow "drive connections" In other words. from 2 connectors i end up with 4 (four) drive connections (the white tones that we all know)

My question is...... do i need to connect all four of them to power? Just one of each?
I really need some help, because I was not careful to see how it was connected, and when i had to migrate to a new case... I disconnected everything. I first connected one of each.. and when i launched a game... after while my compuer reset itself.... so i know something is not right.

The manual both physical and online only show a similar card with just ONE 6pin (black) PCIe (i belive that is what it is called) connector to power the card... mine has 2 6pin (PCIe)

Also.. what is the "suggested" FAN SPEED - Temperature you guys recommend?

I would like some help and thank you all in advance!!!


Message edited by Darkhaund on 05-14-2009 at 09:49:42 PM
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You do need to have both 6-pins connected to the back of your graphics card, so that means you need a different 4-pin connector free for each adaptor. The 6-pin part goes into the back of the gpu and the 4-pin part goes into a free connector. If you don't have a free one you can use one of the connectors that go into your dvd or hard drives (that is why there are two 4 pins on one adaptor).


Message edited by jennyh on 05-15-2009 at 04:05:07 AM
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Thanks for your reply!!!

I have a couple of questions!!

What do you mean by "That is hwy there are two 4 pin connectors"?
What is the optimal temperature i should get this card to?
What happens if i dont connect all 4 connectors of my card

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