SLI and Crossfire kicking the crap out of PSU's

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Originally Posted by eva2000

be careful to make sure the right ends of the modular cables are plugged into the psu with Silverston ST56F, as folks have killed cpus and hdds with accidently plugging wrong end of modular cables into the psu and components!

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That drives me puts about the 4+4 == 8-pin EPS12V in the OCZ, too.

If you use a 4-pin board, it is way too easy to take the wrong 4-pin (half of the 8-pin) and insert it 90 degrees wrong, so that you pump 12 V into a ground line. The nudges that make up the coding on the 4 pins are such that it fits perfectly if you take the wrong 4-pin.

Give me real 8-pin and 4-pin like on the Seasonics and Athena any day.

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Originally Posted by GMX

That PSU looks good. If you don't mind, you can maybe take the cover off and find some pots within the housing.

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Looking forward to your results.

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Good news, it has one pot that is in charge with all the rails, like on the Zeus 650W. 12V set at 12.26 in idle, drops at 12.18 in full load with Venice @ 2.7 / 1.7V and X1900XT CF edition at stock. I was waiting for the A8R32-MVP to set up a CF rig but that's gonna take a little bit longer, i think i'm going to use the A8R-MVP for now.