# New system does not see old graphics card

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-system-does-not-see-old-graphics-card/673974>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 15, 2013, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-system-does-not-see-old-graphics-card/673974 "2013-11-15T12:25:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-system-does-not-see-old-graphics-card/673974/21 "2013-11-18T15:11:17Z")

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> [@Isilder](#):
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> Oh so those graphics cards without multiple cores must work differently ? The internals of the graphics card isn’t important.  
> If the graphics card is dead it may fail to work. It can die . It can suffer damage ,eg impact on the chips , static discharge, or a problem due to the power supply… (May die if operated without that extra power cable.)

I don’t understand your comment and I may have misunderstood what you were originally trying to say as well. It seemed as if you were confusing an APU with and AGP graphics card. If not, just ignore what I said.

As for frying a card by not plugging in the power cables, I can’t say definitively, but I know I’ve done that a few times myself with no problems. In fact I built several machines last year that needed high end Radeon HD79xx and HD78xx GPU’s and I regularly would forget to plug in the power cables. However I did tend to only buy one particular brand of card - Powercolor, which I’ve found to be the most reliable. But they also tend to cost more. So this may not be true for all brands.

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