I've just bought a 'Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 3850 512MB GDDR3 AGP Dual DVI' card. The problem is that it comes with instructions to fit a seperate power connector to the graphic card, on the card it has a 8pin female. The cable in the box is a 6pin cable! What the eck is going on!
The cable in the box is a single 4pin molex to 6pin, as below but mine has only 1x 4pin:
This is actually what came in the box (the above pic is clearer):
The card comes with a 8pin female, the pic is from ATI 4870 from google, but has the same connector:
ok, the problem I think is that I've got a AGP card, but a cable that fits the PCIe variant of the card! So the geezer I bought the card from, off ebay is trying to pull the wool?
I've found the below on ebay, the question is whether it's compatible?
£12.48 - from hong kong
Dual 6 pin to 8 Pin Power Cable Adapter for PCI Express
£12.95 - UK
single 6-Pin PCI Express to dual 8-Pin (6+2) PCI Express 2.0 Power Cable Adapter
£30.40
-US
ATI 4870 4850 X2 6 Pin to 8 Pin PCI-E Power Cable 8Pin
Will the cheapest work?