Excellent, so adding that extra 4-pin during initial startup defienlty wouldn't have messed up card or board? At this point I havn't tried plugging in both 4-pin power connectors, maybe it will help with my "power sentinal" message? By the way I just ran AQ3 (with RT running in the background to graph temps and clockspeeds). My normal (stock CPU and GPU speeds) is around 200k, well I just got a whopping 56k so this "power sentinal" is obviously doing something to lower the performance of card (by the way RT showed steady stock clockspeeds throughout the AQ3 run 575/900)? It must lower performance some other way? Thanks again guyys for all the help!