Do you need to power a powered PCI graphics card?

meredith101 | 13:42 Sat 29th Sep 2007 | Computers

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I have a GE force FX 5200 PCI graphics card. It has a port to receive a standard PC power supply coming from the main power unit (like hard drives use). I have 2 hard drives so don't have any spare power. Is it ok to leave the graphics card unpowered? It has a fan, I assume it needs the power to work? thanks

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Yes it will need power.

You can buy power splitter cables, like this:

http://www.llamma.com/xbox/ShoppingCart/Images /Cables/splitter_005.jpg

Takes a single power supply and turns it in to two.

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great stuff ur a very helpful guy. when can u come round to install it? i can do thursdays.

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