dedicated circuits for computers...

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If you debated running a dedicated circuit for just the PC in the room, this may change your mind...

1000W Power Supply

Providing over 1000 watts of power for the PC, it draws over 1400 watts from the wall. That's about 12 Amps for it alone.

<drools>
I think I'm in love...
 
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My first thought was this will not be an issue as the power supply only draws roughly what it is putting out. No average office PC will draw anywhere near that.

Then I followed the link....


.... it?s hard to see how you?re ever going to need 1000W inside your machine. Unless you?re a modding freak with five SATA drives, loads of lighting, fans and a pair of 7800s inside your machine with a kettle, electric fire and table saw attached to the USB you have to wonder why you'd need a 1000W PSU?....
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Kinda what I thought. :D

They need Tim Allen pitching this product with his grunting about more power.... :D

[ August 23, 2005, 05:12 PM: Message edited by: iwire ]
 
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The computer dorks love this stuff. They'll buy it in a second. Mycomputer works just fine (sometimes) plugged into several plug strips. :p
 
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It is available power not what you actually will pull.The cheapest and best solution i found is to buy a ups at sams ,cost $109 for 1100 va and will pay for itself if it saves so much as one board.Surges and blinks can do major harm to computers.This also makes it safe to share a circuit with other small loads.
 
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This power supply would only be needed for a very large server with multipule processors and drives. No need for this on any NORMAL machine for home or small office. Even if you plugged this into your home PC, it would only pull what your computer needs, not the full 1000 watts.

Most computers that I have serviced (Yes I have a background in this too) have a 300 to 400 watt power supply and don't even pull a full load either.
 
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Originally posted by stud696981:
This power supply would only be needed for a very large server with multipule processors and drives. No need for this on any NORMAL machine for home or small office. Even if you plugged this into your home PC, it would only pull what your computer needs, not the full 1000 watts.

Most computers that I have serviced (Yes I have a background in this too) have a 300 to 400 watt power supply and don't even pull a full load either.
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My gaming PC barely handles the 650W I have in it now and was thinking of upgrading to a second 350W to run in tadem until I saw this baby.

Trust me, 1000W can be used in a single machine, especially once you start getting into liquid cooled systems with the new tandem SLI video cards from nVidia.

Now, as soon as release that bad-boy, I'm going to grab one.
 
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Originally posted by arjo_reich:
My gaming PC barely handles the 650W I have in it now and was thinking of upgrading to a second 350W to run in tadem until I saw this baby.

Trust me, 1000W can be used in a single machine, especially once you start getting into liquid cooled systems with the new tandem SLI video cards from nVidia.

Now, as soon as release that bad-boy, I'm going to grab one.
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How do you know your gaming PC barely handles the 650W you have in it now?

I find that unlikely.

Have you taken measurements or are you just adding all the components up.

As the link you provided and we have all said this is a non-issue for normal PCs.

In an office environment that has 100s of PCs we are not going to start running dedicated circuits for each one just in case someone has a Hot Rodded machine.

Hey if you have that Tim Allen gene then by all means go and get one, heck by two, it's bound to make your PC better than your friends. :D

As for me all I see is the load of typical PCs dropping to be 'Green'. :cool:
 
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My Dell PowerEdge 400 server (currently being used as my desktop) with a 3.2GHz P4 w/800MHz FSB, a Gig of RAM, 40-Gig and 120-Gig hard drives, a CD-ROM, and a DVD burner, has no trouble working on its 250-watt supply.

Admittedly, this unit is known to have a bullet-proof supply, but 250 watts is 250 watts. As has been stated before, and as all electricians should understand, you use what you use from a service, not the max capacity.
 
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My gaming PC barely handles the 650W I have in it now and was thinking of upgrading to a second 350W to run in tadem until I saw this baby.
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I stopped reading when I got to this.

Tandem supplies, 1000 watts.

Let me just interject some sanity here.

IT'S ONLY A POWER SUPPLY

A bigger power supply wont make your games play any differently.

Unless for some reason your power supply is too small now and the thing wont work.

If you like the pretty colors, that's cool.

What do you do, soup these things up? :D

[ August 25, 2005, 05:19 AM: Message edited by: physis ]
 
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What some overlook is a thing called peak power.Maybe over weekend i will monitor my computer with dig amp meter.Will grant that some of us run 2 or more dvd burners and some fancy vidio cards,along with case lights and mine is running limewire as i type as well as monitoring some other sites, but 1,000 for computer alone is just crazy. :roll:
 
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Originally posted by jimwalker:
sorry about the Dell part .but don't forget your total system is plus monitor :)
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Don't apolgize for me having a Dell; I like it. However, the monitor has its own power cord; even if it's fed through the tower, it's still 120v.

In case you're confused, check the link above; we're talking about the computer's internal power supply, not a stand-alone external UPS.

[ August 25, 2005, 12:29 AM: Message edited by: LarryFine ]
 
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