Thermaltake made an 80 PLUS Titanium certified 1250-watt power supply with RGB LED lights, not surprisingly called the Toughpower DPS G RGB 1250W. You wouldn’t expect a PSU with that much juice to be a “green” power supply, yet the company is advertising the new product as exactly that, with features and software that reduces power consumption and tracks usage using a cloud computing platform.
The Toughpower DPS G RGB 1250W features a Smart Power Management (SPM) platform that allows users to monitor and record power consumption, voltage distribution and electricity costs via SPM Cloud 1.0 and a special DPS G mobile app. Users can select energy management plans that can limit consumption at certain times of the day to reduce energy costs. The PSU even records power consumption for up to 6 hours to further analyze your own usage habits while gaming, web browsing and performing other productivity tasks.
The PSU itself is fully modular and features flat-sleeved cables for easy cable management, Japanese capacitors for increased durability and a 10-year warranty. The single +12v rail has a massive output of 104 amps, and along with four 6+2-pin and four 8-pin PCI-e power connectors, it can easily handle quad SLI or CrossFireX configurations.
In addition, there is a software-controlled ultra-quiet 140 mm LED fan. The LED lights can be set to two modes: “LED on” will keep the same color, and “colorful” mode will cycle through all of the available 256 colors. Brightness can be adjusted with the software, which also controls the fan modes (silent or performance).
The Toughpower DPS G RGB 1250W is available now for preorder on Amazon and Newegg for $379, and it officially arrives on January 22 this year.
Derek Forrest is an Associate Contributing Writer for Tom’s Hardware and Tom’s IT Pro. Follow Derek Forrest on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook, Google+, RSS, Twitter and YouTube.
