Floppy drive/Graphics card power supply

[charlaph]

My power supply only has one floppy drive power supply cable. Now I've bought a Radeon, I've had to plug this power supply into the graphics card, rendering the floppy drive useless. This didn't bother me, but it bothers my wife who still uses the floppy drive.

I've had a look around and my local PC stores don't have power splitters or convertors for this sort of power plug, and online stores (try and find one with any in stock!) charge about ?3 for them. That to me is a bit pricey for a piece of wire and a little bit of plastic, plus I don't want to have to wait for it to be delivered.

Now, I have an old power supply, and that has a floppy power cable. Can anyone confirm whether the floppy power supply carries exactly the same voltages as a normal 4-pin molex plug? if so, I can piggyback this other cable into a molex plug and power my floppy that way, which would be ideal as it's fast, free and gives me another excuse to delve into my case.

[Ciaran]

The power splitter I have, the floppy plug just comes straight out of the molex plug. There are no resistors etc. on the line.

I don't know if the voltage is the same but I can't see any way that it could change it.

[Super Stu]

Same.

The molex connectors which feed the hdds spawn a single floppy drive power connector on my PSU (2 lots of this). Doesn't appear to be any room for any electronics en route to alter the voltage.

The Radeon didn't come with a splitter? My mate's 9800 did.

[mid]

My mate's 9800 not only came with a splitter, but took a full-size molex not the tiny floppy one, either, so it clearly varies from model to model.

[charlaph]

It's an OEM one, came with absolutely nowt.

Good news, I thought it would be the same voltages as the convertors I've seen just look like simple molex>floppy links with no extras along the way.

I'll give it a go and see what happens - the most it's likely to do is fry my floppy drive anyway, which I wouldn't lose any sleep over.

[Ciaran]

You would if your wife has anything to do with it.

[Ian(not Ian)]

I've got one you can have matey. PM me your address and it's in the bag.

[charlaph]

You're a star - that'll save me having to hack up my old power supply. PM on it's way!

[Montaver]

Hey Charlaph,
Cheers for the heads up on ebay about the 9500, got 1 myself yesterday.
Seems to be running fine, all though it didnt autmatically get the SSID of my monitor, so I have to manually force the refresh rates in powerstrip, as even reforce wouldnt change them.
Anyway, was just wondering what scores you have got with it?

Im running mine on Omega Catalyst 4.1's (www.driverheaven.net). (softmod 9500 > 9700)
OC'ed it using Power strip to:
325 Core
315 mem.

Using the latest build of 3dmark, got 4521, all texture and image quality at maximum, but no AA or AF.
pretty impressed with the performace, had it running at 340 330 no artifacts, but the card was mighty hot so I brought it down.
Was wondering how yours is, as im thinking of putting a zalman cooler on it, will easily break 370 core I would think.