850W power supply

[rallynavvie]

Yes, the masters at PC Power and Cooling have pushed ATX PSUs to new levels:
http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/about/index_whatnew850.htm
950W peak
FOUR 12v rails putting out up to 62A each (EPS12 supply)
5 year warranty

Unfortunately it's non-redundant so it's not really worth the $500+ price tag IMO. PC Power & Cooling make fantastic PSUs though. Their 510W units come very highly recommended if you can afford them. I'd take one of those to my Antec True550EPS anyday, but since I got a deal getting that and the Antec case on the same order...

Oh well, it's still fun to drool over it. It's even an SSI PSU. Maybe the Noconas will be going in a DN800-SLI afterall 8)

[mrtristan]

That's just silly. It's almost at a Kilowatt, max power. Cool, but silly.

[waheed]

Cool. Too much power for todays requirements. If price is $500+, not worth it. Theres no way i would spend that kind of money on a power supply.

[glockjs]

only one word pops in my head...WHY?

[waheed]

only one word pops in my head...WHY?

$500+ is better spent elsewhere. A new processor, more memory, somthing that wil make a noticable difference.

Its an excellent power supply but i still think $500+ is too much.

People have a certain limit on what they are willing to spend on a product, no matter how good it is.

[rallynavvie]

Oh I know what it'll be used for. That's the overclocker's wet dream. You can run your phase change cooler off of it, overclock dual power-hungry Noconas, and then continue by overclocking your two SLI video cards. All from a single PSU with virtually no worries. This is more a bragging rights item I think. Why you'd want to brag about the 3000fps framerates you get in Doom3 with 32x AA and everything else maxed out I don't know. It does seem a bit silly. Now if you were to put dual workstation video cards in such a system and be able to rotate and render millions of polys in Max without so much as a shudder...

I'd rather have redundant 550s in a system just for the stability and safety though. Not to mention it's still a cheaper option. But if you don't have the room for two PSUs in your fancy-pretty case then perhaps this is your only option (though you do need a little extra room in your EATX case for it).

[Marty2003]

Actually it'll probably come out to a lot more then $500 if you factor in your monthly power bill

[Cobra]

Oh I know what it'll be used for. That's the overclocker's wet dream.

You're not joking. I want one. Now.

[Solarjetman]

Oh I know what it'll be used for. That's the overclocker's wet dream.

I think they are also targeting a more business oriented client. Some file servers can push 10 hard drives (a simple raid 1+0 is 4 drives right there). It takes alot of juice to run that.

Actually it'll probably come out to a lot more then $500 if you factor in your monthly power bill

Actually, the wattage of the PSU is only its MAX power, you will not be using any more electricity than if you had a lower wattage unit.

[ViRaL1]

Full tower with LOTS of 15k drives maybe?

[Skith]

[begin sarcasm]
Mabey they are prepping for dual dual core processors with SLI graphics, 15k drives, loads of fans, water cooling, and enough lights to give Las Vegas a run for its money?
[/end sarcasm]

:P

[rallynavvie]

See that's the silly part of it. No business client worth their salt is going to use a non-redundant power setup like that. If they're running 10 15k SCSI drives on top of a dual-dual (dual processor/dual cores) system upcoming they'd want to be running two PSUs to just that one.

Since this thing is still for the ATX form factor (though it's longer than a normal ATX PSU) I think it's aimed at the enthusiast market. I've just found out that they are actually custom tailoring each unit to what the client wants on that particular unit as far as plus, cable lengths, sleeving, and all that. For an ATX gamer case with phase change and overclocking in mind I don't see a better PSU on the market than that.

So who do you think will be the first other manufacturer to try to step up to that on the enthusiast level? I think Antec a little too classy and they're pushing their venerable NeoPower units to take a shot at it. I'm thinking either Thermaltake or Enermax.

[glockjs]

zippy is up to 700w if not more by now. they could easily be next. the only thing is if another company said it was at 850w(antec included) it wouldnt be a true 850w. but if a company like pcp&c, zippy, ocz or fortron said it was 850w i would believe it

[Skith]

note I was just spouting babble about the dual dual core processors (hence the sarcasm tags), so do not take it seriously. Such a thing may or may not exist (I don't know).

[rallynavvie]

note I was just spouting babble about the dual dual core processors (hence the sarcasm tags), so do not take it seriously. Such a thing may or may not exist (I don't know).

They will be here Q3/Q4 of this year for Opterons and Xeons. I've already seen pics of HT-enabled dual-dual Xeons rigs. Apparently the 64-bit version of XP will allow up to 8 logical CPUs since each core of each CPU registers it's own 2 logical processors with HT enabled. One less thing we really need. You'd think by that point Intel would just do away with HT completely