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A Kilowatt of Power

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the but-she-said-the-old-one-was-a-nice-size dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There is finally a review available of a kilowatt power supply. The PC Power and Cooling 1KW produces 1000W of power output with 1100W peak. The review points out how great this product did in the testing but was not afraid to admit how much of an overkill it is for the enthusiast market. From the article, 'In the current computing world, where more always equals "better than" the 1KW is king.'"

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  1. Re:Buh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The next thing they'll be telling us is that it's better to have $1000.00 than $100.00, vehicles with better gas mileage will save money, doctors make more money than fry cooks, and Linux is better than Windows.
    I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a $100 price tag than a $1000 one, a $9,000 vehicle with 39 MPG will probably cost less than a $29,000 one with 49 MPG, I've met some shifty doctors and once a rich fry cook (I think he was selling weed to the stoners that hang out at the McDonalds...), and if you'll excuse me, I have to manually edit some files for the next week trying to get my sound card working because Windows sucks!
  2. Who needs that? by bombshelter13 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A few days ago, I installed a Thermaltake TWV-480 in one of my machines. This is a power supply that inclues a front bay panel with an LCD display telling you how many watts of power are currently being used. The machine is a Pentium 4 2.4ghz with a Radeon 9600 Pro, a CD burner, four hard drives and several USB devices.

    Since installing the panel, the machine idles around 50 watts or so, spikes up to perhaps 55 if I turn up the fan speeds (which is rarely necessary), and maybe 60-75 or so for a few brief moments when I'm doing something that requires heavy disk access like openning a large file (or group of files).

    I can't possibly imagine that newer, more powerful hardware would consume a full two orders of magnitude more power than this machine, especially given the great work we've all heard being done recently in heat and power efficiency with AMD's newer chips Cool 'n' Quiet tech and Intels Pentium Ms. So given that, who needs this much power?