Simple Solution to INCREDIBLY Power Hungry Systems
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,349 words · ~6 min read
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synergy 2 is available now and makes sharing a keyboard or mouse between two
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systems so simple that anyone could do it check it out in the link in the
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description down below we're here at fantext checking out a setup that has
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two power supplies shared into one system that's so simple anyone can do it
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or one power supply shared into two systems so simple that anyone could do
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it fantax has teamed up with csonic to make these power supplies and they're
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two different ones for the two different applications let's start with the revolt
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pro this is the one you'll be using if you want to use multiple power supplies
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on the same system that isn't just two you could theoretically go beyond just
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the two we have here but i suspect the vast majority of people will stick with
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just two power supplies now how does this work you may have seen the power
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supply combiner and splitter that fantax has released in the past they've
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essentially built that functionality into these power supplies individually
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so the revolt pro has your motherboard connector a whole bunch of CPU and PCIe
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connectors a whole bunch of SATA and molex connectors and then down below
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these rubber stoppers there's another motherboard and another CPU pin input
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connector that you would plug another power supply into it doesn't technically
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have to be a phanteks power supply although i do suspect that they would
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probably prefer that but you could use whatever power supply you want and it's
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able to share some of its power up to i believe 600 watts through this main
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power supply but it's also able you're able to use the other cables from the
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other power supply if you want to plug in more molex's or more graphics cards
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whatever else you need and there's failover protection so if you are able
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to power both systems off of one power supply that is connected into each other
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say you go with the 1000 watt version and you have a pretty beefy system or
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the 850 watt version and you have a fairly mid-tier average system that
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people are building these days one entire power supply could go down and
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your system won't shut down another cool thing about this that i like is if
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you're building a system that you need two power supplies for say austin in
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scrapyard wars season three or if you're mining or if you're just doing something
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crazy with computers and you need multiple power supplies you don't have
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to mess around with bridging the 24 pin connector with the green wire and the
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black wire and making sure that you switch both the power supplies on at the
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exact right time so that you don't have part of your system powered up and the
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other part not powered up now everything's plugged into each other it's really simple you have one power
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switch everything's just fine it'll work but moving on from there we have the
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revolt x which is kind of the opposite it splits instead of joining on this one
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you have labels for system one where you have motherboard CPU connections SATA
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molex PCIe all that kind of stuff and then there's system two where you have
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motherboard and CPU as well this is also great but for completely different
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scenarios this enables you to run say two systems in one box you could have
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your main system that you do everything on on your day to day then you could
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have your streaming box or a workstation or a test system or whatever else on the
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other side this also makes it so that say you have two workstations next to
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each other you could run them out of the same box with two systems inside the
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same box split monitors onto each side and then you're at higher efficiency
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this is a 1200 watt platinum rated power
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supply and if you look at efficiency curves down on the lower end if you're
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not using that much power say both the systems are idling on two separate power
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supplies you're at low efficiency on both of the power supplies this will
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make it that you're going to climb the efficiency curve a little bit make it so those idling times which is actually a
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pretty high percentage of the time you're using your or you're not using your computer i guess when you're asleep
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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
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more efficient than other possible solutions you get one power supply that
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isn't at a higher price than it would be if it didn't have this internal
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functionality it's at quite competitive price for other power supplies at the
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1200 watt range same with the revolt pro that we mentioned earlier it's not
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necessarily higher price than anything else in its competitive range and it
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looks really good i like this grille on the top and you're able to gain this
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functionality you could use these things you could use the revolt x 1200 watt as
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a single power supply for a single system you could use the revolt pro 850
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or 1000 watt as a single power supply for a single system you're paying
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essentially the same amount and you're gaining functionality to possibly use in
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the future say you want to grow on your system you want to add a graphics card
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or two or do some other crazy stuff and you have the revolt pro well you could
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just get another power supply link it in you have more wattage you have more
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connectors everything's kind of handled for you it's nice and smooth so you go
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with the revolt x and you want to just add another whole computer you had a
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workstation beside you you had an employee your girlfriend wants a computer something like that you already
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have the power supply you just plug it into the other system and you're done
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you don't have to buy another one that's pretty cool a trusted power supply brand like csonic
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coming together with fan techs to add really cool functionality to their power supplies and make everything nice and
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simple and easy to use is really cool if you decide to go with something like the
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revolt x and have two systems you might need some software to link the keyboard
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and mouse as well over the system see what i'm doing sponsor spot there we go
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synergy 2 is out they've simplified a whole bunch of stuff with the new release there's no longer the server
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client settings that you have to set up just all your systems will work together
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it's also able to communicate over more complicated networks that synergy or
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synergy one used to have problems with back in the past so you have to worry
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about that stuff anymore there's a new ui there's ssl encrypted connections
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it's it's much more simple even able to access your computers before you've
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logged into them if you have all this stuff shared over which is nice so you
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can move the stuff over log in from there everything's nice and good to go
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if you want to check it out check out the link in description like the video if you liked it dislike if you disliked
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it stay subscribed for all the rest of our ces 2018 content i did not suspect
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we'd be doing this many power supply videos but everything's been really cool so far so yeah stay tuned i'll see you
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next time