Video Card Getting Own Power Cable?

[Questi4110]

I am about to flash my bios of my 9800np to a higher voltage 9800pro.
Well, i only have 2 power cables in my system. I read on rage3d in one post (not official) that it is better to give the video card its own power cable- does this help?

This is my current setup: 1st power cable goes to the floppy drive, the video card, the cd-rw drive, and the cd-rom drive
2nd power cable goes just to my Hard drive (WD 120 gig 8meg cache HD if that helps)

If i take the power cable off of my video card and hook it into my hard drive and put the single power cable from my hard drive so that the setup would look like this:

1st power cable: HD, CD-RW, CD-ROM, Floppy
2nd power cable: Video Card

Would that hurt the Hard Drive or would that be acceptable power for the hard drive? Also, what about when i am copying files over from the cd-roms to the hard drive or burning a cd?

I dont know the voltage of my power system but i have a DELL 4600 model.

THANKS

 

[billyjak]

It dosen't matter where you hook it up, a good power supply will maintain the 12v rail to all devices.
Just be sure not to exceed the wattage of the power supply.
You can hook the video card to the Hard drive also with the splitter.
It's best not to overload one set of wires with too many devices, split the chore evenly.