skier wrote:that looks good
and you just add the amps together, 18A x4 = 72
but with multi-rail power supplies you have to make sure you spread the power across the rails, but if you see the whole sticker:
looking at the whole sticker, you see that the PCIe 6-pin connectors have their own rails (though it shares the extra CPU cable with one connector)
this is a pic of my StealthXstream, you see that the PCIe connectors total 18A because they both use 12v+ #4
video cards in your system can use up to the sum total of the PCIe connectors going into the card, as well as the M/B Accessory, because the motherboard's PCIe slot also powers the card. in the GameXstream's case, there is more power going to the video cards(up to 3 rails depending on CPU and accessory power draw) and less to the CPU ( up to the 2 rails depending on GPU power draw. This only worse if you are overclocking 6-core's really)
in short, that gameXstream would run a GTX 460 1GB system great, and most likely run GTS 450 SLI, but It will likely struggle with 460 1GB SLI if you go that route (You'd have to run 2x molex-6-pin connectors because the GameX only has 2 PCI connectors) because my StealthXstream shut itself off when I had my 460 and a GTS 250 stressed along with my 4GHz 1055T (the 250 was using a MB/Accessory rail, with the 460 taking the 12v #4) but my 1055T was drawing serious power (way more than 200w at load) because of the overclock
Thanks very much for this elaboration and your time and the pictures were great, actually i wouldn't have never found 12v power dist list any where on websites
i think i will buy that ocz because i only have a GT240 besides the GTX 460 and i am not interested in over clocking or SLI in the main time and my cpu (x4 965)
C3 only used 125 W and also i am not interested in over clocking it beyond the 3.4 without a proper heat sink which i dont have now.
and the GT 240 only have its power of the PCI E slot and i am probably not going to go full power with the cards because as i said it will only be used for
programming computational problems (no much graphics) but you as a folder know that even these math problems heat up the GPU's
sorry , i have a quick question concerning the cards
I have mother board GB 790XTA-UD4 and it has 2 PCI E one running x16 and one x8 and if used both i will get x8 on both (they share the BW)
so is there will be a significant drop in the 460 performance if running at x8
another meaning , what factors are going to be affected if the card running at x8 instead of x16 (the shader freq,GFLOPS,etc.......)
Thanks again and GOD bless you.