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PCI cables aren't enough for a GTX 970

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Okay, so I am planning on upgrading my graphics card from an AMD Radeon R7 240 (I know, great graphics card) to a Gigabyte GTX 970, however, because of the PC that I had gotten was pre-built, it only came with a four pin PCI cable, which is perfect for the current graphics card that I am using, however, the 970 requires an 8 pin and a 6 pin pair of PCI cables. However, I'm still trying to get familiar with everything that is in a PC as my knowledge of PCs and PC parts are fairly low at the moment. What I do know is, the video card that I have has only a 4 pin PCI cable without any additional or another cable to compliment it. What I don't know is how it works. The real question I'm asking is: Will I need to change out this PCI cable in order to compliment this graphics card, or am I going to need find a different solution?

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First, I didn‘t even know there are 4 pin pcie power cables.

Second, I feel like you need a new psu, for that just have a look at the psu tier list and get something from tier A or B, doesn‘t have to be that expensive a 500w bronze should be enough

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PCIe cable connectors are either 6-pin or 6+2-pin or 8-pin. They are never a 4-pin.

 

4-pin can be the CPU/EPS connector and it can also be 4+4-pin or 8-pin.

 

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What power supply is currently in it? 

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16 hours ago, Mephi00 said:

First, I didn‘t even know there are 4 pin pcie power cables.

Second, I feel like you need a new psu, for that just have a look at the psu tier list and get something from tier A or B, doesn‘t have to be that expensive a 500w bronze should be enough

Right now at the moment, I have a thermaltake smart series 600w. I did some research on the power supply and it varies from list to list, I'm see it's about tier 2-3 with bronze-gold ratings.

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16 hours ago, WereCat said:

PCIe cable connectors are either 6-pin or 6+2-pin or 8-pin. They are never a 4-pin.

 

4-pin can be the CPU/EPS connector and it can also be 4+4-pin or 8-pin.

 

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I see. Thank you for telling me that. Now that is discovered, we have a new issue, my graphics card itself does not have any actual wiring installed into it. To be specific, I don't see any PCI-E cables that are actually connected to graphics card itself. To be completely honest with you, I don't even see a single PCI-E cable inside of all the wiring I can see, unless it's possible it's on the opposite side of the graphics card, which is highly unlikely. Like said earlier, my graphics card is a AMD Radeon R7 240, I believe this it is integrated as well, so I'm not entirely sure how that will play in the final answer but yeah. I should also say the things I can see from the image above from my rig is the 24 pin motherboard, 4 pin EPS CPU, 8 pin EPS CPU, and that's it.

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13 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

What power supply is currently in it? 

Thermaltake Smart Series 600W

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8 minutes ago, ResolvedSpade said:

Thermaltake Smart Series 600W

It appears to be non-modular, meaning all cables are pre-attached semi-permanently. Based on Newegg's page, you should have 2x 8-pin PCIe cables available(they're 6+2, meaning the two pin will hang off to the side as a separate connector).

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36 minutes ago, ResolvedSpade said:

I see. Thank you for telling me that. Now that is discovered, we have a new issue, my graphics card itself does not have any actual wiring installed into it. To be specific, I don't see any PCI-E cables that are actually connected to graphics card itself. To be completely honest with you, I don't even see a single PCI-E cable inside of all the wiring I can see, unless it's possible it's on the opposite side of the graphics card, which is highly unlikely. Like said earlier, my graphics card is a AMD Radeon R7 240, I believe this it is integrated as well, so I'm not entirely sure how that will play in the final answer but yeah. I should also say the things I can see from the image above from my rig is the 24 pin motherboard, 4 pin EPS CPU, 8 pin EPS CPU, and that's it.

If there is no extra power cable running to the gpu, it is powered by the pcie slot, which can provide up to 75 Watts

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