How to run Dual PSUs?

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I have a 500w Gold unit I would run the system off, and a V700 that I planned to use for GPU. Likely massive overkill but oh well :)

How would I go about doing this? I've seen cables that do it, jump starting methods, all sorts. What's the best way?
 
What is your rig?

Better to run off just one PSU rather than two and have more overhead than is useful.

Best way to do it, is to use a splitter which starts the PSU's up at the same time or it wont power up early enough to be detected on boot.

An example of one of these things is the '24pin Bitspower X-station'. You pay a little premium for the flashy-ness of it.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
What is your rig?

Better to run off just one PSU rather than two and have more overhead than is useful.

Best way to do it, is to use a splitter which starts the PSU's up at the same time or it wont power up early enough to be detected on boot.

An example of one of these things is the '24pin Bitspower X-station'. You pay a little premium for the flashy-ness of it.
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24/7 I use the 500w, with a 4670k and a 770 SC ACX Dual Bios. However, I wouldn't mind trying to get a custom bios on the 770 and overclocking the snot out of it (or as far as the air cooler can take it), and the 500w clearly doesn't have enough grunt.

I've seen some cables about that have the green and black jumper wires from the 24 pin attached to a second 24 pin input, is this the sort of thing I need?
 
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Hmmm ok then. I guess I could always just connect the V700 if I feel like it and want a bit more headroom. Thanks for the advice.
 
If it's any help I found out a few months ago that my computer with a overclocked AMD 8350 and 280X pulled 400W from the wall on BF4 when measured with one of them energy monitors:)

A 4670K/770 use less power so I think your PSU would cope fine :)
 
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