NV45 Power Connector Mystery Solved

[Anand Lal Shimpi]

Looks like that power connector will be seen on both ATI and NVIDIA cards

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=2068

 

[suklee]

Neato... thanks for the info Boss :thumbsup:

 

[Corporate Thug]

very nice follow up

 

[n0cmonkey]

whew! Maybe I'll get to sleep now after all!

 

[yhelothar]

looks like ATI will require two power slots too

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
looks like ATI will require two power slots too

very astute, I had not thought of that till you mentioned it. teh 6 pin requires two 4 pin molex, jsut as the original es 6800 ultras.

 

[Tab]

Yea, but what is that other connection the card also? :|

 

[Wahsapa]

ya what IS that other little tab of pci-e goodness on the nv45

 

[Lonyo]

That's really stupid.
How can both cards need dual connectors when PCI-Express gives more power itself.
Surely it would reduce the power requirements of the cards and allow them to use only one connector?
Unless the cards aren't exactly the same...?
(Would the 50MHz clock increase be enough? The 6800GT seems to be able to reach 400MHz+ on 1 molex)

 

[shabby]

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
ya what IS that other little tab of pci-e goodness on the nv45

Sli connector?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: shabby

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
ya what IS that other little tab of pci-e goodness on the nv45

Sli connector?

boy would that be cool, didnt nvidia purchase all the tech they needed to do that with from 3dfx when they bought them?

 

[GTaudiophile]

What is with this sudden NV45 love fest?

We might as well just call it nVidiatex...