Enermax Releases 1000W Penta-Rail PSU

[Quad_Master]

Enermax Releases 1000W Penta-Rail PSU

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@yantronic @ VRZ

Enermax is proud to announce GALAXY, the long awaited highest-end PSU series.

After showing the world’s first 1000W class PSU prototype in August 2005 at Games Convention show in Germany, the world wondered, why it has not been released ever since. The reason was a redesign to newest technology. While all other manufacturers have released since only ordinary 1000W class PSU’s with normal 4 rail technology, ENERMAX decided to design a PSU, which would be able to power 2007 & 2008 server systems to give customers the utmost benefit possible.

The result: Five 12V rails, which are an integral part of the upcoming revision of EPS12V PSU design guide by Intel, which will specify 1000W class PSUs and respective technical requirements especially five rails as a must to be versatile enough to power QUAD CORE & QUAD CPU systems as well as QUAD graphics (GPU) systems (= TRIPLE QUAD). Moreover, it can power even TRIPLE QUAD + 24, because it is modular. Besides 6 natively connected drives, up to 18 additional drives can be connected. The sophisticated 6-pin sockets allow SATA and PATA connection without restrictions.

Fully rated at 50C the output per model is 850W & 1000W. This ability is not only based on its rail design, but also on the delay of its release. Continuous meetings with other key players in the IT industry gave essential information on power consumption of their future products and ENERMAX distributed the connectors to these products perfectly on the five rails. Its single PCB allowed to integrate 13.5cm & 8cm fans, which cool it permanently for 24/7 full power output even at 50C.

Product codes are: ENERMAX GALAXY 1000 EGA1000EWL (1000W), ENERMAX GALAXY 850 EGA850EWL (850W)

GALAXY will be available from July onwards. Prices and detailed specs will be released soon.

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[Aditya]

Hmm… Amazing..

No Rail ratings released yet though.

Hope theyre above 20A each.

[Nikhil]

Amazing?? It is useless ..

[stormblast]

talk about overkill

[RiO]

Useful if it can power high end DX10 cards that supposedly require 300W

[KingKrool]

I believe that we should all protest against such PSUs and their manufacturers. While AMD and Intel have learnt their lesson, ATI and NVidia will take this as a license to make even more overheating, power-guzzling cards, and force us to connect them in dodeca-SLI form (dodeca = 12, I think).

[Quad_Master]

Well what next Hexa , Hepta , Octa …

[Blade_Runner]

lol! desparate times call for desparate measures. dx10 cards are supposedly gonna need 300w of power !

[hunt3r]

^^Not the G80 for sure. Maybe the R600 i guess. It looks like the default psu will shift to 500W by next year as its shifted to 400W from 300.

[Aditya]

I think, after a few more months, well have 6 - 8 Rail, 1500 - 2000W PSU’s, which have about 4 120MM Fans and are louder than a Lamborghini gallardo.

[Blade_Runner]

@hunt3r

^^Not the G80 for sure. Maybe the R600 i guess. It looks like the default psu will shift to 500W by next year as its shifted to 400W from 300.

Nah ! both Ati and Nv have been briefing psu makers to make high wattage psu’s like the one we see here.

ATI and NVIDIA have been briefing power supply manufacturers in Taiwan recently about what to expect for next year’s R600 and G80 GPUs. Both GPUs will be introduced in late 2006 or early 2007, and while we don’t know the specifications of the new cores we do know that they will be extremely power hungry. The new GPUs will range in power consumption from 130W up to 300W per card. ATI and NVIDIA won’t confirm or deny our findings and we are receiving conflicting information as to the exact specifications of these new GPUs, but the one thing is for sure is that the power requirements are steep.

AnandTech: Computex 2006: 300W GPUs, Conroe, HDMI Video Cards and Lots of Motherboards

[Nikhil]

@Aditya

I think, after a few more months, well have 6 - 8 Rail, 1500 - 2000W PSU’s, which have about 4 120MM Fans and are louder than a Lamborghini gallardo.

If they sound half as good as them I will still be extremely happy

But as Kingkrool said, this is getting out of hand. Intel and AMD learnt their lesson. Looks like nvidia and ATI still havent understood…

[thexfactor]

overkill or otherwise , we would know within a couple of years. Still friggin awesome though.

[ANP]

@thexfactor

overkill or otherwise , we would know within a couple of years. Still friggin awesome though.

1KW will still be considered Overkill for a few couple of year.

[hunt3r]

^^Yup exactly. Because at the same time theyre making all these > 1000W PSU’s, regular PC’s wont require anything more than 400W.

[Aditya]

^^ Eh? Dont count on that..

The way nVidia and ATi are going, if you wanna SLi/Xfire a Rig, in about 1 year, youll need like a 2000W PSU :|.