Just in case no one knows, modern US buildings use 20A per breaker. I would know, my father's in the construction industry and can read breaker amperage's just like anyone else.Reply
Sometimes companies make demo products they don't plan to sell in order to sucker journalists into talking about them and, as a side effect, advertising the brand. All you really need is a non-working or barely working mockup. Concept cars are a fine example. They generate attention for a low investment cost and they never really see actual production so that's possibly what these are for.
Then again, I'm hedging my bets with a comment making fun of them while I'm here since it can go either way and I'd never want to be accused of underestimating the stupidity of people that play video games on PCs as a primary hobby.Reply
"AMD's Ryzen Threadripper WX and Intel's Xeon W-3400-series – CPUs that can devour all the way to 900W under heavy loads – as well as NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards (or, well, H100 PCIe for AI), 2,000W PSUs are no longer entirely overkill"
Just like a previous article about a case full of holes, you just have to mention the highest end hardware and people will fall all over themselves to feel that a giant PSU is totally justified and that the must have one to support the 300W their computer demands. I'm excited! Here's hoping for more products that are marketed as supportive of the current fastest computer parts that are attempting to land halo sales. It's not like the buyers were going to do anything else useful with that money so it may as well be extracted from them anyhow.Reply
I think general home users are not the target audience. But I can see some labs using this PSU to power quad 4090s for machine learning. Students generally prefer a plug and play solution and hates HPCC.Reply
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Threska - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
Breaker, outlet, what's not to worry?https://www.quora.com/How-many-watts-can-an-Americ... Reply
ballsystemlord - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
Just in case no one knows, modern US buildings use 20A per breaker.I would know, my father's in the construction industry and can read breaker amperage's just like anyone else. Reply
ballsystemlord - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
EDIT: 20A for the breakers.They also run 14AWG wire. Reply
PeachNCream - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
Sometimes companies make demo products they don't plan to sell in order to sucker journalists into talking about them and, as a side effect, advertising the brand. All you really need is a non-working or barely working mockup. Concept cars are a fine example. They generate attention for a low investment cost and they never really see actual production so that's possibly what these are for.Then again, I'm hedging my bets with a comment making fun of them while I'm here since it can go either way and I'd never want to be accused of underestimating the stupidity of people that play video games on PCs as a primary hobby. Reply
kn00tcn - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
stfu sick troll Replyballsystemlord - Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - link
Be nice, kn00tcn.If PeachNCream wants to be a pessimist, that's his choice. It won't hurt you. Reply
PeachNCream - Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - link
"AMD's Ryzen Threadripper WX and Intel's Xeon W-3400-series – CPUs that can devour all the way to 900W under heavy loads – as well as NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards (or, well, H100 PCIe for AI), 2,000W PSUs are no longer entirely overkill"Just like a previous article about a case full of holes, you just have to mention the highest end hardware and people will fall all over themselves to feel that a giant PSU is totally justified and that the must have one to support the 300W their computer demands. I'm excited! Here's hoping for more products that are marketed as supportive of the current fastest computer parts that are attempting to land halo sales. It's not like the buyers were going to do anything else useful with that money so it may as well be extracted from them anyhow. Reply
erinadreno - Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - link
I think general home users are not the target audience. But I can see some labs using this PSU to power quad 4090s for machine learning. Students generally prefer a plug and play solution and hates HPCC. Reply