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Power to GTX 480

Post Date: 2010-10-12
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    Posted: 12 Oct 2010 at 8:28pm
The 480 uses a 6 pin and 8 pin connector from the PSU. Since I'm not an electrician, would it be okay to use a 6 pin to 8 pin molex adapter (extension) for connection to the GPU? Would there be any load issues?
 
 
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I used molex to power my GTX 295, so it's fine.
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six pin PCIe has 3 12V + 3 12V- wires, most companies power supplies on 8 pin Pcie have the same 3 + 3, but add "sensing" wires. so really an 8 pin PCIE will not supply any more power than a 6 pin, but some power supplies do it different. The 8 pin that powers the CPU, is 4 12V+ and 4 12V - so different animal there.

so your adapter for 6 pin Pcie to 8 pin Pcie will work fine, there is also adapter for two Molex's into an Pcie. Usually a molex is reffer to a flat conector with 4 wires, a 12V + a 5V+ and two grounds.
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