Power Supplies (Interesting Question)

[NotALlama]

I was wondering if there was a way to take a single high quality power supply and use it to power two seperate computers? I know this wouldn't be advisable for high end setups, but I'm not going to be using anything of the sort, seeing as though both computers will be pretty low end. Thanks for your comments!

Edit: I just looked online at some ATX splitters, and was wondering how would power work? If you booted one computer, thus turning on the power supply, would the other computer boot on too? Or would it be independent? Tell me what you think!

 

[NotALlama]

I was looking at this to accomplish the task! http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-181-003&catalog=58&depa=0

 

[yhelothar]

That power supply only has one ATX connector so it would not work
My neighbor works for clever power, he showed me a sample of the power supply. The back has a power strip, but there is only one ATX connector, thus is only sufficient for powering up one motherboard.
I don't think there is such thing as ATX splitter.

 

[NotALlama]

Don't be so quick to judge. http://www.ateck.com/viewItem.asp?idProduct=453056250

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[redass1876]

its 15 for the splitter, and the psu only costs 50....35 difference, and if you are running pentium, you need a 3.3V splitter too, then you need to figure out how to get the 2 close enough to do this with the short cords, and limited 4 pin connectors, every time you split, you suck out more power and give each component less, i would just go for 2 PSUs

 

[NotALlama]

What I'm thinking of doing is getting a microATX motherboard to put on top of an ATX one, using half height in both. The power supply would simply sit on it's side to one end of the boards. I'm going to be low-end AMD CPUs, so I don't think there's much to worry about. So, I'm basically going to have two motherboards, one completely integrated and the atx one only requiring a half-height AGP card, like a Radeon 9600 SE, along with two low end AMD CPUs and two hard disks. Nothing more is required for me in this project.

 

[BD231]

Why?

 

[JBT]

Can't u just get two 300 watt$30 dollar fortrons? like this? I think it is a WAY better idea.

 

[pdn]

You can buy a case with PS included for 29.95 + ship from Compubuzz or 22.00 + ship from Newegg. I don't think that it would be worth the hassle for a setup such as that nor the money/time. Plus not to mention there's always the possibility PS failure from overloading it, then you'll have to fork out the $$'s for another PS! Keep life simple is what I always say, and then only when it can not be avoided, then come up with a solution!