Reply 20 of 26, by 2mg
LSS10999 wrote on 2023-10-29, 02:29:All this thing does is to offload (spare) power from 12V rail to power some external accessories. […]
pentiumspeed wrote on 2023-10-28, 23:30:This is *NOT* a load balancer. […]
This is *NOT* a load balancer.
Load balancer means a device have many outputs that is regulated individually to each load. Remember current is different on each load regardless of voltage. Good example: Charging battery per cell to keep them balanced.
What this you are looking at is, this device is a DC to DC converter to supply more 5V on one bus for extra current (0ut) using from 12V input.
Cheers,
All this thing does is to offload (spare) power from 12V rail to power some external accessories.
Useful if your PSU's 5V rail is weak while you have a lot of external devices using 5V, like HDD/SSD, ARGB lights, etc. It won't be of any help for onboard stuffs so if Athlon boards still require much more power on 5V than your PSU could offer this will not make any difference.
By the way, it seems some PSU manufacturers once again increased capacity of +5V a bit. I'm seeing EVGA offering 24A on +5V.
So there's no way to take 12v rail and DC-DC to 5v and get that into the mobo?
Also, 24A +5V is 120W, not really that much, seems okay, but nothing special, no?