Power to my Gerforce 8800 GTS

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  1. JoeSoGood

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    My video card has the splitter cable that came with it. Now do I run power to both of the power cords that come off of it?
    Power Female ___
    Power female ___|---> to video card
    There's my drawing of it but anyway like i asked do i need to run power to both of th female connectors because I only have one in right now and my video card says its only a 256 when it should be a 320 mb. Thanks
     
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    You should power both connectors. What rating is your power supply?
     
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    It is a 600 W.
     
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    Well It's working fine because I just read on the Nvidia website that vista is saying in the control panel that the 8800gts is only 256mb but the nvidia control panel says 320mb.
     
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    yeah, it's an odd amount, Vista may have difficulty recognising it.
     
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