GTX260 with only 1x6pins?

[MilkyWay]

260's have to be 2x 6 pin due to the current needed to operate the card. You only get 75 watts from each pci connector and the card draws more than 150 watts(75 watts from PCI slot also).

dont you mean power as wattage is the measure of power
current is amperage

 

[Tatty_Two]

PCIe 2.0 didn't increase the power from the slot, it just brought a new revision of the PCIe power connector, the 8 pin cable that provides 150w. The slot itself only provides up to 75w.

That is incorrect in as much as the specification ALLOWS for upto 150W to be made available thru the slot, problem is most motherboard manufaturers have not enabled the board to make use of the extra wattage because of costs, there are supposidly one or two that have but I am not sure who these are, my DFi X58 for example has a small power socket for a floppy drive power connector to be plugged in and in the manual it specifically says that it is to increase the output of the PCI-E slot. You will have to delve into this for the 150W spec but you will see on the first page the reference to increased power availability....

http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/pciexpress/base2

 

[Shou Miko]

Fill out your user specs fully to avoid confusing people.

With you using US$ I thought you lived in America.

if i had used DKR or KR you just had look at it and think it was wrong or something, so i thought that $USD was better here on TPU

 

[Mussels]

if i had used DKR or KR you just had look at it and think it was wrong or something, so i thought that $USD was better here on TPU

the sites owned by a german guy, the mods are scattered around the globe, and the forum base is mostly american. it really, really helps to specify currency and location.

 

[Shou Miko]

the sites owned by a german guy, the mods are scattered around the globe, and the forum base is mostly american. it really, really helps to specify currency and location.

yeah i forgot location, location, location sorry about that, but i have filled it out now

 

[Kursah]

I swear it was 8 pin I bet you just altered time and space to make me wrong.

Edit: Yep he went back in time and changed it

IIRC it was the ATI 2900 series that used 1x8-pin and 1x6-pin on their flagship DX10 cards.

It wouldn't suprise me in the future to see a 1x6-pin GTX260 using a single slot cooler on a 9" PCB..but at the same time I doubt they'll work that hard on the current gen GPU's to get there, but I'd bet we'll see GTX260 power out of the mid-range GTX3xx/4xx series in the future around the size of an 8600 series card...or at least one could hope!

 

[DrPepper]

IIRC it was the ATI 2900 series that used 1x8-pin and 1x6-pin on their flagship DX10 cards.

It wouldn't suprise me in the future to see a 1x6-pin GTX260 using a single slot cooler on a 9" PCB..but at the same time I doubt they'll work that hard on the current gen GPU's to get there, but I'd bet we'll see GTX260 power out of the mid-range GTX3xx/4xx series in the future around the size of an 8600 series card...or at least one could hope!

Ah right so 8 pin was around before PCI-E 2.0 Thanks for that.

 

[Calle2003]

Both my comment and Mr.Scott's comment were deleted (before I had a chance to read his comment, except the email notification that he replied to this thread) so I guess you don't believe me but better reviving an old thread with correct information than letting it be, it belonged to a HP PavilionElite HPE-345sc which also was found in the trash, attached is a photo of the graphics card.

PS
Getting older I become more and more interested in retro computers so this card is not irrelevant to me, especially since it has such a huge amount of graphics memory for the time, below the graphics card is my 8800 GTS 512 which this card trumps, it even tumps the 8800 GTX with a big margin and more than double the graphics memory, it was a huge jump for nVidia.

 

[SomeOne99h]

Wow. I didn't see this topic back then?
Now I know it is old but since you revived I will post something:
I had GTX 260 OEM before and it indeed used only one 6pin connector. It does exist lol. Nobody seemed to know that.

EDIT: Because it was an OEM card and if we look at thier spec of some of them in nvidia site, you would notice that they made differetnt versions of it only for OEM prebuilt PCs. Mine had a slow clock speed of 518 and it wasn't the Core 216. You can't find the clock speed of it both in nvidia's site and wiki's site.
https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-260/specifications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_200_series

Nvidia didn't even imply that in the bottom of the page say that the clock speed might vary. Indicates lacks of clearty in thier own site.
I even remember me trying to look for my card's spec in TechPowerUP's site but couldn't found it. However, I have found my card within a benchmark site that users can upload their overclocked cards on it (But can't remember it)>

 

[Tatty_Two]

Both my comment and Mr.Scott's comment were deleted (before I had a chance to read his comment, except the email notification that he replied to this thread) so I guess you don't believe me but better reviving an old thread with correct information than letting it be, it belonged to a HP PavilionElite HPE-345sc which also was found in the trash, attached is a photo of the graphics card.

PS
Getting older I become more and more interested in retro computers so this card is not irrelevant to me, especially since it has such a huge amount of graphics memory for the time, below the graphics card is my 8800 GTS 512 which this card trumps, it even tumps the 8800 GTX with a big margin and more than double the graphics memory, it was a huge jump for nVidia.

Whilst I did not delete your post I can guess it was deleted because you posted a comment in a 9 and a half year old thread, if you had an issue with your single six pin cabled 260 I would still have deleted it but would have suggested you start your own thread, it's got nothing to do with anyone believing you, more likely that after 9+ years no one cares, but for the record Mr Scott said........

"HP OEM 260's were maimed and only had 1 6 pin.
Nice almost 10 year thread necro BTW".