Understand. I simply do not know. I'll talk offline to some power gurus my brother-in-law works with. Good question. Wondered about this myself now that current technology is so power humgry. Duncan
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:08 , Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >At 12:43 PM 02/01/2007, dhs wrote: >>T, >>No. Not w/o a print of the dist. wiring. Would think that all 12v rails are >>really in parallel to a common source unless specied otherwise (or the PSU >>has multiple 12v cards inside...jmho). > >So how does one figure out if the power supply can handle the 12V >requirements out there now? I mean, if I have three 12V rails with >24A each, and I'm pulling 15A for the video card, 4A for the hard >drives, and 10A for the CPU, then I'm at 29A, so unless I'm splitting >the rails, I'm going to end up with one overloaded rail and two rails >doing nothing. Or are you saying that in reality, I have one 12V >rail with 68A? > >T > This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
