1000w PSU incoming

Think someone in Graphics was saying how the next gen graphics cards are going to be incredibly power-hungry and the psu companies are releasing these 1000+ watt units in response to their briefing by nvidia and ati.
 
*Read my post*

That idea of the first 1KW PSU was that it could power 2 server machines at once :p That was when they weren't particularly powerful compared to today.
 
Nvidia is pushing quad sli and ATI is pushing for 3 PCIE x16 lanes for running crossfire with a 3rd physics calculating card. 1000w starts to look necessary at those levels.

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2770

As it says, "DirectX 10 GPUs to Consume up to 300W".

Assuming that 300W is the next gen 7950 GX2 then a top notch 4x4 system consisting of 2x Athlon FX-62's, 4gb of ram, 2x 8850 GX2's and a 4x 1gb drives in raid could be around by early 2007 pushing 900W

Insane... but given current trends....
 
You only need 380w PSU to power up a single gfx card system...... Wait till the 1100w comes out then you could power 3 PC's from it!

LOL what a complete and total waste of money!
 
pretty insane amount of power there but its way ahead of its time nothing could use this power except servers etc
 
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