No 8 Pin Adapter. Would this work?

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BlackTTC6

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Picking up a 9800GX2 on the cheap but no 8 pin adapter came with it. Ugh. PSU does not have an 8 pin so i was thinking about adapters.

Fry's has these two adapters for sale. Molex to 4 pin and then 4 pin to 8 pin. Would that be enough to power my GX2 or am i just fucked?
 
I'm not sure about you but I wouldn't use 6+6 on that card. It'd need 6+8 to work, because with one of the XFX 4890s that had 6+8pin power plugs the card refused to work with 6+6 power, so I had to use 6+8 for the damn thing to boot up.
 
Mr. Stryker said:
I'm not sure about you but I wouldn't use 6+6 on that card. It'd need 6+8 to work, because with one of the XFX 4890s that had 6+8pin power plugs the card refused to work with 6+6 power, so I had to use 6+8 for the damn thing to boot up.
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Thanks Stryker. I figured the worst but was hoping for the best. Ugh. Looks like i'm going to have to spend more money now
 
The second one will work fine, I have one that came with my corsair PSU and I used that on my old 4870
 
You gotta be careful, what you were first talking about was 8pin ATX, not 8pin PCI-E... they're different.

the 8pin PCI-E has 5x ground, 3x 12vt, and the 8pin ATX has 4x ground and 4x 12vt... and they're keyed differently.
 
You can cut the 4 pin adapters last pin row off and plug the 2 grounds into the side of the 8 pin, then plug the 2 grounds into an open molex connector. Worked fine for my 4870x2 for a few days.
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