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Possible?

I am not talking of gaming etc.

I am currently not at home for another week and my 5770 in my workstation has issues going back to some power surge here ;) I got a 6950 nicely in a shop, but my power supply 385 watt has only one six pin connector and it is too late to actualyl get a molex converter.

is it save to run a 6950 with only one power cable attached. This is NOT mining or gaming - it is basically only for running 2 screens for an evening. One of the 5770 memory banks has issues and the screen flickers quite a lot ;) Tomorrow I will get a molex adapter, then next week rebuild the complete pc (anyway due to a signifcant update - new board, cpu, ssd etc.).

Yes, I know the power supply is too weak to power the card - but in 2d mode it does not really pull that much ;)

So, is that risky or not? ;) Would love to get rid of the stupid flickering for the evning while I reconfigure some of my servers ;)

HD 6950 needs both cables to be attached or the card wont be working.

Do not start the system with a 5770 and a 6950 with a 385W (most likely even less), the power spike at system boot can damage all your component. Just get a 40$ 600W PSU.

Ok, sucks ;) The other side of the problem is that where I am there are only small shops for coomputers and my car is in repair. Or: THE STUPID 6950 took all shops to find ;)

I will rather live with the crap video for the week, enxt weekend I drop in home for a day and can pick up spare parts ;)

Thanks.