**First User impressions of Leadex Superflower PSU.**

[JR23]

I wonder what the future for these massive PSUs is with desktop CPU TDPs dropping year on year and Nvidia strangling the SLI market..

Q1'11 - 990X - 130W
Q4'11 - 3960X - 130W
Q3'13 - 4960X - 130W
Q3'14 - 5960X - 140W
Q2'16 - 6950X - 140W

I don't really recall that happening? And there's still nothing holding people back from buying 4 cards, so if anything we need 1500W+ more than ever! Especially with much better cooling systems than 5 years ago and crazy high resolution high refresh panels, moar power is the way forwards.

JR

 

[Jumper118]

also isnt the tdp of the 7700k higher than 6700k. also we have new amd cpu's incoming so be prepared for those 200w tdp

 

[8 Pack]

Q1'11 - 990X - 130W
Q4'11 - 3960X - 130W
Q3'13 - 4960X - 130W
Q3'14 - 5960X - 140W
Q2'16 - 6950X - 140W

I don't really recall that happening? And there's still nothing holding people back from buying 4 cards, so if anything we need 1500W+ more than ever! Especially with much better cooling systems than 5 years ago and crazy high resolution high refresh panels, moar power is the way forwards.

JR

Skylake E next round will continue this trend.

 

[HazardO]

You can run a heavily OC'd 140W CPU and SLI GTX 1080s on a good 850W CPU. With 2KW you could run a quad socket 140W Xeon server board with 4 way Titans!

I assume Skylake-E will be upping the core counts by 2 over broadwell-E..

I'm guessing a 12 core extreme, 10 core high end enthusiast, a pair of 8 cores (One with more PCI-E lanes than the other) and a six core entry level..

 

[ScottiB]

More cores generally means more power even if the architecture is made more efficient.

My view is that since, as AMD continue pushing high core counts, Intel won't be able to ignore the trend for the mainstream.

That said, the 2000W 8Pack monster isn't designed for single CPU, dual graphics set ups. We needed a PSU that could comfortably handle four heavily overclocked GPUs and an extreme processor pushed to it's limits.

 

[Dwaindibbly]

I always thought that you over do it with the wattage for efficiency? I have a 1000w platinum PSU for only an oc CPU and GPU but I'm under impression it's running efficiently?

 

[ChugNorris]

I always thought that you over do it with the wattage for efficiency? I have a 1000w platinum PSU for only an oc CPU and GPU but I'm under impression it's running efficiently?

PSU's are generally most efficient between 40-60% of their wattage, so if you're using roughly half your wattage at load then you're good