Thread: GTX 680 or HD7950 vid card and HDX-3 - how do i do power for the cards?
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Old 08-10-2017, 05:22 PM
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Default Re: TX 680 and HD7950 and HDX-3 - how do i do power for the cards?
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update - i just found out that the items linked below allow me to get another power source from the 2nd optical bay:

(though i dont know how they would interface with the PCI cards.... and I dont know if I'd need to do any soldering, or if they are plug and play..... to be determined)

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16812200912

or

https://www.amazon.com/6In-Sata-Powe.../dp/B007ZBYKE4

Update - my source said that these would be plug and play, but MIGHT need some sort of adaptor.

i have another tech who is a video card expert researching this.
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