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CeBIT : 450 watts for GPUs
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Written by Marc Prieur
Published on March 16, 2007

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/16-03-2007/#8669

At CeBit, Fortron has launched the Booster X5. This 12V power supply fit in a 5"1/4 bay and particularly targets systems using high end graphic cards (it will certainly be powerful enough for a Crossfire Radeon R600). The cooling system is ensured by two small fans located in the front. We hope that they won't be too noisy (the general noise level of the CeBIT isn't ideal to verify this point). The X5 will be available in a couple of weeks at an unknown price.

This is of course the last criterion that will make the success or failure of such product compared to the replacement of the power for a high end product. Interesting point, Fortron will also release tomorrow a new line of modular power supplies and also has a model, Epsilon, capable of providing up to 1010 Watts (this sort of power is apparently very trendy for power supply manufacturers…)