Originally posted by: buleyb
Originally posted by: DrPizza
rom a purely physics point of view, the "record" reached at Tom's hardware site sometime in the recent past was 80-something watts dissipated by the processor. Again, not being much of a hardware person, I'm treading in unfamiliar territory, but isn't the maximum power available to the motherboard just a fraction of the peak power output of a PSU? (maybe 1/2?) Thus, with a 400 Watt power supply, probably less than 200 watts are available to the motherboard.
Perhaps I'm just not understanding you here...but a 400watt power supply is rated to supply 400-ish Watts to the internal components, but if you actually needed all 400watts for the system, you'd be pulling more than 400 watts from the wall (480-520watts, just a guess though), because of the inefficiencies in switching power supplies...
anyone else to confirm this?
Oh, and the topic....I still claim bullsh*t, and have your magical friends try it or come here and discuss why they thing its possible.