PCIE Power splitters for SLI?

[Guest]

I have a power supply of (I think) sufficient wattage (750) but it only has two 6pin PCI power connectors for the GPUs. Is there something like a 6 pin power splitter that I could used to have one power connector split and plugged into both power plugs on a graphics card so I can SLI two GTX 275s?

Is there a reason not to do it?

If I do use such a splitter, would it be better to use one power cable per GPU or plug one end of the split into each GPU so both cards?

 

[gamerk316]

Each card requires two 6 pins. If you split the 6pins, at best, the cards get insufficiant power, at worse, something blows up.

 

[darkvine]

Yeah likely doesn't start but you could short something out.

Just use the molex to 6 pin adpoters if you have enough molex.

 

[Guest]

Just use the molex to 6 pin adpoters if you have enough molex.

I will have extra molex connectors. Thanks.

If you can afford 2 275's you can afford a decent power supply.

I have a good 750W power supply that is overkill in my current machine that has a 9800 GTX+ and can not SLI. I was thinking of getting it a new 500W and moving the 750 to a new I7 with one 275 then adding a second 275 later. Reduce the inital cost and spread the expenses out to make it more spouse-palatable.

Also it is pci-e, pci-x is something completely different.

Thanks, fixed.