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New 1 Kilowatt PSU - Too Much Power?
Steve from Hexus writes "While at the GC 2005 gaming convention in Leipzig, Germany, Hexus.net encountered a new 1kW PSU from Enermax, called the 'Galaxy'. At peak output it will use 1.4kW of mains power to provide a total of 66 amps across its various power rails. Who will actually have a need for this PSU, and when this amount of power is being consumed, shouldn't we be thinking about redundant power systems (or perhaps energy efficiency) instead?"
now I can get that USB powered Stargate I've had my eye on.
shouldn't we be thinking about redundant power systems
What? Two 1 kilowatt supplies? That'll save lots of power.. great idea!
Trolling is a art,
Have to keep up with those Intel CPUs ...
Seriously though, bigger machines have been using far more power for years. Although my 6 CPU Sun box only eats 875W.
1000 watts
1400 watts peak output
66 amps
1 quintic polynomial post
2005, 1000, 1400, 66 and 1 are the zeroes of
One point twenty-one jigawatts?!
...I want one to compensate for something. My 550w enermax PSU makes me feel inferior and self concious now. I mean, I bring a girl to my room and she sees my puny PSU, what the hell am I going to do then? "Well, at least I have a large RAID" Yeah right.
FTA:"...but of course, you could just be future proofing, or compensating for something... "
Sure, I'll be compensating for my ice-cold burrito by running a microwave oven off the USB.
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This is, just maby, a stab at a *server* or it will be required for the next high end Nvidia card.
Why on earth would you use this in a server? In a server environment you are probably going to be much more concerned with redundancy and energy efficiency, the two things notably lacking here.
No, this thing is squarely directed at people uncomfortable with the size of their penis.
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After me and a friend were constantly upgrading to keep up with each other and escalating the arms race I just decided to start taping 20 dollar bills on the side of my computer, I couldn't take it anymore. Only down side was that he would peel them off my case and make fun of me some more.
I can finally build my Linux powered Arch Welder case mod!
I can't let this pass. This is not right. You can't just say "5-axis home built CNC mill" and not provide pictures!
You're confusing Wattage with Amperage. The two are not equivalent. Additionally, the 1kW value on this particular PSU is the PEAK usage. IN all likelyhood the system it is installed in will never draw that many watts.
I've had prototype Itanic systems on a 15 watt circuit with 5 other (non-Itanic) machines and not tripped the breaker until I accidentally plugged in a coffee maker on the same circuit.
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Is someone trying to bring back those old "vacuum tube" super-computers?
This sig is better than nothing!
I have, in my basement, a Sun 4/670MP.
Engraved on the side of the power supply: 975W
Date on the manufacturing plate: 1983
'bout time PCs caught up.
/~mikeg
Yes, and your post should link directly to your own webserver running on a 1MHz PIC processor...
Oh well, what the hell...
I think he's confusing wattage with amperage.
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With a 1kW PSU of course...
No, this thing is squarely directed at people uncomfortable with the size of their penis.
Not at all! It's not that I'm uncofmortable with the size of my penis, it's that I need 1.21 kilowatts to power the flux capacitor on my not-penis-related motorcycle with a V8 engine.
Rail gun.
I was going to check it on my TI-84+ Silver Graphite Platinum edition, but I got distracted by the pretty movies of the Matrix...
It's perfect for the quad-dualcore opteron box with 32GB of ram and a pair of Nvidia 7800's on SLI with 4 160GB/16MB cache HDD's in Raid 5. Of course thats just my gamer. I'll need two more when I build the server.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
"No computer will ever need more than 64watts of power."
DUM DEE DUM
In other news, the new GeForce 8800 GTX Ultra XE Platinum Gamer's Choice Extra Soupy Overclocked Edition has been announced. For a low low price of $9,900, your computer can run with up to a zillion* PETAFLOPS** of graphics power!
*[Maybe]
**[Not really]
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Two or five PSUs 1 Kilowatt or higher
Eleventeen Molex connectors
Two PCI-Express ports (cooling fan may extend over up to four neighboring ports)
square root of 2 ~ 1.414
Now that's just irrational.
When you're Strategic Air Command and you're defending against the commies, you need three megawatts to power your computers :)
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but I must ask: How do you do your motion control?
No need to get personal... I'm sure he's more than adequate in controlling his motions...
However, if you need advice... a good hot curry always suffices
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