1000w Psu?
 

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Anyone want one then? :erm:

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Not sure I'd want that in my PC - if that fails it could be serious! It's one thing to fry the mobo, but at 1kW it has the capability to do far more serious damage!

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It could lighten your central heating bill. :D

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Is there really a demand for that level of power. Possibly a server with piles of Hard Disks and stuff, but then I can't see many IT managers wanting to put all their eggs into one basket like that. As for the home user, again surely it's getting somewhat carried away, even for someone who built as big a PC as Ramrod's.

Maybe computer manufacturer's ought to be going green and looking at ways that their components need less, not more, energy.

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maybe its to power all these usb gagets you can buy :rolleyes:

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What, my USB lighter, phone charger, fan, Coffee warmer and microphone? ;):rolleyes:

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you forgot the massage mouse :)

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I would buy a stacker and have two of those installed.

Just because no bugger else would do.

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It's about time they started using RISC processors! The old Acorn RISC PCs ran at least as fast as the equivalent Intel PCs (with H/S and fan), without a heatsink and were cool to touch!!

But then that was one of those British inventions which didn't have the muscle to compete with the Yanks. :(

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I'd say there was. Imagine a typical high end setup:

1. Two high-powered graphics cards in SLI/crossfire
2. 2-3 Harddisks, and a DVD-drive
3. Power for plenty of fans
4. Power for a big sound card setup
5. Power for all the little accessories like cold-cathodes, etc.

Would require a fair amount of power... And i'd imagine the goalposts would get moved further. Daisy-chaining graphics cards, and etc.

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Do they have a contract with a local hovercraft builder to provide the cooling fan ? :rolleyes:
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Too right :tu:

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my machine eats 460 watts total.I intend to go crossfire so although cpu will use less as it will be an X2 the gfx cards will push it over 500 watts.I have 8 Hdds but I would if I had the power extend this.I want to install my kit into a bigger case and if I ever get the balls to mix water with my pc, phaze cooling would be a dream.So my pc in an upgraded form could easily eat up 600 to 700 watts

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my thoughts were right you are insane :nutter:
:tu: :D

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:LOL:

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IIRC, Intel do manufacture RISC cpus, and the P4 core is actually partially a RISC processor (it shares some elements).

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Zingle... do you run a entire network with your pc? 7harddrives... wtf is on them :rofl:

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8 hard drives . My machine is on a network 14 hard drives in total across the down stairs network.All my stuff is spred out,important things backed up regular ,none critical things backed up less often. If I bought 400 gig hdds then if one goes 400 gig goes, spreading the data out amongst loads of hdds means at worst I lose 200 gig .Every device has a purpose and thats all it has to do so there not constantly active they last longer.I also run 3 optical drives these also all have there own jobs

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I've hit the limit on my 550W now too. 6HD's and 3 Optical Drives in here, AMD64 4000 and the very powerhungry 6800Ultra. If I so much as plug in my TV Capture card, let alone the 2nd PCI Gfx card I wanted to use to support 3 monitors on this machine like I used to do before I got the Nvidia power monster, it just keels over, unstable as hell. 12 HD's across my network too, I also use specific drives for single purposes in the same manner, my largest being 300GB. I can see myself happily using 800-900W too, need another Raid in here soon ;)

Merrin