CeBIT 2008 Day 3 - PSUs and Cases
by Christoph Katzer on March 6, 2008 5:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Thermaltake
Thermaltake has a 2000W power supply at their booth. Yes: Two Thousand Watts! To show how ridiculous this kind of power supply is the company is powering two systems at the same time with a single power supply. The one system contains an SLI setup and the other has four cards in a Crossfire-X setup. (Ed: Yeah, that sounds tremendously useful: a single point of failure for two systems. I suppose maybe it might be useful for a test bench area, though.)
A little more interesting is the new lineup of TR2 power supplies that start at just 300W. Unfortunately, most manufacturers have neglected the 300W-400W market, so users need to go for a Seasonic (Ed: nothing wrong with that, though certainly not inexpensive) or generic brand power supply. It's nice to see another major manufacturer returning to this market, especially in light of the fact that many PCs still rarely need more than 200W. Like many of NVIDIA's other partners, Thermaltake also displayed a running ESA system.
Zalman
The Zalman booth features several 3D monitors to attract passing people. Concerning coolers, we didn't actually find anything new. A smaller part of their booth shows the power supplies. Zalman's latest lineup starts at just 360W and goes up to 1000W. The latest additions of 750W, 850W, and 1000W are probably made by Enhance, which is a good manufacturer for this segment. One interesting innovation is that all of the power supplies have heatpipes installed, which help move most of the heat from the inside of the PSU to the heatsink near the back of the power supply.
Miscellaneous
Arctic Cooling already showed their new power supply at CES, and it seems they are getting close to a final sample now. The power supply has an 80mm fan installed, which is located on the front of the PSU and blows air into the power supply.
We met with the representatives of Super Talent, a company more known for memory. Their newly introduced power supply is named Atomic Juice, which is either a silly name or excellent marketing. It seems the power supply comes from FSP and uses a rather old design. The first model will come rated at 600W, since Super Talent wants to start in that popular market.
Amacrox is another company that doesn't do much in the US (yet), but in Europe this brand of FSP-manufactured PSUs is selling quite well. We have already tested one power supply, and the Calmer 2 is merely waiting for us to publish our review. The Calmer 2 is a very interesting power supply since it has no fan and is therefore completely silent. There are also 1200W versions available, but they include a 135mm fan since it's not feasible to run such a PSU without active cooling. One interesting footnote with Amacrox is that most of their power supplies ship in metal boxes, which can be used for several other things after the power supply is mounted in a case.
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xsilver - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
yes I understood the comments, I was just referring to the fact that many people may be selling their 300w antec phantoms or 500w antec phantoms (which has a fan BTW) because of the belief that they need more power. This would allow someone to score these used psu's CHEAP.I think for psu manufactuers they have to always think of worst case scenario's so even a 300w fanless psu has to work well in the middle of arizona with no AC i think. If you live somewhere cooler, the chances of it overheating are much less?
poohbear - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
cant they make it passive w/ the advent of heatpipes?xsilver - Friday, March 7, 2008 - link
the antec 300w was completely passive AFAIK and through a quick google search there seems to be a silentX model the is supposedly 450w completely passive.zalman has some psu's that have heatpipe heatsinks inside but they also include a fan.
I think also part of the problem is that passive psu's require a premium price, people willing to pay premium price for a psu are sadly people that only run high end systems. Therefore require more POWER (or at least the perception of more power) and therefore the efficient passive psu's have stagnated.
legoman666 - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
what's with the tiny 85x85 thumbnails? I can't even tell what I'm clicking on.JarredWalton - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
The thumbnails are all standardized from our gallery feature (first added for CES 2008). If you go into the galleries, you can get a better view of the images, naturally, and they won't be stretched/skewed. The galleries are really good for trade shows, as they provide us with a to quickly get images on the site without the need to manually resize and crop each image, plus create a thumbnail, hyperlinks, etc. They are not "perfect" but there's a need to balance functionality with rapid delivery of content and ease of use.mindless1 - Sunday, March 9, 2008 - link
I think the point is that they're inadequate, should be larger and/or an (imaging editor command) softend before resized, but ideally in the broadband age just presented in a more realestate-appropriate resolution. If I wanted thumbnails I'd do a google image search. Remember, most people today aren't running 1024x768 resolution anymore.ebuyings0005 - Friday, September 4, 2009 - link
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