Sapphire to introduce higher-capacity PSUs

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Published: Monday 9th March, 2009 | Author: Luke Willson
Companies: Sapphire (All Sapphire content)

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Graphics doyen Jon Peddie noted that graphics shipments plummeted in Q4 2008. NVIDIA's not having too great a time of it and ATI's brought out no new desktop GPUs at CeBIT 2009.

Sapphire, ATI's largest board partner, has been looking further afield in the name of diversification, and along with the nice-looking digital photo-frames you can now buy that are adorned with the company logo, Sapphire is now branching out into selling PSUs.

Shown above is the Sapphire FirePSU 625W (unfortunate name for a PSU, right?). This PSU is already in the market, of course, and its introduction has more to do with how FireGL cards are bundled in APAC region than anything else. Now, Sapphire will be bringing the FirePSU in larger-capacity models, with 1,050W and 1,250W on the cards.

Based ostensibly on designs by Enermax, Sapphire reckons the innards have been tweaked to better handle the load imposed by high-power graphics cards. No word on pricing just yet, but expect them to cost a touch more than the equivalent Enermax offerings. Let's hope the 1,050W isn't called Sapphire onFirePSU.

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Re: News - Sapphire to introduce higher-capacity PSUs

Posted by aidanjt - Mon 9th Mar 2009, 12:55pm

Yes, that's just what the market needs, more insanely unnecessary and overpowered PSUs. Has any company caught on that we're in the middle of a recession yet?Quote

Re: News - Sapphire to introduce higher-capacity PSUs

Posted by GSte - Mon 9th Mar 2009, 1:03pm

Let me see.... I can't afford a new £250 graphics card, so what should I do......? I know! I'll buy a £200 PSU instead! :rolleyes:

Somebody has been taking their stupid pills again. :DQuote

Re: News - Sapphire to introduce higher-capacity PSUs

Posted by NightshadowUK - Mon 9th Mar 2009, 3:55pm

Who even uses these 800W+ PSUs?!Quote

Re: News - Sapphire to introduce higher-capacity PSUs

Posted by matty-hodgson - Mon 9th Mar 2009, 3:57pm

well looking my PC in 'my system' used 690W at full load (3DMark Vantage and Intel Burn Test) when it was overclocked as far as i think i can get it.

so something that needs double that is going to be HUGE :oQuote