anyone ever dual psu?

[Boyne7]

has anyone ever tryed using dual psus in a system?
I am thinking of using a raidmax 550watt and my turbolink (generic) 420watt psu as dual
I would splice all of the wires on the 20pin, and 4pin connectors (4pin due to it being a p4 system)
and then twist the corresponding wires from each psus connectors and then reinsert them into the connectors. Thus i would recieve the sum of the two amprages of both psus 25+18A=43A on +12v rail
and so on. Just wondering if anyone has ever done this

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: Boyne7
has anyone ever tryed using dual psus in a system?
I am thinking of using a raidmax 550watt and my turbolink (generic) 420watt psu as dual
I would splice all of the wires on the 20pin, and 4pin connectors (4pin due to it being a p4 system)
and then twist the corresponding wires from each psus connectors and then reinsert them into the connectors. Thus i would recieve the sum of the two amprages of both psus 25+18A=43A on +12v rail
and so on. Just wondering if anyone has ever done this

No, and it doesn't sound safe...

 

[Boyne7]

well actually if ur careful and dont connect the wrong wires its perfectly safe but then again that may be too much to ask lol

 

[chizow]

Never even thought about it. If it doesn't work, there'll be a brown out in your town and you might not be around to tell us about it

Chiz

 

[OulOat]

Hm, if I'm picturing this correctly, won't the two voltage sources be in parallel? If so, then it should work.

 

[LED]

I've dualed PSU'd on a few Custom builds but not that way...Use AT PSU independently to power up CC's, light's, other added fans and stuffs...what your thinking about doing is F-ing up something

 

[paco83]

If you are very comfortable workin with power supplies it sounds like it should work.

Thats theoretically tho.

I would use a junk mobo to test the setup before hookin it into the real thing first.

 

[Hazer]

I dont see a reason to splice all the wires from both supplies. LED, how did you get both supplies to turn on/off in the system you mentioned?

I would say your best bet is to have one PSU power the Mobo, while the other powers the perifferals. Maybe all you would need to splice inot the TAX connector would be ground, power on, and power good pins.

 

[Mallow]

not many programs are written for multi-threading. Most programs will not run a bit faster b/c they can only utalize one cpu in the first place.

 

[VisableAssassin]

i used to run dual PSU's a while back.


i used THIS Guide to build myself a "Y" adapter for it.
I still have it too LOL.
dual PSU's was nice but man the cable mess was horrible !

enjoy the link