Hardware Asylum CES 2025 Coverage
I would like to thank Yeyian Gaming for helping sponsor Hardware Asylum during CES 2025. The Consumer Electronics Show starts Jan 9th and runs through Jan 12th.
Yeyian Gaming offers an wide range of solutions for the PC gamer including pre-built PCs to fully customized gaming computers with an online configurator. Their builds feature the latest in computer hardware including Intel Ultra, AMD Ryzen 9 and the latest in Nvidia RTX.
Be sure to check them out at https://us.yeyiangaming.com and the Venetian Tower if you'll be attending CES 2025.
PSU Torture Tuning with the Thermaltake DPS App
I was doing some testing for a review the other night and decided to test a theory. The theory is that you need a 1000w PSU to run dual GTX 780Ti cards in SLI. If you ask anyone in the industry they will say the PSU requirements for running a single GTX 780 Ti is 600w and that the card will pull around 250w. Adding a second card would put the total around 850w..
When sizing for a PSU (and there are some "bad" calculators out there to help you with this) your goal is to find your power target (max power) and then take 80% of that. The result is used to find a PSU in that range with the idea that by staying below 80% of the total power draw you will get the most efficient PSU operation (The basis for 80Plus Certification)
As some of you know Thermaltake offers a fully digital PSU, the Toughpower DPS. These are 90Plus Gold rated power supplies and range in wattages between 650 and 1200w. I was testing the 850w version and decided to mess around with the Smart DPS App Software and see if I could overload the PSU.
The System as it was Tested
The system is an EVGA X99 Classified running a Core i7 5960X @ 4.0Ghz with 16GB of DDR4 ram. 128GB Micron SSD and HP DVD Burner. The processor is being cooled by a dual fan AIO watercooler and I have Two GTX 780Ti graphics cards running in SLI. One is a reference design while the other is the famed GTX 780 Ti Classified. My power supply is the Thermaltake Toughpower DSP G 850w.
After playing Borderlands 2 at 2560x1600 with high settings I discovered the following.
Yes you are reading that correctly, the whole system was only pulling 600w?!? Efficiency during this run was 91% and the PSU topped out at 39c using the silent fan profile. Needless to say I’m rather impressed since 600w is just below 80% of 850w.
Stay tuned for more torture tuning using the Thermaltake DPS App
