Help req: graphics card install

[Tobers]

Hi all,

I've just got an ATI X1950Pro and want to install it. It has 2 power connections, both 4-pin "rail" types i.e. longish plastic blocks. My old graphics card just had one power connector which was pretty easy.

There are no wiring diagrams!

Do I just connect my power lead from my old card to one connection (and if so which one?), or is one an "in" and the other an "out", if so which. Or does it need 2 "in" feeds from the PSU?

Can you guys answer quicker than I can find it in Google - been searching an hour now but no luck...

Ta

Toberssssssssss

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

hi andy,

i think the connectors are SLI bridge connectors

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/10/17/sapphire_radeon_x1950_pro/1.html

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/386/2/

 

[Fanum]

Yup.....it's called crossfire....ATI's version of SLi.......

There's a thin brown ribbon cable that connects them if you stick two cards in

 

[Tobers]

Cheers chaps - sorted (so far....!)

 

[shugie]

If this is an AGP card, not a PCI-E card, then it might have two standard 4-pin connectors on the non-bracket end, and SAPPHIRE written on the heatsink.

If the connectors are identical, ie you can only plug power supply cables into them, (ie not being one plug and one socket), trace the wiring on the circuit board to see if the pins on each connector are linked to the same pin on the other connector. If it is, then I suspect the card wants so much power that you need to connect two power supply cables - try connecting one, if it doesn't work properly, then it needs two.

If the connectors are different, one plug and one socket, then the idea is you take a power lead from a hard disk, stick into the graphics card, then plug another cable from the card to the disk - if this is the case, they should provide you with another cable to do this job.