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Why don't they put molex connectors on the lower-end cards?? 8600gt, 8500, 2600xt.... it would give much better OC's!
 

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because it costs extra, and OCing was never part of a design for any budget card.

OCers are lucky we get mobos and ram made for us, we sure dont get anything else....

and by molex do you mean a 4 pin power? cause the PCI-E 6 pin isnt a molex.
 

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Why don't they put molex connectors on the lower-end cards?? 8600gt, 8500, 2600xt.... it would give much better OC's!

Can you please say WHY it would give a much better OC?:confused:
 

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Because the PCI-E slot only gives 75W or so... the molex would give more power.
 

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a good question on why don't they is why don't they make amigas anymore nto the molex thing plus with a molex they gonna need more capacitor to handle the extra watts plus the low-mid end cards don't need so much energy



p.s. save the planet people we must try for less watt/perfomance ......green house effect ring any bell???
 

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Because the PCI-E slot only gives 75W or so... the molex would give more power.

75w is more than enough for cards that doesn't even have voltage control... ;)
 
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It's pointless when the PCB design itself (to save costs ofc) don't have the required components such as a suitable number of caps to sustain the higher power draw.

The caps could explode under high strain.
 
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