Thursday, August 27th 2020
Silverstone Intros DA1650 High-Wattage Modular PSU
SilverStone today introduced the DA1650, a 1650 W high-end PSU. With a length of 180 mm, the DA1650 has some of the highest power densities on the market, more so given that it's a fully modular PSU (modular cabling adds to the length of a PSU). The extreme Wattage enables the PSU to run completely fanless up to 30% of its capacity or 495 W. Under the hood, the DA1650 features a single +12 V rail design, with a gargantuan 137.5 A rail. It features DC-to-DC switching, active PFC, and most common electrical protections, against over/under-voltage, overload (if you try to crank a truck with this thing), overheat, and short-circuit.
The SilverStone DA1650 offers 80 Plus Gold efficiency, along with ETA A and Lambda S+ certifications. The PSU is designed for 24/7 continuous operation in an environment with up to 50 °C ambient temperature. It uses a 135 mm fluid-dynamic bearing fan to keep cool. Connectors include one 24-pin ATX, four 4+4 pin EPS, twelve 6+2 pin PCIe power, sixteen SATA power, six Molex, and a Berg.
Update Aug 27th: SilverStone informed us that the DA1650 will be backed by a 5-year warranty, and priced at USD $330.
The SilverStone DA1650 offers 80 Plus Gold efficiency, along with ETA A and Lambda S+ certifications. The PSU is designed for 24/7 continuous operation in an environment with up to 50 °C ambient temperature. It uses a 135 mm fluid-dynamic bearing fan to keep cool. Connectors include one 24-pin ATX, four 4+4 pin EPS, twelve 6+2 pin PCIe power, sixteen SATA power, six Molex, and a Berg.
52 Comments on Silverstone Intros DA1650 High-Wattage Modular PSU
Best case would be that it is actually just marketed as single rail but has multiple rails under the hood. As far as I know Seasonic has done this a few times.
90% at 50% load is ok, considering most home based systems wouldn't even consume that much.
What ISN'T it telling us about efficiency?
I agree this isn't an interesting PSU. But because most people buy the uninteresting PSU's, they actually target the biggest market. :D
80 Plus tells us PLENTY about how efficient a PSU is.
SLI is all but dead. The single most power-hungry 'consumer' CPU on the planet is an overclocked Threadripper 3990X and the most power it can realisically consume is bursts of up to 500W, though cooling it at 500W is a serious challenge without phase-change.
As for graphics cards, the new Nvidia 12-pin handles 300W and the board delivers 75W, so the absolute maximum that a single GPU can use is 375W.
I'm genuinely trying to work out why anyone would need a 1650W PSU for ATX components. Yes, I work with servers that can draw that kind of power but this isn't server hardware, this is consumer ATX hardware. The upper limits of what an ATX build can draw are far below 1650W The 0.001% might have machines that can pull 900W from the wall, but even then those people prefer to run seperate PSUs so that voltage drops caused by extreme power draw spikes on the CPU don't affect power delivery to the GPU and vice-versa.
Show me a desktop PC that idles at 13W...(2% of 650W psu). I cant even get an apu with all ssds to do that.
Ill say it one last time.... 80 Plus tells a user most everything they need to know about efficiency. We'll have to agree to disagree.
Heavy overclocking is what drives power consumption way up for consumer builds and let's not ignore the obvious point; This is a consumer PSU for a consumer form-factor marketed at consumers and sold exclusively in consumer retail channels. At the very most, it's 'prosumer' for those that haven't moved up to a proper SI or OEM-built and certified workstation.
So can someone please explain why people with the need of such a PSU shouldn't be able to buy or choose anything? Because that's what you all keep saying.
I'm not saying you shouldn't buy such a PSU, just that there's unlikely to be any real need to buy one so powerful. If you're buying it just to say "hey I have a 1650W power supply" to your peers and that brings you happiness then own that reason. You don't need to try and justify a niche DIY prosumer GPU-mining workstation to get this PSU. This 1650W model is overkill and excess in the same way that a Buggatti Chiron is overkill and excess. Nobody needs a Chiron but if you want to show off and demonstrate your excess wealth it's one way of doing so.