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New 1 Kilowatt PSU - Too Much Power?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-i-rewired-it dept.

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?"

2 of 535 comments (clear)

  1. Re:You build it, one is born every minute to buy i by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The opteron nodes we use right now do use 1kw each. Three 500W power supply are used with one hot-swap. So no, I am not surprised by the thing...

    AMD have never been know for its cold-running cpus...

  2. "Mains power" ? by Hack+Jandy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does anyone care anymore? I only point out the mistakes so I can linkify them for Anti-Slash.

    You would think if some company is going to buy a Slashvertisement, they would at least check their grammar first.

    HJ