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PsychoSaysDie   08-23-2009 at 12:17:58 AM

Picked up a 9800GX2 on the cheap but no 8 pin adapter came with it. Ugh. PSU does not have an 8 pin so i was thinking about adapters.

Fry's has these two adapters for sale. Molex to 4 pin and then 4 pin to 8 pin. Would that be enough to power my GX2 or am i just f'd?

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Crashman   08-23-2009 at 12:41:46 AM

PsychoSaysDie wrote :

Picked up a 9800GX2 on the cheap but no 8 pin adapter came with it. Ugh. PSU does not have an 8 pin so i was thinking about adapters.

Fry's has these two adapters for sale. Molex to 4 pin and then 4 pin to 8 pin. Would that be enough to power my GX2 or am i just f'd?



Yeh, because those are for 4-pin and 8-pin motherboard connections, not PCI-Express, and the wiring order is backwards.

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PsychoSaysDie   08-23-2009 at 12:44:56 AM

Thanks crash. Now i regret buying the damn card. Haha

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505090   08-23-2009 at 01:05:14 AM

It's a poor solution but should get you running make sure nothing else is plugged into the string of molexes you use

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Bronze Graphics badge EXT64   08-23-2009 at 06:25:03 AM

Do you have two six pin plugs (so would a six pin to eight pin adapter be what you need) or do you have to go from molex.

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