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Spectre said:Stay on track a little here folks ok?
Specially designed for BTX chassis
PCMusicGuy said:I doubt that it will be enough to power a quad SLI system efficiently.
PCMusicGuy said:I also don't see why they decided to go BTX. I don't recall any BTX SLI motherboards.
jonnyGURU said:How did you come to that conclusion without even knowing the specs? If there are four 12V rails, and the two PCI-e's are on separate rails, and the total 12V combined is somewhere in the neighborhood of 64A I'm sure, how would it not be enough?
They decided to go BTX because there's no way the PSU would ever work in an ATX case unless it was an "upside down" style. The cables hang right over the CPU. They had to put the cables there because the fans need to be front to back to properly cool that much wattage.
PCMusicGuy said:If the 7800 GTX 512 can already draw between 10 to 15 amps by itself I would suspect that a dual card like what is used for quad SLI will draw more than that, at the worse case, double that. Let's face it, graphics cards aren't really drawing less power these days.
mike_j_johnson said:So will a high-end SLI/quadSLI machine require more than 15 amps from the wall? Will we need to start installing dedicated 20amp circuits in our computer rooms??? LOL o.0
mike_j_johnson said:So will a high-end SLI/quadSLI machine require more than 15 amps from the wall? Will we need to start installing dedicated 20amp circuits in our computer rooms??? LOL o.0