That CoolerMaster PSU is How Much?

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FrgMstr

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You guys might know that we are pretty damn fond of our enthusiast level computer power supplies around here. But when I first read this, I was sure that I was getting it wrong, mainly because it was not in English...and I only read English. Well that and a good bit of Spanish being from Texas. Looking around I did find a news item over at TechPowerUp that was in English that coveres the new CoolerMaster MasterWatt Maker 1200.

At CES 2017, Cooler Master unveiled a limited edition of their MasterWatt line of power supply units: the MasterWatt Author ME 1200 W. As the name implies, this is a 1200 W power supply, rated at 80 Plus Titanium efficiency levels (which means >94% energy efficiency), though Cooler Master claims this PSU is able to achieve >95% efficiency levels. Built exclusively with Murata components, Cooler Master are presenting this one as the best power supply they've ever made, and they're therefore pitting it as a special, limited edition PSU, of which only a few thousand samples will be produced and sold: at an over $1000 price-tag.
 
I'm not sure which blows my mind more; The fact that they are trying to push a PSU at over a grand or the fact that people will buy it.
 
There's no need for high powered PSUs like this outside of heavy workstation applications.
The only reason why I still have a 1000W PSU is because I bought it over three years ago for $100. Otherwise a 650-750W would be just fine for me.
 
looks like the coolermaster marketing team has been hanging out with the intel marketing team to much lately.. lol

and completely agree with you worldexclusive.. unless you're going triple/quadfire/sli theres really no need for anything over 750w especially now that nvidia and amd are shying away from supporting more than 2 gpu's..
 
I don't even think *coin miners are gullible enough to touch it at that price point and they're the only group I can think of that would make use of that much power. I can run my office's entire server rack on that much power...
 
Thats a sweet looking unit that will likely last forever...I just could never bring myself to pay that much, even thought its probably worth it.
 
Yeah this is a different OEM (Murata Manufacturing at Wakura Marata) than the current 1200W (which is made by Enhance).
 
The only reason it cost 1,000$ is not because it is inherently better but because as a Halo product they make less of them and need a way to recoup the R&D. I'm sure it is a fine PSU and better performing than other models but just like a Titan XP vs a GTX 1080 the price/performance curve is not linear. 1200W does seem a little skimpy for 1,000$ though, would have expected something closer to 1500W.
 
One to pass on to the grand children...

One thing I would like t see is some modernisation of power connections from the PSU to the motherboard. All looks very 1991 to me.
 
For that price tag, it should come with a lifetime warranty, lol.

For me personally, no PSU is worth that much. Its design and components may be significantly better than other top end PSU, but if it isn't going to make any practical difference for me, then I don't see myself ever investing that much in a PSU
 
even if it was the best [atx] power supply ever made, not just the best power supply Cooler Master has made, it wouldn't be worth 1000.
 
Stoly said:
I guess you mean cojones. I'd rather say "huevos" though.
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I did not mean it, I wrote it. :) And I doubt Coolermaster does.... Huevos in Texas is "eggs."

You got the conjones to send us one?
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co·jo·nes
kəˈhōˌnāz,-ˌnās/
noun
  1. NORTH AMERICANinformal
    a man's testicles.
    • courage; guts.
      "he does not have the cojones to kill a flea"
 
Sounds like a product made just for prestige purposes. They clearly don't expect many people to buy these, and for the ones who will, the higher price tag is probably more of a bonus (more to brag about).
 
Why would anyone pay 1000$ for a powersupply that powers their Pc?

I mean I understand people have money, and will waste it, but you can buy a quality PSU for around 200$ which will work just fine. I feel like the only people who are going to own these, are cooler master employees, and tech press who got sent review samples, oh and those few rich guys who only want the best.
 
What's with these outlandish prices for components?
Phanteks elite for 700$ and now this psu for 1000$?
Isn't it just a titanium rated psu? EVGA makes one for 279$.

I see motherboards getting more and more expensive, are other component makers seeing a market for overpriced junk?
 
The will appeal to kids with too much money. It's extremely laughable to me. This PSU is no better than anything else out there at the end of the day. You can buy a damn 1070 based computer for $1000.

I have a platinum rated 860 Corsair PSU that has the same specs or better than this other than the wattage. I think I paid $300 for it 2+ years ago. It's $199 now.
 
Wolf_Tech said:
I perfer Enermax.Been using them for years never had one issue with them.
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Same, although when my Liberty started showing its age I replaced it with a corsair since it was on a really good sale at the time and I wanted to give it a shot. I have not been disappointed in the slightest. If prices were the same I would likely still choose an Enermax first, but I haven't managed to find fault with this corsair yet.
 
I really hope this gets recommended for builds for rich idiots that show up in r/buildmeapc asking for a $10k build. This would go nicely with a 6950x and triple SLI Titan XP build, keep with the theme of waste.
 
Agromahdi123 said:
Huevos is polite slang for balls. In fact its almost more correct in spanish to say Huevos when you mean "courage" and "cojones" when you want to call someone a pussy, you say they dont have the cojones, but if they are ballsy you say they have big huevos.
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Well we're in America and we don't really speak american.

A good portion of our population is of Mexican descent, and they don't really speak Spanish.

So don't mess with Murica, we say whatever we want and look dumb!
 
Why are you making such a big deal out of this? Who wouldn't pay over $1000 for it? The chokes have solid thick wire and the PFC chokes have thicker wires AND they're wrapped in copper!
 
Dekoth-E- said:
I'm not sure which blows my mind more; The fact that they are trying to push a PSU at over a grand or the fact that people will buy it.
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Have you seen the kind of money some of the Chinese kids coming to the US for school from China have? Their folks own factories in China, multi-billionaires, and they lavish that money on their kids that go through Lambos like Kleenex. For them, $1K for a PSU is absolutely inconsequential, and they may even buy it BECAUSE its expensive (must be that much better after all... gold iPhone style). I'm sure there are dudes in Cambodia facepalming that we occasionally splurge and get $60 steaks at Perry's on special occasions.
 
Am I the only one who just buys the power supply which fits my system's power draw through the PSU efficiency curve? Shameless plug for Seasonic occurs here. As for Ducman69's comment, yeah I've seen it.
 
oROEchimaru said:
i would pay $1000 for a 300 page book of pictures of different psus they have made in the last 30 years.
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go open your psu there you've seen the last 30 years of psu manufacturing now pay me the 1000 dollars kthnx ;).. the core design is essentially the same and hasn't changed much. antec made an attempt to change the standard about 5 years ago and it fell on it's face which sucked since the design made sense for high output psu's but was bulky as heck.
 
That psu will look nice sitting next to these AudioQuest Diamond hdmi cables and Titan XP.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
go open your psu there you've seen the last 30 years of psu manufacturing now pay me the 1000 dollars kthnx ;).. the core design is essentially the same and hasn't changed much. antec made an attempt to change the standard about 5 years ago and it fell on it's face which sucked since the design made sense for high output psu's but was bulky as heck.
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Well PSUs have changed a ton over the past 10 years in how good the DC-DC designs and regulation have improved, they don't really look like or function how they did 20-30 years ago.

When the power regulation moved from the motherboard to the chip and power delivery and phases improved at the same time as 80plus became a standard tons of changes happened so yes since then not much has changed other than increasing the efficiency in designs and optimizations, but to say the core designs haven't changed in a 30 year span isn't accurate.

That said, I bet we both agree that a $1000 computer PSU isn't something the market needed and is really a play by Coolermaster to make extra money for people with more money than sense.

I mean I understand a 100% Japanese component bill of materials is going to push this PSU well into the premium price range but at that price level, I want some aerospace NASA grade next level lab grade psu engineering implemented in it's design and assembly cause Seasoninc can probably make me a equivalent PSU for under $300.

For $1000 you are still limited by the transformer on the utility pole backfeeding you "dirty power" from all your neighbor's let alone the appliances in your house and the way your outlets are wired and using 110/120VAC not 220/240VAC for efficiency.

Gamers are better off spending money like that on GPUs ,motherboards , cases and cooling I'd rather Coolermaster try and sell a all japanese component mechanical keyboard and mouse built out of milled magnesium alloy or something if they want big markups on premium computer parts, at least then we know it isn't that it works better but is mainly built better. High-end PSU's already can use japanese capacators from nichicon and panasonic and not approach $500 with a good profit margin let alone $1000.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
go open your psu there you've seen the last 30 years of psu manufacturing now pay me the 1000 dollars kthnx ;).. the core design is essentially the same and hasn't changed much. antec made an attempt to change the standard about 5 years ago and it fell on it's face which sucked since the design made sense for high output psu's but was bulky as heck.
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it was an apple book joke:)

psu often looks the same to me as "all electronics looked like" as a kid when you took things a part. except psu = omg maybe i'll die if you touch the components
 
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