power "comsumption" of a 2-way Itanium/733 system...
What the-
Just saw this in an Acehardware article:
"And there is another concern: power comsumption. A 2-way Itanium/733 system needs an 800W power supply, but electricity is no longer so abundant as it once was in Silicon Valley and Amsterdam... "
Not trying to be a troll, but damn 800 W is a whole lot of juice! Can you imagine a scaled 10 processor version of this thing? (I could be wrong though, maybe it's just extra power to run oodles of raid SCSI in a server rack?)
<a href="http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=45000187" target="_blank">http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=45000187</a>
[ 02-27-2002: Message edited by: Randycat99 ]</p>
Just saw this in an Acehardware article:
"And there is another concern: power comsumption. A 2-way Itanium/733 system needs an 800W power supply, but electricity is no longer so abundant as it once was in Silicon Valley and Amsterdam... "
Not trying to be a troll, but damn 800 W is a whole lot of juice! Can you imagine a scaled 10 processor version of this thing? (I could be wrong though, maybe it's just extra power to run oodles of raid SCSI in a server rack?)
<a href="http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=45000187" target="_blank">http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=45000187</a>
[ 02-27-2002: Message edited by: Randycat99 ]</p>
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The rest is to account for things like multiple SCSI hard drives at 10K or 15K rpm; tens of gigabytes of RAM; an AGP Pro50 or Pro110 graphics card; multiple optical drives; and basically redundant everything.
It's basically there to absolutely make sure the system won't overload the PS. In reality, it won't even approach that amount, I think, even with all components running at max.
An 800MHz/4MB Itanium uses between 130 and 150 watts apiece; I forget exactly how much.
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And dude, over 100W for a chip is still an amazing amoung of power.
The original G3 had a 150W PSU, that has no problem feeding 2 IDE Harddrives, and IDE CD-ROM, an SCSI HD, an SCSI Zip, an SCSI Burner, a floppy, 3 extra fans, an overclocked voodoo3, a G4 466, a voodoo1 and rage2+ and ethernet PCI card 10/100, an AV card with all it's outputs and external devices such as an SCSI CD-ROM and a printer (both with their own PSU of course, but still need signal power).
That is about 50 W above what you cn actuall put into the case without tinkering and it still works.
Intel probably has good reason to put 800W in there.
G-news
Umm...are you sure about that? Have you seen it done in person? Just because it technically *should* certainly doesn't mean it can.
Isn't it funny that the 9600, which the G3 replaced, had a 390W power suckage? Wow! That's more than a lot of the über-AMD setups I've seen.