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My PSU is the " 950W High Efficiency G7 Extreme Modular Super Silent Power Supply " and this comes with two PCI-E power ports,I recently bought the "

ASUS STRIX GTX980-DC2OC-4GD5 256 Bit NVIDIA GTX 980 Graphics Card" and this requires a 6 pin and an 8 pin oging into the card, however I only have two six pins. With the card they gave me an 8-pin adapter what i need to plug in two six pins into. However my psu can only have two 6 pins connected, and over all i'd need three six pins (one for the six pin, and two for the eight pin), however the cards works with only six pin plugged into the 8 pin adapter, but I'm worried it's not healthy for the card. My friend has a 6+2 pin in his PSU, so I'm trying to buy one that goes from my PSU into a 6+2 pin or an 8 pin. However I don't know if my current power setup for the card is fine or needs changing, I'm a complete idiot and could use some help, thanks.

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A 950W PSU should have more than 2x 6-pins. My old 1000W PSU had 4x 6-pin and 4x 6+2-pins. For a 950W to have 2x 6-pin and nothing more for PCI power makes no sense.

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