MadManCK wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2017 4:43 pm Lol, that 4 pin is placed at the worst possible spot. But it has the proper connectors. So any modern PSU should work.
Maybe he forgot to connect something, so it would not boot.
RX470 should be backwards compatible with older PCI-E standards.
Usually the new cards have an adapter with it to feed the power on the GFX.
The other possibility is that the factory PSU does not give enough juice.
I think he just looked at it and couldn't see how it would work. And doing abit of research on the Corsair CX430's cables i found this picture of the cables, see the 8pin CPU power cable's sleeving how it is has to be broken apart by force to split into 4pin cpu power. And if my mate's cpu power cable looked like this one then i really can't fault him for not knowing it could be broken in two, as it could have giving a skilled system builder a scratch in the back of the head.
And the HD 6450 was a PCI-E 2.1 card so the motherboard most likely have PCI-E 2.0 so a PCI-E 3.0 card like the RX 470 will just run at a slower bit rate.
And if i had my way then i set the cooling up like this, and pressure the air in in the bottom blocking the original passive air flow mesh in the bottom and then have a 120 on the side panel and flip the original 80 around to suck in air (seen people mount a 120 in the front of the case too) and then exhaust with the PSU's 120 fan and maybe mount a 92 fan up top as there is passive mesh airflow openings on both side of the cases' top. It should be enough to not starve the RX 470 as it can run abit hot, i think 70-80*c under stress is about what i think i can expect to see as i have not yet seen the new Gigabyte windforce x2 cooler's temps yet, but i have a good feeling that the top might get pretty toasty fast.
Cooler seems very decent, 3 heatpipe direct contact.
Would have to dril and mount the fans with zipties, i'm pretty much doing what Kyle from Bitwit did with his Sleeper HP highend build last year.