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mahmood
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n°1818893
05-11-2008 at 07:14:14 PM

Hi,
I want to know It is possible to drive more than one motherboards with current PSU? I mean with a typical power supply that I have in my home system.
 
Thanks,

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B-Unit
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n°1818894
05-11-2008 at 07:31:02 PM

No.  There is a primary 24 pin connector that is needed to run a motherboard and a standard power supply only comes with one of these.


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mahmood
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n°1818897
05-11-2008 at 08:02:35 PM

So is there any special power supply for this purpose or it is completely impossible?

jueston
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n°1818899
05-11-2008 at 08:10:29 PM

i think it would be possible as long as you were willing to splice each wire and attach another 24 pin connector. there might be a problem with one motherboard being able to shut off the power to both motherboards when it shuts down, but i think it would work, and then of course if you had a lot of drives or big videocards, you wouldn't have enough power and it would be unstable.
 
so its possible, but it would be a lot of work, and power supplies aren't that expensive, just buy a new one...

SABOT00
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n°1818902
05-11-2008 at 08:31:44 PM

get a 1000W one.

B-Unit
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n°1818909
05-11-2008 at 08:52:38 PM

Perhaps a better question is why would you want to do such a thing?

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Slobogob
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n°1818912
05-11-2008 at 09:18:23 PM

B-Unit wrote :

Perhaps a better question is why would you want to do such a thing?


He is probably trying to mount two motherboards in one case.  
 
Getting room for the motherboard isn't the big issue. Usually the 2nd PSU eats too much space.

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mahmood
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n°1819053
05-12-2008 at 07:43:28 AM

Slobogob wrote :

He is probably trying to mount two motherboards in one case.  


 
Yes.  
jaibot18
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n°1819115
05-12-2008 at 01:49:22 PM
itsbmw
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n°1820663
05-17-2008 at 05:54:24 AM

jaibot. That thing is a beast. Have fun paying power for that! But I guess  I do have a 400 watt PSU & 550 watt & 700 & 350 running. Plus 2 laptop chargers on all the time. 5 monitors. Xbox as media server(on about 10-16 hours a day and 6 routers/switches. My parents hate me :) and Air conditioning over 3400 square feet and cooling the basement.


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