Seperate Power Supply?

[whofriggincares]

Re: Seperate Power Supply?

Sorry that was a typo. It was meant to say that both PSUs aren't required to be connected to the mobo for both to work.

There is only 1 green wire on the 20wire plug, use a short wire to jump that green wire with any of the black wires around it. I would advise to do that with the PSU unplugged before you jump it.

[DaveOnrefni]

Re: Seperate Power Supply?

Okay... yeah. i can jump the wire one either of them if needed. I see that there's only one green wire period.

One solution I thought of last night to have power be spread almost evenly would be
-having the 450w PSU hooked up to the mobo (which would power the rear USB ports, PCI and AGP ports), the floppy drive, and attach the extra power dongle to the video card.
Then having my old PSU power the harddrive and disc drives (which are the hardest to get out)


Edit!: Well, seems that sony either glued or cemented the wires in, because I can't get any of them out except the last available one left for add-ons, which slides off fairly easily.

But! my impatient little fingers decided to hook up the 450 to the Vid card by itself. I risked it, and I started up my comp. No problems... Started up BF2... HOLY CRAP! I was getting 60 frames on Medium! All time high for me. So... that closes this thread pretty much. Thanks for all the input, warnings, and etc. Seeya on the battlefield
Cannon Fodder- DaveOnrefni

[whofriggincares]

Re: Seperate Power Supply?

From all that I've read on using 2 PSUs, it was all agreed on that using one to run 1 or 2 components does not pose any danger. Running it "unloaded" will not hurt the PSU or cause any kind of problems. I jumped one of my PSUs and left it on with no load and the PSU did not even get warm. Heck, only one of the fans turned on. So don't worry about hurting anything if one of the PSUs has very little connected to it.