- Feb 22, 2013
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Hey there helping a friend with his alienware x51 r2.
He wanted to upgrade his video card and didn't have enough power so the plan is to hook up an external power supply to his rx 480.
We currently have the rx 480 mounted in the computer and initially tried hooking EVGA 120-G1-0650-RX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified psu into the video card but it doesn't seem to be powering it. I know that some of the older psu's needed the 24 pin connecter to either be attached or use the paper clip trick to make it think it is, but few people i talked to said that doesn't matter with a fully modular power supply. Any help or feed back would be great not sure if I need to attach the whole psu to the comp or if I am just missing a minor detail, but I have seen videos of people on youtube with just the 6 or 8 pin power cable going into the video card solo and it not having powering problems.
He wanted to upgrade his video card and didn't have enough power so the plan is to hook up an external power supply to his rx 480.
We currently have the rx 480 mounted in the computer and initially tried hooking EVGA 120-G1-0650-RX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified psu into the video card but it doesn't seem to be powering it. I know that some of the older psu's needed the 24 pin connecter to either be attached or use the paper clip trick to make it think it is, but few people i talked to said that doesn't matter with a fully modular power supply. Any help or feed back would be great not sure if I need to attach the whole psu to the comp or if I am just missing a minor detail, but I have seen videos of people on youtube with just the 6 or 8 pin power cable going into the video card solo and it not having powering problems.
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