What's really great is that this is the first video card I'll own that's even marginally up to date. My last three, in order, have been a Voodoo 3, a GeForce 2, and an ATI Radeon X300 SE. That's it.

Thus far I am not very impressed with ZipZoomFly.com.

Go TigerDirect.

Little late for that.

 

Well, Day Three is starting shortly, we'll see if they finally get the order processed.

It's never too late if they don't ship it. But they prolly will.

Well, the card finally showed up. Seems I need to connect the "power dongle" for sufficient performance. That'll be fun. Should I just guess where I ought to connect it, or...?

You should have a 6-pin thingy laying around...

Pictures! we need pictures man!!

Now, see, that little dongle lying next to it actually splits into two female plugs, which seem to be what actually gets connected to the card. I'm confused.

Thingies I've heard of. But dongles?

 

What is that huge green thing with all the switches for?

What is that huge green thing with all the switches for?

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I don't know, but I try not to make it angry.

Thingies I've heard of. But dongles?

 

What is that huge green thing with all the switches for?

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It's a dell, it's part of the cooling system they use for the CPU.

Is there a spare molex (dongle) coming out of the PSU?

 

On closer inspection, there doesnt seem to be... Dells are weird

Edited January 6, 200620 yr by Surreptishus

Yeah, but it doesn't come solely from the PSU - some of the individual wires leading to it seem to come from just below my DVD drive. That's the only spare plug I've got that'll fit anything on this piece of crap dongle (molex) they gave me, so no matter what I'm still going to have a part of the thing just uselessly hanging there.

Yeah. Half the component wires of the only spare plug I've got come from the PSU, the other half come from the floppy drive. Fun.

 

What're the chances the card works if I don't connect its power supply? Slim to none, I'm guessing.

I am pretty sure that is just a splitter, i am not 100% sure though and wouldnt want you to break your PC or new card,

 

Can somebody confirm this?

In a "fortune favors the bold" spirit, I went ahead and hooked it up to the only available plug I had, leaving one of the plugs provided just dangling there, and booted up. No problems so far, installing drivers at the moment.

What you need is a direct link from your PSU to the video card, much like the PSU is connected to your hard drives. For optimal power use you want it to be the only thing connected on that line. Since you do have a top of the line video card that requires a PSU coonection I would suggest upgrading you PSU to at least a 500 to 600 watts. They are quite powerful enough to handle such card and any further advancements.

 

EDIT: I wish you success, Commie!

Edited January 6, 200620 yr by Judge Hades

so does it work?

so does it work?

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We'll find out momentarily. Installing the FEAR single player demo at the moment.

why not just check display properties or dxdiag?

I always do a dxdiag when I mess with a video card or install new drivers.

Oh, the card itself works, according to Display Properties. What I'm checking now is if it -actually- works, you know what I mean?

Jesus Christ. I've never seen anything more beautiful in my life.

Very well, but I do remember getting 999 FPS when I did the direct x video test for 7.0 through 9.0 with that spinning cube. It looked like a wobbling ball.