Thursday, April 26, 2012

Psu and video card compatibility question?

if a power supply has three 12v rails rated for 18a each (max combine watts = 480), and only one rail is connected to a video card requiring 26a



does some of the current from the unused rails get "shared" to the one rail being used allowing the card to work properly?



im asking this because i find that a lot of psus have less than 26 amps on a single rail while the 8800 gts requires said amount of current|||it should work.



the requirements are pretty high.



(they measure the psu reqs with a PC that is maxed out- quad core CPU, two 750gig HDDs + a 150 gig raptor, 2+ gigs of RAM, ect, ect.)

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