I want one really bad!!!!!

From my point of view i think its pointless. I rather just have them powered from the PSU itself then have them being powered from the PSU to the 250 wallts drive PSU. Just more cables. My 2 cents. Ready to be flamed. :(
 
pointless imo. probably half the price of a sli/crossfire capable psu. might as well just get a beefier psu.
 
unless this is like 50 CAD, no one will buy it for one simple reason: a SLI ready PSU starts at 120 CAD or less.
 
I dunno, I love weird things so I just think that rocks.
I love filling Drive Bays.
(Sounds Wrong)
 
if i had money for a crossfire/sli combo, this would definetly be worth it to me, too many things can go wrong with everything else pulling power from your normal PSU, having a seperate for your video cards specifically makes alot of sense these days, i'd be all for putting that in my set up
 
ReDgUaRd008 said:
From my point of view i think its pointless. I rather just have them powered from the PSU itself then have them being powered from the PSU to the 250 wallts drive PSU. Just more cables. My 2 cents. Ready to be flamed. :(
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Its powered by an external power cord.
 
With that PSU you can get a quiter PSU for your rig as well. Lower the wattage the less heat the less noise (Should be at least!).
I like it so much I might just buy it.
 
4 cm Fan
SPEED: 5500 (+/- 10%) RPM
DIMENSION: 40 X 40 X 20 mm
AIR FLOW: 6.3 CFM
TEMP. AUTO CONTROL

5500rpm from a 4cm fan? no thanks :eek:
 
I cant wait for reviews to come out. I like the idea. If not this one then the version 2 will be a must buy for me!! :D
 
That article said that the Seasonic S12-600 passed all tests and that thing is dead silent. I got mine for 130 shipped.
 
This is perfect for my friend. He runs 7800GTX KO's in SLI along with 8 HDDs and 3 opticals, and his OCZ powerstream 600 simply cannot handle it all, and his case is too small for annother psu.

My powersupply, which is the same as his, handles my twin 7900GTX's just fine, but I only have 3 hdds.

Edit: I was thinking; nVidia says that 2 7800 GTX's draw around 350W at load, so 250W wouldnt cut it, but I forgot the 2x75W from the PCI slot, duh!
 
Gimick

Just another way of parting people with cash who have a thurst for the NEXT BIG THING !

Im selling telepathic PC power switche's ... anyone whant one ?

Only $99.98
 
this is stupid. all you need to do is get some research done and find out what rails feed what lines and make sure youre not overloading anything...

i wouldnt trust a thermaltake PSU with my two video cards anyhow.
 
maddad said:
Gimick

Just another way of parting people with cash who have a thurst for the NEXT BIG THING !

Im selling telepathic PC power switche's ... anyone whant one ?

Only $99.98
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Can I use one to turn off your PC, so you will stop the conspiracy theory?

Anyway, that extra PSU is not for the everyday SLI, but for peeps with computers like this

M.D.K. said:
7800GTX KO's in SLI along with 8 HDDs and 3 opticals,
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250w is beefy enought thats for shure, how ever am i not mistaken in thinking that all of the vid card makers strongly recommend that you keep your cards on the same PSU as every thing else for stability reasons??? unless its capable of syncronizeing the flutter with your main PSU i could see noise becomeing an issue, and more so when trying to OC (it might be a better solution to run a ton of HD's off of, but even that may be a bad idea for the same reason )

even thought its DC theres still some flutter left over from the AC current, becuse nothings perfect granted better mains psu's will have better flutter control, but if there that good.. you dont need this

i wonder what brent has to say on this

(flutter may not be the right word, there may be a better word for what im talking about, im no expert, just enought to be dangerous /end disclaimer)

thore
 
The Dual asus cards run off an external powersupply, and to my knowledge they don't ahve any of the problems you mention
 
It would be interesting to mod it to power a diskless folding@home setup. :cool:
 
That's just crap really, I'd rather just spend the money for a decent PSU.
 
I love how they put the power switch on the front of it... I'd LOVE for someone to turn off my video cards while my system is on.
 
animosity said:
I love how they put the power switch on the front of it... I'd LOVE for someone to turn off my video cards while my system is on.
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LOL

Yep, that would be very bad for the motherboard.
 
From my point of view one of the lans I go to has a power supply wattage limit of 550W, certainly thats enough for my single 256mb GTX rig/w 2 hdd and my file server that has 13 hdd. But if I wanted to consolidate my rigs and use a high powered card with my 2.8TB server then I will have problems.

But regardless its nice to have options when upgrading. Sometimes a larger PSU wont fit into a case so your stuck with the current psu your using but you dont have enough for the 2nd card you bought, what would you do then? Buy a new case and a new psu?
Just because its seems worthless to you doesn't mean its worthless to somebody else.
 
pandora's box said:
pointless imo. probably half the price of a sli/crossfire capable psu. might as well just get a beefier psu.
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I agree... good psu's don't exactly break the bank.
 
Unless you have a very expensive power supply that is not SLI ready, I see no reason to get this.
 
I'm curious about something. How much juice is required for the 6pin power connectors on an SLI setup? I remember reading over at the TechReport where Scott measured the amount of wattage (both idle and load) and an GT SLI setup pulled 160 watts idle, and 338 load? How would a 250watt PSU help with that voltage requirement? I know it would pull some of the power from the PCI-e bus, but enough to compensate for the load?

-E

Better yet, here is the link:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/geforce-7600-7900/index.x?pg=13
 
MrE said:
I'm curious about something. How much juice is required for the 6pin power connectors on an SLI setup? I remember reading over at the TechReport where Scott measured the amount of wattage (both idle and load) and an GT SLI setup pulled 160 watts idle, and 338 load? How would a 250watt PSU help with that voltage requirement? I know it would pull some of the power from the PCI-e bus, but enough to compensate for the load?

-E

Better yet, here is the link:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/geforce-7600-7900/index.x?pg=13
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That was the entire system. The graphics cards shouldn't pull that much. Which is a good reason why you can use a dedicated power for the videocards. I think in the end it's a good idea. I wouldn't sell my uber psu if I already had one which I do but If I'm doing a new build I will get something like this for sure. Who knows how much overclocking is ruined by overdrawn power rails. I mean some systems were shut down during normal clocked 3d marks because of overdrawn power rails. Having the card on a steady and dedicated power source opens up the full overclocking potential of the cards. It's worth it for a new build if you ask me. Also in a small form factor sli system it's the best thing because you can actually have enough power. Those 300watt psus leave alot to be desired. ;)
 
Leon2ky said:
That's just crap really, I'd rather just spend the money for a decent PSU.
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Shallow minded.

You guys ever thought of SFF systems? I am sure this will alleviate quite a few issues with the smaller lower power PSU's those PC's come with.
 
its not just that as well, people who buy SLI/CF systems, buy them because money isn't an object, especially when you are spending 1200 on two cards that will be dwarfed by the next official release, if anyone is spending money no a dual set up expecting it to be a better buy ... well i am sorry for them

the argument of "getting a better PSU is cheaper" is pretty much thrown out of the subject when you introduce the amount of money people are willing to shovel into certain hardware, if something will give better OC, or more stability it is a worth while buy
 
Trimlock said:
its not just that as well, people who buy SLI/CF systems, buy them because money isn't an object, especially when you are spending 1200 on two cards that will be dwarfed by the next official release, if anyone is spending money no a dual set up expecting it to be a better buy ... well i am sorry for them

the argument of "getting a better PSU is cheaper" is pretty much thrown out of the subject when you introduce the amount of money people are willing to shovel into certain hardware, if something will give better OC, or more stability it is a worth while buy
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I agree with Trim. See the thing is why not. It could actually help your overclock. Well theoretically. Also thermaltake suggests that it might too. Why not buy a 350watt or a 400 watt for all of your components which should be more than enough then pair it with one of these. 250 for the videocards dedicated. At least you dont have to worry about your raid 10 power draw affecting your overclock or delta on a geforce 7 card. Just my 2c.
 
wouldnt even trust it to power my x700pro. its TT, they are gimmicky, they see that cards are taking tons of power, so they go....LETS MAKE MONEY!

and 3dfx did this a long time ago. its not new.
 
seeing how this probrably just piggy backs more off your old one takeing power from that then it does from your wall... it seems pointless.... you basicly paying for a box that adds 2 more cables to your computer that you have to hide...
 
it pulls it from the wall, just the same way your normal PSU would


i don't normally like TT as well, they have made some very interesting cooling solutions for AMD's back in the day of the tbirds, but to say another company such as asus wouldn't try to take advantage of this, or bundle it in an extreme SLI/CF package sort of deal would not be looking ahead

this has the possibility of serving as a complete upgrade package as well, its actually kind of nice they decided to bring it back, how ever what 3dfx did wasn't anything special, it was pretty much just a PSU that fit in a normal drive bay and supposedly gave better cooling

i'm just hoping this idea takes off, in the end i hope we can over come some of our power shortage problems by splitting it up like this, maybe also give hard drives their own power sourcing capabilities as well (which i think should of probably been marketed first, seeing as cards right now have access to alot of PSU's that work just fine as far as im concerned, just not with alot of other power hungry devices)
 
to me just having one of these says " i have a shitty PSU so i bought one of these"
 
Warrior said:
to me just having one of these says " i have a shitty PSU so i bought one of these"
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If that's the way you look at it. What if you could get a 10% better video overclock because of this. Then your epenis erection just ripped through your pants. There are 2 ways to look at it.
 
I have a server size case (room for two PSU) and well run two power supplies in parallel..than there is no question of having enough power...it is not hard i have done it before when running two TEC's on the old voodoo 5500..just google it and there is step by step instructions...have one psu run the computer and have the sli approved psu run just the 2 VC's then there is headroom for OC. I believe this would work just fine. I am no electrical guru but it has worked fine in the past. Please correct me if I'm wrong with an SLI setup:)
 
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