So let's say tomorrow I bought a 4870 1GB and installed it into my system. I fit it into my PCI-E socket, and I connect a 6 Pin in, I look for a second one and I don't find one, what happens next? I've never used an adapter before, so I'm pretty new to it.
Welcome to my shoes The adapter is just two 4 pin (molex) to one 6 pin. I used two individual unused cables for it and it works perfect - i don't know if you could use two molex connectors from the same cable to provide all the power or not, since i didn't try it (two of my unused cables have three molex connectors (the two i used), the other has one molex and two sata)).
Using one adapter is fine. Two is pushing it, really, but unless you use crossfire that should never be necessary.
Sounds good. I've been tweaking my Overclocking on my CPU and RAM while I wait for the graphics card. Since I have a lot of hidden potential in the Core 2 Duo E6750, I decided to read a lot of guides and eventually this is the result : I get av Core temp of 68-69 never exceeding 70 when doing the Prime95 Duo Stress Tests.. I've lowered the voltage, lowered the DDR Timings and changed the multiplier to normal so it stays at 800MHz rather than auto-overclocking to 960 because my CPU FSB is 400.
shaffaaf - most of your latest posts have been atrocious, either text speak or virtually illegible. Please sort out your keyboard...
I wasn't going to say anything but I agree. Pretty much every post I have to work out what the real world is from the sea of typos.
Mobo is - Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3, Rev 2.1 I believe. It's a stable (from what I've seen from today) overclock, except I'm kind of concerned about the 70c 100% Load temperature. I tried lowering the voltage, it's been stable since then, but the temperature is still staying the same. I'll leave it as this until I get any problems, then I'll lower the Speed from 3.2 to 3.1 or 3.0 if I have any trouble. I'm pretty sure with the right equipment I could go up to 3.5GHz. I only have 2x120mm Fans, and the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, my case is also full of wires from my Corsair PSU, with not a lot of space (reason why I'm not buying Corsair Dominator Memory) but the case has loads of holes in it and I never leave the screws in the case, so it's always loose. But I don't hear the noise over my headphones and it's not that loud tbh.
Blimey Sam, what are you, fastest fingers in the west, You replied within 1 minute of me writing that . "Temp 2" on Speedfan tends to go up to around 50c too, honestly I can't remember what fan "Temp 2" is. People say stuff like, "it lowers your CPU life, don't do it" But then I think, "well, I'm most likely going to be upgrading everything in the next year (New RAM, New Graphics Card, then every 2 or so years, new CPU) so it really doesn't matter." And by the time it breaks, the prices of them are ridiculously cheap, £70 I saw a Core 2 Duo E6xxx for, and I'm pretty sure you can get lower prices on ebay too.
Lmao. I lowered the speed from 3.2GHz to 3.1GHz because I got a blue screen because a program errored and I couldn't opened it so I tried to open it a different way and my pc stalled and then BSoD'd on me.
BUMP Since this thread was originally about power supplies, I have an enquiry.. What power supply would power this AND have the right connections : Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz @ 3GHz 4GB Corsair 1066MHz 2x HD 4870 1GB (Crossfire Windows 7) I was looking at the HX620, but that is a bit expensive (around £92 on eBuyer), and generally I've heard that it only draws out about 450watts anyway, but it's just the connections that I'm worried about. I'm probably just going to save up for the new DX11 ATi cards, the 5870 most likely at Christmas.
