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Default Hooking up PCI-e video card to new psu
So I got my Hiper 580w in today, but I have a question.

When it came to hooking up my x1800xt it came with two wires, the first is a 6 pin pci-e cable that connects straight to the PSU, the other looks like the one that came with the video card, it has the 6 pin to the gpu, then a 4 pin to the HDD and a 4 pin power connector, but on this one it has only 3 pins in the 4 pin slots. And instead of a female connector to the HDD it has a male.

Which should I use?
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Use the one thats coming out of the PSU. It sounds like the other ones your talking about are adapters, possibly for a PSU without a pcie connector or for sli.
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Weird posted on another thread and it ended up here.. ignore this.
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No problem, thanks for the help though.

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I have this PSU. you need to use the PCI-E connector that comes with the PSU.
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That's what I used, everything works great, and now the case is neat and tidy.

Only other problem i had was the first start up where I forgot to hook up the HDD, and it took me a moment to realize why I was getting disk boot errors. >_>
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Lol well it happens to the best of us.
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