Upcoming Performance Thermaltake PSUs

[xyster]

Thermaltake was showcasing its upcoming Toughpower XT series of power supplies at CES 2009, along with its new Evo_Blue power supply.

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[yoda8232]

Hopefully they are single-rail PSU's, most current Thermaltake high-performance PSU's are quad-rails. 🙁

 

[Avenger_K]

[citation][nom]Yoda8232[/nom]Hopefully they are single-rail PSU's, most current Thermaltake high-performance PSU's are quad-rails.[/citation]

The EVO_Blue features a silent 14-cm ball-bearing cooling fan with adjustable LED lighting that can be set to a variety of colors with a press of a button. The power supply also has a modular socket with blue LED lighting, a single +12 V output, an active PFC and a universal AC input. The price we heard get quoted was $159 and up.

This one at least is a single rail. Seems there's some hope for the other ones to be as well.

 

[yoda8232]

True, but $159 for a 750W PSU seems a bit pricey.
Must be rated 80 Silver for that price.

 

[JonnyDough]

Sign me up for a 650w if they're that great and come at a good price.

You really don't need much more than that, and heaven forbid I ever do.

I will likely never use SLI/Crossfire because GPUs are outdated within a year anyway. Computers are getting more and more energy efficient all the time. I expect to see a turn around in how much power computers demand one of these days. After all, how much computer power does a home user really need? As the ability of a PC rises, costs falls, and the power required drops, I suspect that 1000w PSUs will fade a bit.

A large majority of people barely need a dual core CPU as it is and integrated graphics work just fine for them. Many don't do video editing or play any graphic intensive games yet. They sit and surf the net and type up a paper. That's about it. For those of us with more money to burn than brains, the 1000w PSUs will come in real handy.

The crappy part is that if you have a system with all sorts of reserve power, you need the extra built in power available to your system. But if you use your super-duper gaming machine for net browsing a big part of the time, what's the point?

 

[JonnyDough]

Oops, I got a phone call and hit submit with a messed up last sentence. What I meant to say was that a powerful system running with no load means that your high watt PSU will be running inefficiently. What we really need is some sort of system-controlled PSU switch and have a PSU that essentially has two PSUs built into one. Think of a 350w PSU and a 1000w PSU built into one box that would be hardware controlled. It "ramps up" when more power is required, but does so only when the system requests it.