CalamityLime wrote on 2023-01-06, 09:52:Just a suggestion. […]
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Just a suggestion.
Since the pins for AGP are so much closer together than the pins for a PCI port, it might be easier for installation to use castellations on the PCB and just use the power connections which are on the outside of the pins.
Seems like half the pins for power are on the outside anyway
But regardless, whats the point of this? would it actually fix any issues similar to the PCI version of this board?
If traces are too thin, I can probably add a ring or go to a ring. Not a bad idea. Let me see what happens.
It has come up many times that people claim motherboards are unable to handle the power requirement of specific cards.
To my knowledge, this has never actually been tested or confirmed, but I guess it makes sense. If the traces aren’t beefy enough voltage sag might kick out the card.🤷♂️
If there are registers we can trigger with this adapter to set specific settings we can also do that.
So basically, it’s as much of an investigation as anything.
Looking for someone who has a card that isn’t working and they suspect power may be the culprit, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But beefing up the power supply shouldn’t hurt.
Suggest such a person starts by hooking up a scope so we can see what’s going on. Then we can move on to the adapter. The adapter might be a cart before the horse kind of deal.