Super Flower 2000w PSU.

CougTek

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You'll need to plug it to a 20A circuit not to blow the fuse, in North America at least. Unless your computer is a server, I don't really understand the need for a 2000W power supply. You could plug enough graphic cards on that thing to play Crisis on a quad 4K monitor setup, but who does that?

Anyone who needs to supply that much power to a computer to do some professional work (like rendering) will, or at least should, have the common sense to opt for redundant power supplies, not a single one like that.

I applaud the achievement of building what seems to be a very well made power supply unit, but I don't see the need it answers. 1600W is the top a non-redundant PSU should be.
 

LunarMist

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The 2000W model is only for the EU.
 
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Mercutio

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Is it even possible to use four Radeon 295s some kind of Crossfire configuration? And if so, why would you want to? What else is going to get a desktop to that kind of power draw?
I've got a dual Xeon with 30-something connected hard drives and the only concession I've had to make was bump the spin up times. And it's not like blade-style servers are going to use ridiculous enthusiast PSUs.

So who is this thing for?
 

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Don't the Chinese have high voltages? Maybe they like it over there as well as in the EU.
 

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Some mining equipment requires you to provide the PSU separate from the miner. I have a shelf of 1kW PSUs for that reason. Of course, circuit management becomes an issue beyond that.

Then again, it shows peak efficiency at 50%, so if you were drawing 1kW continuously (as I am), it might make sense to run one of these.
 

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I don't think those are marketed to the mining industry. :lol:
 

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I imagine these are marketed to the people who see a big, impressive number that isn't entirely incorrect and want to buy it, no matter the cost. Same deal with the 3.0+ GHz Pentium 4's, although those at least had some real merit. They had nothing on an Athlon XP/64 in normal use, of course, but in very specialized applications...

Cutting myself off before I get way off track.
 
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