EVGA 560 TI/ PSU Question

[TOMNOOB]

Ok guys, complete noob here so bare with me.

Here is the video card I purchased a few weeks back.

video card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130604


Here is the psu I purchased at the same time.

psu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817341044

As I was looking at the cable hook up in the video card manual, I noticed that for this card it has one of the middle slots in the six pin connector blacked out ( the one's that plug into the video card). The pci express cables that came with the psu have all six pins with none blacked out. The pci express cables also have two additional pins that would make it an 8 pin for a more powerful card I guess. So my question here is, will this be ok or do I need some sort of adapter? Hope I'm making sense, and thanks for the patience shown on these forums towards this noob.

 

[TOMNOOB]

nice

 

[TOMNOOB]

Man that guy makes it look easy!

 

[DM186]

Yeah I know. I hope it helps you if anything it is a learning tool. Let us know when you up grade your case. I have 7 fans and my CPU is water cooled. It is easy to hook up fans.

 

[TOMNOOB]

So with one hd and the optical now. Should I hook the hd to raid1, and the optical to raid 2?

 

[DM186]

If you are talking about the cables to the MOBO is called a SATA1,2,3. Hook your HDD to the SATA3 0 and your optical to the SATA3 1. Then later you will Hook another HDD to the SATA3 1 and move your optical to the SATA2 0.

Raid is a whole other thread to explain but for now you won't be able to use raid. But yes you would use raid in the SATA setup so you are close on your statement.

 

[kajabla]

In short, RAID is a way to use multiple (almost always) identical drives at the same time for data redundancy or better transfer speeds. Don't worry about it. I don't recommend that you get another HDD. Get an SSD instead.