Thane Sherrington wrote:
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?
It's the latter, though I doubt designers considered one rail drawing
all the current like that.
