COOLER MASTER RP-600 SLI PS $0+Tax+SH after $50 MIR @ newegg

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171013&CMP=AFC-Hardocp&ATT=N82E16817171013

Good through 11/28. SH $8.22. Reviews:

http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&forum=214&threadid=1308202&pagenumber=0&msgco
http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?%78=reviews&id=456
http://hi-techreviews.com/reviews_2006/ExtremePower600/P1.htm
http://www.technic3d.com/article-345,1-coolermaster-extreme-power-duo-rp-600-pcap-netzteil-review.htm

IMO [H]ot compared to other BF/CM deals and deserving of its own thread.

Its kind of low end for SLI, but by my math can power an average system with 2 8800GTs (barely)

Rebate allows up to 3 per person, so, with a little soldering and assuming the rebate works you can build a ~$30 1800W power supply :cool:
 
i want one so badly.. but the newegg site is down for me.. :(

edit: yay fixed.. now to place my order
 
I was just goin to post something about that, any one have one that can comment? Theres alot of noise comments and dotn want it if its really that loud
 
Cold Dark Shadow said:
I was just goin to post something about that, any one have one that can comment? Theres alot of noise comments and dotn want it if its really that loud
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for free after rebate, i have no issues replacing the fan in this thing with something quieter
 
I would jump on this if I hadn't just bought one at zzf for free after rebate + free shipping... the shipping kills it for me, lol.
 
I wasn't kidding about the $30 1800W PS. Its possible to build a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Power Supplies if you know basic electronics and study the ATX spec at formfactors.org. Basically you need to connect PS_ON from the motherboard to PS_ON on all the supplies, and combine PS_OK from the supplies using an AND gate, so the motherboard sees PS_OK asserted only after *all* supplies are ready. You also need to ensure that every rail on every supply has at least a few hundred milliamps of load. ATX power supplies will misbehave when there's no load present. Finally, you probably want to add some extra protection circuitry so that if one supply dies, it doesn't take the other supply, or your PC, with it.

For example, you can connect 2 RP-600s this way to get 4 12V rails with ~15A/ea. One of the supplies can drive the mobo + disks, the other can drive 2 video cards

This is a pretty big hassle and kind of risky, but you get much higher Watts per dollar than with a single high end 1kW+ supply.
 
rephlux said:
I wasn't kidding about the $30 1800W PS. Its possible to build a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Power Supplies if you know basic electronics and study the ATX spec at formfactors.org. Basically you need to connect PS_ON from the motherboard to PS_ON on all the supplies, and combine PS_OK from the supplies using an AND gate, so the motherboard sees PS_OK asserted only after *all* supplies are ready. You also need to ensure that every rail on every supply has at least a few hundred milliamps of load. ATX power supplies will misbehave when there's no load present. Finally, you probably want to add some extra protection circuitry so that if one supply dies, it doesn't take the other supply, or your PC, with it.

For example, you can connect 2 RP-600s this way to get 4 12V rails with ~15A/ea. One of the supplies can drive the mobo + disks, the other can drive 2 video cards

This is a pretty big hassle and kind of risky, but you get much higher Watts per dollar than with a single high end 1kW+ supply.
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Ha ha, RAIPS.

Yes, I'm going to hell.
 
Your case should fit two PSU's if you want to do this. The soldering is actually very easy:
  • Designate one PSU as your primary.
  • Strip some insulation off of the green wire on the primary PSU's ATX connector, and do the same for any one of the ground (black) wires.
  • On the backup PSU, expose a long enough length of the green wire to be able to solder. Do the same for a black/ground.
  • Solder the green secondary wire onto the green primary.
  • Repeat for the black wires.
  • Plug primary PSU into motherboard. Leave secondary unplugged, but soldered to primary.
Caution, test your soldering before running a live load. I am not responsible for cooked components.
 
This is a very tempting deal as I am trying to start my HTPC project in January. All I've heard is that it's extremely loud and a few have died. Wonder if this is worth going through with the rebates or not? It takes about 2 months to get the rebates back.
 
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