Initially Seasonic shrunk their modular PSUs to 140mm now these KW beasts have started to go down in size. Its a good trend to see more efficient and smaller PSUs.
At idle my ITX system is pretty quiet, almost silent. At load, well, I'm usually in a game with headphones on. Liquid cooling helps, but I know what you mean, it's hard to move that much heat when there is such a low displacement of air to dissipate it.
Depends how much you want to mess with things. There are plenty of people who are at the very least using AIOs (and occasionally custom setups) with an ncase m1, which is 12.6 L. And I know there are a variety of other boutique and small-run cases that people are working on with watercooling in mind; one of the guys behind the m1 has been working on a 24L ATX design that would support two GPUs and multiple radiators as well.
The article is misleading. The author makes it sound like Silverstone has introduced a new and innovative product in the market by shrinking the length of these 1kw+ PSUs, when in reality it is no shorter than the 5+ year-old PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mark 3 1200W unit I already own. Also the poster who mentioned 140mm Seasonic PSUs is refering to lower power units which only go up to 850W (the Focus Plus series) - the standard length for their flagship Prime PSUs is only slightly shorter than these Silverstone units @ 170mm.
Companies should focus more on <500w Titanium PSU's, considering PC's are most of the time at well below 50% load, that 90%+ efficiency at 10% load really helps making the systems efficient for 24/7.
The people with systems <500W who would also be interested in a $150+ Titanium PSU represent too small of a subset for manufacturers to be interested in offering such products.
I have to wonder what is the point though currently? The trend to micro-atx is the limiting factor in NEEDING this anyways. I would like to see someone make a system that would even come close to drawing that power in a micro-atx build.
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Chaitanya - Saturday, August 19, 2017 - link
Initially Seasonic shrunk their modular PSUs to 140mm now these KW beasts have started to go down in size. Its a good trend to see more efficient and smaller PSUs.Hurr Durr - Saturday, August 19, 2017 - link
>small case>high-perf GPU
>hi-perf CPU
>1.5 kW PSU
Do earplugs come with it as well?
Samus - Saturday, August 19, 2017 - link
At idle my ITX system is pretty quiet, almost silent. At load, well, I'm usually in a game with headphones on. Liquid cooling helps, but I know what you mean, it's hard to move that much heat when there is such a low displacement of air to dissipate it.Hurr Durr - Sunday, August 20, 2017 - link
Liquid pretty much cancels the small portion.masteraleph - Sunday, August 20, 2017 - link
Depends how much you want to mess with things. There are plenty of people who are at the very least using AIOs (and occasionally custom setups) with an ncase m1, which is 12.6 L. And I know there are a variety of other boutique and small-run cases that people are working on with watercooling in mind; one of the guys behind the m1 has been working on a 24L ATX design that would support two GPUs and multiple radiators as well.techguymaxc - Saturday, August 19, 2017 - link
The article is misleading. The author makes it sound like Silverstone has introduced a new and innovative product in the market by shrinking the length of these 1kw+ PSUs, when in reality it is no shorter than the 5+ year-old PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mark 3 1200W unit I already own. Also the poster who mentioned 140mm Seasonic PSUs is refering to lower power units which only go up to 850W (the Focus Plus series) - the standard length for their flagship Prime PSUs is only slightly shorter than these Silverstone units @ 170mm.Sivar - Friday, August 25, 2017 - link
But the extra 300W! Everyone needs that to power the eighth 1080 card stuffed into their MicroATX PC.Lolimaster - Saturday, August 19, 2017 - link
Companies should focus more on <500w Titanium PSU's, considering PC's are most of the time at well below 50% load, that 90%+ efficiency at 10% load really helps making the systems efficient for 24/7.vladx - Sunday, August 20, 2017 - link
The people with systems <500W who would also be interested in a $150+ Titanium PSU represent too small of a subset for manufacturers to be interested in offering such products.jabbadap - Sunday, August 20, 2017 - link
Nah that's Enhance doing all the hard work, Silverstone just uses platform which their usual OEMs have for them(Now-a-days Sirfa and Enhance).imaheadcase - Sunday, August 20, 2017 - link
I have to wonder what is the point though currently? The trend to micro-atx is the limiting factor in NEEDING this anyways. I would like to see someone make a system that would even come close to drawing that power in a micro-atx build.