News Asus introduces 3000-watt PSU — enough capacity to power 4 RTX 5090s

[Admin]

This PSU is also taking steps to prevent the melting connector issues prevalent in high-powered Nvidia GPUs.

Asus introduces 3000-watt PSU — enough capacity to power 4 RTX 5090s : Read more

 

[TheyStoppedit]

Imagine Multi-flame generation activates on all 4 GPUs at the same time.

 

[JeffreyP55]

This PSU is also taking steps to prevent the melting connector issues prevalent in high-powered Nvidia GPUs.

Asus introduces 3000-watt PSU — enough capacity to power 4 RTX 5090s : Read more

Next step: Nuclear power plant.

 

[Kindaian]

There was a battery that could give power for 50 years... maybe if you join enough of those together, you will have your own "radioactive" power supply... you will need LOADS as those batteries are designed for IoT...

 

[Blitz Hacker]

What exactly what 15amp north american breaker is this not going to blow? Are we seriously at the point where you need a 240v drop to power your gaming pc 🤣

 

[A Stoner]

Now we really need to start wiring houses with 240V going to any room where a computer will be.

 

[A Stoner]

What exactly what 15amp north american breaker is this not going to blow? Are we seriously at the point where you need a 240v drop to power your gaming pc 🤣

No gaming PC needs 4 GPUs and there are no multi GPU setups that I know of anymore for gaming.

This is more for people who do other things, business type things, although rich enough amateurs can do those things too.

 

[Dementoss]

Now we really need to start wiring houses with 240V going to any room where a computer will be.

Here in the UK standard power sockets are 13 amp, at 240 volts that is 3120 watts. The Asus website doesn't specify this unit's power draw, only the output and, it's not yet listed on the Asus UK website.

 

[aberkae]

Jensen. My ai tokens. 🤪

 

[alexandre.nado]

No. There is no way you can physically connect this power supply to a 120 V electrical outlet. Even if you had a 30 amp 120 V circuit in your house. This is for 220-240 V only.

 

[HideOut]

What exactly what 15amp north american breaker is this not going to blow? Are we seriously at the point where you need a 240v drop to power your gaming pc 🤣

These are designed more for customers in the EU that already have that in every room. The US power system in inferior unfortunately 🙁

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Here in the UK standard power sockets are 13 amp, at 240 volts that is 3120 watts. The Asus website doesn't specify this unit's power draw, only the output and, it's not yet listed on the Asus UK website.

If your breakers follow the same 80% rule that we have in the US, that still isn't enough power to run this at full capacity?

 

[abufrejoval]

These are designed more for customers in the EU that already have that in every room. The US power system in inferior unfortunately 🙁

While my mansion was built around 1830, all power circuitry is rather ordinary 1980's.

Yes, that started at 220V, has been yanked up to 230V as part of EU alignment, and yes it's 16A on the breakers: but in my case there are only three such circuits for an entire floor. So if somebody starts a washing machine or a hair dryer, poof goes a gaming rig that uses this PSU at full throttle.

120V may be somewhat unfortunate, because it's definitely enough to get you killed but not enough to run three gamer rigs on the same circuit. I'd say the main disadvantage vs 230V is overall much more copper and power loss in those cables.

But most households in Germany include at least one three-phase line, at 400V these days, which used to be required for electric ovens and cookers. Unfortunately they are mostly wasted these days as neither modern household appliances nor gamer PC are able to take advantage of them.

When I was a kid plenty of countries still had both, sockes for 110 and 220V e.g. in Italy and perhaps France, but nothing beats the klunkers they still have in the UK: those look as if you could run a freight train on them!

 

[artk2219]

What exactly what 15amp north american breaker is this not going to blow? Are we seriously at the point where you need a 240v drop to power your gaming pc 🤣

Im thinking this may be more for the AI bros and miners that would be willing to thrown in a few 220 -240 sockets. Its still crazy, although now im imagining this one PSU powering like 4 separate gaming pc's. A bunch of psu cable extensions, and one power button connecting to 4 pc's, and that is entertaining to me lol, synchronizing shutdowns may be interesting though. Why you wouldn't just build a powerful workstation and have a few terminals with access to the hardware instead, i couldnt say, but the slap dash would make me laugh 😀.

 

[madmalc]

So let's add this up, this is the latest price for the PSU, now would you like a quote for a dedicated feed from your existing electrical supply or depending on the age of your house a complete rewire?
Afterall, you wouldn't want the wiring to over heat and cause a fire..

 

[LabRat 891]

If you want to use this puppy, you need 25 to 30 amps on a 120-volt outlet to ensure that you don’t overload the circuit breaker. Alternatively, you can use a 15- to 20-amp outlet with 240 volts.

FYI, many US/CAN homes and apartments will have a 15A+ ~240VAC branch circuit already ran into the bedroom(s) (for resistive heating).

Speaking from experience, It's much easier to replace the thermostat w/ a 250V NEMA receptacle, than running a dedicated 120V branch w/ a single 30A 125V 'RV' NEMA receptacle.

 

[JeffreyP55]

What exactly what 15amp north american breaker is this not going to blow? Are we seriously at the point where you need a 240v drop to power your gaming pc 🤣

125v 20a USA.

https://imgur.com/a/38c5MEg

View: https://imgur.com/a/38c5MEg

 

[USAFRet]

Are we seriously at the point where you need a 240v drop to power your gaming pc

No, we're not.

This is not for a "gaming PC".

 

[USAFRet]

These are designed more for customers in the EU that already have that in every room. The US power system in inferior unfortunately

No, it isn't.

Please define the PC and use case that can utilize 4x 5090 in a single system.

(hint...VERY uncommon)

 

[BFG-9000]

This PSU is rated 80 Plus Platinum which means minimum 90% efficiency at 100% load for 230v EU, so up to 3333w power draw to output 3000w. For intermittent loads, a 15A breaker at 240v would be sufficient, but to ensure the conductors are sufficiently sized to prevent overheating with continuous loads (defined as 3hrs or more) a 20A circuit would be required for that using the 80% derating.

I don't see what the big deal is as you would run a new circuit for a EVSE that operates under continuous load, so you would do the same for a mining rig using this PSU. So a 15A 240v circuit actually not being enough would not be a problem for the target audience of this product

 

[ejolson]

And I thought the Raspberry Pi 5 took too much power.

 

[coromonadalix]

Don't worry gents, the next 60 series will consume much much more 🤣

 

[DingusDog]

What exactly what 15amp north american breaker is this not going to blow? Are we seriously at the point where you need a 240v drop to power your gaming pc 🤣

TL,DR is obvious

 

[palladin9479]

125v 20a USA.

https://imgur.com/a/38c5MEg

View: https://imgur.com/a/38c5MEg

That's still only 2500 watts. For a 3000W PSU you basically need a 240v line installed, which isn't impossible but more something you'd see in a shop then an office.

 

[BFG-9000]

Technically there are 50A 120v 5-50R receptacles for 5-50P plugs but you would need to run #6AWG copper or #4AWG aluminum wire to it. We still haven't reached the point where the largest receptacle is insufficient such as how all EVSE over 48A are hardwired because that's the most that 60A outlets can handle after derating.