850W PCPower PSU

[Bozo Galora]

950 watts peak

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/about/whatnew_850_ETX.htm

 

[imported_Kensai]

Very nice PSU, I'm thinking of getting one.

 

[Bozo Galora]

i'm guessing 250 bucks

 

[Algere]

That PSU isn't exactly new news but whatever.

 

[imported_Kensai]

I think it'll be somewhere around like 300-400.

 

[deathwalker]

Sounds like a perfect product for someone with more money than sense.

 

[shoRunner]

.....and the point of the thread

 

[Bozo Galora]

Originally posted by: Algere
That PSU isn't exactly new news but whatever.

I did a search for 850W and PcPower and found nothing

BTW - can you give me a link to some post of yours where you solved something for someone or brought out something newsworthy??

Edit: I just did a search under your name, and did not find a single new topic thread stated by you.

 

[Bozo Galora]

Originally posted by: shoRunner
.....and the point of the thread

The point of the thread is to bring the attention of others to a new item

That O.K. with you???

Go ahead, you guys just keep on with all the negativity - even with 112,000 members, fewer and fewer venture to post here

I visit hardforum and techimo and cdfreaks and abxzone forums, and only here is the constant nastiness. Even cranky ars doesnt have all this gratuitous dissing.

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: Bozo Galora

Originally posted by: shoRunner
.....and the point of the thread

The point of the thread is to bring the attention of others to a new item

That O.K. with you???

Go ahead, you guys just keep on with all the negativity - even with 112,000 members, fewer and fewer venture to post here

I visit hardforum and techimo and cdfreaks and abxzone forums, and only here is the constant nastiness. Even cranky ars doesnt have all this gratuitous dissing.

QFT

i don't know why people even post chit like that. if you're not interested then hit the back button and move along.

 

[rise]

having said that i agree you're probably looking at $400 or so. i wonder how loud that sucker is?

 

[AristoV300]

With the next gen NVidia cards you may need that puppy, especially running SLI. I believe it is around the 400+ range. Figure the 510Deluxe runs around $200. Got to love 4 12v rails and max 950 watts:shocked:

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: Bozo Galora

Originally posted by: Algere
That PSU isn't exactly new news but whatever.

I did a search for 850W and PcPower and found nothing

BTW - can you give me a link to some post of yours where you solved something for someone or brought out something newsworthy??

Edit: I just did a search under your name, and did not find a single new topic thread stated by you.

1) When you searched, did you select "over 90 days old" (see 5th post down)?

2) Are you serious???

3) Why would I [have to] start a thread about something new or more importantly, why does it even matter? I started a thread in the For Sale/Trade forum 6+ hours ago. Does that count? :roll:

 

[fstime]

Old news to me

I wonder how much it effects your electric bill.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

WTF I would never pay $300-$400 for a power supply -_-; Does anybody even NEED an 850W PSU?! I mean, even the Dell XPS has like a 350W PSU I think...

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
WTF I would never pay $300-$400 for a power supply -_-; Does anybody even NEED an 850W PSU?!

I could see a dual or quad Opteron with eight RAID or SCSI drives needing a power supply with those output ratings, but then you would use redundant hot-swappable PSU with such a system.

This PSU is more about want than need, sorta like 'needing' a Cadillac Escalade or Lincoln Navigator to commute back and forth to work (and never car-pooling), taking your only child back and forth to school, and to get groceries.

But a gaming rig, PCIe SLI or not, would not come close to needing (or even benefitting from) this kind of output. Maybe if you were using cold cathode lamps to decorate your house for the Christmas holiday or planned to create your own wind tunnel using several dozen 120mm case fans.

 

[FishTankX]

Originally posted by: BouZouki
Old news to me

I wonder how much it effects your electric bill.

Powersupplies only draw as much power as needed.l

 

[imported_Mitchell]

"WTF I would never pay $300-$400 for a power supply -_-; Does anybody even NEED an 850W PSU?! I mean, even the Dell XPS has like a 350W PSU I think..."

Dell, hehe, sorry man, don't post Dell as an example to any aftermarket requirement.

Think of a system with SLI, FX55, Water Cooling, Lots of SATA drives, even Duel Opterons, SCSI, Cathode lights, custom LCD monitor screens for Temp Display and you know systems that can utilise a PS like that.

Dell, not a good example of a power hungry system.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Mitchell
"WTF I would never pay $300-$400 for a power supply -_-; Does anybody even NEED an 850W PSU?! I mean, even the Dell XPS has like a 350W PSU I think..."

Dell, hehe, sorry man, don't post Dell as an example to any aftermarket requirement.

Think of a system with SLI, FX55, Water Cooling, Lots of SATA drives, even Duel Opterons, SCSI, Cathode lights, custom LCD monitor screens for Temp Display and you know systems that can utilise a PS like that.

Dell, not a good example of a power hungry system.

Ive got an FX-55, SLI 6800Ultras, 4 Raptors, a hardcano12, 22inch CRT and a custom water cooling system with 3 rad fans and 3 case fans, and a peltier, and i still easily get by fine with a 600w OCZ powerstream, rails are solid, no instability at all...

this is a workstation PSU, hence the eATX form...

still id love to have one ,

there is a ton of negativity here, always complaning and ranting, a lotta whiners on here, specially in the news and article somment sections.

 

[Bozo Galora]

Quote.........

Now, PC Power and Cooling Inc., have gone one better and announced a 850W PSU model. The unite will even provide 950W at peak power, just 50W off the whole one kilowatt mark. You can catch some additional details about this 850W PSU here.

A reader pointed us to this monstrous PSU after reading our G70 power report that you can find here. He suggested that you might need one to have two G70 cards with SLI.

If you do the sums, and assume thatthe G70 needs 200W, that means that two cards alone will drain 400W and you will need almost as much to make the rest of the machine stable. I guess that 600W might do the job but a little bit more can never hurt.

I guess that 850W should be enough for all of your power=eating components and I am very sure that SLI certificate sticker could just extend to future G70 cards in SLI as well. We are very close to the mark where your PC will actually consume more power then average home heater. Those PCs and PSUs will definitely affect your power bill and help warm up the planet

unquote

http://theinquirer.net/?article=22993

 

[imported_Kensai]

Think about this for a rig:

Dual AMD Opteron 275s
Tyan K8WE
Dual Quadro FX 4400s
12 SCSI/SATA drives
etc. etc.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Kensai- Once again though, you would run redundant hot-swappable power supllies on a system like that, or at least you could, instead of buying this monster.

But of course, In 5 or so years, most systems will be running something like this. (Especially with the way power leakage is looking for 65nm and beyond)

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Think about this for a rig:

Dual AMD Opteron 275s
Tyan K8WE
Dual Quadro FX 4400s
12 SCSI/SATA drives
etc. etc.

OK, now read the following review for the PCP&C 510 and reevaluate just what it would take to really stress an 850W version, and simply how ridiculous a product like this is:

High-End Power Supply Match-up

"The final test we ran on these power supplies involved loading them down with a large amount of hardware to see if they could stand up to everything we could throw at them. Here's the setup we chose for this testing:

Tyan Thunder K8WE
Dual Opteron 252 CPUs
4GB Corsair PC3200LL Memory (8x512MB)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 PCI-E
NVIDIA GeForce FX 6800 GT PCI-E
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

10 Hard Disk Drives:
2 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA
2 x Seagate Barracuda SATA V 120GB SATA
2 x Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 146GB U320 SCSI
2 x Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 73GB U320 SCSI
1 x Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 300GB U320 SCSI
1 x Cheetah X15 36LP 36GB U160 SCSI

What this did was load the system to the maximum in terms of processors, motherboard resources, memory, video cards, and hard disks. Since the SilverStone supply came with 10 drive connectors, we only felt it was right that you should be able to use all of them. Since the PC Power and Cooling came with 9 connectors total, we simply used a splitter to power two of our drives.

For this test we ran all drives under a max load sequential read and drove both video cards by running two games, one on each video card, in a dual monitor setup. This should mean that almost all components pulled full power from the supplies. This test ran for over an our to ensure that the load could be handled over time.

The results of the test showed that both power supplies could handle this load without any problems. Neither power supply had any dips in output and the system didn't exhibit any instability. Although we were concerned about the SilverStone running out of juice on one of its 12V lines, this didn't seem to be a problem. It appears that there is enough power on each line for what the SilverStone is designed to have connected."



Now realistically, how many people have a system even remotely close to the above tested system and run it under the conditions that this test was conducted, ignoring the fact it isn't even pratical? And this was a 510W PSU. Look how many people on this board are throwing out these wild recommendations that a person buying a single OC'd A64 with highend video card and a couple raptors can't get by on anything less than a 500W PSU, and that no one could possibly build a system today that doesn't require at least a 450W. It's ridiculous, the PSU manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank over the stupidity and E-penis envy enthusiasts have acquired when it comes to PSU wattage ratings.

850W's? You could not build a useable home system that could make use of that much power unless you used it to power your fridge as well.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: rise4310

Originally posted by: Bozo Galora

Originally posted by: shoRunner
.....and the point of the thread

The point of the thread is to bring the attention of others to a new item

That O.K. with you???

Go ahead, you guys just keep on with all the negativity - even with 112,000 members, fewer and fewer venture to post here

I visit hardforum and techimo and cdfreaks and abxzone forums, and only here is the constant nastiness. Even cranky ars doesnt have all this gratuitous dissing.

QFT

i don't know why people even post chit like that. if you're not interested then hit the back button and move along.

Exactly, makes me wonder if they actually have productive things to post elsewhere. I for one found this PSU intriguing as i have not seen/heard of it before... 850w... wow! Even if i had heard of it before, that would mean i would post nothing as many others might not have.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Originally posted by: deathwalker
Sounds like a perfect product for someone with more money than sense.

More dollars then sense mang, get the quote right.

It's kind of cool if you had a freaking ton of drives to keep going together or something, but most power users don't even need something like that.