- Nov 3, 2008
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This is crazy stuff that I would never ordinarily do, however...
I teach at a university and we are now online due to COVID19. I need to prepare lecture videos for my students. HitFilm Express, my video editor, is GPU accelerated. My office computer has an i5 7500 but no standalone GPU. The result is a painfully slow video encoding experience. (BTW, I can't work from home because my wife does as a matter of course and uses that computer during the day.)
Now, I could add an older RX 270 to my office computer, but it's an Dell prebuilt that doesn't even have the power connectors, much less the power. So....
Can I bring in an old PSU from an old computer to power the RX 270, while the rest of the system works on the existing power supply? (The case for my Dell is ITX, my PSUs are ATX.)
I teach at a university and we are now online due to COVID19. I need to prepare lecture videos for my students. HitFilm Express, my video editor, is GPU accelerated. My office computer has an i5 7500 but no standalone GPU. The result is a painfully slow video encoding experience. (BTW, I can't work from home because my wife does as a matter of course and uses that computer during the day.)
Now, I could add an older RX 270 to my office computer, but it's an Dell prebuilt that doesn't even have the power connectors, much less the power. So....
Can I bring in an old PSU from an old computer to power the RX 270, while the rest of the system works on the existing power supply? (The case for my Dell is ITX, my PSUs are ATX.)