scott wrote:

> Where in the name of God did you get the idea that a PCI card only has 
> access to a few milliwatts?

PCI devices are all extremely low power? Why would they design an 
interface that can supply massively more power than necessary?

> A quick Google told me the specification 
> says it can draw up to 25 W, so I imagine it can draw probably up to 30 
> W or more on most motherboards.
> 
> 30 W is easily enough to fry a chip.

Interesting - in my experiments, devices that are supposed to heat 
things tend to be rated into kW...

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