Recent content by J1024

IDK why I thought calling ASUS might actually help. Their 'Technical' Support insisted that the motherboard would be able to power my (theoretical) 500w GPU directly from the PCIe slot, as long as I had a big enough PSU. Fail. I'm going to try getting a 250-300w PSU for it.... if anyone has any...

My interpretation was that all the power pins were still in the x4 pins, that only PCIe graphics cards can request more then 25w and since it is indeed a graphics card it can still request 75w, and since it is the only PCIe slot that it might actually be able to supply the 75w to the x4 slot...

Why, WHY could I not find this forum months ago? So, my build uses the same ASUS Q87T Motherboard, with a x4 to x16 flexible adapter cable so I can move my graphics card around a bit, and I'm trying to run a EVGA GTX 750 TI SC. According to the EVGA website, that model takes 60w. Total Power...