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Old 07-22-2005, 07:55 AM   #4 (permalink)
bendsley
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The only reasons to have 2+ power supplies is because the board needs that many power supplies or because the board supports failover/hotswap.

The Dell Blade server that I have running has Hot plug 2100 watt (2+2) power supplies with optional redundancy and maximum input power of 4437W. For 10 blades, you would need this, but for a single machine, you don't, unless it's a server/production machine.

I would tell you to just buy a single power supply, because I doubt the motherboard you have will support failover like that.
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