3 300 Solid State Member Messages 10 Jun 18, 2004 #1 Are those power cables that a connect a radeon card to a harddrive neccesary? I thought the radeon card got all its power from the agp slot. Reason why I'm asking is I'm looking through ebay and all of sudden there this power connection to the HD.
Are those power cables that a connect a radeon card to a harddrive neccesary? I thought the radeon card got all its power from the agp slot. Reason why I'm asking is I'm looking through ebay and all of sudden there this power connection to the HD.
D Demalii Fully Optimized Messages 1,885 Jun 18, 2004 #2 uhm.. a Y connector? there's not a special power connection that runs from the hard drive to the video card, they're probably just using a Y connector to split the power, which is typical
uhm.. a Y connector? there's not a special power connection that runs from the hard drive to the video card, they're probably just using a Y connector to split the power, which is typical