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Thermaltake

The Thermaltake can make reasonable coolers with enough power to run the CPU up about until you need a PSU upgrade. With the makers of Thermaltake is the tough power 1500W PSU brick, with the energy to power your house appliances who are you going to need to power a rig. Well, with the power hungry boards and graphics cards flooding the market, no one cares for the PSU to overheat or blast in a puff of smoke when you should be buying a better replacement. For that Thermaltake took care of that problem with the tough power series.
With this big powerful beast of exploding power, we cannot use in the homeland In the US because the power demands of the PSU with the lower power input of an ordinary power supply in the US are only 115V, the thing needs to have a minimum of 230V to power it up to its destined power the 1500W mark. So we just used the power it can harness which was at 1000W power supply. But our British counterparts are luck considering their power outages are in the quota of the PSU about 230V, at least the power grid in the US will likely change for the demand of us gamers and power hungry resource alike. With the PSU of Thermaltake, is just separate 750W PSUs in one PSU metal brick covering with the connections of a 24 pin and an eight pin power connectors for the boards and intelligent power connectors of the rest of the expansion slots like the video and the hard drive, while not having the cluttering power cords running around the case. While those who need a 1,500W power supply are a small few, Thermaltake (and CWT) have produced an ultra high power unit that’s left us with highs and lows. On one hand it’s extremely efficient and provides a the most comprehensive multi-GPU support we’ve ever seen, it has great modular connectors and even ferrite cores on the PCI-Express cables. However, we feel some of the cable choices could have been better and the hot spots at very high load mean we can’t really recommend it – we feel it just can’t quite do what it says on the tin, safely.
For the power connectors of the rest of the board the SATA and the pin connectors you have to change the power connectors by expanding a bit, because the first batch of power cords is too big for it to fit, so you need to have the supplied extension on the cords from thermaltake. While you cannot benchmark literally the power supply but only just tests is efficiency when using the full load, when I try to find any extra expansion for the board for testing, I can say this, that the 1500W is way too much for today’s power consumption, and if you are this can be a no go for you, but if you don’t this can be a good investment when there are a few providers supplying 1500W. And thermaltake toughpower can be a good deal when it comes for a 1500W PSU.

Thermaltake 1500W PSU..err I mean 850W but the reference design is the same as the 1500W (okay!)

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