New GFX card so I can play Dirt Rally??

[MartyG]

Those cards eat power at about twice the rate compared to the 960 though and hotter often means noisier.

[charlesr]

Quite sold on that 960 Marty - reviews say the fan is off at idle and even in light gaming

[charlesr]

Before I get too excited, I thought my monitor had HDMI, but it has displayport 1.2a and dvi. So.... does this matter? And which one should I use with a new gfx card?

[MartyG]

That 960 supports both of those. Display Port is a replacement for DVI and VGA (although I think it can be used carry audio data). Doesn't really make a difference at 1080P.

The GTX750ti is quite a compact card (edit actually that one you've linked looks chunky too - my 750ti had a single fan), looks like that 960 is as chunky as my 970 - make sure you've got the space in your machine to fit it, width and length.

[charlesr]

Ok good tips. Will check for size but looks like loads of space in there.
Thanks everyone

[charlesr]

Help, I bought one of these: http://uk.msi.com/product/vga/GTX-96...-specification

My PSU has 2 PCI-E female 8pin sockets on it. <<ignore any autoskimlinks in this post!!
The gfx card has the same PCI-E female 8pin socket.

The gfx card said it comes with 1x8pin power cable, but it's a short thing about 3" long with an 8pin male at one end and a 6pin female at the other.

So, I can plug the 8pin end of that cable into either my PSU or the card, but not do anything with the other end....
It seems that what I really need is an 8pin to 8pin male cable.....

Help!!! Is this suitable??? CLICK. Or is there something else I should be getting? Bah. PC gaming jumping through hoops strikes again.

edit: I also have two spare 6 pin sata female sockets on the PSU.

[charlesr]

[MENTION=9465]Brad[/MENTION] sorry to tag, I've ordered that 8 to 6+2 male to male for delivery tomorrow, but if it's the wrong thing I could cancel if I'm quick enough.

[Brad]

Yep! That's what you need.
[MENTION=25]charlesr[/MENTION] Guess you have a modular PSU. Are you sure it didn't come with any PCI-E cables?

[charlesr]

Super. Thanks for the swift reply

[charlesr]

Yeah, it's semi modular. I searched the house and loft earlier but no sign of PCI-E cables. Must have ditched them wondering what they were lol.... What a div.

I just assumed that if something says it comes with a 1x8pin cable, it would be something useful...

[Brad]

Lol. Upload a pic of the cable; I'm curious!
I doubt it helps but that card only actually needs 6 of those 8 pins unless you overclock it.

[charlesr]

The one in the box looks like this: http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_inf...fY8hoCkkbw_wcB

[Brad]

Ok so that's designed to attach to a regular six pin, non-modular PCI-E (or a 6 pin cable connected to a modular one) with the 8 pin end plugged into the card.

[eastyy]

just be careful i made the mistake that my monitor had a display port but the graphics card i got only had a mini displayport so i had to get a cable for that

[charlesr]

Cheers eastyy, it has dvi, so I'll use that