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I'm buying a new PSU. Will it go in my case?
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i_am_alex
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17. November 2008 @ 06:39 |
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17. November 2008 @ 14:59 |
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Poor logic, and regardless, Coolermaster 1100W units will fail and shut down at about 700W anyway.
if you want a be all end all power supply that will last you forever, buy a Zalman ZM-850HP.
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i_am_alex
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17. November 2008 @ 21:06 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Poor logic, and regardless, Coolermaster 1100W units will fail and shut down at about 700W anyway.
if you want a be all end all power supply that will last you forever, buy a Zalman ZM-850HP.
This PSU actually got a good review in ATOMIC magazine, but was held back a little by the new kind of cable which puts out more amps than a standard one.
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17. November 2008 @ 21:09 |
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That statement doesn't make sense in the laws of electricity. Very few sites have the means to test a PSU's rated wattage. The ones that do find that over 80% of all Kilowatt PSUs fail well before 1000W, because they don't expect anyone's PC to use that much power, it's false advertising, basically. To an extent though, they're right, unless you use multiple graphics cards and/or processors, the most powerful gaming PC you can buy will consume less than 450W from the PSU.
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i_am_alex
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17. November 2008 @ 21:26 |
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It wins in place with 2 others. Sadly, we've got a few reservations about it. You see, the Cooler Master Ultimate 1100 uses a strange, non-standard power socket which can handle 16 amps instead of the normal 10 amp sockets (and by extension, cables) that we're all used to. This is kind of a good thing (see conclusion). *Stuff about losing your cable at a LAN party*. It's not modular either, which you'll wish it was the moment you start attempting to do some cable management. There's a squid's worth of power tentacles attached to this thing that are about as easy to manage as they are to detach. Which they don't. Despite it's annoying usability flaws, it's a solid contraption and passed our testing style.
Overall: 90%
A Solid choice for any gaming system.
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17. November 2008 @ 21:36 |
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Which makes zero mention of how much power the unit can actually produce, only that it has a different power cable plug for no reason.
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i_am_alex
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17. November 2008 @ 21:41 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Which makes zero mention of how much power the unit can actually produce, only that it has a different power cable plug for no reason.
The test was made to show which ones actually put out a decent amount. I don't know if this helps.
Avg voltage
12v 11.600
5v 4.899
3.3v 3.308
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17. November 2008 @ 21:43 |
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That's voltage, it doesn't tell you how much the power supply was actually producing (watts) at the time, and in any case those results are poor, that voltage is dangerously low to causing to stability problems.
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i_am_alex
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17. November 2008 @ 21:50 |
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Well then did you wish to suggest a PSU? I'm looking for at least 800+ with:
Molex connectors x5+
PCI-E 8 Pin x2+
PCI-E 6 Pin x3+
SATA x4+
Floppy x1
CPU 4+4 Pin x 2+
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17. November 2008 @ 22:03 |
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139007
Why on earth you want two 8-pin CPU connectors I've no idea, no board has any more than one except for Skulltrail Dual CPU systems. If you do want one of those (the CPUs and motherboard alone cost several thousand dollars) this PSU can deal with it, as it has six 8-pin connectors.
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i_am_alex
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17. November 2008 @ 22:12 |
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Epic man! Tyvm!!
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17. November 2008 @ 22:15 |
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For reference, this Power supply has been tested and verified to run a Skulltrail (Dual Core 2 Quad QX9775 130W Chips) system overclocked to over 4Ghz with three GTX280 graphics cards on a regular basis for hours successfully. Numerous other 1KW units have failed this task.
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