{"id":127,"date":"2005-05-05T05:03:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=127"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","slug":"almost-1kw-psu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2005\/05\/05\/almost-1kw-psu\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 1kw psu!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=22993\">The inquirer<\/a> has a preview of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcpowercooling.com\/about\/whatnew_850_ETX.htm\">computer power supply<\/a> that is rated at 850W with a peak of 950W. This is almost a whole kilowatt!<\/p>\n<p>Who needs heating? Just install a few computers and you can have all of the heat you need and play Half life 2 (or probably 3 by that point) instead.<\/p>\n<p>Technically the issue is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=22917\">power draw from the graphics cards<\/a>. This seems to be pushing upwards of 200W per card for high end products; and if you have more than one card in the machine the totals will be higher.<\/p>\n<p>The key issue of course is whether such a monster PSU can be cooled efficiently and quietly enough for the consumer market. You would probably need quite a large fan to cool a 1kw PSU adaquately and that isn&#8217;t likely to be quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inquirer has a preview of a new computer power supply that is rated at 850W with a peak of 950W. This is almost a whole kilowatt! Who needs heating? Just install a few computers and you can have all of the heat you need and play Half life 2 (or probably 3 by that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}