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6800 Ultra 2x Power Connectors

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I just hopped on the $349 AR 6800 Ultra from Outpost bandwagon.

I was wondering: I know the card requires 2 connectors for power. However, I have 2x HD and 2x DVD burners, AND the Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (Which ALSO requires a power connection). Since my Antec 480 TrueBlue only has (I believe) 5 or 6 connectors, I'm obviously going to have to use a splitter to feed the new card....

So my question is, given my configuration, what's the optimal method of doing this safely? Split off the Audigy?

TIA

 
Try getting a splitter and running the 2 optical drives off of one power connector.

Not sure about the hard drives, but you can try a splitter there too.

Then use two unused connectors for the video card.

That's probably the best option.

Sound crazy or sound sane?

Guys, if I am wrong, let this guy know.

Gentle
 
Is this an SLI setup or a single card? I didn't realize that there was a card out there that required TWO power plugs....Do you have a link to this card?

I would do as suggested above and put a splitter on the optical drives. If you needed to use another splitter I would recommend putting it on the HDDs (unless you are running RAID on those drives).
 
Originally posted by: Solutions
Is this an SLI setup or a single card? I didn't realize that there was a card out there that required TWO power plugs....Do you have a link to this card?

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All 6800 Ultras have two power plugs
 
I first had it set up so that there was only one line from the PSU going to the Ultra (using splitter)...it was fine. But then my PSU died lol. Dunno what caused it though. Now I have 2 seperate lines straight from the PSU going to the Ultra as recommended, and put splitters on those lines so I could hook up other stuff...which BFG says is OK. Just my experiences heheh. 🙂

EDIT:

P.S. How are you getting the ultra for only $349!?!? That's a crazy price!!
 
Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Originally posted by: Solutions
Is this an SLI setup or a single card? I didn't realize that there was a card out there that required TWO power plugs....Do you have a link to this card?

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All 6800 Ultras have two power plugs
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Neither of my eVGA 6800 Ultra PCI Express cards have a second power plug. The other connectors on the card are:
1. 1 6-pin power plug (2x3pins)
2. 1 SLI Bridge
3. 1 Fan Connector (2pin)

Are you referring to AGP cards only?
 
Yes the card has TWO power plugs.

The card comes with two Y power cable splitters. Also you cannot split off the same line. It's for spike reasons or something. You need to utilize two seperate lines off the PS.

I have an Enermax 460 Watt and I'm running 2 SCSI HD's, a 120GB IDE, CDRW and DVDRW.

A64 w/ 1GB ram and Neo2 Plat.

I've had no problems running all of this and haven't had any crashes since I installed it on Saturday.
 
Originally posted by: Solutions
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Yes the card has TWO power plugs
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Is it AGP or PCI Express?
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Mine is AGP, but the PCI-E also requires two dongles..

Per BFG's website http://www.bfgtech.com/6800U_PCIX.html

Minimum System Requirements
>> A PCI Express compliant motherboard.
>> Two available hard disk drive power dongles (smaller floppy disk drive connector is not sufficient)


So quit asking over and over 🙂

 
LMFAO.... My PCI Express card has ONE plug. My Power supply has a seperate rail with 2 PCI-Ex (6pin) plugs, one for each card in the SLI setup.

I just want to make sure its clear that NOT ALL ULTRAS have two power connectors.

My eVGA specs say specifically that only one power connector is available/required:
http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=256-P2-N377-AX

Requirements
Minimum of a 350 Watt power supply.
An available 6 pin PCI-E power connector (hard drive power dongle to PCI-E 6 pin adapter included with card)


*Interesting that BFG would use molex instead of the PCI-Ex plug....I wonder why they went that route...
 
Originally posted by: Solutions
LMFAO.... My PCI Express card has ONE plug. My Power supply has a seperate rail with 2 PCI-Ex (6pin) plugs, one for each card in the SLI setup.

I just want to make sure its clear that NOT ALL ULTRAS have two power connectors.

My eVGA specs say specifically that only one power connector is available/required:
http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=256-P2-N377-AX

Requirements
Minimum of a 350 Watt power supply.
An available 6 pin PCI-E power connector (hard drive power dongle to PCI-E 6 pin adapter included with card)


*Interesting that BFG would use molex instead of the PCI-Ex plug....I wonder why they went that route...
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It's only an adapter that converts two molex connectors into a single PCIe connector. They just assume that most people aren't buying swanky new PSUs with PCIe power cables.
 
Originally posted by: Solutions
LMFAO.... My PCI Express card has ONE plug. My Power supply has a seperate rail with 2 PCI-Ex (6pin) plugs, one for each card in the SLI setup.

I just want to make sure its clear that NOT ALL ULTRAS have two power connectors.

My eVGA specs say specifically that only one power connector is available/required:
http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=256-P2-N377-AX

Requirements
Minimum of a 350 Watt power supply.
An available 6 pin PCI-E power connector (hard drive power dongle to PCI-E 6 pin adapter included with card)


*Interesting that BFG would use molex instead of the PCI-Ex plug....I wonder why they went that route...
Click to expand...


Probably cause theres no reason not to. MOST power supplys do NOT have a seperate PCI-X rail. Just because it requires two seperate molex doesn't mean it's taking up any more or less power. It's all built off nVidia reference and they use the same power.

It's not really interesting as they aren't the only company doing it that way.

 
any 6800 ultra requires power from 2 individual (not splitted) molex/hard drive power cords. In AGP, these plug into two molex slots on the vga card itself, and in pci-express,it requires a 6 pin special adapter which can
either be brought directly from the psu(if its an atx 2.0 standard), or
two molex plugs can be connected into a single 6-pin plug, which plugs into the vga card
 
i just got my 6800 Ultra put in yesterday.
i have a ThermalTake XaserIII tower with stock Tt 420w PSU
and i used one lead out of PSU and the splitter and it works fine for me!
 
BFG is exactly the same as everyone else. The only time you won't need 2 standard molex connectors with a 6800U is if your power supply already has PCI-E power leads.

Just because some people get away with using only one standard molex, it doesn't mean that it is the correct way to hook up the card. They may not have as big a load on their PS.

 
i think LTC8K6 is right. The standard norm is to connect two molex connectors and this is recommended by ALL vendors as well as websites like anandtech and tomshardware. Its just a matter of time before your Ultra smokes out
 
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