Looking to run a temporary dual PSU

UltimateBawb

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Until I can afford a 750W PSU I'm going to try and use my current 500W TR2 in combination with a 380W EA-380 that's been sitting around. I've read that this can be dangerous with low quality PSU's; will it be dangerous with these?

Also the EA-380 only has the cables capable of running the motherboard (not CPU socket) and storage drives. The TR2 will run an R9 290 GPU and the CPU socket, currently a Phenom II X6 1045T. Will it be okay to run this kind of setup if I I manually short the PS_ON on the TR2?
 

Dark Lord of Tech

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Not a good idea , making it worse is the TR2 series is very poor.

Save till you can afford a single unit.



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