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Do rails have any impact on how I should hook up my components?

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8/9/12 at 9:27pm
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I have a Kingwin LZ-1000 1000W power supply with 6 12V rails, and I was wondering about this.

In other words, could I get all 1,000 watts off of one cable by splitting it without causing a problem or tripping the over current protection on a single rail?

I ask out of curiosity from an SLI standpoint. The connectors on the PSU are not marked "rail 1", "rail 2", and so on, so I have no idea if the components I'm adding are being added to the same rail or not, thus potentially raising my chances of tripping the OCP on that rail and shutting off my PSU.

This wasn't addressed at all in the manual.
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8/9/12 at 9:40pm
No, you cannot hook up everything to one rail (by using splitters), and it will cause your PSU to shut down. However, if you don't use splitters, you should be fine using any combination of cables that came with your power supply in most cases.
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