What power supply do you have??
that thing probly needs loads, & its reccomended that yo plug in the connectors. You need to have a good power suply :wink:
Over the years graphics cards have become more and more powerful,and in turn require more
and more power. Earlier cards got enough power through the pci slot. The next generation of
cards required external power directly from the power supply Via a six pin plug. In order to achieve this on old power supplies, graphic card manufacturers included adaptors that allowed
you to combine two molex(4 prong)connectors to make one 6 prong connector. The latest cards
are now using two 6 prong connectors to get enough power to run them. Chances are that If
your power supply doesn't have any 6 prong connectors,It's too small to power that video card.
When buying a new power supply remember the amount of amps it can put out is more important than how many watts it's rated at. :wink:
The 9800 was a huge mistake, and yes, you need both power plugs.
And Vista ultra 64 an even bigger mistake. Enjoy your mess.
9800 is not a mess... the 8800 Series has 2 power plugs too. GTX and Ultras.
Vista x64 is also not a mess... take a look at XP way back...
a 700watt is enough to power the 9800 and what ever CPU u have, along with the 4gb of ram.
and you want to use both power connecters. DONT worry.. the computer will not explode.
hi,
All I can say is i installed a 8800gt & it goes like a rocket, everything goes liKe a rocket :lol:
It's a great card 160 euros, it cost me.
Now, I could have got a 9800 for a bit more, but even the guy in the shop advised me against it saying that it was new technology (whilst the 8800 was a tried & tested piece of good gear), needed vista & when compared against benchmarks with the 8800gt it was in fact inferior in some things & slightly better in some others.
Now, this is my opinion & i'm no one to give advice because i don't know....:wink:
But there are guys here with loads of good tech expirience willing to give advice, do not be disshearted I
[quote="SHVAK"]hi,
All I can say is i installed a 8800gt & it goes like a rocket, everything goes liKe a rocket :lol:
It's a great card 160 euros, it cost me.
Now, I could have got a 9800 for a bit more, but even the guy in the shop advised me against it saying that it was new technology (whilst the 8800 was a tried & tested piece of good gear), needed vista & when compared against benchmarks with the 8800gt it was in fact inferior in some things & slightly better in some others.
Now, this is my opinion & i'm no one to give advice because i don't know....:wink:
But there are guys here with loads of good tech expirience willing to give advice, do not be disshearted I
Don't worry, they like a good healthy argument :lol:
anyway i'll see if i can find a good benchmark that compares the 2 cards, if someone else has 1 pls post to help this chap.
about the memory its true, i have 4 gigs but xp will only recognise 3 gis of memory :evil:
i am using 600 power supply so you should be ok with 700, although i cannot guarantee this, i also have lots of fans, big one included :wink:
Just so you know, the clerk either lied to you or was merely an ignorant clerk who believes marketing hype. All that advice I gave you about avoiding SLI was totally destroyed by buying one of the only single card SLI solutions available. Amazing. In case you haven't figured this out yet, the 9800 is an "SLI in 1 card" solution with 2 8800 cores and, while faster than a 8800 for some games, is -identical- in speed with most (including il2) because SLI is not supported by most games out there, and 4 of every 5 games that do support it do not benefit from it in any meaningful way. There is little nvidia can do at this point to make the 9800 GX2 a better card, either, because games must be coded to specifically take advantage of multiple cores. Do some more research if you really value your money. There were many choices you could have made, and this was rather near the bottom of the list.
In fact, the 9800 series was such a ponderous market slog (similar to that video of the Saddam statue falling in Iraq that just sort of slowly, ever so slowly crumbled to the ground) that nvidia is planning to phase it out by summer. It will completely disappear leaving only that vaguely salty taste some of you may remember from the previous GX2 fiasco (the 7900GX2). Don't remember? I didn't think so. That's how little of a splash it made and how quickly it was forgotten. At the time it was hyped as the second coming of jesus, just like the 9800 GX2 was this time around. I had a 9800 GX2 to play with, ok? I have used it, I played with it for a while, and I know exactly why it was a failure. I don't suppose you noticed that you could have bought 2 SLI 8800s, saved yourself a lot of money, and gotten identical or better performance, performance that, as I said above, is not significantly better than a single 8800 (and WORSE, in some cases!).
Sorry to be a killjoy, but the technical world is still one of the few places left in the world where hype alone is not easily spun into success.
