New Evga PSU with 16 (!!!) Pci-e connectors

[Shadow383]

Here's one for the rig builders - really wish I'd been able to get one a year ago 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1500w-evga-supernova-120-pg-1500-xr-90-eff-80-plus-gold-sli-crossfire-eps-12v-fan-atx

Does 1650W on 230VAC - enough to run a 7x7970 rig with a bit of undervolting 

[crazyates]

I can't see anyone buying this. First, who's building new GPU farms from scratch anymore? Second, if you are, 2 1KW PSUs would probably be cheaper.

[Cablez]

That and the sheer number of 12v rails to contend with is troublesome.

[crazyates]

That and the sheer number of 12v rails to contend with is troublesome.

8 rails at only 20A each? You can barely run one GPU on each rail!

[Cablez]

That's what I'm saying. 

For the price it's not worth it. Get 2 single rail 1250s or better yet get 2 of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171063 for just $50 more!

[Desolator]

At least it's modular If you just thought "really? REALLY?" I have a 900W PSU, silver certified, nice brand name, 4 6-pin, and it's not modular.  It has black mesh wrapping so it looks like one of the sentinels from the matrix lol.

[Kaliecious]

The PSU would not be able to handle all 16 connectors in use, Maybe for smaller single GPU cards but then most power supplies right now can handle 5-6. I only mention this cause I had 3 6990 in a water cooled system and I blew a capacitors in both a 1500 and 1600w power supply that have thier own dedicated 20a plug I evently went back to air cool and had to splitt the PSU's and built 2 seperate systems. So unfortunantly as the ole saying goes in some situations bigger is not better.

[crazyates]

If you had a MB that could run 8 5830s, this might work. A 20A rail dedicated for each 5830 might work.

[superfastkyle]

20amp rail is plenty for most everything but a 5970/6990/7970 in fact I have a power supply with 18amp rails that runs 5870's fine. You could run a 5970 or 7970 undervolted probably even

5850/5830 are about 155w at stock speeds

[Kaliecious]

Hell I guess this mother board could be used.
sorry its in a different language




http://donanimhaber.com/asus/NewsDetail.aspx?id=21923

[Cablez]

Hell I guess this mother board could be used.
sorry its in a different language

http://donanimhaber.com/asus/NewsDetail.aspx?id=21923

Whoa!!  Why have I not heard anything about that expander before??    That is too cool.

[philips]

Hell I guess this mother board could be used.
sorry its in a different language




http://donanimhaber.com/asus/NewsDetail.aspx?id=21923

What the.....

[crazyates]

Hell I guess this mother board could be used.
sorry its in a different language
http://donanimhaber.com/asus/NewsDetail.aspx?id=21923

What the.....

I've never heard of that!! Google Translate calls it the Asus ROG Xpander. Only works with their Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard. Still, that's pretty crazy tho.

[Kaliecious]

that board would have been killer a year and a half ago, lay it out on a table slap 8 cards in there and be ready to go. lol my aw dropped when I saw it doing some research for better settings and overclocking using voltage and some how stumbled upon it on fortunantly you could only do 4 of thim with this but keep them nicely seperated.

[BR0KK]

You should be able to run that rog expander on any board. It's a simple nf200 chip connected via pice.

[ssateneth]

16 pci-e connectors, but 8? rails. No thanks. You'll probably be lucky to pull 800 watts from that thing without forcing a shutdown because of over current protection. Single rail forever.

[crazyates]

16 pci-e connectors, but 8? rails. No thanks. You'll probably be lucky to pull 800 watts from that thing without forcing a shutdown because of over current protection. Single rail forever.

While 8 rails at 20A each =/= 160A, it does say it's rated for 124A between all the rail, so that's ~1500W, not 800.

[Shadow383]

16 pci-e connectors, but 8? rails. No thanks. You'll probably be lucky to pull 800 watts from that thing without forcing a shutdown because of over current protection. Single rail forever.

While 8 rails at 20A each =/= 160A, it does say it's rated for 124A between all the rail, so that's ~1500W, not 800.

It also says on another site that you can switch it to single-rail mode (which seems odd) and that it does 1650W on a single rail if given 230VAC.

[Cablez]

It also says on another site that you can switch it to single-rail mode (which seems odd) and that it does 1650W on a single rail if given 230VAC.

Linky........?

[crazyates]

It also says on another site that you can switch it to single-rail mode (which seems odd) and that it does 1650W on a single rail if given 230VAC.

Linky........?

Holy crap I missed that. I wonder if they just link all the rails somehow? Even in the link in the OP:

Single OR multiple 12V Rails: No longer will you have to toil over the decision of choosing a single or multiple rail PSU; the NEX1500 Classified lets you switch modes as you please.