Can you run a graphics card with an external power supply?
Hello,
I have an HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Workstation Edition workstation at home, and I'd like to run a GTX 1060 with the PC. However, I need a different power supply because the current power supply delivers 250 watts, while the graphics card requires 400 watts. Could I run the graphics card with a different power supply and use the existing power supply for the rest? (Everything is designed to work together, and I can't install a more powerful power supply.) So, an external power supply just for the graphics card?
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Hello,
in principle no first time.
The GrafKa is then operated with various voltage sources,
and this does not involve their power supply.
Since the graphics card is also powered by the PCIe slot.
So you’ve got to have a little bite, make and try.
The easiest thing, even if it doesn’t seem possible,
would have installed a stronger power supply.
But maybe you’ll get a modern graphics card,
the more can be than the ollen cards.
Proposals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJOVgh7GqWk&t=191s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92KgzGICXQ8
Hansi
So a different power supply installation even if you need to bridge cables?
Take a SATA to 6pin or 8pin. You cannot install another power supply in the HP as it is an OEM box with non-standard connection.
There are adapters for the HP boards.
But I always say, finger away from HP machines.
Hansi
Nee,
there are extra special adapters.
But you have to look for it and get the exact part.
I’ve been over it for hours.
It worked so lala.
But then I needed the HP box,
where she can’t nerve me anymore,
to the valuables farm.
Hansi
I just looked at the box, never and never can an ATX be built in
So, first of all, I have to tell you that your PC is not the best to expand.
But of course there are possibilities.
The chosen graphics card is fortunately right-saving, and draws only max 120w.
You can order an adapter on Amazon or eBay and then drag the additional power over the SATA. Not necessarily ideal, but the best solution.
Of course, it is also possible to add an external power supply. If you need to be bridged with the building. But you must be aware of having to make a little bit.
Then, of course, you can also buy an adapter from ATX to the connection of the HP, and then install a stronger power supply. If it fits.
So, the simplest solution is:
Amazon order a SATA to 6Pin or 8Pin.
As I said, not the best solution.
Your i7 8700 is a 65w CPU and the GTX 1060 is 120w.
So should just fit.
On the packaging of the 1060 stands that it needs 400 watts
Forget this, Nvidia means the recommendation for the whole system. The GTX 1060 has a TDP of 120w. Have you ever had one, much more will not be.
One idea would be to buy a standard ATX power supply and thus supply your whole PC, but it does use automatic cables for motherboard as an example you may need to buy adapter cables from Aliexpress or similar.
These exist, but as certain they are, I can’t tell you, it never had to try.
In principle, this solution is, in practical application, however, anything but suitable for everyday use.
You can, you have to buy matching adapter cables.
HP and Dell don’t use their proprietary power supplies until yesterday, so the problem already had many before you.
https://www.moddiy.com/products/PSU-Main-Power-24-Pin-to-6-Pin-Adapter-Cable-for-HP-ProDesk-EliteDesk.html
With considerable effort, this goes, but Salopp said: Ne, this fails because the external power supply does not know when it has to supply and when not.
What does it say to simply install a more powerful power supply into the PC?
The thing is with this pc is that the motherboard does not have any atx or other standard(it looks like this but if you look closely you can see that there is a kind of bulge where the connectors are mounted)
to power supply it is No atx power supply but it could be another standard that is not available with better power.
So the problem the components can not transfer to another housing (by the motherboard) the power supply cannot be improved in this housing as a result of which the too little space in the housing is.
the connections are a standard but as it does not look that they are used as they are intended. And the power supply only has exactly the required connections.
In the pc there is a graphics card that is powered via the slots.
This graphics card has No Performance for video games otherwise the pc has good specs.
PS: the creator of this question is a friend of mine therefore I also know so many details about the situation.