Thermaltake's 250 watt Graphics PSU is starting to float around the internet An interesting idea, though the question of value is yet to be answered.
i very much doubt it is heavy duty enough for a TEC. personally i think its a pointless idea, just make sure you have a decent PSU and you wouldn't need to waste money on that thing
seems like a waste, i mean if you have a system that can support sli, its mostlikley that the psu for that system can also support the viedo cards. example, you arnt gona be using a 350watt psu on a system consisting of a 3700+ a gig of ram and probley over 300 gb of storage and 2 optical drives and a sli mobo.
But it could possibly be cheaper than getting a really powerful PSU to power everything, instead of two cheaper PSUs. It would also be useful for somebody who is uppgrading, and would need to get a new PSU, but does not want to spend/have enough money for a large PSU. It all depends on how much it costs.
This kind of the would be good for Quad Sli (your other option is a PC-powe & Cooling 800Watt/1Kw. I'm assuming Quad Sli uses 4 Power conectors BTW...
Is that card bracket where you plug the mains in? I would have thought mains cables a bit noisy to have running through your case. Guess it's alright though, if they've seriously made this product. ch424
Personally I wouldn't like a power button for the cards on the front of my case, what if I accidently turn it off in the middle gaming, that can't be healthy?
That would be top of my list of Cons if I were to review it. It also adds an extra potential failure, extra electrical interference, more cables, and noise from the fan that cools it. I doubt Thermaltake care though, the policy of "more switches = cool" seems to be omnipresent in their product range. At least it's not orange.
Well I do, say my mouse battery runs out during gaming I have to quickly press the button to open my inbuilt mechanical draw (see my project log) and grab my spare mouse or batteries, in the process I could accidently press the button. In fact it wouldn't be healthy to turn it off any time during the operation of a computer. A switch shouldn't be necessary, power consumption will reduce when the graphics card isn't in use, but if it's for noise control, the device should have a temperature sensor to turn off the fan when it's cool enough!
