Hi guys,
Well , I bought this flashed for Mac FireGL X3 card.
I opened it and had some instructions and a few new wrinkles to the equation.
Does this particular card need additonal power from the power supply?
If so, where does this plug into?
Is the MDD power supply able to handle extra powering of a video card?
Also, the instructions mention using this card with a PCI slot cooler?
Are these cheap and where can I purchase, easily either from electronics chain or internet?
Can this card be used without it or the temps inside the MDD be too high.
I have never installed a video card with these types of requirements before.
My experience with video cards is , usually, plug and play made for Mac cards.
I am not a newbie to doing Mac hardware upgrades, but this is all new territory for me.
Can the slot cooler be placed in any open PCI slot?
Does it have to be near the video card?
Where does this plug in to get power to the fan?
Will I have to move PCI cards around to install the slot cooler?
Will this fan make my MDD even more noisier than it is now.
The MDD's regular fans never power down.
Need some help from all of you and maybe some procedures and pics of an actual installation.
Thought this would be a easy quick upgrade, but it's not looking that way, now.
I feel a little like the typical Windows PC tinkerer at this point.
Thank you guys so far for all of your help on this topic, but I am not "out of the woods", yet!
Message was edited by: MichelPM