What's the point of a 1600W PSU?

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117A on a single 12V line? I can't see this being used in any system, not even a Tri-Sli one.

Message edited by starcraftfanatic on 02-19-2008 at 10:08:22 PM

Reply to starcraftfanatic

Bragging rights? That's all I can see.

Reply to ComputerCustomizer

That had better be a high-quality wire that the rail is on, or the things going to go up like the old athlons without a heatsink.

Reply to starcraftfanatic

maybe its for powering 4 motherboards in one case?

Reply to spuddyt

Maybe if you need to run 3-4 GPUs, a dual socket board (thinking quad FX or Skulltrail) and about a dozen HDD all at 10,000RPM. Even still, Ultra scares me as a company after this: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/arti [...] RodXNpYXN0

Well, there are two problems with that. One, there's only one MoBo connector, and two, how in the world could you fit 4 motherboards and the heatsinks for a processor in a case?
Edit: that's one scary article. 750W PSU's dieing after being loaded more than 50%?

Message edited by starcraftfanatic on 02-19-2008 at 10:49:19 PM

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A person using a PSU that large may also think on having a special circuit added to their breaker box, giving one dedicated line for the computer. Otherwise, I could see it burning out fuses or tripping the breaker constantly.

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Reply to Sailer

1600 watts is around 15 Amps on the AC lines, right?

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Reply to starcraftfanatic

starcraftfanatic wrote :

1600 watts is around 15 Amps on the AC lines, right?

Very close to that, possibly a bit more at the box if resistance for line distance is included. That's why the dedicated circuit. Wouldn't want to share the available power with anything else, like printers, other applicances. Might even want to have a 20 amp circuit wired in just for a bit of leeway.

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starcraftfanatic wrote :

1600 watts is around 15 Amps on the AC lines, right?

Its so you can run 4 pc's inside one pc, and run starcraft on all of them on ultra uber super-duper extreme high settings, and hit the 18,XXX something unit limit on each game your playing, meanwhile playing 4 games of SC at once, its the future of gaming!
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Reply to FrozenGpu

Actually, there's a limit of ~1600 units for one game, and there are no settings to be modified for graphics. Wish SC2 was already here.

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Reply to starcraftfanatic

He he he massive.

Hard OCP has a great review on this PSU, it's solid and made by a quality oem.
Just.......overkill.

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Message edited by bobbknight on 02-19-2008 at 11:06:39 PM

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starcraftfanatic wrote :

Wish SC2 was already here.

So do I. Have been waiting for a new Starcraft for ages.

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Its specific purpose is to power this:
http://www.charterandshuttle.com/i [...] ntal_1.jpg

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grieve wrote :

Its specific purpose is to power this:
http://www.charterandshuttle.com/i [...] ntal_1.jpg

I won't call that a "cute" car by any means. Image being between two semi-trailer trucks while driving one of those and the one ahead of you hits the brakes hard.

Second, notice how the car is parked on the sidewalk? Reminds me of Italy. They parked on the sidewalk, sometimes drove on the sidewalk, and yelled at people who were walking on the sidewalk.

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Reply to Sailer

Yah im more of a HEMI kinda guy... I have never understood how people put fuel mileage/environment ahead of safety

Reply to grieve

Let's see...Intel Skulltrail with 2 Quad OCed to 4.5GHz and Quad 3870x2 Crossfire? Oh and toss in a couple of raptors.

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Reply to Evilonigiri

starcraftfanatic wrote :

Actually, there's a limit of ~1600 units for one game, and there are no settings to be modified for graphics. Wish SC2 was already here.

yeah i know what you mean, 10 years, they just had to appease those WoW homo's? I mean RTS has always been > RPG IMMHOF, I mean they came out with warcraft3, then expansions, then WoW, wtf mate, then the fps Ghost, which would have been fien if they actually released the stupid thing to pc...where's Starcraft 2???

those b*st**ds! :lol:

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I think we sometimes overlook the risks associated with high power electricity.

A long time ago I watched a documentary on TV about people (children) who had developed Leukemia and didn't know why.

They concluded that those people had been sleeping for years (often since childhood) just a few inches away from electricity generators or transformers that were in or behind the wall near their beds.

I remember this documentary every time I consider more powerful PSU's or every time I unexpectedly brush my leg against my computer under my desk.

Is it a coincidence that I have an area on my right leg that doesn't have any hair - just near my PC?

Electricity is cool and all - but it is so easy to overlook the potential negatives that truly do exist.

$0.02

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1600 Watts?

Please correct me if I am wrong, but that thing will be pulling 14-15 amps at 120v.

Oh yea baby. Common household circuit breakers are 20 amps. Go ahead and plug that baby into your regular household outlet, add a monitor and a basic accessory and see what happens.

Can you say Black Smoke?

Hells Bells, even my business office circuits are just 20 amps. Bumping up the circuit breaker is not an option as I would also have to rewire the building with heavier gauge wire to meet electrical codes. Maybe I could just have one circuit rewired..... dear electrician I need you to pull 10 gauge wire about 400 ft so I can get this big hunk of a power supply.

Yea. Right.

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Well wouldnt it be put under less strain at lower wattage,thus prolonging its life because the caps wouldn't age as fast..Though i cant say that brand would actually make a psu of great quality.

Reply to stephensolofo

a_dude wrote :

I think we sometimes overlook the risks associated with high power electricity.

A long time ago I watched a documentary on TV about people (children) who had developed Leukemia and didn't know why.

They concluded that those people had been sleeping for years (often since childhood) just a few inches away from electricity generators or transformers that were in or behind the wall near their beds.

I remember this documentary every time I consider more powerful PSU's or every time I unexpectedly brush my leg against my computer under my desk.

Is it a coincidence that I have an area on my right leg that doesn't have any hair - just near my PC?

Electricity is cool and all - but it is so easy to overlook the potential negatives that truly do exist.

$0.02

It may be. There is a similar theory for people living under High Tension Wires hovering 100 feet in the air.

Useful to power one of these?

http://www.welding.com.au/products [...] oductID=41

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StevieD wrote :

1600 Watts?

Please correct me if I am wrong, but that thing will be pulling 14-15 amps at 120v.

Oh yea baby. Common household circuit breakers are 20 amps. Go ahead and plug that baby into your regular household outlet, add a monitor and a basic accessory and see what happens.

Can you say Black Smoke?

Hells Bells, even my business office circuits are just 20 amps. Bumping up the circuit breaker is not an option as I would also have to rewire the building with heavier gauge wire to meet electrical codes. Maybe I could just have one circuit rewired..... dear electrician I need you to pull 10 gauge wire about 400 ft so I can get this big hunk of a power supply.

Yea. Right.

That's what I was alluding to about a separate circuit for one of these. And heaven help the poor fool who thinks that since the 20 amp breaker keeps snapping, he'll just put in a 30 amp breaker and solve the problem.

I suppose this PSU might mean some good business for electricians to service those people who insist on buying and using one of these PSUs. Oh yeah, don't tell Al Gore or we'll be hearing about computer gamers causing global warming.

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Sailer wrote :

That's what I was alluding to about a separate circuit for one of these. And heaven help the poor fool who thinks that since the 20 amp breaker keeps snapping, he'll just put in a 30 amp breaker and solve the problem.

I suppose this PSU might mean some good business for electricians to service those people who insist on buying and using one of these PSUs. Oh yeah, don't tell Al Gore or we'll be hearing about computer gamers causing global warming.

I dont remember much from a Inconvienent Truth,But i do remember him blaming someone or something for global warming while hes flying in his own private jet.

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Reply to stephensolofo

the point in a 1600w psu is simply for that company to say we offer the worlds most fowerful psu

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FrozenGpu wrote :

yeah i know what you mean, 10 years, they just had to appease those WoW homo's? I mean RTS has always been > RPG IMMHOF, I mean they came out with warcraft3, then expansions, then WoW, wtf mate, then the fps Ghost, which would have been fien if they actually released the stupid thing to pc...where's Starcraft 2???

those b*st**ds! :lol:

Well actually, Warcraft 3 wasn't that bad in my opinion. The Axis and Allies maps were quite fun, if you had a computer capable of running them (for those of you that don't know, think about the largest SupCom maps).
But WoW needs to die. hard.

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Message edited by starcraftfanatic on 02-20-2008 at 02:24:09 AM

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A 1200w PSU is very often used for multi-GPU and processor systems, so a 1600w PSU doesn't appear to be too much of a stretch, particularly with systems like Skulltrial coming out.

I've seen 6000w PSUs for huge server systems.

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starcraftfanatic wrote :

Well actually, Warcraft 3 wasn't that bad in my opinion. The Axis and Allies maps were quite fun, if you had a computer capable of running them (for those of you that don't know, think about the largest SupCom maps).
But WoW needs to die. hard.

Is it really that demanding? If you try to play supcom on the largest map in XP, any pc will crash because it surpasses the 2GB limit for XP.

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Reply to Evilonigiri

starcraftfanatic wrote :

Well actually, Warcraft 3 wasn't that bad in my opinion. The Axis and Allies maps were quite fun, if you had a computer capable of running them (for those of you that don't know, think about the largest SupCom maps).
But WoW needs to die. hard.

nothing wrong with warcraft 3, that was actually pretty good, i never went online with it though, were the axis and ally maps any good, were they kind of like the use map setting maps for warcraft 2 battle.net edition or starcraft?

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stephensolofo wrote :

I dont remember much from a Inconvienent Truth,But i do remember him blaming someone or something for global warming while hes flying in his own private jet.

He also used a Macbook and at the time the movie was released, Apple was known for using non-environmental friendly materials in their laptops. I laughed at that.

Message edited by lostandwandering on 02-20-2008 at 02:32:15 AM

starcraftfanatic wrote :

But WoW needs to die. hard.

Especially that! seriously, die! Please somebody stop this madness!!!!! :pfff:

Reply to FrozenGpu

The Axis and Allies maps used hacked sizes so the maps were ridiculously big. They maybe weren't as large as the largest SupCom ones, but they were HUGE. Yeah, They were like the use map settings games. Those games are basically the only ones people played. It required some extreme multi-tasking.
As for memory, Warcraft 3 didn't take up the same amount of memory mile for mile as SupCom.

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Tripple SLI or Quad Crossfire.

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Call me now for your free power readin, just $4.95 per minute! ( to run the thing)

Server ?

Message edited by cah027 on 02-20-2008 at 02:40:25 AM

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Servers could use this thing, but that is going to be one expensive server.

Reply to starcraftfanatic

Only if they use all 1600W.

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Reply to Evilonigiri

Then why would they get a 1600W PSU if they won't use it all? Don't forget the waste(Which might actually push this thing to 18 or 19 Amps.

Reply to starcraftfanatic

You guys are all assuming that this thing runs at 1600w,if it does run at 1600w well then your correct.

Reply to stephensolofo

^Good point. I have seen cheap PSUs that are rated at 500W but runs at peak of 400W.

To Run a 2*dual GPU (ie 3870X2) Skulltrail :lol:

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I doubt Skulltrails mobo though supports all the crap that can fully utilize all 1600 watts.

on another note, you OCed a 8400GS?!?!?

Reply to starcraftfanatic

The purpose of a 1600W PSU is to run your computer and a kegarator at the same time.

Reply to runswindows95

Theres also other things like phase that can take over 300watts for a single unit for cooling a CPU.

Skulltrail with dual 4ghz cpu's, a couple of ultras, it all adds up. Plus you'd want some room left so it's not shooting the fan up to max.

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Nothing! It's stupid. They will slowly go away as power consumption of PC's continue to go down. If you overclocked CPU to **** and ran 4 GPU's you would not need that. It's just more waste, for those of us that continue to be wasteful people. A friend of mine was convinced that his PC's used little power, so he kept his media center PC, office PC, and graphic design PC on 24/7. I hassled them to shut off there PC's when not is use, including there peripherals. There power bill droped by almost a 100 bucks a month. o.O wow eh. PC power usage is going through a revolution right now and will be way better by the end of decade.

Message edited by harly2 on 02-21-2008 at 02:41:33 AM

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Aye. It's a pure marketing joke to build such a device.

Or, for the half-informed people out there (lots and lots of them), who just get whatever has the biggest number. And then make their high-end gaming rig running slower than a 3 year old office PC by installing lots of "tuning" apps and any junk from dozens of cheap PC magazines.

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