...what is this?

[Xanthe_2871]

 

From what I gather it's something from the VGA days that goes in an optical drive slot, and does something to the graphics card to boost it. Does it have some processing in it? Does it do something to the power, like actual electrical power? What does it do exactly, and is it worth half off $35?

[Theguywhobea]

Looks like it's probably either some weird small form factor PSU, or some kind of supplementary PSU you could add to your rig if your main PSU couldn't power four GTX 280's or something like that.

[emosun]

bay power supply 

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Wtf. A addtional PSU for the CD drive to power your GPU.

yeah , it was made for proprietary oem systems that used non standard power supplies like dell

[Enderman]

It's a power supply.

[Xanthe_2871]

13 minutes ago, emosun said:

yeah , it was made for proprietary oem systems that used non standard power supplies like dell

Oh, interesting! But it doesn't get it's own power from the wall, it just adapts whatever options are there for the 6 or 8 pin a graphics card needs?

[emosun]

4 minutes ago, Xanthe_2871 said:

Oh, interesting! But it doesn't get it's own power from the wall, it just adapts whatever options are there for the 6 or 8 pin a graphics card needs?

oh no , it's literally an extra power supply that pulls from the wall thats fits in a bay

[Enderman]

5 minutes ago, Xanthe_2871 said:

Oh, interesting! But it doesn't get it's own power from the wall, it just adapts whatever options are there for the 6 or 8 pin a graphics card needs?

It does plug into the wall.

From the back.

[Xanthe_2871]

On 10/14/2018 at 5:15 PM, Enderman said:

It does plug into the wall.

From the back.

Very interesting! So you'd have an extra power cable running out of your computer. Not pretty but better than nothing for someone in that situation.

 

So I guess the last question is, now in 2018 is this device worth the $34.99 Goodwill wants for it? It's used and from the VGA era, even if it fits current cards it's age should be factored in...

[Enderman]

12 minutes ago, Xanthe_2871 said:

Very interesting! So you'd have an extra power cable running out of your computer. Not pretty but better than nothing for someone in that situation.

 

So I guess the last question is, now in 2018 is this device worth the $34.99 Goodwill wants for it? It's used and from the VGA era, even if it fits current cards it's age should be factored in...

I would never plug anything into that thing.