do i need to utilize the power or can i use the power directly from my power supply withouth going through the chip with extra cables
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If you have a extra power dongle from the power supply, you can use it. If not, you can purchase a Computer Molex 4 Pin Power Supply Y Splitter Cable Generic from Amazon
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The power connector that went to the original IDE drive from power supply plugs into adapter, so no new cables are needed. Hope this helps.
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If you have a extra power dongle from the power supply, you can use it. If not, you can purchase a Computer Molex 4 Pin Power Supply Y Splitter CableGeneric from Amazon
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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
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It's should work fine the card does not need extra power. All it need is the power from you PCI Express and you good to go.
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No. Your power supply should come with the necessary inputs for it to get power.
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You'll have to use either a Thin-ITX board with internal voltage regulation, or a picoPSU unit. Both require external power bricks.
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Hi Luis. There's no extra power plug for this card, so that part is fine for you. But only 300W is pretty low. You can try it, and if you experience random shutdowns and instability, that's your primary cause and you should upgrade the PS to 600W or so. Obviously, no video card will really use 200W (it would simply melt down), but most PS are 80% efficient, a hard drive takes some more, the CPU takes some, on and on. As you can read, some folks are using it with 300W just fine. You need to take into account how much other stuff you have plugged in and running. I had five hard drives, a 125W CPU and so on, so it was unworkable to have just 300W. Hi Luis. There's no extra power plug for this card, so that part is fine for you. But only 300W is pretty low. You can try it, and if you experience random shutdowns and instability, that's your primary cause and you should upgrade the PS to 600W or so. Obviously, no video card will really use 200W (it would simply melt down), but most PS are 80% efficient, a hard drive takes some more, the CPU takes some, on and on. As you can read, some folks are using it with 300W just fine. You need to take into account how much other stuff you have plugged in and running. I had five hard drives, a 125W... » Read More Hi Luis. There's no extra power plug for this card, so that part is fine for you. But only 300W is pretty low. You can try it, and if you experience random shutdowns and instability, that's your primary cause and you should upgrade the PS to 600W or so. Obviously, no video card will really use 200W (it would simply melt down), but most PS are 80% efficient, a hard drive takes some more, the CPU takes some, on and on. As you can read, some folks are using it with 300W just fine. You need to take into account how much other stuff you have plugged in and running. I had five hard drives, a 125W CPU and so on, so it was unworkable to have just 300W. « Show Less
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if you are using it to talk to a hard drive then do not use the power on it. Only connect the RX/TX and ground cables. Use the power supply cables to power the drive separately. Just remember that you will probably have to switch the RX/TX around because the RX pin cannot be connected with the RX connector on the cable. It must be hard drive RX to Cable TX and hard drive TX to cable RX.
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Hi, you don't need the ac power supply but I went with it ti have more power and I am glad I did, would do the same next time !
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You can do both. For a machine, you need to make sure you can connect to this power supply with proper connection.
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no, this is a power supply, it gives power to the components inside the pc like hard drive, motherboard, video card etc. You need something like a "CyberPower CP600LCD"
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The cable gets power from USB (from the host PC). No problem if you use only Tx, Rx and GND.
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The power comes from the motherboard PCI express slot, no additional power cables needed.
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Bear in mind, the PSU they "require" isn't about what the card needs; it's an assumption about the overall needs of computers the manufacturer figures might be needed. This card requires no power other than the PCI express lane --- that only supplies 75 watts. So this thing only needs 75 watts or less for itself.
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Can't answer that since it would most definitely depend on what other components you have. This card does not require a lot of power by design, but the total power load would depend on the other components in your system - not just this card.
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Yes, it uses a PCI-E x16 slot on the motherboard, and doesn't require any extra power supply.
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I don't quite know... You should probably ask the cooler master people via email. Personally, running this without the power adapter doesn't work for me.... But I haven't even tried. Though this is a good question I'm interested in finding out about... If I find an answer, I will post it here.
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Not sure why you would want/need to, but sure, you could use a PSU instead of the supplied power. I have yet to use anything but the supplied PS.