If you are using it outside the case it means that you will be testing something with it,if you feel like it just plug a fan or something similar into one of the molex connecters and you have a load on the PSU.
I have used this method on very old and very new PSU's without any problems.
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Good idea, and thanks, althought I have to wait several more hours for the 30th.
If you are using it outside the case it means that you will be testing something with it,if you feel like it just plug a fan or something similar into one of the molex connecters and you have a load on the PSU.
I have used this method on very old and very new PSU's without any problems.
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Good idea, and thanks, althought I have to wait several more hours for the 30th.
That loads the +12v section only. There are also +3.3v , +5v etc. Sorry if this sounds like a lecture or something but to each his own. I don't recommend doing it but its a free world just be advised of the risks. You can potentially damage what was a perfectly good power supply.
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