- May 21, 2007
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For those of you who run QUAD SLI, or even TRI sli, how do you recommend the rail division?
here is a pic of the rail plug design (keep in mind, the atx 20 pin and CPU power is on V1 and the 2x 2+6pin is on V2):
Other things i have in my PC:
-5 120mm fans, 1 240mm fan (these are running independent of a 4pin molex connection)
-1 Velociraptor Drive and 2 F1 Spinpoint Drives
-1 DVD Burner
Why bring this up? I was having random crashes where my PC would turn off and I couldn't figure out why, until I took a second look at the rail design. What did my noob ass do? I connected everything to V2 (i.e. both video cards and all accesories).
Changes I have made thus far which seems to be very stable?
V2
-All accessories (don't have a choice here)
-1 295 V2
-1/2 295 (i.e., 1 out of the 2 power connectors)
V1
-CPU Power
-20 Pin Power Connector
-1/2 295 (i.e., 1 out of the 2 power connectors)
Is this the recommend way to do this? I'm trying to balance out the load on both rails as good as possible.
here is a pic of the rail plug design (keep in mind, the atx 20 pin and CPU power is on V1 and the 2x 2+6pin is on V2):
Other things i have in my PC:
-5 120mm fans, 1 240mm fan (these are running independent of a 4pin molex connection)
-1 Velociraptor Drive and 2 F1 Spinpoint Drives
-1 DVD Burner
Why bring this up? I was having random crashes where my PC would turn off and I couldn't figure out why, until I took a second look at the rail design. What did my noob ass do? I connected everything to V2 (i.e. both video cards and all accesories).
Changes I have made thus far which seems to be very stable?
V2
-All accessories (don't have a choice here)
-1 295 V2
-1/2 295 (i.e., 1 out of the 2 power connectors)
V1
-CPU Power
-20 Pin Power Connector
-1/2 295 (i.e., 1 out of the 2 power connectors)
Is this the recommend way to do this? I'm trying to balance out the load on both rails as good as possible.
