Help on hooking up power supply on my new 6800

[cmitchell17]

The directions dont tell you anything about how to hook up the power to my new 6800 it just came with 1 cable with three 4 prong ends. How do i hook everything up?

 

[cmitchell17]

i have a cable that is running from my power supply to my hard drive. In the middle of that cabel another cabel that spits in two, it is pulgged into my video card and the other cable that split off from the video card cabel is plugged into nothing.

 

[cmitchell17]

To make it simple is it OK if there is a cable coming from my power supply that is spilt into powering both my Hard drive and my 6800. Another person at this forum told me that I would be okay on my power supply. It says it reccomends at least a 350Watt power supply i have a 295 Watt power supply.

 

[Nomada]

If possible put your HD and CD rom on one power cable and use the other power cable solely for the video card. That is assuming you have two.

 

[cmitchell17]

problem is that i cant get the power cable out of my cd drives

 

[Nomada]

There's no reason for it not coming out. They're usually quite attatched though. Gently wiggle it side to side while pulling on it. Those 4 pin connectors are called molex connectors. How many do you have on how many strings?

 

[cmitchell17]

On both my cd drives and my hard drive they are 4 pin. Thats what they look like but they do have 4 wires. But they seem like they are in there good the last thing i want to do is break something.

 

[cmitchell17]

It looks like one wire comes from the psu and splits to go to both my cd drives. and one wire comes from the psu to go to my hard drive, but that wire on the way to my hard drive has a place to connect a wire to it. It is P6 them P7 is my hard drive.

 

[cmitchell17]

are you sure there is not a special way to get the power cords out.

 

[Nomada]

No special way that I've ever seen. Grab the white plastic and wiggle it out. You can probably get away with just using any molex connector available though. Try it out. What brand of PSU is it?

 

[cmitchell17]

I have a sony PCV-RZ24G if that helps I hope i can acutaually use my new video card.

 

[cmitchell17]

It says NMB

then it says all this

5v 28A Max
3.3V 13A Max
12V 17A Max
12VSP 1.2A Max LSP Output
AUX 5VB 1.8A Max
12V 12VSP Total 209W Max
5V 3.3 Total 165W Max
PC Output Total 295.4W Max

 

[Nomada]

Those numbers are what's important. That's an okay amperage on the 12v rail. I would plug it in and not worry too much. If the computer reboots some then you'll have to buy a PSU. It shouldn't wreck anything though.

 

[cmitchell17]

So I can have a cable running my hard drive connected to my 6800 too. And it shoulnt mess up anything but my power supply.

 

[Nomada]

yep.

 

[cmitchell17]

im trusting you im going to try it thanks for the help though.

 

[cmitchell17]

how much is a good PSU

 

[Nomada]

Look, you can fry a PSU which in turn can fry every component in your system. Or nothing will happen. The odds of anything breaking are pretty remote. If you don't know what your're doing or are fearful of breaking your PC than I suggest you get an opinion from another in the know. PSU's come in many flavours of quality and a half-decent one will cost about $80 here in Canada. They're not that cheap. Anyway, good luck.

 

[cmitchell17]

Ok thanks anyone else have anything I should do or thinks i should just leave it like i have it and hope nothing goes wrong.

 

[cmitchell17]

I was reading on these forums about unloking the other 4 pipelines on the 6800. If you try this and it turns out that the other 4 pipelines are defective can i just turn them back off with no damage to my card, or will my card be permanately messed up. Becuase in the article I read it said there was a risk?

 

[cmitchell17]

should i keep running my computer untill me power supply goes?