News PC Power releases 1kW PC PSU

Sorry Glider. Let's not say i stole it, lets say you shared it with me . Maybe im just 1 out of the 10 types and so are you. We could make a cult.

 

Cool - Now all I need to do is get 1210 of these power supplies, and I can power my flux capaciter!!!

(A jiggawatt is similar to a gigawatt, only jiggier.)

 

They seem assume that current technology will continue using the same power-hungry processes for a while, but we'll have switched to much better and more energy-saving technologies (65nm soon) with superior performance.

I can't see them selling many of these...

 

1kw in a home pc is just for bragging rights, however high-end servers eat power like this for breakfast and then have a room for bacon and eggs after (although the ATX form factor is uncommon)

there are plenty of servers in our datacentre at work that use triple (or more) redundant multiple kilowatt units. for example each of the several dozen lan switches uses triple redundant 2kw units for example (yeah, 6kw). then theres the mainframes and storage arrays that have dozens of kw of juice availible, but thats just getting silly

 

In the UK a KW costs 8p an hour to run. If left on full load for 24 hours that would cost 1.92 a day, 13.44 a week about £60 a month or £698.88 a year! Its more than just the PSU you're spending the money on!

 

It's actually even more than that because it's 85% efficient! That's 150 whole watts down the pan each second, assuming maximum load (which is unlikely)...

 

PC Power's PSU's are regarded as some of the best in the business - they're widely used by overclockers simply because of their stability and robustness. When they say 1000 Watts continuous power, they tend to mean it.

 

Still, if you have a computer that needs 1kW of power, oh my lord. And actually, it's 85% effeciency (though I could swear that's the average PSU, I'm fairly sure all PCP&C are 99%+) so it would be "draws 1,176*w, outputs 1,000w" (*= 1000/.85 -> inverse of 85% to kW)

Good point though guys. Intel at least says their next gen will be much more effecient, and 65nm will definately help that. Still, more storage and optical drives, etc. But I don't think you could BUILD a computer that needs a 1kW PSU unless you fill every expansion slot with an 8-port RAID card and plug a drive into every slot you can. Aside from putting a CPU and GPU pelt on the main PSU. And even still, that's probably under 400w in pelts, and I've never even heard of a 600w system. Their 510wSLI is more than enough for any gaming rig out there at least.

 

There are some people (thouhg few and far between) that still use peltiers systems so this will be a god send as you won't need a seperate PSU for your peltier anymore.

 

Most PSUs are about 60-75%. Some of the cheaper ones are even less. They get increasingly expensive the more efficient they get, and 85% is considered high efficiency.

 

Hahahahahahaha

 

16-way dual cores is where its at man

 

"Not many people will ever need this appart from ubber enthusiast, servers and people with too much £££$$$. Pc components are and will be made more effecient its the only way were gonna be able to keep the pace up without all having to have Promeitia's to cool our oven like computers using quad 9ghz cpu's in a few years time. I think the next few years will be the peak in power usage for most computers, gonna be finding mobile technology in desktops more i think/hope."

Thats what Bill Gates told me in Asda the other day anyways