CeBIT 2008 Day 3 - PSUs and Cases
by Christoph Katzer on March 6, 2008 5:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Thermaltake
Thermaltake has a 2000W power supply at their booth. Yes: Two Thousand Watts! To show how ridiculous this kind of power supply is the company is powering two systems at the same time with a single power supply. The one system contains an SLI setup and the other has four cards in a Crossfire-X setup. (Ed: Yeah, that sounds tremendously useful: a single point of failure for two systems. I suppose maybe it might be useful for a test bench area, though.)
A little more interesting is the new lineup of TR2 power supplies that start at just 300W. Unfortunately, most manufacturers have neglected the 300W-400W market, so users need to go for a Seasonic (Ed: nothing wrong with that, though certainly not inexpensive) or generic brand power supply. It's nice to see another major manufacturer returning to this market, especially in light of the fact that many PCs still rarely need more than 200W. Like many of NVIDIA's other partners, Thermaltake also displayed a running ESA system.
Zalman
The Zalman booth features several 3D monitors to attract passing people. Concerning coolers, we didn't actually find anything new. A smaller part of their booth shows the power supplies. Zalman's latest lineup starts at just 360W and goes up to 1000W. The latest additions of 750W, 850W, and 1000W are probably made by Enhance, which is a good manufacturer for this segment. One interesting innovation is that all of the power supplies have heatpipes installed, which help move most of the heat from the inside of the PSU to the heatsink near the back of the power supply.
Miscellaneous
Arctic Cooling already showed their new power supply at CES, and it seems they are getting close to a final sample now. The power supply has an 80mm fan installed, which is located on the front of the PSU and blows air into the power supply.
We met with the representatives of Super Talent, a company more known for memory. Their newly introduced power supply is named Atomic Juice, which is either a silly name or excellent marketing. It seems the power supply comes from FSP and uses a rather old design. The first model will come rated at 600W, since Super Talent wants to start in that popular market.
Amacrox is another company that doesn't do much in the US (yet), but in Europe this brand of FSP-manufactured PSUs is selling quite well. We have already tested one power supply, and the Calmer 2 is merely waiting for us to publish our review. The Calmer 2 is a very interesting power supply since it has no fan and is therefore completely silent. There are also 1200W versions available, but they include a 135mm fan since it's not feasible to run such a PSU without active cooling. One interesting footnote with Amacrox is that most of their power supplies ship in metal boxes, which can be used for several other things after the power supply is mounted in a case.
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sheh - Saturday, March 22, 2008 - link
According to reviews I read, it seems ~500W *input* is enough even for high-end systems with two graphic cards. Given this, buying those 1K PSUs is not only a waste of money during purchase, but also afterwards due to lower efficiency because of lower utilization.Like a previous commenter said, efficient and quiet PSUs would be far more interesting, but it looks like all the publicity goes to the KW models.
Maybe AnandTech should take a stance, not review PSUs that make no sense, and instead focus on efficient and quiet? If everyone follows, perhaps we'd get manufacturers to focus on useful products.
R3MF - Monday, March 10, 2008 - link
Silverstone need to have a real re-think on the Sugo 04, that rounded facia is awful.In fact the only thing I would change to the current model is the need for a stealth drive.
nubie - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
Why no pics of the Zalman3D monitor? I wan't one, once you game 3d anything else is a step down.I want to know when they will make a serious effort to push this tech.
Snapcase - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
http://www.anandtech.com/GalleryImage.aspx?id=1448">http://www.anandtech.com/GalleryImage.aspx?id=1448There's no caption or more information on this case, does anyone have any idea what it's called or know specifications?
It looks like a perfect lan party case...
themadmilkman - Saturday, March 8, 2008 - link
It's called the SG04. According to www.presence-pc.com/actualite/Silverstone-CeBIT-28201/ , it is simply the SG03 with a different case design.yehuda - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
Last Computex, Silverstone was showcasing a USB-attached amplifier:http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverstone-Shows-O...">http://news.softpedia.com/news/Silverst...SB-Power...
Any word on what's come out of it?
poohbear - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
2000w psus? is that ridiculous or is that ridiculous? just curious does ANYONE here have a psu above 750wt? talk about overkill.7Enigma - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
I'm thinking about getting one to put in my bedroom at night to keep it nice and toasty....But really, this is up there in the stupid cuz' we can category. As mentioned in the article the only place this PSU would be practical is in exactly the area where redundency is paramount (cluster/server).
I'm sure its great to say we did it, but its just wasteful. Now I'd love to see a list of people who will be showing up at lan parties with one of these in their system....I'm sure they will get razz'd pretty badly.