2 Psu's

[GrimReaper23]

Ok my friend has a 6600 vanilla and it is drawing too much power from the mobo from the psu I was wondering If I can power it sepretly with another PSU and then turn it off so it doesn't draw the power from the mobo?

 

[Shumway]

Don't think you can do it that way,If you wanted to use 2 psu's it would be better to run the cd-rom's and stuff like that off the second one,Or better yet just get a psu that can handle everything

 

[john3]

yeah seriously, just get a 480 or 450watt, whichever it was, Antec Truepower, its great.

 

[adam02]

you can actually run another PSU for the Gfx card. You need to get a piece of wire and stick it in the Green EArth pin of the PSU and to any of the black connectors and it should switch on, but just buy a new one that powers everything.

 

[joshd]

yes, but as previously stated, i would use it for the opticals, fans and maybe HDDs, as the gfx card draws alot of power through the AGP/PCI-E bus anyway.

 

[GrimReaper23]

yes, but as previously stated, i would use it for the opticals, fans and maybe HDDs, as the gfx card draws alot of power through the AGP/PCI-E bus anyway.

yea but they really can't afford a new PSU to handle everything unlike mine. thiers are like 400 watts. but the 12 volt is that high. I know about the Green and black wire but then see I was just thinking about having the good psu run the mobo cpu soundcard and then the graphics card and then having the other one the 8 fans and also the 2 hds and 2 opticals. the smaler psu is 250w with 13amps on 12v. do you think that this can handle it. I might be able to dig up another antec one that is 350 with similar specs.

 

[alexsabree]

I would just get a second one and hook it up, since thats ur only option