I've been searching on the internet for ages and I can't seem to find out what this power supply is rated at, anyone good at reading labels?
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500W total over the whole system. However you can't supply more than 484W total over 12V and no single 12V rail can exceed the rating stated - so 12V1 would supply 12x14w and so on.
As for why 3 rails? One for the CPU, one for the PCIe power, and one for everything else. It should work fine for most purpose. Johnny Guru has a write up on what his means, and why its a non issue. For most uses there's no advantage or disadvantage in this, but clearly this was the confusing part.
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Just curious - I do realise not everyone inhales articles about hardware like I sometimes do, but which part of the label was confusing? The two different max wattages mentioned?– Journeyman Geek ♦Commented Feb 28, 2016 at 14:38