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    News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    For the “Biggest, Toughest, most Extreme Ultimate PC Gaming Enthusiast machine”.
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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Nice enough psu, dandy little aluminium case for it, shame about the cables not being individually sleeved..
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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Is there any need? Really?

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Quote Originally Posted by DeludedGuy View Post
    Is there any need? Really?
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    I can't imagine what you would need this much power for, processors are starting to use less power and i'm guessing GPU's will go the same way....

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    I'm thinking quad PowerColor HD 7990 Devil 13s ... I think Hexus should do a competition with one of these PSUs and four of these graphics cards :-)

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Maybe if you already had a Devil 13 then won another one in the Hexus competition...? Two of those plus a load of other heavily-overclocked high-end hardware could potentially rocket you over 1kW of power draw. I suppose the other use might be to run a high-end GPU folding farm. You could stack 5 or 6 water cooled GPUs into an appropriate motherboard and not have to worry too much about powering them all...

    EDIT: love the idea of quad Devil 13s, but they only have 1 crossfire connector so I'm afraid that's not gonna happen

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    Maybe if you already had a Devil 13 then won another one in the Hexus competition...? Two of those plus a load of other heavily-overclocked high-end hardware could potentially rocket you over 1kW of power draw. I suppose the other use might be to run a high-end GPU folding farm. You could stack 5 or 6 water cooled GPUs into an appropriate motherboard and not have to worry too much about powering them all...

    EDIT: love the idea of quad Devil 13s, but they only have 1 crossfire connector so I'm afraid that's not gonna happen
    For a folding farm it might be better to split the GPUs into individual motherboards (or 2 each), each with a smaller PSU, put them next to each other in/on Antec Skeleton cases and run a huge watercooling loop around the whole lot, gives a small kind of redundancy and would look delightfully daft on the desk!

    This could be a PSU for the monster overclocked gaming rigs, 2xCPUs, 4+ GPUs, chilled water etc... it's the only use case I can think of that can't simply be split up and parallelised across multiple machines. I haven't spent that long thinking though... so there probably is more...

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Moar power!
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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Imagine the electricity bill.

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Only if you actually drew that much power from it - it doesn't constantly draw 1600W from the wall, although it's likely to be terribly inefficient down at realistic loads, especially idle.

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Wow... You guys are just like all the 690 tards. "Yeah? Well I have 4 690's!"
    *MAJOR FACEPALM* NO YOU DON'T!

    We only have support for a MAX of quad GPU's at this point in time! That means, MAX OF TWO DUAL GPU CARDS! So no matter what, there's no way you are going to be running 4 devil 13's, or even 3! The 690 hs two 680 GPU's, then 7990 has two 7970 GPU's Thats 4 if you go and get two. Thats all you get! Why do you people always get hung up on this subject?

    Anyway... I was really happy to see such a monstrous looking power supply, until I saw that it's only 80 plus silver, and the sleeving on those modular cables is worse that a 80$ PSU I have...

    I won't be recommending this overkill peice anytime soon. I would much rahter go with the new AX 1200i from corsair, and even that is well enough for anything you could build today.

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    overkill PSU..

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Well, you could run four dual-GPU cards in a PC, just not in SLI/Crossfire. People do that sort of thing for f@h/Bitcoin/etc. But I expect the vast majority of people who buy it would be better off with a PSU with half the output.

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    I guess if my kettle filament blows I could use this as a short term replacement.

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    Re: News - Rosewill unleashes the HERCULES 1600W power supply

    Quote Originally Posted by sykobee View Post
    I'm thinking quad PowerColor HD 7990 Devil 13s ... I think Hexus should do a competition with one of these PSUs and four of these graphics cards :-)
    Unfortunately the Devil 13 only supports two-way Crossfire, and also they pull about 415W each, so this PSU still wouldn`t be enough to run four of them.

    Nice thought tho`.

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