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What happens if you turn on the PC without plugging the power cable for the GPU? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by 0Xero0@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

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So I was changing the case fans, after I put everything back together, I forgot to plug in the power for the GPU. I turned the pc on and I saw the white LED on GPU power port lid up and heard the fan spins like crazy (I don't know if it was the CPU fan or the GPU fans), I panicked and immediately turned off the power supply.

Everything happened in less than 2 seconds, I've run some stress tests and gamed for a few hours and nothing bad happened (yet?) so I assumed everything is still fine (for now?).

What happens if I had left it on like that for longer? And why did the fan ram up like that?

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Depends on the GPU. Usually the GPU just doesn't work at all. Some older models had a buzzer built in and would beep at incredibly loud volumes at you.

My old GTX 1080 would run just fine but with a 75 watt power cap. But that's more of an exception since the 10 series were so incredibly efficient. Some lower end cards might do the same thing.