synergy 2 is available now and makes sharing a keyboard or mouse between two
systems so simple that anyone could do it check it out in the link in the
description down below we're here at fantext checking out a setup that has
two power supplies shared into one system that's so simple anyone can do it
or one power supply shared into two systems so simple that anyone could do
it fantax has teamed up with csonic to make these power supplies and they're
two different ones for the two different applications let's start with the revolt
pro this is the one you'll be using if you want to use multiple power supplies
on the same system that isn't just two you could theoretically go beyond just
the two we have here but i suspect the vast majority of people will stick with
just two power supplies now how does this work you may have seen the power
supply combiner and splitter that fantax has released in the past they've
essentially built that functionality into these power supplies individually
so the revolt pro has your motherboard connector a whole bunch of CPU and PCIe
connectors a whole bunch of SATA and molex connectors and then down below
these rubber stoppers there's another motherboard and another CPU pin input
connector that you would plug another power supply into it doesn't technically
have to be a phanteks power supply although i do suspect that they would
probably prefer that but you could use whatever power supply you want and it's
able to share some of its power up to i believe 600 watts through this main
power supply but it's also able you're able to use the other cables from the
other power supply if you want to plug in more molex's or more graphics cards
whatever else you need and there's failover protection so if you are able
to power both systems off of one power supply that is connected into each other
say you go with the 1000 watt version and you have a pretty beefy system or
the 850 watt version and you have a fairly mid-tier average system that
people are building these days one entire power supply could go down and
your system won't shut down another cool thing about this that i like is if
you're building a system that you need two power supplies for say austin in
scrapyard wars season three or if you're mining or if you're just doing something
crazy with computers and you need multiple power supplies you don't have
to mess around with bridging the 24 pin connector with the green wire and the
black wire and making sure that you switch both the power supplies on at the
exact right time so that you don't have part of your system powered up and the
other part not powered up now everything's plugged into each other it's really simple you have one power
switch everything's just fine it'll work but moving on from there we have the
revolt x which is kind of the opposite it splits instead of joining on this one
you have labels for system one where you have motherboard CPU connections SATA
molex PCIe all that kind of stuff and then there's system two where you have
motherboard and CPU as well this is also great but for completely different
scenarios this enables you to run say two systems in one box you could have
your main system that you do everything on on your day to day then you could
have your streaming box or a workstation or a test system or whatever else on the
other side this also makes it so that say you have two workstations next to
each other you could run them out of the same box with two systems inside the
same box split monitors onto each side and then you're at higher efficiency
this is a 1200 watt platinum rated power
supply and if you look at efficiency curves down on the lower end if you're
not using that much power say both the systems are idling on two separate power
supplies you're at low efficiency on both of the power supplies this will
make it that you're going to climb the efficiency curve a little bit make it so those idling times which is actually a
pretty high percentage of the time you're using your or you're not using your computer i guess when you're asleep
and whatnot if you don't turn your computer off or even when you just walk away from it if it's idling it will be
more efficient than other possible solutions you get one power supply that
isn't at a higher price than it would be if it didn't have this internal
functionality it's at quite competitive price for other power supplies at the
1200 watt range same with the revolt pro that we mentioned earlier it's not
necessarily higher price than anything else in its competitive range and it
looks really good i like this grille on the top and you're able to gain this
functionality you could use these things you could use the revolt x 1200 watt as
a single power supply for a single system you could use the revolt pro 850
or 1000 watt as a single power supply for a single system you're paying
essentially the same amount and you're gaining functionality to possibly use in
the future say you want to grow on your system you want to add a graphics card
or two or do some other crazy stuff and you have the revolt pro well you could
just get another power supply link it in you have more wattage you have more
connectors everything's kind of handled for you it's nice and smooth so you go
with the revolt x and you want to just add another whole computer you had a
workstation beside you you had an employee your girlfriend wants a computer something like that you already
have the power supply you just plug it into the other system and you're done
you don't have to buy another one that's pretty cool a trusted power supply brand like csonic
coming together with fan techs to add really cool functionality to their power supplies and make everything nice and
simple and easy to use is really cool if you decide to go with something like the
revolt x and have two systems you might need some software to link the keyboard
and mouse as well over the system see what i'm doing sponsor spot there we go
synergy 2 is out they've simplified a whole bunch of stuff with the new release there's no longer the server
client settings that you have to set up just all your systems will work together
it's also able to communicate over more complicated networks that synergy or
synergy one used to have problems with back in the past so you have to worry
about that stuff anymore there's a new ui there's ssl encrypted connections
it's it's much more simple even able to access your computers before you've
logged into them if you have all this stuff shared over which is nice so you
can move the stuff over log in from there everything's nice and good to go
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