Molex to PCI-E connectors

[djdea2003@msn.com]

I asked this on nvidia forums but got no reply.

At christmas i built my family a PC and gave them one of my 8800 GTX's, after a short while it seemed to have burned out. When fitting it i only had:

2x 2 4-pin molex to pci-e

instead of the

1 2 molex to pci-e

1 molex to pci-e.

As i am upgrading to the 580 soon i will be giving them my other 8800 GTX.

Could it have been recieving too much power and thats why it died from recieving it from 4 molex's instead of 3?

 

[dugdiamond]

you PSU may be at fault NOT the cabling

what PSU are you using?

 

[djdea2003@msn.com]

They've got an old one of mine (had to throw in some old parts), think it was an OCZ 450 watt.

I was thinking maybe it was the molex's as when you get a gcard i remember there being 2to1 1to1, but not 2x 1to1. This is why i was hoping someone would know incase it wasn't just the connectors but something else and to prevent it happening again.

 

[dugdiamond]

there may also be a molex connector on the mobo itself (close to the PCIE slots)

if there is, is this connected too?

 

[djdea2003@msn.com]

Nah, no molex or pci-e as motherboard was cheap as chips due to needing to buy an E6500, memory, tower and what not.

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/content.php?S_ID=447

 

[icetronix]

It could also be that your card simply died.

A friend of mine had 2-8800GTXs since they where released and about 3 months ago one just died, the other is still going strong in his second PC.

He also kept them clean and dust free after i told him just how much your temps go up if you dont clean the dust from the heatsink fins.