Hi there folks,
First of all, many thanks for taking the time to read this and offer advice, much appreciated.
I have a machine that I built about 4 years ago and upgraded about a year ago with a new mobo, grpahics card, and memory.
Like the procrastinator that I am, I bought two graphics cards to do SLI, installed the one, then never got around to putting the other one in. I know, I know, retarded, but I never claimed not to be.
In any case, i was looking to get the other one plugged in, and I'm a bit stumped as to what to do in regards to how to connect it to the PSU. The PSU I have is a Thermaltake Toughpower 700W, 12V ATX, v 2.2. Specs here, pics attached.
At the moment I have an EVGA GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit connected via a PCI-E cable to the one connector and the other via a 2-to-1 molex connector to the end of my molex cable that also powers my optical drive and a few fans.
I've tried to research to find out where I can get a few cables, mainly either two PCI cables that will plug into the red ports on the PSU to completely power the second graphics card, and another molex cable that will plug in so that I don't need to leach power off the primary molex line.
I don't know if this is the right idea, or if I should be going about it differently. I could also use a few other SATA power connectors, preferrably right angles, which I can find if I can get the cables from the PSU sorted out.
Thanks again in advance for the help, hope I made the issues sufficiently clear, if not please let me know adn I'll do my best to clarify.
Thanks,
-T
PSU pics:
Rest of comp specs:
1 x GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
2 x EVGA 012-P3-1470-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
1 x Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950
1 x OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX90G 3.5" 90GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
1 x G.SKILL PI Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI
First of all, many thanks for taking the time to read this and offer advice, much appreciated.
I have a machine that I built about 4 years ago and upgraded about a year ago with a new mobo, grpahics card, and memory.
Like the procrastinator that I am, I bought two graphics cards to do SLI, installed the one, then never got around to putting the other one in. I know, I know, retarded, but I never claimed not to be.
In any case, i was looking to get the other one plugged in, and I'm a bit stumped as to what to do in regards to how to connect it to the PSU. The PSU I have is a Thermaltake Toughpower 700W, 12V ATX, v 2.2. Specs here, pics attached.
At the moment I have an EVGA GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit connected via a PCI-E cable to the one connector and the other via a 2-to-1 molex connector to the end of my molex cable that also powers my optical drive and a few fans.
I've tried to research to find out where I can get a few cables, mainly either two PCI cables that will plug into the red ports on the PSU to completely power the second graphics card, and another molex cable that will plug in so that I don't need to leach power off the primary molex line.
I don't know if this is the right idea, or if I should be going about it differently. I could also use a few other SATA power connectors, preferrably right angles, which I can find if I can get the cables from the PSU sorted out.
Thanks again in advance for the help, hope I made the issues sufficiently clear, if not please let me know adn I'll do my best to clarify.
Thanks,
-T
PSU pics:
Rest of comp specs:
1 x GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
2 x EVGA 012-P3-1470-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
1 x Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950
1 x OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX90G 3.5" 90GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
1 x G.SKILL PI Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI