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The motherboard is an Abit AN8 Ultra with the above chipset, and the
graphics card I propose to use is a generic nVidia GT220 card that
cost less than 40 quid so is not a high-end, power-hungry card
presumably. My noob question is this: there is no Molex connector for
additional power on the card, unlike the AGP GT6600s I have in three
of my machines, nor like that of the Radeon 9800XT, also AGP, that is
in another PC. I notice, on reading the AN8 series manual, that my
motherboard has an SLI variant that sports a Molex connector near one
of the two PCI-E 16X slots, presumably to supply extra current to the
graphics cards. But my board, the plain AN8 Ultra, has no such
connector. Will there be an issue using power-hungry cards with this
board, or can the PCI-E 16X specifications handle the extra current
natively? Also, is the GT220 less power consuming than my AGP cards,
even though its heatsink and fan are similarly proportioned?
I expect I may be flamed for even posting this niaive question, but
every PC I've ever built since 2006 (that will be three in total, all
using more modern Intel and AMD systems newer than AMD Socket 939) has
used low end graphics cards, and I had just assumed that the higher
end graphics cards would just be like my AGP ones, sporting that extra
Molex connector.
Please, someone, just reassure me that taking apart my primo machine
and fitting this kit will not result in more heartache than I have
already suffered (see my posts about VIA chipset problems and a PATA
hard disk dropping into PIO mode).
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Multithreaded.
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