PCI Express power connection for Nvidia Geforce 6800 PCIe card
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Posted by Nospam on May 28, 2005, 9:10 am
Please log in for more thread options I have question about the some NVIDIA Geforce 6800 PCI express video cards that I won in a eBay auction. These are stock NVIDIA Geforce 6800 PCI express cards that are pulls from some Dell Dimension computers. Got I'm for about $200 each on eBay and I'm going to install them in a MSI K8N Neo4/SLI motherboard in SLI mode. The cards have the SLI bridge connector which I confirmed so they will run in SLI mode. . The PSU (Power Supply Unit) that I purchased for my new game rig is the PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool Express 510/SLI which is designed specifically for SLI configured machines. I think it is the best PSU out there today for a SLI gaming computer. it has 2 PCI express power connectors specifically for the video cards but I'm not sure if I'll need them with the video cards . Does anybody know if the NVIDIA Geforce 6800 PCIe card requires external power connections of not.? I know that they are pulls from DELL Dimension computers. Also does anybody who might have these exact cards know what model/class they are in, for example are they Geforce 6800 GT or Geforce 6800 LE or Geforce 6800. If you have this information please reply ASAP. Thank You | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Cuzman on May 29, 2005, 6:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options Nospam wrote: " it has 2 PCI express power connectors specifically for the video cards but I'm not sure if I'll need them with the video cards. Does anybody know if the NVIDIA Geforce 6800 PCIe card requires external power connections of not.? " If the power sockets are on the board, then the cards are highly unlikely to work without supplying power to them. " I know that they are pulls from DELL Dimension computers. Also does anybody who might have these exact cards know what model/class they are in, for example are they Geforce 6800 GT or Geforce 6800 LE or Geforce 6800. " There is a high probability that they are LE, due to most OEM-built systems being so. SLI is compatible with the 6600GT, 6800LE, 6800, 6800GT and 6800 Ultra, so the SLI bridge alone is no indication of which of these cards you have. http://www.nvidia.com/page/pg_20040406350192.html Nvidia's drivers are universal, so only once they are applied will you be able to tell for sure. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Ed Medlin on June 2, 2005, 3:35 pm
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Each card requires power just as if they were used seperately in a non-sli configuration. That is why an SLI specific PSU has two connectors........:-) Some newer MBS have PCIE/SLI power connections "on-board", but I have yet to seen any video cards that take advantage of it. Probably in Q3 or 4 this year we may see them. I am not sure right now is a good time to go to cutting-edge tech. I just built this I630 64bit Intel system with PCIE and I-915 chipset and it kind of a BTX/ATX hybrid requiring a 24-pin power connector for the MB but ATX otherwise. (now back to trying to cool this sucker down.......:-) Ed Ed >
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> that I won in a eBay auction. These are stock NVIDIA Geforce 6800 PCI
> express cards that are pulls from some Dell Dimension computers. Got I'm
> for about $200 each on eBay and I'm going to install them in a MSI K8N
> Neo4/SLI motherboard in SLI mode. The cards have the SLI bridge
> connector
> which I confirmed so they will run in SLI mode. . The PSU (Power Supply
> Unit) that I purchased for my new game rig is the PC Power and Cooling
> Turbo
> Cool Express 510/SLI which is designed specifically for SLI configured
> machines. I think it is the best PSU out there today for a SLI gaming
> computer. it has 2 PCI express power connectors specifically for the video
> cards but I'm not sure if I'll need them with the video cards . Does
> anybody know if the NVIDIA Geforce 6800 PCIe card requires external power
> connections of not.? I know that they are pulls from DELL Dimension
> computers. Also does anybody who might have these exact cards know what
> model/class they are in, for example are they Geforce 6800 GT or Geforce
> 6800 LE or Geforce 6800. If you have this information please reply ASAP.
>
> Thank You