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2020-06-24, 23:40

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Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
Yawp. Meanwhile you can buy PC tower PSUs in the 1kW range.

One of these things is not like the others...
You kind of need that kind of PSU if you are running two high end GPUs that suck down 350+W each. Under full load my desktop windows machines draws around 475W, and that's a i7 8700k, GTX 1080, 3 SDD's, 3 HDDs etc. No Mac other than a Mac Pro can come close to what a mid-range PC draws, because no other Macs are using desktop GPUs, or have more than one internal disk. Now if you throw in the power draw of all the external things you need to use your Mac, like external drives, USB/Thunderblot hubs, and such you likely are well over 200W on average as well.
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