[tcMag] Koolance delays its water-cooled 1700W PSU

2008-04-30 09:40:08

#1

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6724|The Twilight Zone

Low temps lova Koolance has announced that its high-end 1300/1700W water-cooled power supply has been delayed and that it won't start selling until late June. The unit, dubbed PSU-1300ATX-12 offers up to 1300W of continuous power when hooked up to a 110-volt AC line and up to 1700W when 220V are available.

Requiring an existing water-cooling system, the PSU features a compact liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger developed exclusively by Koolance, an efficiency of 83% on average, supports SLI and CrossFire setups, an internal temperature monitor and weights a massive 7.5 kg. The PSU also provides four 12V rails and will be backed up by a three year warranty.

Set to start being delivered from June 27, Koolance's power supply costs $624.99.

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2008-04-30 09:49:07

#2

JaMrulezass: Member; +47|6736|Hong Kong

water cooled power supply is fail.

2008-04-30 09:49:12

#3

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6468|Winland

I wanna see a chassis ('cept from the P180 and alikes) that can carry that thing without falling apart. Even fit it tbh.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-04-30 09:50:54

#4

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6724|The Twilight Zone

Freezer7Pro wrote:
I wanna see a chassis ('cept from the P180 and alikes) that can carry that thing without falling apart. Even fit it tbh.

It can fit in my CMS Stacker 831 nicely.

2008-04-30 09:51:42

#5

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6685|Finland

A lot powah + water = kaboom if fail?

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2008-04-30 09:53:58

#6

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox: Big Mouth Prick; +219|6802|Golf 1.8 GTI Wolfsburg Edition

What kind of kakamania system needs 1700w ?!

2008-04-30 09:54:08

#7

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6724|The Twilight Zone

People said water and hardware= fail. Look how watercooling expands. Every PC Guru has watercooling kit in his system just look at xtreme systems site.

2008-04-30 10:01:37

#8

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6924

7.5Kg

wat.

2008-04-30 10:07:36

#9

killer21: Because f*ck you that's why.; +400|6862|Reisterstown, MD

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:
What kind of kakamania system needs 1700w ?!

A time machine?

2008-04-30 10:11:37

#10

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6685|Finland

.Sup wrote:
People said water and hardware= fail. Look how watercooling expands. Every PC Guru has watercooling kit in his system just look at xtreme systems site.

it is one thing to watercool pc parts that use 12V power... 220V and water is a lot more exciting...

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2008-04-30 10:13:38

#11

killer21: Because f*ck you that's why.; +400|6862|Reisterstown, MD

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
it is one thing to watercool pc parts that use 12V power... 220V and water is a lot more exciting...

I dunno. I tend to like things catch on fire....or explode. Ok....maybe not but still....

2008-04-30 10:16:26

#12

Kurazoo: Pheasant Plucker; +440|6955|West Yorkshire, U.K

Electrical burns ftw!

But will it blend?

2008-04-30 10:27:45

#13

mikkel: Member; +383|6872

killer21 wrote:
_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:
What kind of kakamania system needs 1700w ?!
A time machine?

Don't be a fool. You need 1.21 jiggawatts for that.

2008-04-30 10:50:59

#14

jamiet757: Member; +138|6893

Watercooled PSU's are pretty worthless, your power supply doesn't perform better if it is cooled with water than air. If anything, it will just add unnecessary heat to your loop and dampen your cooling on your CPU, rendering the whole watercooling setup useless. You might as well go with air.

The only reason Koolance does this is because they know they can make money off of idiots who say "I am going to cool everything in my computer with water! And then I will also cool my room, my dog, and my face with my watercooling setup!!! WHEEE!!!

2008-04-30 11:17:33

#15

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6724|The Twilight Zone

jamiet757 wrote:
Watercooled PSU's are pretty worthless, your power supply doesn't perform better if it is cooled with water than air. If anything, it will just add unnecessary heat to your loop and dampen your cooling on your CPU, rendering the whole watercooling setup useless. You might as well go with air.

The only reason Koolance does this is because they know they can make money off of idiots who say "I am going to cool everything in my computer with water! And then I will also cool my room, my dog, and my face with my watercooling setup!!! WHEEE!!!

Watercooling setups add more heat than ordinary coolers? Doesn't make any sense.

2008-04-30 11:24:07

#16

killer21: Because f*ck you that's why.; +400|6862|Reisterstown, MD

jamiet757 wrote:
Watercooled PSU's are pretty worthless, your power supply doesn't perform better if it is cooled with water than air. If anything, it will just add unnecessary heat to your loop and dampen your cooling on your CPU, rendering the whole watercooling setup useless. You might as well go with air.

The only reason Koolance does this is because they know they can make money off of idiots who say "I am going to cool everything in my computer with water! And then I will also cool my room, my dog, and my face with my watercooling setup!!! WHEEE!!!

Umm....wha?

2008-04-30 18:01:52

#17

jamiet757: Member; +138|6893

.Sup wrote:
jamiet757 wrote:
Watercooled PSU's are pretty worthless, your power supply doesn't perform better if it is cooled with water than air. If anything, it will just add unnecessary heat to your loop and dampen your cooling on your CPU, rendering the whole watercooling setup useless. You might as well go with air.

The only reason Koolance does this is because they know they can make money off of idiots who say "I am going to cool everything in my computer with water! And then I will also cool my room, my dog, and my face with my watercooling setup!!! WHEEE!!!
Watercooling setups add more heat than ordinary coolers? Doesn't make any sense.

A watercooled power supply would add more heat than necessary to your cooling loop. You didn't read my post at all did you?

It is just as easy to cool a PSU with air, and it will not gain any performance benefits, so what is the point in adding all that heat from the PSU to your watercooling loop?

Last edited by jamiet757 (2008-04-30 18:02:52)

2008-04-30 18:36:48

#18

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6920

That's the stupidest idea ever. We really do not need more people encouraging the pointless 1k+ PSU's. Unless you're running 4+ graphics cards it's useless.

2008-05-01 01:19:41

#19

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6724|The Twilight Zone

jamiet757 wrote:
.Sup wrote:
jamiet757 wrote:
Watercooled PSU's are pretty worthless, your power supply doesn't perform better if it is cooled with water than air. If anything, it will just add unnecessary heat to your loop and dampen your cooling on your CPU, rendering the whole watercooling setup useless. You might as well go with air.

The only reason Koolance does this is because they know they can make money off of idiots who say "I am going to cool everything in my computer with water! And then I will also cool my room, my dog, and my face with my watercooling setup!!! WHEEE!!!
Watercooling setups add more heat than ordinary coolers? Doesn't make any sense.
A watercooled power supply would add more heat than necessary to your cooling loop. You didn't read my post at all did you?

It is just as easy to cool a PSU with air, and it will not gain any performance benefits, so what is the point in adding all that heat from the PSU to your watercooling loop?

Tell me how do you know its easy to cool a 1700W PSU on air? You tested that PSU and checked temps or what? People don't say its fail until there are some reviews. Maybe in future this will be the only way to cool components. And jamiet don't be a fucking smartass. Explain why would watecooling kit add to more heat or don't reply.

2008-05-01 01:24:16

#20

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox: Big Mouth Prick; +219|6802|Golf 1.8 GTI Wolfsburg Edition

ghettoperson wrote:
That's the stupidest idea ever. We really do not need more people encouraging the pointless 1k+ PSU's. Unless you're running 4+ graphics cards it's useless.

Even when you run 3 9800GTX's or 2 9800GX2's, a 1000w would suffice. I find this just an example of who has the bigger e-penis.'Whoowooo, we have made a 1700w PSU but we have it watercooled otherwise it would go Chernobyl'

2008-05-01 01:25:20

#21

SenorToenails: Veritas et Scientia; +444|6401|North Tonawanda, NY

.Sup wrote:
Tell me how do you know its easy to cool a 1700W PSU on air? You tested that PSU and checked temps or what? People don't say its fail until there are some reviews. Maybe in future this will be the only way to cool components. And jamiet don't be a fucking smartass. Explain why would watecooling kit add to more heat or don't reply.

You know, he never said that watercooling adds more heat. He said that a watercooled PSU adds extra heat.

jamiet757 wrote:
Watercooled PSU's are pretty worthless, your power supply doesn't perform better if it is cooled with water than air. If anything, it will just add unnecessary heat to your loop and dampen your cooling on your CPU, rendering the whole watercooling setup useless. You might as well go with air.

See? The watercooled PSU will add extra heat. Then he told you again.

jamiet757 wrote:
A watercooled power supply would add more heat than necessary to your cooling loop.

And yet, you are still asking about a statement he never made.

Sheesh!

2008-05-01 01:27:23

#22

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6724|The Twilight Zone

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:
ghettoperson wrote:
That's the stupidest idea ever. We really do not need more people encouraging the pointless 1k+ PSU's. Unless you're running 4+ graphics cards it's useless.
Even when you run 3 9800GTX's or 2 9800GX2's, a 1000w would suffice. I find this just an example of who has the bigger e-penis.'Whoowooo, we have made a 1700w PSU but we have it watercooled otherwise it would go Chernobyl'

It it said the PSU will be delayed. What does that tell you? That it might be released with the new series GFX cards that might actually need that much power. Why do people have 16GB of memory in their PC? Yes some actually need 16Gbs and use all of it.

2008-05-01 01:27:30

#23

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6468|Winland

.Sup wrote:
jamiet757 wrote:
.Sup wrote:
Watercooling setups add more heat than ordinary coolers? Doesn't make any sense.
A watercooled power supply would add more heat than necessary to your cooling loop. You didn't read my post at all did you?

It is just as easy to cool a PSU with air, and it will not gain any performance benefits, so what is the point in adding all that heat from the PSU to your watercooling loop?
Tell me how do you know its easy to cool a 1700W PSU on air? You tested that PSU and checked temps or what? People don't say its fail until there are some reviews. Maybe in future this will be the only way to cool components. And jamiet don't be a fucking smartass. Explain why would watecooling kit add to more heat or don't reply.

A watercooling kit does not add more heat, that monster of a PSU will add tons of heat to the watercooling setup, reducing it's efficiencly a lot. If it's so hot that it can't be cooled with air, it's gotta be generating like 2-300 watts of heat. That itself is a really great point in not getting this thing. Adding 200w of heat to already existing 400w from quad graphics cards and 120 from a quad core, the water cooling setup will be a lot less effective.

.Sup wrote:
_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:
ghettoperson wrote:
That's the stupidest idea ever. We really do not need more people encouraging the pointless 1k+ PSU's. Unless you're running 4+ graphics cards it's useless.
Even when you run 3 9800GTX's or 2 9800GX2's, a 1000w would suffice. I find this just an example of who has the bigger e-penis.'Whoowooo, we have made a 1700w PSU but we have it watercooled otherwise it would go Chernobyl'
It it said the PSU will be delayed. What does that tell you? That it might be released with the new series GFX cards that might actually need that much power. Why do people have 16GB of memory in their PC? Yes some actually need 16Gbs and use all of it.

I doubt the new series graphics cards will use much more power than the current generation. We saw in G92 that they're actually trying to do something about that tremendous heat generation graphics cards have.

Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-05-01 01:31:02)

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-05-01 01:34:39

#24

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6724|The Twilight Zone

Freezer7Pro wrote:
.Sup wrote:
jamiet757 wrote:
.Sup wrote:
Watercooling setups add more heat than ordinary coolers? Doesn't make any sense.
A watercooled power supply would add more heat than necessary to your cooling loop. You didn't read my post at all did you?

It is just as easy to cool a PSU with air, and it will not gain any performance benefits, so what is the point in adding all that heat from the PSU to your watercooling loop?
Tell me how do you know its easy to cool a 1700W PSU on air? You tested that PSU and checked temps or what? People don't say its fail until there are some reviews. Maybe in future this will be the only way to cool components. And jamiet don't be a fucking smartass. Explain why would watecooling kit add to more heat or don't reply.
A watercooling kit does not add more heat, that monster of a PSU will add tons of heat to the watercooling setup, reducing it's efficiencly a lot. If it's so hot that it can't be cooled with air, it's gotta be generating like 2-300 watts of heat. That itself is a really great point in not getting this thing. Adding 200w of heat to already existing 400w from quad graphics cards and 120 from a quad core, the water cooling setup will be a lot less effective.
.Sup wrote:
_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:

Even when you run 3 9800GTX's or 2 9800GX2's, a 1000w would suffice. I find this just an example of who has the bigger e-penis.'Whoowooo, we have made a 1700w PSU but we have it watercooled otherwise it would go Chernobyl'
It it said the PSU will be delayed. What does that tell you? That it might be released with the new series GFX cards that might actually need that much power. Why do people have 16GB of memory in their PC? Yes some actually need 16Gbs and use all of it.
I doubt the new series graphics cards will use much more power than the current generation. We saw in G92 that they're actually trying to do something about that tremendous heat generation graphics cards have.

You doubt they will use so much power? Why not wait and see. I remember a guy saying in 98: you don't need 256mb of memory in your PC but I went anyway and bought a PC with 256mb of memory.

2008-05-01 01:37:24

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nukchebi0: Пушкин, наше всё; +387|6595|New Haven, CT

No, 64MB is obviously all you need, or ever will need.

Last edited by nukchebi0 (2008-05-01 01:38:10)

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