Madshrimps Forum Madness - Thermaltake Thoughpower 1500 W Power Supply

Madshrimps Forum Madness (https://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/)

- WebNews (https://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f22/)

- - Thermaltake Thoughpower 1500 W Power Supply (https://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f22/thermaltake-thoughpower-1500-w-power-supply-46566/)

Thermaltake Thoughpower 1500 W Power Supply

Thermaltake Thoughpower 1500 W is probably the most power PC power supply in the world – so powerful that it can't be sold in the USA, as it is over the maximum allowed power for household appliances set by the Underwriter Laboratories (UL) – which is 1,300 W, by the way. Because of that, this model can only be found in Europe. The architecture used is really interesting: this power supply is in fact two completely independent 750 W power supplies inside the same housing. Besides its monstrous power capability – which the manufacturer says can be delivered at 50º C with a peak power of 1,600 W –, Thoughpower 1500 W has a modular cabling system with a total of eight power connectors for video cards and a 140-mm fan. In this article we will completely dissect this monster.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/594

this PSU is certainly a big one. Maybe folding PCs that have 4+ 9800 GX2s will profit from this?

how did you know?

Quote:

# AMD Phenom 9850 processor + Scythe Infinity CPU cooler
# 4x MSI 9800GX2 graphics card
# 4x 2GB Corsair Twinx DDR2 PC6400 memory
# MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard
# Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB HDD
# ThermalTake Toughpower 1500W Modular PSU
# Lian-Li PC-P80 Armorsuit case
# Windows XP 64-bit

http://fastra.ua.ac.be/en/index.html

Quote:

How much computing power can you cram into a single desktop PC? In our research on image reconstruction we often have to perform large-scale scientific computations, which can easily take weeks on a normal PC. To tackle this problem, we have developed a special PC that is capable of performing our computations just as fast as a cluster consisting of hundreds of PCs. Using this superPC, which consists mainly of gaming hardware and costs less than 4000 euro, we can now perform our three-dimensional reconstructions within a few hours: over 100 times as fast.

Wow, i was right! Damn im good! XD

Idk, i just did an estimated guess.

1500W is overkill though, even for a Quad 9800GX2 setup ;)
no folding being done though :/