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i'm on a tight budget.. i'd love to order a 800w corsair and be done with it but i just need some reassurance.
here's the scoop... had an older enermax 625w on my main rig (see sig) - seemed to work fine. one night while i wasn't even gaming (i have a computer repair side business and i had my bench loaded) i threw a breaker. i figured that might happen so i moved my gaming pc to a circuit in the adjacent kitchen.
computer wouldn't boot. pulled a xion 700w (i know, crappy psu) and plugged in the 24 and 8pin - pretty lights and sounds. ok, here's where i messed up. i split off the single PCI-E power line to power both my 6870's. I don't know what I was thinking really, but yea, 1 hour into a BF3 session system powers down with an electrical motor smell in the air.
so the only spare power supply i have left is a raidmax 730w. what i decided to do is use the single PCI-E cable for one card, and i used two seperate dual molex to pci-e 6 pin converters for the other. i'm assuming this is going to feed each card from the two seperate 12v 22a rails that this psu has. (this is probably what i should of done with the xion).
ultimatly... when i fire up BF3 tonight, am I going to blow this PSU up? If so, I'm just going to disable CFX, bite the bullet, and order a corsair 800w.
edit: i'm going to add that i'm amazed none of my components are toast after this debacle. don't even want to RISK popping another PSU for some extra framerates.
here's the scoop... had an older enermax 625w on my main rig (see sig) - seemed to work fine. one night while i wasn't even gaming (i have a computer repair side business and i had my bench loaded) i threw a breaker. i figured that might happen so i moved my gaming pc to a circuit in the adjacent kitchen.
computer wouldn't boot. pulled a xion 700w (i know, crappy psu) and plugged in the 24 and 8pin - pretty lights and sounds. ok, here's where i messed up. i split off the single PCI-E power line to power both my 6870's. I don't know what I was thinking really, but yea, 1 hour into a BF3 session system powers down with an electrical motor smell in the air.
so the only spare power supply i have left is a raidmax 730w. what i decided to do is use the single PCI-E cable for one card, and i used two seperate dual molex to pci-e 6 pin converters for the other. i'm assuming this is going to feed each card from the two seperate 12v 22a rails that this psu has. (this is probably what i should of done with the xion).
ultimatly... when i fire up BF3 tonight, am I going to blow this PSU up? If so, I'm just going to disable CFX, bite the bullet, and order a corsair 800w.
edit: i'm going to add that i'm amazed none of my components are toast after this debacle. don't even want to RISK popping another PSU for some extra framerates.
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