Future of OCZ Power Supplies:
Recently a news report hinted that few Japanese manufacturers were retailing 900W power supply units in Japan. This raised many hands and the information seemed rather hopeless considering that the North American, along with European and Asian, markets are doing fine with 480W and 500W, generally.
Regardless, it seems like the Japanese 900W power supplies does have some honesty to them. According to close OCZ sources, we managed to confirm that OCZ is currently developing their 700W power supply that will debut sometime next year. It?s only a guess as to what the finished product will look like. Thus far, OCZ is planning the final specifications of the product and debating the size issue.
If you are familiar with OCZ?s PowerStream line of power supplies, you know that sometimes they are not the best fit for smaller, petite cases, as they are around one-inch thicker in size than competing products. OCZ is aware of the situation and is uncertain at this point with their upcoming power supply designs. They may adopt the PowerStream design or may work with their recently introduced modular ModStream power supplies; it?s only a speculation.
As far as the price is concerned, the source reported that OCZ?s upcoming, high-wattage power supplies will not be "cheap".
The source also reported that OCZ may choose to leave their 700W power supply under development stages and prompt for even more powerful power supplies by the end of next year. The reason for 700W+ power supplies, according to sources, is due to the high power requirements of a SLI system.
From the aforementioned information, it is highly possible that 900W power supplies may enter the general market segment by the end of 2005.
Thus far, there has been no official word from OCZ or other manufacturers in the designated industry. We are working with sources to obtain as much information as possible from power supply manufacturers. Rest assured, this information does hold some value to the industry and it comes from an impressive source.
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