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| I have read anecdotal evidence of problems, if not disasters, with power-splitters. There are third-party aux power supplies that can be mounted in a spare drive bay (including optical), provide plenty of extra wattage without taxing your onboard PSU. Also external PSU's, but those are not too elegant - gotta run cables into the tower through an open PCI slot cover. Anyway, I thought I'd pass along what I found when researching this a few weeks ago. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [AE] OT: Two Graphics Cards in MacPro > From: Byron Nash <byronnash@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, July 06, 2012 3:26 pm > To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> > > > I'd like to add a spare GTX285 to my MacPro with a Radeon in it. There > aren't enough power plugs to go around but I can't seem to find one online. > I keep searching on various sites and haven't seen the type of Y connector > that it would need. I'm sure some of you have done this so I'm tapping the > group think on this one. > > Thanks! > > Byron |
