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OCZ 2kw External PSU

Holy crap.. 2 seperate 15a mains..

For those of us living in older houses, that might be a bit of a drag.
 
Bbq said:
Holy crap.. 2 seperate 15a mains..

For those of us living in older houses, that might be a bit of a drag.
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You'd need an extension cord to jump to the other circuit :p

This tells me something, my new place will have a cicruit per 20 amp breaker and occasional 30's in the computer room.
 
Finally, I can power all my computers with only 1 power supply. Thanks OCZ!
....and maybe my mini-refrigerator too.

Alright this is just silly. There's probably people at nVidia right now thinking "Hot damn, OCZ made a 2KW so that's the green flag for us to make an 8900GTX that needs 40A on the 12V line. We can market it as doubling as a space heater in the winter."
 
Ok, that is just insane. I have almost every computer in my sig running off of 2 15 amp circuits.
 
Wow.

Not the direction I want to see the industry go...I guess this will be used by less than .05% of all computer users, but when I saw that I couldn't help but think that we went from big mainframes and minicomputers, to nice all in one box solutions, and now we are trending back to oversized equipment.

So if you get this, and then the rumors about external video card enclosures comes to fruition, alot of us have already external storage enclosures and NAS boxes. Being a computer enthusiast is going to require alot of deskspace:D (of course they could make that a rackmountable PSU...and then we could all just use 10-15U server racks as our new cases)
 
Bbq said:
Holy crap.. 2 seperate 15a mains..

For those of us living in older houses, that might be a bit of a drag.
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Pfff......you just have to find the room that has 2 15amp circuits on opposite sides of the wall and call that your computer room. Who cares if it is in the garage....you might even get a nice breeze.
 
Even with two circuits, you need to make sure you use quality extension cords. You just know some poor sap is going to use 2 - 100 foot 18 AWG extention cords and draw full load on that thing...
 
Ockie said:
How so?
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A lot of places have restrictions on high current outlets in the codes and you could find a requirement for a twist locking outlet (ran into this one recently during a remodel...worked out ok because all the UPS's we were going to use were available in L5-30P)....but I don't know your building codes. Plus the standard NEMA 5-30R outlet has that L shaped connection unlike the NEMA 5-15/20. If twist lcok is required you can get around it using a UPS though.
 
Spectre said:
A lot of places have restrictions on high current outlets in the codes and you could find a requirement for a twist locking outlet (ran into this one recently during a remodel...worked out ok because all the UPS's we were going to use were available in L5-30P)....but I don't know your building codes. Plus the standard NEMA 5-30R outlet has that L shaped connection unlike the NEMA 5-15/20. If twist lcok is required you can get around it using a UPS though.
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Yeah well I use UPS's and PDU's with the twist lock 30amp ;)

Plenty of ways around the building codes for residential homes :)
 
Ockie said:
Yeah well I use UPS's and PDU's with the twist lock 30amp ;)

Plenty of ways around the building codes for residential homes :)
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You have twist lock 30amp outlets...in a house? Running a datacenter out of the basement? :eek:
 
You could also do what I'm planning. I'll be running mine off 20 amp circuits, but I'll separate my computer office into 2 or 3 of these (I need to see what my totals are first). Just use different colored sockets for individual lines. I really hope the trend goes towards higher efficiency on the internals.


Would the current draw be lower if it were connected to a 220 line? By running these at 220 (assuming active PFC and such), couldn't you cut the draw in half?
 
It's two Topower 1kW units in one housing, which explains why it's so large. :D
 
MrMike said:
Finally, I can power all my computers with only 1 power supply. Thanks OCZ!
....and maybe my mini-refrigerator too.

Alright this is just silly. There's probably people at nVidia right now thinking "Hot damn, OCZ made a 2KW so that's the green flag for us to make an 8900GTX that needs 40A on the 12V line. We can market it as doubling as a space heater in the winter."
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I already use my computer as a space heater! (I live in Canada)

I can turn down my thermostat quite a bit, and close my door, turn on the computer.. leave it run all night and my room is nice and toasty.. i could only imagine if i had a video card with some serious brawn.. :eek:
 
n1ce_hat said:
I already use my computer as a space heater! (I live in Canada)

I can turn down my thermostat quite a bit, and close my door, turn on the computer.. leave it run all night and my room is nice and toasty.. i could only imagine if i had a video card with some serious brawn.. :eek:
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hahahahaha, so true, in my final year of school I lived in the basement, of our house, and well its was not well insulated, the house was an older stone house. Going to school in the snow belt of Ontario, so winter could get really really cold. When you walked into the basement (our living room as well, you would immediately feel a 10 degree temperature difference. The living room was unbearably cold, when you watched tv or a movie you literally had to use a blanket. Open the door into my room and the temperature shot right back up I never had to turn on the space heater, my three 19 inch crt monitors, and two computers kept my room at livable temps, I could even wear shorts if I wanted to. I never turned them off, however weird thing is in summer and spring, it never become unbearably hot.
 
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