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drkohler on 30 June 2016
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Pemalite said:
oodles2do said:

I agree with waiting for 3rd party cards, this PC is the first that I've custom configured and I don't really know much about motherboards. What do I need for dual PCI-E power? Is that simply from the power supply? The board that I've had to go for (to stick to the configurator on the website) has 1 PCI-E slot for GPU's.

GPU's are allowed to draw up-to 75 watts of power from the PCI-E slot on the motherboard.

I wonder where that myth comes from...

gpu's are allowed to draw as much power from a pci-e slot AS THE MOTHERBOARD ALLOWS. Typically on boot-up, this value has its default set to 75W.

Unbeknownst to mankind, there is a "Slot Capabilities Register" which you can configure up to over 300 watt per slot, if the motherboard setup allows it.