Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
That clarifies things. However I can not follow why JonnyGuru assumes there is no overprotection at all. Looking at this image i'd expect 12V1+12V2+12V3 are overprotected together at 40A max.
Seems you do not have a 18A limit with the PSU. Nice.
It should be a great PSU for the MSI 790FX Platinum which has only one 4pin connector but better PWM than the M3A.
You'll run into mosfet temp issues which such loads on the M3A no doubt.

Another note in the Sapphire/DFI mobo with an 8pin connector the cpu uses 12V1+12V2 together.
Does this board support increasing voltage in BIOS w/ Phenom? Reading through this thread I see that voltage was capped @ 1.25V VDDC in the BIOS for Phenom CPUs.