News FSP reveals its 2024 PC power supply roadmap: ATX 3.1 and 12v-2x6 standards arrive, alongside a new, simpler naming scheme

[Admin]

FSP has revealed a new naming system for its 2024 PSU lineup, while including new ATX 3.1 standards and the 12v-2x6 connector for upcoming flagship GPUs

FSP reveals its 2024 PC power supply roadmap: ATX 3.1 and 12v-2x6 standards arrive, alongside a new, simpler naming scheme : Read more

 

[DougMcC]

What do you plug a 2500w PSU into? Even a 20A circuit only allows 2400? Is this only for datacenters?

 

[TJ Hooker]

What do you plug a 2500w PSU into? Even a 20A circuit only allows 2400? Is this only for datacenters?

If you live somewhere with 220v mains it's doable on a regular household circuit I think. Why anyone would ever need it is another question, maybe a high end workstation with a bunch of power hungry GPUs?

 

[umeng2002_2]

But why?

 

[torbjorn.lindgren]

What do you plug a 2500w PSU into? Even a 20A circuit only allows 2400? Is this only for datacenters?

Note the "80 Plus Platinum 230V" rating (which is harder than 120V Platinum) - usually up to 13A/3kW sustained on a 16A circuit (both US and EU/UK officially limit sustained to 80% of circuit rating).

And to answer another quqestion: What is this inteded for - with four 12v-2x6 connector it's clearly intended for high-end "workstation" use, where it's semi-common to have multiple high-power GPUs. This doesn't work for games but almost all workstation loads that can run on GPU will scale to pretty much unlimited number of GPUs as long as the machine have enough CPU cores and PCIe lanes to drive them.

And a Threadripper Pro or even regular Threadripper/Intel Xeon do have the cores and PCIe lanes to drive a LOT of GPUs in say something like GPU rendering. Certainly a lot more than "mere" 4 in most cases, how many makes sense is often more about thermal management and space than anything.

And well, flagship models rarely makes sense for most people, this is no exception.