Enermax Liberty and 1900xt

[rmc9591]

I have an Enermax Liberty 500w power supply, and a sapphire 1900xt 512, when i plug the card in directly to the power supply with the designated cord, i get power issue beeps from the motherboard (repeating short beeps). but if i plug a molex into the adapter it works fine. It has been stable for a while now and havent had any issues, i would just like to free up a molex.

 

[inZane]

Might be the dedicated PCIE power has a fault in it from the power supply. But that is just a theory. Have the PSU tested.

 

[Diablo2K]

I have the Enermax Liberty 500watt and a Radeon X1800XT 512meg video card. I have no problems at all with my setup. Just make sure you are plugging the PCI-E into one of the Red connectors. I don't like how all the connectors are the same, makes it hard to see where to plug what into where when it is kinda dark inside the case.

 

[rmc9591]

while playing around with it, if i plugged into the second PCI-E port on the power supply it booted up once with no boots, but never again.

Am i putting anything in jepordy by having the molex go through the connector?

 

[Diablo2K]

Not exactly sure what your saying with the "Am I putting anything in jepordy by having the molex go through the connector?" comment. If your talking about useing the 4 pin molex and an adapter, No you wont hurt anything. The binefit of useing a dedicated PCI-e connector is that it will use both 12v rails to power the Video card, useing a molex you will only use one rail. About the only card I would not suggest doing this with is the Geforce 7950 GX2. Just about everything else will work fine on a single rail.

 

[rmc9591]

i decided to play around with it a little more, and i plugged the PCI-E cord in and it worked with out a problem. So i dont know what happened but i guess it fixed it self.