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Computer black block power supplies: can I parallel the out[puts?

Sterlingtimes · 2015-10-06 14:54:27

My son has a Dell gaming PC that is fed by an external black block power supply rated at 19.5 volts, 240 Watts maximum. He has installed a large graphics card but the original power supply is insufficient to meet the power requirements of the PC with the new graphics card installed. At some expense I have bought him a…

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Sterlingtimes Posts: 2,522 Forumite

8 October 2015 at 3:32PM

Fightsback wrote: »

Good news then

However I think you mean PCI rather than PIC, PCI tells it to use PCI graphics card rather than the on CPU graphics processor - hope this explains things.

That makes more sense. Thank you. At some stage in the development of PCs, "plug and play" seems to have become "plug and swear".

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