XFX adds 1,000+ Watt PSUs to Its ProSeries
XFX has added three new power supplies to its ProSeries line, which was first introduced over a year ago. The ProSeries 1050W and 1250W offer an 80Plus Gold rating, while the 1000W is 80Plus Platinum rated.
The ProSeries offers a full modular design, 135mm fan and features XFX's EasyRail technology. The 1250W is rated at 104A on its 12+V, while the 1050W is rated at 87A and the 1000W comes in at 83A. The ProSeries comes packed with protection sensors, including active Power Factor Correction (PFC), Total Power Protection (OPP), Over Voltage Protection (OVP), Over Current Protection (OCP), Short Circuit Protection (SCP), and Over Temperature Protection (OTP).
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The new ProSeries power supplies introduces SolidLink Technology. The SolidLink has the pin lag that directly connects to the connector daughter board, where traditional modulars have a bundle of cables that are connected to the connector daughter board. The design reduces lost wattage & heat generated by wires and draws less wall power.
The new ProSeries comes with a 5 year warranty. To learn more about the new XFX ProSeries power supplies, visit the product page.



Newegg has the 1000W listed at $269.99 & the 1250W at $299.99
That's actually really reasonable for a high end and effecent 1000+
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371039
Are these types better than those standard ones we use all the time?
I pay your 6 and raise for 6 more
Nope they are same, it's different cords for different countries. The one you provided is very odd tbh. For EU plugs those prongs should be rotated for 90 degrees, for UK middle prong should be rotated, for US it should be female connector on PSU and this is male connector. I don't know what type of plug that is, but all are the same performance wise. Only difference is with US 110V compared to 230V.
The crazy high power consumption comes from the use of end of life chip technologies.
When you start to push the limits of a chip design, you start to get very high power consumptions.
A videocard setup that would need 700+ watts on it's own will be easily beaten by a low power mid range videocard a year or so from now.
Game makers also do not target super high end so it is mostly for bragging rights to have a overkill system.
The only times when overkill comes in handy is when doing stuff like running games that are more considered to be technology demos on a 30 inch display or better yet, across 3 of them.
all max settings
a 2560x1600 monitor can push most cards so hard you need a second one to be playable.
a 3 monitor 1920x1200 setup can easily need 2 cards
not to mention a 5 or 6 monitor setup.
than there are the few games that take advantage of dx11, and cant get good fps without 2 cards
than there are also the setups above, but for 3d, and before you tell me gimick, play a game that was made for 3d or at the very least optimized.
there are plenty of reasons for a 700+ watt system,
But seriously it is overkill to buy such a system for many reasons.
-You take a huge reduction in value when your stuff is no longer the latest and greatest. It's simply not a good investment. Buying a good motherboard with a medium-end processor, and other medium-end components will save you $$$ and let you upgrade in the future with newer video cards that are much faster but don't take any more power.
-The components are not necessarily that good with performance/watt, although they can be if you undervolt and slightly underclock except for when you need all the computing power it can muster.
Pair of 6990s on 3 full HD screens will hardly be beaten in year or two by anything in mid range, not to talk about triple GTX 580 or 6970 systems. Sit down and shut up.
PSUs have male connectors on them in the US but the 3 prongs are all vertical not horizontal.
The end result is overpriced power hungry that will be beaten by cheaper, lower power hardware that will perform just as good or better. Also I have tested dual GTX 580 systems under a killawatt and you can get away with a 750 watt power supply and still have power left over.
(The only way i can see someone going over 1000 watts is if they are doing triple SLI with GTX 590 cards, at which case, there is something wrong with them and their ability to keep their money)
I have built many high end systems for people in the past (and still do), and the issue is that the customer is having me build a $2000 system that will lose probably 60%+ of it's value within a year as other cards come out that can offer similar performance at a lower price and not turn the spinning disk in the power meter into a helicopter.
If you don't believe me, check out the sales of used high end parts, you will notice that unless you sell them while they are still high end/ top of the like, eg within 3-6 months, they tend not to sell, or not sell for much because people who understand the hardware will also understand the power requirements as well as the thermal issues)
Because PSUs are at their most efficient when they're under a load of half their rating. So, if you're rig is pulling around 500 to 600W, a 1k PSU will be, depending on it's efficiency rating, giving you the maximum efficiency of converting wall power to usable power for the system (so, say you have a gold PSU that is rated for 90% efficiency, that means that at 500W for the system, you're pulling 550W from the wall). When you're closer to the high end on the load (say 500W and using a 600W PSU), you system is less efficient and draws more power from the wall (for the same gold PSU, because you're over the 80% load amount for the PSU, that means you're usually losing a few percent in efficiency so instead of being 90% efficient, you're probably 86% to 87%, which means you draw 565W from the wall instead of 550W if you were using a 1k PSU at the half load area). And lets not forget, with a 1k PSU, you have headroom to add more things then with a tighter PSU for your system requirements (like upgrading the video cards, newer cards may draw more power and may require you to get a new PSU if you're tight where as a 1k PSU wouldn't even blink).
As for the comments about the weird connector on it, thats a C19 connector, regular PSUs have C14 connectors which are not rated for nearly as much current as a C19 connector which is why big units like the TP1200 have C19 connectors. The connector on the PSU has absolutely nothing to do with the wall connector in the country you want to use it in, they sell cables for every wall socket.
im more concerned with the lifetime of a powersupply and the noise it makes than i am about its looks, or if it is modular or not.
solidlink technology???
I dont see why they even bothered mentioning this.. in my opinion, having the connectors on the same pcb as the rest of the components makes the psu more fragile, and probably increases resistance.. < the copper traces on circut boards in traditional powersupply's is usually a higher AWG than the tin coated copper wires that are used to link boards together.. so is probably not a better design than the traditional setup of wires between boards. wires have flex and can deal with viberation well. traces on boards that solder directly to connectors are a bad idea, the connections have to deal with pressure when inserting and removing connecters. its all to common to find cold solder connections and lifted traces in electronics when the connector is soldered to the pcb boards. the resistance between a inch or two of 12-18awg wire is not worth mentioning. if that amount of power is worth considering,, than simply remove a led from your computer tower... I think solidlink technology is a way to save some copper and make the psu easyier to assemble. With having no seperate board to mount to the inside of the psu for the modular connections, there is one less step in the assembly process.