LEPA Beast 1600W power supply demo(not a new PSU, just a cool demo) - CES 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital over at Lepa they're running a really cool demo with their 1600 wat
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power supply they're getting around 1,200 give or take a little bit wattage
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on this system it's a pretty beastly system running furmark GPU stress test
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and then they ghetto rig together a lamp that they're powering so the lamp is
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running at 440 watts and the system is running at about 7 something Watts so
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together it's quite a bit and it's quite stable that added with an efficiency
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calculation means it's running at about 1,300 something watts and that's a ton
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of power it's completely stable you don't see any flickering in the light
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and it's no problem at all this power supp has got it for all you guys out
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there that are looking into GPU mining you're starting to buy a lot of much
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higher end power supplies there wasn't that long ago that lus and I were talking on the WAN Show about how
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there's certain power supplies that just kind of don't make any sense cu no one's really Building Systems like that but
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now that cryptocurrency is a thing it's starting to become quite popular I was
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actually talking to them here and they're saying that they're shipping a lot more of these than they normally do
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because people are running some pretty insane systems with some of the
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motherboards that are coming out that are made for cryptocurrency and a lot of
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these graphics cards that are really good with cryptocurrencies some of the R9 290s especially pull a lot of power
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so you need to be able to feed that all out with one of these power supplies so this might be something that you are
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