quick help on gtx280

Its 100% new but no box or anything. (It was an auction at a store)

Also would a 450W PSU be enough? He has an E6600.

Also he only has a single 6pin PCI-e connection, with the fear that the 8pin won't beshipped with it can he run it with a single 6pin (and another 6pin since i have a 2molex-to-6pin converter) or does he really need that 8pin connector? And if so are they easy to get a hold on?

Its a Crossair 450W

Here's the listed power requirements for a vanilla EVGA GTX280:

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Only solution I can think of is use an adapter that converts two 4-pin molex power cables to an 8 pin PCIE (If he had gotten the GPU new in the box it might have included an adapter). But I wouldn't recommend it, he might just be looking at having to get a new PSU as well. The company that makes his current PSU, Corsair, makes some other really wonderful PSU's. He could get a Corsair 650TX from newegg for about 100 USD.

Good deal on the GTX 280, by the way.

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You can definitely get some kind of 6pin to 8pin converter, that is no problem IMO, however, it is the fact that there is not secondary 12v gpu connector on that PSU that is the problem, regardless of whether it is 6pin or 8pin.

I think it will work, assuming he doesn't have 7 other HDDs, a ton of other stuff with the processor and especially GPU over-clocked, but you will be close.

If he is going to OC, the processor, or/and (especially) the gpu, I don't think I would do it.