On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 01:04 PM, Kris Jones wrote: > Voodoo 5s were the first video cards (that I know of) that needed to > draw > more power than the pci/agp slot provided. So they added a plug to > pull the > extra juice from the power supply. What??? This is for the fans. I'm looking at one right now.... > For PCs that shouldn't be a big problem, > but Mac's power supplies don't usually leave much leeway. You just said that backwards. It's the PC's that have the scrawny 120W power supplies! I'm looking at my son's eMachine's and replaced a 140W HP the other day. > The Voodoo is > drawing all the extra power, so there is not enough left for the Zip to > operate. > There is plenty to operate 4 Zips.... > The new ATI Radeon 9700 also has an additional power plug. There is > even a > screen that shows up on boot telling you that you forgot to plug in > external > power if you boot without plugging it in. > I haven't seen these, but it is probably for the fan(s) as well....
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