I'm not absolutely sure but I believe the monitor does not get its power via the Cube's DC-DC board anyway. Anyone care to confirm or reject this? Steve On 29 May 2008, at 20:41, James Deamara wrote: > Without the need > to power a monitor thru the apple display connector on the video > card should > reduce the current requirement of the external power supply by about > 4A (as > noted in the cube specs).