ok seriously WTF!?

Pointless. Nothing draws that much... I hope. If it does, it certainly shouldn't be in an 'enthusiast' level gaming PC. I can't afford that much electricity....

1300 watt load, 1625 watts at the wall assuming 80% efficiency.

I can hear the trees crying from here.
 
I don't think it's enough for my p4 northwood, 256mb ram, and a geforce 2 mx440.
 
Sweet ! I have been looking for an excuse to run a 220V feed into my computer room.
 
silent-circuit said:
I can hear the trees crying from here.
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Trees crying? They should be rejoycing... more tree food (lol)



This is nothing new, 2kw PSU's were announced months ago with demonstrations/displays
 
Heh. Apparently "gray" is a high-tech version of "black".
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Edit: Woo! 1e4 posts on [H] for me!
 
BillParrish said:
Sweet ! I have been looking for an excuse to run a 220V feed into my computer room.
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yeah that's something I just noticed too. 220-240V outlets are things that your stove and a couple other large appliances plug into. You can technically just plug it in to two normal 120V outlets, but you need to find the two wall sockets on differant circuit breakers (differant parts of your house).

This is insane. With one of these your looking at eight gigs of ram, seven or eight 8800 Ultras, ten drives....
 
ok this is going too far now and is hitting the point of ridiculous:rolleyes:

this in itself would make me stop PC gaming and go to a console if my system needed this much juice:(
 
MrWizard6600 said:
yeah that's something I just noticed too. 220-240V outlets are things that your stove and a couple other large appliances plug into. You can technically just plug it in to two normal 120V outlets, but you need to find the two wall sockets on differant circuit breakers (differant parts of your house).
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I'd like to see that tried ;)
 
no thanks LOL, actually if you could find 2 outlets whose respective breakers were on different sides (legs of the main) of the main breaker box it would work by taking the hot of each outlet. An electrical inspector would probally shoot you on sight :D
 
And my buddy asked me why I was running 2x20 amp circuits to my downstairs office when I finish it. This is why. I honestly hope that more thought is placed into improving power usage, especially for the US and Japan. We commonly run 120v at our houses, and the amperages are getting too damned high.
 
One reason for the existance of such overwhelming PSU's is thanks to people that don't know what they're talking about.

For example, when someone asks "will my 500watt Seasonic be good enough for my 8800GTS" and half the people who have no clue what they're talking about suggest that he/she upgrade to atleast 600watts... :rolleyes:

I've seen it countless times on thsee and other forums, and the PSU manufacturers are having a field day with it.
 
RamonGTP said:
For example, when someone asks "will my 500watt Seasonic be good enough for my 8800GTS" and half the people who have no clue what they're talking about suggest that he/she upgrade to atleast 600watts... :rolleyes:
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Actually, a single 8800GTS isn't that much. SLI, that's another story.

But I must say it's equally as irresponsible to under recommend a PSU simply because "Joe Reviewshop ran his 8800GTX SLI machine with a 250W power supply for a week so everything else must be overkill." And quite often you simply get better quality units when you buy the upper output models. For example: The Thermaltake 1000W and 1200W are in a completely different class than the Toughpower 750 and 850W.

Seriously, this argument has been beaten to death. People that make blanket statements that everyone should by these lower output units because everything else is overkill should be completely ignored.
 
jonnyGURU said:
Actually, a single 8800GTS isn't that much.
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Exactly my point, the example I gave is a real thread that exists here somewhere. The sad part is, there was like three different people who were telling this guy that his 500watt Seasonic was not going to be enough for his single 8800GTS system which is an absurd statement

But I must say it's equally as irresponsible to under recommend a PSU simply because "Joe Reviewshop ran his 8800GTX SLI machine with a 250W power supply for a week so everything else must be overkill." And quite often you simply get better quality units when you buy the upper output models. For example: The Thermaltake 1000W and 1200W are in a completely different class than the Toughpower 750 and 850W.

Seriously, this argument has been beaten to death. People that make blanket statements that everyone should by these lower output units because everything else is overkill should be completely ignored.
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I agree, if the person in the above example said he had a 500 watt Raidmax, that'd be another story all together.
 
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