Thermaltake 1500W 220V actually is CWT 1300W rebranded
Quad 5970s, 1090T@4.8Ghz all 6 cores 1.68 Vcores....oc'd and CWT 1300W takes it all
Sort of
Unless I'm not quite understanding how CWT does their huge PSUs, but every other company that rebadges a PSU @ higher W or reparts a PSU to safely run at a higher W (along with actually running it at a higher power rating) will adjust the OverCurrent/OverPower Protection. Otherwise it won't push out the juice through the rails except at what the PSU is rated for originally. Mind you the PSU's with properly set protections aren't actually set specifically for their rated W, but a few % higher. So that 1300W could actually be set to 1300W, but from what I read in a review at I think JonnyGuru, was the 1300W and 1500W Toughpowers actually have the exact same components in them! So if you were to run the 1300W over it's labeled rating, it really wouldn't be stressing much.
The real question is since that 1300W wasn't going to be anything but a CWT 1300W (heatsinks are the primary giveaway), what would my 1000W with the internal Thermaltake branded stuff (fan, heatshrink and an actually finned heatsink) be able to
actually supply?
Rambling aside, glad to hear it is handling all of that! I believe that the 5970s can suck almost 400W EACH, so that is 1200W w/o even taking into account any other system components
With that said, it seems obvious that you decided not to go with dual-Fermi?
I've yet to plug in my 1000W, since I've still running in an open-air test bench setup that I quickly tossed together months ago when I was testing/playing with the 939 systems. Since those CWT units are HUGE I didn't really have the desk real estate to have it laying up here
Been using that Powerex, and the more I use it the more I want to keep it!
I have been thinking about re-organizing the layout and actually building a test bench that is layered, so I can put the PSU and such under the mobo tray.
EDIT: Oh yea, forgot to touch on the 220V part... Since it is an Active-PFC PSU, that 1300W on 220V basically does convert to 1500W. Any PSU that is originally intended for US market will have a labeled rating based on 110V being fed to it. So if you wanted, and had the means, to plug it into a 220V receptical, you would increase the power your PSU could supply
(it's actually 120V and 240V, but under a load it'll drop way down if you took a reading & depending on the load, for anyone who cares heh). Mind you the initial size of it would impact the results you'd get, so a 430W won't be a 700W