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I have a power supply of (I think) sufficient wattage (750) but it only has two 6pin PCI power connectors for the GPUs. Is there something like a 6 pin power splitter that I could used to have one power connector split and plugged into both power plugs on a graphics card so I can SLI two GTX 275s?

Is there a reason not to do it?

If I do use such a splitter, would it be better to use one power cable per GPU or plug one end of the split into each GPU so both cards?


Message edited by Anonymous on 08-27-2009 at 01:58:58 AM
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Each card requires two 6 pins. If you split the 6pins, at best, the cards get insufficiant power, at worse, something blows up.

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Reply to gamerk316

Yeah likely doesn't start but you could short something out.

Just use the molex to 6 pin adpoters if you have enough molex.

Reply to darkvine

If you can afford 2 275's you can afford a decent power supply.

Also it is pci-e, pci-x is something completely different.

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Reply to Strangestranger

darkvine wrote :

Just use the molex to 6 pin adpoters if you have enough molex.


I will have extra molex connectors. Thanks.

Strangestranger wrote :

If you can afford 2 275's you can afford a decent power supply.


I have a good 750W power supply that is overkill in my current machine that has a 9800 GTX+ and can not SLI. I was thinking of getting it a new 500W and moving the 750 to a new I7 with one 275 then adding a second 275 later. Reduce the inital cost and spread the expenses out to make it more spouse-palatable. ;)

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Also it is pci-e, pci-x is something completely different.


Thanks, fixed.

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