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Here we have the external power connectors. You connect your power supply to these babies.

Now, you can connect 2x 6-pin power connectors here if you want to. The card will run absolutely fine ... But if you decide that you want to overclock, then the hard reality is that you'll need a 8-pin connector; otherwise the Catalyst Overdrive function will not unlock (you could divert that with Rivatuner, obviously), but more importantly you'll need the power from an 8-pin connector for a stable overclock.

Going Crossfire also means serious power management. You need a high-end PSU with plenty of AMPage on the 12V rails, and preferably four dedicated PCI-Express graphics card power plugs.

Alive and working in our primary graphics card test system. Granted, big but surely nice to look at.

One more show and then it's frag time. By the way, notice that the two cards are very close to each other. Strangely enough it really doesn't hinder air-flow massively. Alright let's go ahead and test this rig.