can i just plug this into a pci-e slot or do i need a 6pin power cable?
1575332
Yes, you need six pin power. Otherwise it will just lock up. I had that problem even though I had a six pin power plug in my old PSU but it was unable to meet the amperage requirement for this card on the 12V rail
1575333
You need a six pin power cable, and this product dose not support SLI. Just letting you know if you were looking at up grading later. I like the card, but if I had known that it didn't support SLI, I wouldn't have purchased it. Although that being said it's a great card and has worked well for me. I play all the latest games and have had no problem with it.
1148743
A 6 pin and 8 pin are needed. Plan for the card to use at least 255w of power as well.
1533224
For the power supply side of it, for modular power supplies. So the cables would be two 6pin(PSU) to 6+2pin(GPU).
1116288
I got retail box and all the connectors are there. But not all the power supplies are ready for this card. I use high-end power supply. Therefore I didn't have a problem Make sure you have a power supply compatible with two six pin PCI power connectors. You should be running 600 Watt power supply at least. With two separate power channels and six pin connectors on them. This is not a power-hungry card but reliable power supply is very important.
964694
If it has a pci-express slot and power/supply has 6 pin pci plug you should be good to go.Make sure you download drivers and AMD applicable performance programs i.e. AMD catalyst. Good Luck.... Rudy
1394847
This takes up one PCI E slot. The only way you would need another slot for this is if you bought two and ran them in SLI
1787486
yes it needs a power input .....but it basically plugs into the mother board pci slot..
2000271
This item doesn't require any external power connectors; it only draws power from the PCI Express slot. Hope this helps.
192002
You don't actually use a PCI port, just the bracket slot. That port, however, will be useless with the module in place.
394658
Still researching the question but I "assume" the question related to a requiring a 6-pin connector to power the card - besides the PCI Express slot itself.
619309
you should have min 350 watts ps, the total power draw is 65watts. anything less your taking a chance with you system crashing or worse also PCI-E power connector is is used for more info go to http://www.evga.com/support/manuals/files/EVGA_Manual_EN.pdf this the manual and may give a better ideal
562307
Your card get's it power through the motherboard via pci express 2.0. Not seperate power cords from the power supply.
967921
No. It does not require a power connection from the power supply. It draws the power it needs from the PCI-E slot.
2262522
Requirements may be found here:http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=03G-P4-2881-KRBut suffice to say you need: minimum 600W power supply with 1 6-pin PCI-E and 1 8 pin PCI-E power connectors, and a motherboard that supports pci-e. The pci-e motherboard slot looks like this one (blue vertical slot on the far left of this board) :Gigabyte LGA 1155 Intel B75 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX DDR3 1600 Motherboards GA-B75M-D3H
1478864
My power supply's have an 8 pin cable that breaks into 2, 4 pin connecters, so you'd only use 4 of the 8 pins
1609039
This puppy runs right off the PCI-E slot without requiring an external power connector from the PSU. This card uses 60w and the MAX you can get out of a PCI-E slot is 75w. If you've got a crappy 300w Dell psu or something you'll have no problem using this at all. Really in order to protect themselves from people possibly using PSU's way under the posted minimum specs, the manufacturers post a minimum required PSU that is generally about 100w above the minimum that a particular card can safely handle.
1787487
Yes. It should have 6 prongs and should attach to the end of the GPU to provide power to the card.