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Topic: My PSU just had a catastrophic failure (i.e. exploded) - page 3. (Read 4085 times)

sr. member
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I can only tell you a common sense approach. That is too much stuff. Get another power supply and use both. I does not have to be expensive or even new.
hero member
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Whoa, there are a lot of cats in this wall.
So now I figure I should learn the basics on how to properly balance the load on a PSU.  

I was obviously just working the 4 year old PSU too hard, and had connected the power cables all haphazardly not paying attention to amps, or rails, or any of that stuff.  

So now I come to you guys for an education.  In simplest terms, how do I figure out what to connect to what?  

Example:  Say I have a 1050W PSU that has this:  +3.3V@24A, +5V@30A, +12V1@20A, +12V2@20A, +12V3@20A, +12V4@35A, +12V5@35A, +12V6@20A, [email protected], [email protected]

8 SATA connectors & 4 PCI-E connectors & then the regular assortment of molex.  

I need to connect 4 HDDs, 1 SSD, 1 DVD, MB, CPU, and 3 5830s.  

How should I connect this to safely load the PSU?

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