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Runing
On One Power Connector:::...
With
the hideously high power recomendations initially
quoted then tempered slightly when people got concerned,
I was naturally interested in seeing how it coped
with just one power feed.
Using
only one of the two power connectors causes the following
warning to flash up:
I
assumed by this that the hardware had lowered its
core and/or memory frequency but checking the sliders
suggested they remained at stock speeds.
While
it's perfectly feasible that the retail boards will
feature different power layouts or later chip revisions
but I simply wasn't able to run anything remotely
demanding on a single power connector without severe
stability problems like freezing and dropping out.
Remember also that the cooling shroud and sinks have
been removed Gawd knows how many times as this board
has done the rounds which may play a small part.
Either
way, if the retail samples are anything like this
one don't bank on being able to run with just a single
power feed unless you down-clock the frequencies.
For
the record, although I only had two drives and a fan
connected alongside the 6800, all the benchmarking
was performed perfectly normally using a 350watt PSU,
though results were verified using a Tagan
480watt unit.
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