[rescue] x86 power question

[Chad McAuley]

On 11/13/06, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
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> I was at CompUSA this past weekend and saw a 1 KW power supply for PCs...
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> OMG
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> It was about $249, IIRC - here's a link:
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> http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=BROWSE&No=60&N=200089&Ne=200000&Ns=display%5Fprice%7C0&product_code=342098&Pn=PC_System_PowerSupply_1000_Watt_Power_Supply



With some of the power consumption figures I've seen floating around for the
next
generation fo video cards, you're pretty much going to need a 1kW PSU to
power
everything.  I don't think ATI or Nvidia have released hard numbers yet, but
in one of
AnandTech's Computex articles from this year they mentioned hearing GPU
power
consumption figures in the 130W-300W range.