NEED HELP ASAP.
recently puchased an 9800gx2 unfortunately my 1 KW PC Power and Cooling didn't have the 6+2 pin PCIe necessary to connect to the card, so rather than buying another heavyweight PSU, i opted to get the Epower Juicebox 450W graphics card power supply as a supplement to my existing 1KW.
the juicebox looked to be the answer to my probs, since i only needed it to power the card and it's suppose to have 38amps total on 2 X 12v rails. however, after trying it out last night, that wasn't the case. looked like the 9800gx2 green lighted the 6 pin connector but red lighted the 6+2 pin. i didn't even get to the bios screen. no vid @ all.
my question is, does anyone have any experience w/ the Juicebox? <rant>on a separate note, what the hell is up w/ the new extra 2 pins in the PCIe plugs anyway? i checked the specs and they're just extra ground wires. sure looks like some screw job by the graphics and PSU guys to have early adapters shelling out some $$$ to upgrade to a new PSU.</Rant>
recently puchased an 9800gx2 unfortunately my 1 KW PC Power and Cooling didn't have the 6+2 pin PCIe necessary to connect to the card, so rather than buying another heavyweight PSU, i opted to get the Epower Juicebox 450W graphics card power supply as a supplement to my existing 1KW.
the juicebox looked to be the answer to my probs, since i only needed it to power the card and it's suppose to have 38amps total on 2 X 12v rails. however, after trying it out last night, that wasn't the case. looked like the 9800gx2 green lighted the 6 pin connector but red lighted the 6+2 pin. i didn't even get to the bios screen. no vid @ all.
my question is, does anyone have any experience w/ the Juicebox? <rant>on a separate note, what the hell is up w/ the new extra 2 pins in the PCIe plugs anyway? i checked the specs and they're just extra ground wires. sure looks like some screw job by the graphics and PSU guys to have early adapters shelling out some $$$ to upgrade to a new PSU.</Rant>
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