Nov 14, 2010, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by qubit
Yeah, watercooling definitely sounds like a good idea for this.
Ya know, I think I read somewhere (was it on TPU?) that the throttle is there to also protect the mobo, as well as the card. However, I don't quite understand why motherboard damage could happen: the PCI-E slot is rated for 75W, so the card will simply pull a max of 75W from there, in order to stay PCI-E compliant and the rest through its power connectors, therefore the risk to the mobo shouldn't be there.
Anyone have the definitive answer to this one?
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Originally Posted by slyfox2151
+1
WTF.
how would the GTX5xx dmg the motherboard?
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24 Pin P1 Connector Wires getting extremely hot
That is what can happen if you overload the PCI-e slots. Now that was an extreme case of course, but once you start pulling more than 75w through the PCI-E connector things can get hairy pretty quickly.
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