950W Power Supply

[Stangs55]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/o...ay/20041126101213.html

and I thought my 600W was overkill! We'll leave this to the people who order Alienware ALX's.

 

[LordPhoenix]

Like anyone needs them anyway...

 

[Anubis]

The top, 950W (model FSRP950LGA), PSU can draw 34A on 3.3V and 5V connectors and from 14A to 18A on various 12V connectors

thats pretty crapy for a 950w PSU

most 500w PSUs have 40 on the 3.3 and 5v lines and 16-20 on 2 12v rails

 

[IHYLN]

Originally posted by: LordPhoenix
Like anyone needs them anyway...

I'm guessing you are still using 640k of RAM

 

[SchrodingersDog]

That could power both my pc and my growlight. Or a microwave casemod sounds cool, you could have a slide-out tray to stick burritos in.

 

[imported_TimJ]

Quality > Quantitty

A good 400W PSU is probably better than that one.

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: IHYLN

Originally posted by: LordPhoenix
Like anyone needs them anyway...

I'm guessing you are still using 640k of RAM

and that means wat? a quality 240W psu can handle an fx-55, 2gb ram, x800 xt pe, 2 raptors, a sound card, and a couple optical drives.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: Mik3y

Originally posted by: IHYLN

Originally posted by: LordPhoenix
Like anyone needs them anyway...

I'm guessing you are still using 640k of RAM

and that means wat? a quality 240W psu can handle an fx-55, 2gb ram, x800 xt pe, 2 raptors, a sound card, and a couple optical drives.

While I agree with your general idea, I'm not sure a 240W would cover all that....

 

[Andres3605]

i wonder how many 12v rails do they have, it doesnt say 2 it just says various,

 

[imported_whatever]

appears to be a fairly good PSU based on the price, although that is not the only way to look at it.
however, it is a server PSU - it has a bunch of 12V rails instead of one or two, meaning it is great for lots of HDDs but not great for one really power-intensive thing.

 

[JasonandBecky]

While I agree with your general idea, I'm not sure a 240W would cover all that....

SFF power supplies do.

 

[Stangs55]

i'm thinking about getting one to power my tahoe and just get rid of gas all-together

 

[BW86]

its crap

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: JasonandBecky

While I agree with your general idea, I'm not sure a 240W would cover all that....

SFF power supplies do.

I'm not too familiar with SFF setups, so I'll take your word for it. I know for a system like that I wouldn't get a 250W ATX PSU regardless of what quality it was.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: Anubis
The top, 950W (model FSRP950LGA), PSU can draw 34A on 3.3V and 5V connectors and from 14A to 18A on various 12V connectors

thats pretty crapy for a 950w PSU

most 500w PSUs have 40 on the 3.3 and 5v lines and 16-20 on 2 12v rails

The PSU has four 12V rails, 2 x 14A and 2 x 18A. Is 64 amps on the 12V rail pretty crappy? I don't know, I can't forsee any scenario where a user would have a 2 single components that exceed 18A requirements. The two 14's by themselves are plenty to power all but the most exotic setups. The PSU is also not really a true 950W PSU, and it's stated multiple times on the spec page. That's a "burst" rating. The highest peak level it can sustain is "only" 750W's.

 

[teutonicknight]

Just in time for the next generation dual-core prescotts

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: Insane3D

Originally posted by: JasonandBecky

While I agree with your general idea, I'm not sure a 240W would cover all that....

SFF power supplies do.

I'm not too familiar with SFF setups, so I'll take your word for it. I know for a system like that I wouldn't get a 250W ATX PSU regardless of what quality it was.

IWill ships their DUAL Opteron SFF barebones with a 300W PSU. The compatibility list for the system includes dual Opteron 250's, Geforce FX 5900's and 6800GT's among other hardware. I know IBM ships some of there dual Xeon systems with 300W PSU's as well. The belief that you need anything over about 300W's for any single CPU home user system no matter how extreme is one of the greatest myths of the current generation of enthusiasts.

That may change with the advent of SLI 6800 Ultras and highend Prescott, but we aren't quite there yet and that is an extreme setup that goes well beyond what any even typical enthusiast would be running.