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Geek Culture / nVidia 6600GT AGP

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JerBil
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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 11:29
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Lots of guys have bought this card, me included, and had problems with it crashing on 3d programs. My solution was to disconnect
the old hard drive I was using for backup and connect it's dongle
to the 6600GT. Works great. To be honest, I've not tried a y connector to see if both the drive and card will live together since I didn't have an extra dongle. If you have problems, maybe this can help.


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Dom
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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 01:30
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Eh? DONGLE???!!!!


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IanG
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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 01:31
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he means power conector

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Luke B
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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 01:48
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Cool. I'm about to get this card and luckily a new psu to go with it. I'm hoping to run two hard drives, the card and an athlon 2400 without the pc blowing up/not working.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 10:00
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ohhh, he means the molex connector. Don't confuse me. You mean you were running the card without having the extra power plugged into it?

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JerBil
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Posted: 27th Feb 2005 05:19 Edited at: 27th Feb 2005 05:27
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Yeah, well they "strongly recommend" you plug it in, and it does work without it, as long as you're not running a 3d game.

As an update, I got one of those "y" connectors (one to two) molex like the ones connecting your hard drive.

Now the card works great with games, and my back up drive works too.
This is with a 350 watt psu, by the way. The 6600GT runs around 56C consistantly with STW Battlefront driving it to 61C. Very stable.

@Luke B: I'm running two hard drives, one dvd burner, and a cd burner on this 350 watt 1.8Ghz P4, and I've had no problems. No doubt that's pushing it, but if anything, the thing is quieter now.


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