Super Flower Claims World's First 2-Kilowatt Power Supply

Super Flower has announced a product that you certainly won't need, but will be able to respect nonetheless. It's the 8Pack 2000W power supply, which the manufacturer claims is a world's first!

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Niels Broekhuijsen is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He reviews cases, water cooling and pc builds.

  • ohim
    Am i the only one that thinks power usage in a PC is out of hand ? I mean .. in the past we were on a 250 W PSU.. now you need 650 W GOLD PSU to be sure your PC will run without issues .. and now we have 2KW PSU .. i hope in 10 years this won`t be standard PC requirement ...
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  • ShadyHamster
    15213235 said:
    Am i the only one that thinks power usage in a PC is out of hand ? I mean .. in the past we were on a 250 W PSU.. now you need 650 W GOLD PSU to be sure your PC will run without issues .. and now we have 2KW PSU .. i hope in 10 years this won`t be standard PC requirement ...

    If Intel and Nvidia continue down the same path of efficiency (can't say the same thing about AMD atm) we will soon see high end pc's running off lower power psu's again.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajiN9aVOv4A&list=WL&index=9
    Check that out, you don't need a lot of watts for a decent high end system.
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  • spdragoo
    Hmmm...this sounds more like the kind of PSU you would need for a quad-R9 290X bitcoin machine. Seriously 2000W?!?!? Yeah, sure, you won't hear any noise running most rigs....but only because you'll barely scratch maybe 30% of its load.

    And...wow...at least $350 for a PSU, which would net them a top-end GPU instead. Yeah, I think I'll pass on this.
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  • Afrospinach
    For when you absolutely need to charge your Tesla from your USB ports.
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  • wtfxxxgp
    You won't ever hear this thing cool itself down because of your 4-way XFire rig trying to cool the GPUs. If it's Nvidia, it'll be RELATIVELY quiet. Beware if it's AMD stock cooling on high-end GPUs though... may as well house your PC in the basement cos it'll drive you bonkers with all the fan noise.
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  • Dark Lord of Tech
    Now bring them to the US.
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  • panders4
    If you have a 15 amp circuit in the US, you wouldn't even be able to run this thing at max load without tripping the breaker...
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  • InvalidError
    This is not a first: Great Wall from China announced a 2000W PSU back in September 2013:
    http://www.techpowerup.com/190861/why-settle-for-1500w-when-you-can-get-2000w-in-a-20-cm-long-psu.html

    ... and the GW model is a whole 2cm shorter.
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  • aldaia
    Saying is the worlds first 2000 W power supply (without any complement) is an overstatement. Maybe is the first ATX 2KW power supply, but 2000 W and even higher power supplies are common in rack servers. Examples:
    Sun Microsystems 2400W REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLY (MSRP: $12,250)
    Cisco WS-CAC-3000W Redundant Power Supply
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  • nukemaster
    Time to run 12 gauge(20 amps will be required for in Canada with out 120 volt outlets) wire to run 4-5 computers of one of these things.

    That a hell of a lot of power.
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