Sigh...Just what we all need
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One PSU to rule them all, One PSU to find them,1000W, yes, one PSU to power half a dozen servers heh?
One PSU to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Wonderful efficiency, too. 1400 W pulled from the wall while giving out 1000 W DC? Do I want to know how does this thing cool itself? (Delta makes 120mm fans now?)
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It doesn't need to. Enermax knows as well as we do that it won't be used anywhere near capacity. How would you manage to draw 1000W? I suppose a 4 x dual-core board might get the power draw up there. Toss a 7800GTX or two into the mix (do they make SLI on workstation boards?) and you might hit 400W on the +12V line. Then you also have to find a load that actually requires a system that powerful...qviri wrote:Wonderful efficiency, too. 1400 W pulled from the wall while giving out 1000 W DC? Do I want to know how does this thing cool itself? (Delta makes 120mm fans now?)
And overclock and overvolt all of those. And maybe add peltiers to them.Devonavar wrote:How would you manage to draw 1000W? I suppose a 4 x dual-core board might get the power draw up there.
Someone managed to get SLI working on a normal board with a 1x or 2x PCIe slot, so maybe it would work with a 4x or 8x. And whether or not SLI works, more than two video cards could be used.Devonavar wrote:Toss a 7800GTX or two into the mix (do they make SLI on workstation boards?) and you might hit 400W on the +12V line.
How about three screen gaming?(?270 degree field of view) Using projectors could make the screens blend together seamlessly.Devonavar wrote:Then you also have to find a load that actually requires a system that powerful...
Or instead of a wide angle, having lots of viewpoints at once.
Where there's a sollution, a problem can't be too hard to invent.
Woah, a LotR and a Stargate reference in the same thread!?! This thread gets extra geek-points already.
Since it's Monday, and that means I'm at work, I started thinking about this from a work perspective, specifically electrical loading. If you work from the assumption that this thing could actually be used at full load, which itself requires two separate assumptions - 1. That you could actually load it to 1000watts of draw, and 2. That it could even run at that capacity - then things start to get interesting:
A typical (in the US) residential duplex outlet is generally rated for 10, 15 or 20amps, depending on how cheap a model the contractor decided to install. If this PSU is running at full load, with 80% efficiency (best case scenario), it will draw 1250 watts from the wall, or about 10.5A @120v. So even a single one of these could be a fire hazard to plug in and load fully, and a pair of them plugged into the same outlet almost certainly would be. Plus, a typical residential bedroom/den/home office circuit is breakered to 15A, so you wouldn't need very much else running off that circuit with one of these to be tripping the breaker everytime your machine tried to go to full power. I'm not even sure the power cords they use to plug the PSU in is rated to 10A.
I hope we get to test one.
Since it's Monday, and that means I'm at work, I started thinking about this from a work perspective, specifically electrical loading. If you work from the assumption that this thing could actually be used at full load, which itself requires two separate assumptions - 1. That you could actually load it to 1000watts of draw, and 2. That it could even run at that capacity - then things start to get interesting:
A typical (in the US) residential duplex outlet is generally rated for 10, 15 or 20amps, depending on how cheap a model the contractor decided to install. If this PSU is running at full load, with 80% efficiency (best case scenario), it will draw 1250 watts from the wall, or about 10.5A @120v. So even a single one of these could be a fire hazard to plug in and load fully, and a pair of them plugged into the same outlet almost certainly would be. Plus, a typical residential bedroom/den/home office circuit is breakered to 15A, so you wouldn't need very much else running off that circuit with one of these to be tripping the breaker everytime your machine tried to go to full power. I'm not even sure the power cords they use to plug the PSU in is rated to 10A.
I hope we get to test one.
That's a truly scary thought....Rusty075 wrote:If this PSU is running at full load, with 80% efficiency (best case scenario), it will draw 1250 watts from the wall, or about 10.5A @120v.
"Honey..... why is this wall getting warm?"
I don't know about a quad-dual core MB, but Maximum PC recently built a twin dual core computer that supported two SLI video cards and equipped it with five 500GB HDs...... too bad they didn't say how much power the thing consumed full tilt.
There are workstations mobos with SLI out there. If you ever need it, Tyan may be your best friend with their K8WE. Too bad it uses Opterons which doesn't use enough power to justify that PSU...mathias wrote:Someone managed to get SLI working on a normal board with a 1x or 2x PCIe slot, so maybe it would work with a 4x or 8x. And whether or not SLI works, more than two video cards could be used.Devonavar wrote:Toss a 7800GTX or two into the mix (do they make SLI on workstation boards?) and you might hit 400W on the +12V line.
Maybe the GC-HE? Quad Xeon!!
Seriously, if I use 8 Xeon CPU's with 8 MB cache (each) and a thermal guideline of 129 W (each ) together with gF7 SLI and an infinite number of SCSI HD's, won't I need that Enermax baby then????? Sorry, couldnt find any dual core Xeons...
And don't ask "Well why would you do that?". You know the answer since this is SPCR. I'd do it only for the challenge to keep it low noise! Even a PD system is not really a challenge compared to this one. I'll have to find out a very efficient method to keep that Xeon machine Cool 'n' Quiet.
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According to the article, the power supply needed to pull 1400w from the wall at maximum rated DC load. That's ~11.5A (!!!). Maybe they'll include a 240V cable for plugging it into AC/dryer/etc. sockets.Rusty075 wrote:Woah, a LotR and a Stargate reference in the same thread!?! This thread gets extra geek-points already.
Since it's Monday, and that means I'm at work, I started thinking about this from a work perspective, specifically electrical loading. If you work from the assumption that this thing could actually be used at full load, which itself requires two separate assumptions - 1. That you could actually load it to 1000watts of draw, and 2. That it could even run at that capacity - then things start to get interesting:
A typical (in the US) residential duplex outlet is generally rated for 10, 15 or 20amps, depending on how cheap a model the contractor decided to install. If this PSU is running at full load, with 80% efficiency (best case scenario), it will draw 1250 watts from the wall, or about 10.5A @120v. So even a single one of these could be a fire hazard to plug in and load fully, and a pair of them plugged into the same outlet almost certainly would be. Plus, a typical residential bedroom/den/home office circuit is breakered to 15A, so you wouldn't need very much else running off that circuit with one of these to be tripping the breaker everytime your machine tried to go to full power. I'm not even sure the power cords they use to plug the PSU in is rated to 10A.
I hope we get to test one.
Sorry to flame you here, but you are wrong wrong wrong!!! Schoolboy type error in factAccording to the article, the power supply needed to pull 1400w from the wall at maximum rated DC load. That's ~11.5A (!!!). Maybe they'll include a 240V cable for plugging it into AC/dryer/etc. sockets.
It only requires a small change to the dilithium crystal array... easily achieved by reversing the polarity on a standard issue phasor.
Geeks, watch those sides... Dont want to end up in sick bay