Quad Core Power Supply => Found

[Nflight]

I was reveiwing the necessary equipment for my new systems which are still off in the future but hey I mans got to look ahead. So one of the main things you must be ready for is having enough juice to power the Beast.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5276

For those who can't open the URL here is a smattering of info to soothe your curiousity:

Quad FX gets the power it needs

Tagan today announced its latest 1,100 watt power supply. The new Tagan Turbojet TG-1100 delivers 1,100 watts of power with greater than 80% efficiency. Tagan caters its new Turbojet TG-1100 towards enthusiast users with SLI setups. It offers six 20 amp 12 volt, one 20 amp 3.3 volt and one 6.5 amp 5 volt rails.

As Tagan is catering its Turbojet TG-1100 towards SLI users and system enthusiasts there are plenty of power connections available. Since NVIDIA’s latest GeForce 8800GTX requires dual PCIe power connectors per card, Tagan has equipped the Turbojet TG-1100 with four PCIe power connectors. It’s disappointing Tagan couldn’t equip the Turbojet TG-1100 with more PCIe power connectors as NVIDIA’s upcoming SLI physics and quad GPU powered Quad FX systems can accept up to four PCIe graphics cards.

Nevertheless, Tagan manages to squeeze in ten SATA and one three Molex power connector for other peripherals. If three Molex connectors aren’t enough, Tagan also includes a SATA to Molex power connector too.

Nflight is thinking of calling in the Power Company to advise if the house system needs upgrading to assist in cooling efforts during the summer months! Will also have to look at bringing over a 30 amp circuit line to maintain the systems and a new UPS with a larger capcity. All these things I routinely keep in mind before I build a new system.

[BlackAdder]

OUCH !!! A dedicated 30 amp circuit just to feed the computer.....and I thought the bill for my hot tub was bad !!! My hot tub pulls over 50 amps per phase on a 230 volt circuit while heating and running the pump...and now we may have computers pulling maybe half that while running at full load....I'd have to get a second job just to afford that ! Damn...

[Evil-Dragon]

** SIREN SOUNDS **

[Phone rings in office]

Yes, sir. We're running at full capacity as it is. FIRE UP THE NUCLEAR GENERATOR!

1 kilowatts of power should be enough for anyone. Imagine the heat from 2 dual core's, 2 quad core sli graphics cards and 10 sata hard drives. Toasty!

[AMDave]

That will instantly overload most existing home UPSs.
As you say, you'd need a new UPS on top of the bargain.

This power-trip (sic. :D ) is a bad road I think. The fabricators must bring the power consumption down.The rollout of the smaller profile HDD arrays will help this a lot, but CPUs are still gulping down more juice.

I am hearing of companies constructing new buildings to cope with new machines because the old buildings would require too much modification.

Isn't that nuts!?

[NeoGen]

Just a few days ago AMD launched the first cpu's manufactured at 65nm process. Smaller manufacturing process always lowers the power consumption a bit...
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/V...114609,00.html

Are the upcoming quad-cores also of 65nm process?

[Nflight]

Actually some of the new Processors coming up are now being produced at 45 nm. That is so small and such a tremendous jump in technology to achieve such fine tuned capabilities in such a short amount of time.

While they talk of handling the multitudes of Sata drives they leave out another new development, the Nand Drives. Which for those not reading about technology that affects us day to day, these new drives are the up and coming Flash Drives. Solid state hard drives, no moving parts just instant response times. Currently the largest available size is 64 Gig, In march 2007 they will be offering to the public 128 Gig Drives. The major manufacturers are very interested in the fact that such memory does not require a constant turning of the drives in laptops so the zero wattage wait state increases the time of useable operation by an average of 12%. I will no longer desire 15,000 rpm HDD that need bolstering of the metal brackets to deal with the surge in startup amperage. I will instead be fasicinated by my 3 second startup delay in my instant on operation of Windows OS crap (see picture on my chewing on someone's leg).

[Steve Lux]

Good luck with that 3 second startup dream.

[AMDave]

Folowing up on the 45nm production implementation, we now have a commitment:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061214/20/11rtp.html

[Steve Lux]

I think the GPUs are becoming the power hogs these days, not so much the CPUs. RAM is no power slouch either.