First post, by RacoonRider
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Any man who must say, "I am the king" is no true king.
Tywin Lannister
I was researching on the topic of molex 12V pin overheating in 9800Pro and found this: http://forums.ubi.com/archive/index.php/t-51652.html
The TS suggested not a bad idea: power your PC from one PSU and 9800Pro from another. If you have 2 more or less crappy PSUs, that would work - I saw guys who did this in their home computers and I know there are hot-swap server PSUs designed to power the system in pairs.
And then comes a "PC Engineer" who in a single post tells us three times that he is a PC engineer (four, if you include the nickname) and later reveals the great secret: if you connect you videocard power molex to a different PSU, the card will vanish in wisps of smoke and take the motherboard with it. As to how I see it: if you connect GND of both PSUs (put them in the same case that is), this should work fine. The manufacturer has little reason to utilize 12V from AGP slot when they have a dedicated molex.
I found this really funny. I wanted to say "How can you be a PC engineer? Do you design anything that has to deal with PCs? Because you sound thirteen". Unfortunately, it happened 10 years ago so he's probably older than me now 😁
Then I looked at my own posts made on various forums 7 years ago when I was 15 and was kind of embarrassed. Thankfully I changed my nickname twice since then so my former identity is known only to me and my closest friends 😁