New Thermaltake power supplies according to ATX 3.0: 2x 16-pin for 1,650 watt models
Like many other suppliers, Thermaltake has introduced new power supplies based on ATX 3.0. The big buzzers with 1,650 watts even get two of the new 16-pin connectors, each of which can provide 600 watts. That may be the extreme, but power supplies around 1,000 watts will probably become more common.
Power supplies with more than 1,000 watts of power were ridiculed in the past, but now seem to be gaining in relevance for the average user. Thermaltake has now announced its ATX 3.0 specified products. They are sometimes also explicitly suitable for the next generation of graphics cards and, in the case of the iRGB Plus, are available with 1,250 and 1,650 watts. The high performance is then also noticeable in the connection options: Instead of just one of the new 16-pin connectors according to ATX 3.0, there are two.
According to the specification, a 16-pin connector can provide up to 600 watts and it is assumed that graphics cards from the Geforce RTX 4000 and the Radeon RX 7000 will come onto the market, which will have two 16-pin connectors. The Geforce RTX 4090 and certain OC models of the Ada/Lovelace generation should be candidates. Alternatively, you can use two 16-pin connectors to fire up one of the SLI or Crossfire combinations that are rare today.
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The need for a nearly 1,700-watt power supply may be at the extremes; around 1,000 watts certainly have a chance of normality. The Core i9-13900K is said to have a PL4 of 420 watts. AMD had already promised that the power consumption of the graphics cards would increase, and the CPUs wouldn’t do without either – at least in peak load scenarios. The Geforce RTX 3090 Kingpin EVGA already includes an adapter that bundles five 6+2 connectors to two 16-pin connectors and that wouldn’t even be the maximum. According to the specification, a 6+2 connector provides 150 watts.
Thermaltake names a classification according to 80+ Titanium for the two iRGB Plus. A 140 millimeter fan is installed and, according to their own statements, only capacitors made in Japan. A hold-up time of 16 ms and a ripple noise of less than 30 mV and a maximum of two percent voltage fluctuation are promised. A lot of data can also be read from the new Thermaltake power supplies. For this purpose, real-time monitoring was integrated and software was developed that reads and processes this.
In addition to the premium models, the Toughpower GF3 was also presented, which will be available between 750 watts and 1,650 watts. The flagship with 1,650 watts has a double 16-pin connector, the rest is compatible with an ATX 3.0 connector. Cooling is done here with a 135 or 140 fan, depending on the power level.
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