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So I picked up a GTS 450, and now I’ve got this question about the power connection. The card itself requires a 6-pin connector, but the adapter that came with it has a 6-pin on one end and two Molex connectors on the other. I took a single branch from my power supply that wasn't being used and plugged both of those Molex ends into it. There's another branch currently powering my DVD drive that still has two free Molex slots. Should I have plugged those two Molex ends into two separate branches instead? Maybe it matters.
Right now, I'm running a GeForce GT 240 512MB DDR5. I'm looking to swap it out, but I'm stuck on which way to go. I've been eyeing two options and I'm wondering if it's even worth the upgrade at all. The cards are:--GeForce GTS 450 1GB DDR5
--GT 640 1GB DDR3
P.S: My CPU is an Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 at 2.00GHz and I've got 3GB of RAM. Power supply is a Frontier 500W.
I installed some games on Windows 7, but when I launch them, they aren't filling the screen properly. There’s this black bar about two inches wide on the side. Is there any way to get full screen through some kind of adjustment? I've tried messing with the resolutions, but it doesn't seem to do anything. I think I read somewhere how to fix this, but I can't quite remember where.