6 Pin PCI-E Connections on the GTX 260
August 5th, 2016
I got myself a GTX 260, 896ram on a CoreI7 2.8Ghz with 3GB Ram and a Coolermaster Real Power 620 Watt PSU.
It should be sufficient with only 1 DVD & HD connected to it.
My question is this. The card comes with 2 cables with one side PCI-E 6 pin connection and on the other end 2 Molex connectors, which totals to 4 Molex and 2 PCI-E 6 Pin connections. The 2 PCI-E go, of course, into the card and you’d have to connect the 4 molex to each a different connection. Now the PSU has 2xPCI-E straight from it, which I also could just plugin to video card.
Should I use those or should I use the 4x Molex is what it all comes down to basically.
Also is it true that this Nvidia card gets unstable with 2GB Ram or more? My games keep crashing after about 30mins of playing, while my old ATI 4860 was fine in the same rig/setup. (It’s in my gf’s computer now)
Thanks for an answer
Use the ones on the PSU.
The extra cables are only for people who do not have any or enough 6pin pci-e cables on there psu’s.
Not for you
Also the ram/nvidia getting unstable thing….
Complete lies.
If you had ATI drivers installed before the nvidia ones then that’s likely the problem.
Use driversweeper to clear the drivers completely and then reinstall the latest nvidia drivers. (Beta ones can sometimes cause problems)
Yea I thought so. Do you maybe have any thought as too why I might starting to get a pixelated screen after about 30mins of gaming?
The Nvidia Driver tends to crash, restore itself and then just crash the whole pc a bit later.
I’m running Win7 64bit with the latest nvidia drivers
I edited my post about that mate.
I reinstalled windows 7, so i doubt there are any leftovers, but I shall have to take a look on the webs with googles Thanks for the infos