Help with power to SLI/Mobo

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woodmaster

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Hi all I intend to set up a SLI on my Gigabyte GA-M57SLI S4 v1.0 mother board and I have a Hiper 580 sLI Type R but it seems to me that the mother board has a different type of power socket to that of the PCi 16 power out of the Hiper, you'ed think that being SLi there would be some sort of Standerd, any way am I right to conclude that I need some sort of adaptor.
 
The 6-pin PCIe connectors don't plug into the motherboard, they plug into the video cards, should there be a plug on them. The Type-R 580 has 2 of these.

There is a 24-pin ATX power adapter by the green IDE port. Then, sorta behind the I/O panel, there's the 4-pin 12V auxillary power connector. Both of these two should be plugged in. There's a 3rd power connector, the black molex that rests between the CPU socket area and the first PCIe x16 slot. I would plug it in if you're doing SLI as that's typically why there's a plug like that there. It's probably optional, but it won't hurt to plug it in.
 
Yeh got it and tried that and it crashes its just that the Hiper has a dedicated sli power supply with 6 pins and that wont fit the mobo and the cards don't have power sockets on them when i turn on the pc i set the cards up to run sli and then its supposed to re boot but thats when it crashes and i cant even select safe mode as the keyboard wont work and when i take the second card out it works and shows an error report (stop error)
 
OK, update problem was that my first card did'nt have a up to dat driver,whilst my new one did so I uninstalled old driver and removed card from pci 1 and then replaced it with the new card and installed new driver then I put my older card in pci 2 and linked them up and hey presto,live and learn,Oh and the power supply issue is sorted to I just used a spare molex feed from the Hiper to the mobo, I suppose I should install FEAR and see what it can do,Oh and I've also upgraded to 2gig:P
 
Rat'z half hour after last post my pc died,so now I've taken out my older card(Gigabyte) out and left the new one in and it now seems ok its weird how it crashed the screen went grey, so for what ever reason the two cards wont work together so I'll save up some more money and buy a card to mach the new one which by the way is a Novatech 7600gt and came with some handy overclocking software
 
What kind of temps are you getting for the CPU?

Have you run Memtest for a few passes (1-2 hours) to see if the RAM is okay?
 
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