Cooler Master M2000 Platinum 2000 W

[crmaris]

There are very few desktop PSUs with 2 kW or more maximum power output. The Cooler Master M2000 Platinum is one. While a good performer and very efficient at even full load, it is very expensive, only has 200–240 V input, and isn't ATX v3.0 ready.


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[Fleurious]

I wonder if the lack of a power switch is just due to the standard off the shelf ones not being rated for 2kw? Just a guess.

 

[Cutechri]

This bad boy is enough to power half a 4060.

 

[progste]

I'm tempted to say "who needs 2000W" but I also fear this may be a sign of things to come... O_O

 

[mama]

No 12 pin? Deal breaker for me.

 

[Star_Hunter]

I would only recommend ATX 3.0 power supplies from now on unless you really need one now.

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

Only 7 years warranty lol

It's not even that terrible all things considered, it just looks stupid when lower midrange 500-850w gold units offer 10 years.

 

[The red spirit]

I'm tempted to say "who needs 2000W" but I also fear this may be a sign of things to come... O_O

Why not just boycott this bullshit? There's no real need for any gamer system to consume more than 600 watts of power and that's still like 3070 with 5800X, plenty of power and still way under 600 watts most of the time, closer to 350-400 watts. You can add 100 watts for 6 fans and 2 hard drives and that's still under 600 watts most of the time minus spikes due to nVidia's poor engineering. Still quality 600 watt PSU is actually made to handle spike and should be derated higher wattage unit, that is if it really meets ATX spec.

 

[Jism]

Why not just boycott this bullshit? There's no real need for any gamer system to consume more than 600 watts of power and that's still like 3070 with 5800X, plenty of power and still way under 600 watts most of the time, closer to 350-400 watts. You can add 100 watts for 6 fans and 2 hard drives and that's still under 600 watts most of the time minus spikes due to nVidia's poor engineering. Still quality 600 watt PSU is actually made to handle spike and should be derated higher wattage unit, that is if it really meets ATX spec.

I can think of quite some hefty workstation applications that with 2kwh your reasonable good.

 

[The red spirit]

I can think of quite some hefty workstation applications that with 2kwh your reasonable good.

Even putting together quad SLI workstation with threaripper isn't nearly close to 2kw. At that point you run out of available PCIe slots and lanes. And you have 1500 watt power consumption if you load both CPU and GPUs to 100%, which is unlikely to happen. You can add like 200 watts with 20 HDDs too and 100 watts for 10 fans. At this point it's far from reasonable and I haven't seen a workstation where you would need shit ton of storage, CPU and GPU all at same time. Also good luck cooling such system and working in same room without having heatstroke and tinnitus. And that's no longer a workstation, but some odd NAS and distributed computing machine. Not something that gamer would ever buy or care about.

 

[Jism]

And at 1500W your being at the most efficient range of such a PSU.

Running Dual PSU is'nt near as efficient as just one running at "ideal" spec.

 

[chrcoluk]

Wow rough efficiency at what would be idle loads.

But a $400+ PSU and they cant put a power switch on? wtf.

I agree on the boycott, especially as also idle power efficiency nosedives on these high power PSUs.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

I imagine I'd have to plug this into the special outlet I installed for my welder.... The new Nvidia 4000 series is going to be a boon for electricians around the world

 

[Emboldi]

Hmm, is there a big change another PSU pops up with 12 pin?

 

[The red spirit]

The new Nvidia 4000 series is going to be a boon for electricians around the world

Imagine the lawsuits coming in, because people's houses catch on fire, because they can't handle that RtX.

 

[mb194dc]

Have to be crazy to spend this much on a PSU now without the 12+4-pin PCIe connectors. Zero future proofing, won't be able to upgrade GPU unless you spend another several hundred on a new PSU too.

 

[thegnome]

Looks like this is just for miners and fat workstations. Guess we'll just wait for proper ATX 3.0 psu's then.

 

[The red spirit]

Looks like this is just for miners and fat workstations. Guess we'll just wait for proper ATX 3.0 psu's then.

Aren't miners using server PSUs? AFAIK they supposedly have redundancy, which helps to reduce downtime, would be really nice for dedicated mining machine.

 

[progste]

Why not just boycott this bullshit? There's no real need for any gamer system to consume more than 600 watts of power and that's still like 3070 with 5800X, plenty of power and still way under 600 watts most of the time, closer to 350-400 watts. You can add 100 watts for 6 fans and 2 hard drives and that's still under 600 watts most of the time minus spikes due to nVidia's poor engineering. Still quality 600 watt PSU is actually made to handle spike and should be derated higher wattage unit, that is if it really meets ATX spec.

Yeah I agree, currently I'm still holding out with my old GPU but even if I were to buy a new one I would rather have something that consumes less and is easy to keep cool and quiet rather than having some marginal gain in games, this is even more true considering that I don't play most AAA "interactive movies" that come out these days and the ones I play like Doom Eternal and Elden Ring don't require that much to run well (at least at 1080p which I'm still using), something like a 6600 XT would probably be perfect for my needs.

 

[The red spirit]

Yeah I agree, currently I'm still holding out with my old GPU but even if I were to buy a new one I would rather have something that consumes less and is easy to keep cool and quiet rather than having some marginal gain in games, this is even more true considering that I don't play most AAA "interactive movies" that come out these days and the ones I play like Doom Eternal and Elden Ring don't require that much to run well (at least at 1080p which I'm still using), something like a 6600 XT would probably be perfect for my needs.

I'm still holding out with underclocked RX 580 and I run games at 1440p. I don't play much latest AAA, but I play Horizon 5. The biggest challenge it has was Kingdom Come Deliverance, but I got bored of that game and don't play it anymore. It's 2022 and I still don't really need more than RX 580. To be fair, I recently play quite a bit of Battlefield 1942, which runs on basically anything. Most of my library is full of older or old games. Most of the new games, just simply aren't interesting enough for me to either try and when I try them out, to play for a while or complete them. And there's time issue. Not that I lack it, but when I have free time, I just wanna play what I already know, instead of searching online what to play, then waiting ages to download that and then be disappointed and end up playing what is already installed. To be honest, in at least last 10 years games gotten way more disposable and way less attractive. So my interest is low and for what I need, I don't need much power. But at the same time I have just enough power for games that may come out and be interesting. Cards like RTX 3080 just feel like they are made for LTT, not for general public. IMO just mostly pointless displays of bleeding edge. If you actually wanna scale your new tech, then your mid range and lower mid range should be sound. RTX 3050, RTX 3060, RX 6600 or RX 6600 XT are far more important for most people, even dreaded RX 6500 XT would have been far more important than 3080, had it not been recycled laptop chip with too many downsides. Basically anything super high end with tons of diminishing returns is barely relevant. Same with games and other tech.

 

[R-T-B]

The new Nvidia 4000 series is going to be a boon for electricians around the world

More like just the 120V world.

I am kind of curious though if this would run on 120V unofficially, on like a 20A circuit. Many new build stateside houses now have these.

 

[fdgh789]

It seems like Corsair's AX1600i has been king for a while. Do you think Corsair is working on a 2000W PSU of the same caliber as the AX1600i?

 

[Deleted member 24505]

It's fully modular, won't someone in china be making 12 pin adapter cables for modular PSU's when it become more prevalent?

 

[crmaris]

It seems like Corsair's AX1600i has been king for a while. Do you think Corsair is working on a 2000W PSU of the same caliber as the AX1600i?

As far as I know, no.

 

[fdgh789]

As far as I know, no.

Bummer