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Supermicro Announces Quad-Opteron 1U Motherboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tiny-powerhouses dept.

hpcanswers writes "Supermicro, a producer of systems for the high-performance computing market, has announced a 1U-sized quad Opteron motherboard for the OEM market. The product, which is on display at CeBIT this week, supports both HyperTransport and PCI Express. It also consumes 1000 watts of power. Supermicro's announcement is all the more interesting because the company has historically only supported Intel processors."

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  1. 1000 Watts of power!??!?! by Kittie+Rose · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't that equal to 1 Kilowatt? First we have ONE TRILLION BYTES, and now ONE THOUSAND WATTS! One million shames on you, Slashdot.

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  2. Re:Space heater by netkid91 · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Have you figured in power-eating/heat-exausting SCSI drives, some high-performance ram, probably those SCSI Drives are gonna be in a RAID, but still even after all of that I agree 1K Watts is overkill.

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  3. Re:Recommed PSU rating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hi, I also think that it's often possible to use lower rated PSUs, especially those of higher quality. However, smaller PSUs are more stressed since they use smaller sized components, and may not last as long as bigger rated ones.

    You can often tell a good PSU by its size, and especially weight.

  4. Re:Uh? by jargoone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    RTF Title:

    Supermicro Announces Quad-Opteron 1U Motherboard