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So I been rocking a Q6600+HD4890 for a long time, my brother gives me a Twin Frozr 6970. It's a pretty monster card, he paid a lot for it at the time, I think it's heavily factory overclocked too.
Anyways I stick it in my rig as is, one problem it has two 8 pin connectors, I only have one 6 and one 8 coming from my PSU, which is a Antec 650. Should be beefy enough I think.
It's 2 AM, so I cant get an 6 to 8 pin adapter right now, but after a little reading it seems like the 6 pins can work in the 8 pin connectors just fine, the extra 2 pins are just ground. The 6 pin connectors themselves can handle like 252 watts. The extra two pins though may "tell" the video card to use 150 watts though instead of just 75.
A little math also tells me 75W from the PCI slot, 75 watt from the 6 pin, and 150 watt from the 8 pin, that's a hefty 300 watts, should be enough I figure in a pinch.
Anyways I hook everything up, one 6 pin and one 8 pin in the two 8 pin connectors, the card seem too boot fine because it's fans spin up, I can hear windows boot chime, etc. However, I get absolutely no video signal over DVI (my normal connection).
Is it just as simple as the card wont work without detecting two 8 pin connectors (but then why fans spin up?) Is it drivers? I didn't remove my drivers but going from AMD to AMD I dont figure on huge problems there. Maybe the PSU isn't powerful enough?
Could it possibly just be my motherboard is somehow too ancient for this card? I mean it is a Q6600 motherboard. But PCIe 2.0 should be PCIe2.0 right?
Actually do I even have PCI Express 2.0? The manual just describes it as a PCI Express slot X16. Does this matter?
This seems to be my motherboard if it matters http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2629#ov
Anyways I stick it in my rig as is, one problem it has two 8 pin connectors, I only have one 6 and one 8 coming from my PSU, which is a Antec 650. Should be beefy enough I think.
It's 2 AM, so I cant get an 6 to 8 pin adapter right now, but after a little reading it seems like the 6 pins can work in the 8 pin connectors just fine, the extra 2 pins are just ground. The 6 pin connectors themselves can handle like 252 watts. The extra two pins though may "tell" the video card to use 150 watts though instead of just 75.
A little math also tells me 75W from the PCI slot, 75 watt from the 6 pin, and 150 watt from the 8 pin, that's a hefty 300 watts, should be enough I figure in a pinch.
Anyways I hook everything up, one 6 pin and one 8 pin in the two 8 pin connectors, the card seem too boot fine because it's fans spin up, I can hear windows boot chime, etc. However, I get absolutely no video signal over DVI (my normal connection).
Is it just as simple as the card wont work without detecting two 8 pin connectors (but then why fans spin up?) Is it drivers? I didn't remove my drivers but going from AMD to AMD I dont figure on huge problems there. Maybe the PSU isn't powerful enough?
Could it possibly just be my motherboard is somehow too ancient for this card? I mean it is a Q6600 motherboard. But PCIe 2.0 should be PCIe2.0 right?
Actually do I even have PCI Express 2.0? The manual just describes it as a PCI Express slot X16. Does this matter?
This seems to be my motherboard if it matters http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2629#ov
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