An entire KiloWatt . . . one whole freakin' Kilowatt !?!

Honestly, do you know anyone, including your self, that could use an entire KW worth of power for their PC? Probably not, but wouldn't it be nice to have a system that would demand, at a minimum, 1000 Watts in order to function properly? In fact, our very recent review of the XFX 8800 GTX XX 768MB video card suggests that one could have a PC capable of previously unheard of amounts of electricity.

If you read that afore mentioned GTX XXX review, you'll note that during our power consumption tests, we had that XXX card running at around 298 Watts of draw, and actually having it hit 300 watts at times. Now, toss a pair of those cards in say an Asus P5N32E-SLI Plus motherboard and we're drawing around 500 Watts plus at load. But add a third XFX GTX XXX for physics, load up 4-5 drives, extra fans, plus an add-in Soundblaster card, and we start to get extreme.

We all wish for a system like that, and some of us are building multi GPU machines that will draw that obscene 500 to 700 plus watts of current. It's safe to say that a KiloWatt power supply doesn't seem ridiculous at that stage.

That's why I'm excited to play with the ePower EP-1000P10-T2 Tiger Series XLR-Type power supply, though simply calling it the ePower 1KW supply sounds just a little bit easier to remember. My excitement stems from how this particular manufacturer is quite new to me. ePower has been around since 1990, specializing in PC power supplies, cases, and accessories such as hard drive enclosures, fans, and backplanes (hot swappable SATA drive racks for server environments). But it's their power supplies that interest me the most.