Recently i purchased a ATI Radeon X700-pro and it has a connector for a power supply. Well i attached it and i thought it was running fine. After running several benchmarks i noticed i wasn't really getting the FPS that i should of been getting with this card and my system specs. Yes i know i have a celeron but at 2.93 Ghz and a a faster FSb then the old ones it isn't that bad and by right it should do the trick for all the games out there especially with a gig of ram. Recently i just ran Everest Home Edition on my pc and it said on the report that my video card was not connected to my power supply. Is their a way i can check to see if this is disabled somehow? Does it make that big of a deal if it is connected or not? And last does the power cable have to run through the hard drive then looped to the card or can i just use a direct connection from my power supply to the card. In the manual it says to hook the cord to the hard drive then the video card why i don't know. Any insight is greatly apreciated. ASUS P4VP-MX Intel Celeron-D 2.93 GhZ Apacer 1024 megs of pc 3200 ddr 400 mhz Creative SB-L!VE 24 Bit Seagate Baracuda 7200 rpm 160 gig HD Panasonic 21" CRT Hitachi DVD burner TEAC CD burner

Connect directly the power to the GFX card. doesnt make any difference as long it supply power. Does your board only support DDR266/PC2100? We have the same mobo b4. Your PC3200 will derease its speed to the specified capacity the board can handle. Btw, where yu liv at? Celeron D is not that bad. Its fair. AsRock P4I45Gv Intel Chipsets Celeron D 2.40 Ghz DDR333 512mb ram 40GB HDD Western Digital Geforce FX 256MB/128bit