Does the card require any kind of additional power, or PCIe slot is enough? (I am planning to use external eSATA ports)
2090202
No additional power to the card is needed as both esata and sata drives have separate power connectors. This is not a USB card.
2090203
It does not require any addition power. It works with external Esata drives that don't require power (pocket drives) If you have a larger external 3.5 inch drive it should have its own power supply. I have a 1tb 2.5 inch Esata and it works just like a USB drive plug and go. Also I have just upgraded the system I use the card from Win XP to Win 7 and it was flawless. everything was totally automatic. Hope this helps, PS I am currently considering purchasing another one for a different system. I have been totally happy with the card The price performance ratio on this card is great.
692874
It has been some time since I used this card. My recollection is that it is only PCI (not express format). It was purchased for the IDE and eSata functionality, although I believe it has at least 1 internal Sata connector.
1291525
Your power supply is more than enough for this card. 300 watts is the minimum requirement, you have 350 watts so you are good to go, my friend.
373470
I have it in an older Gateway with 300W supply and it is just fine. However, I have no other cards installed, just the ASUS. Using onboard sound.
2000271
This item doesn't require any external power connectors; it only draws power from the PCI Express slot. Hope this helps.
1836707
You need to use both power supply connections and you would probably need a power supply rated at least 550 Watts (card alone is rated 175 Watts not including any other part of your system.
1559625
There are no extra power connector pins, This card does not require any additional power besides the PCIE 2.0 slot.
562307
Your card get's it power through the motherboard via pci express 2.0. Not seperate power cords from the power supply.
2180777
no this card does not... it is completely powered by its motherboard connection, no external connection needed, although i do recommend having at least a 500w power supply
1062267
I would suspect that if you're replacing a prior card in your system, your power supply will be adequate. This card does not require any additional power cable to be attached, it gets all its power from the graphic's slot. I would imagine if you have over a 300W power supply you're OK.
1234776
the SATA port is required to plug into a empty mother board SATA plug for this card to work and come's with a burned disk with just a random 3.0 controller's this card is vary cheap ive been building custom PC's for about 12-14 years and i coundent even get it to work with esata or USB 3.0 i recommend this kind of setup with your rig but not this Generic Combo spend the money to buy a better one that runs out of the PCI express 1X its plenty fast so there's no reason to loss a mother board sata when your trying to expand your PC i Have 8 sata's and Esata im using all of them for my gaming rig & media server so i wasn't able to use this card
725167
That should work fine. This card doesn't require any extra power connectors
518450
Yes, it does require two ESATA ports. However, it comes with a PCIe RAID card which is installed in the server, so you're lack of ESATA ports isn't an issue.
375591
Forgot to mention, these cards do not require any extra plug ins from your power supply. That should give you an idea how little the video card needs.
1750695
if you're asking about the card itself - no. It gets powered by the PCIe bus. If you're asking about the devices plugged into it - it all depends. If you're trying to run something that requires 1 Amp @ 12 VDC - then you need an external power supply for your device. If you're trying to run a SSD/HDD in an external box - then the card on the bus power should power up your device reasonably well.
1750882
Nope. On the box it says a minimum amount of power to operate properly. I think a 350W power supply is not sufficient to run this card. Plus, you will need extra 2 peripheral power connectors if you do not have a 6pin power connector to the PSU
823401
This graphics card requires a minimum 350Watts ... I have it with a 600 watt generic psu and pci express x16 1.0 port and works perfect.