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Posted by TAKTAK - Wed 26 Nov 2008 13:29
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!


why must everything be fatal1ty or ‘i’ branded these days?

it's doing my nut in!!
Posted by this_is_gav - Wed 26 Nov 2008 13:43
I just love how it was “co-developed” by him. He is a talented bloke.
Posted by digit - Wed 26 Nov 2008 13:57
Why have the 700watt model featuring a single 12V rail? I thought it was better for sli etc for dual or quad rail?
Posted by MadduckUK - Wed 26 Nov 2008 13:58
should do a Clarkson branded one tbh, just call it “POWERRRRRRR!”
Posted by moogle - Wed 26 Nov 2008 15:08
Oh my…
Posted by Hicks12 - Wed 26 Nov 2008 15:27
I never knew where the fatality brand came from but now i do. Is he actually any good? “gaming PSU” =fail and pay a price for things that wont be any better than a standard power supply, server/workstations need good PSU so its obvioulsy not going to have better components etc.
Posted by TAKTAK - Wed 26 Nov 2008 15:38
Hicks12
I never knew where the fatality brand came from but now i do. Is he actually any good?

aye, jonathon pillocky wendle, he always gets hailed as the best gamer when corporations like the beeb do articles on gaming, there are much better people than him out there…
Posted by RedFlames - Wed 26 Nov 2008 16:20
TAKTAK
aye, jonathon pillocky wendle, he always gets hailed as the best gamer when corporations like the beeb do articles on gaming, there are much better people than him out there…

I was under the impression Weasely Wendel was the first ‘professional gamer’ or the first well-known one at least… and from what I've seen the answer to ‘is he actually any good?’ he might have been at one point… but not now.

as for all the tat with his face on it… it's usually madly overpriced and at best medicore…
Posted by pauldarkside - Wed 26 Nov 2008 16:35
MadduckUK
should do a Clarkson branded one tbh, just call it “POWERRRRRRR!”

“The best”



<long, long pause>





“in the world” :D
Posted by shaithis - Wed 26 Nov 2008 16:47
digit
Why have the 700watt model featuring a single 12V rail? I thought it was better for sli etc for dual or quad rail?

If you speak to the real techy power guys, they will say that a single rail is almost always the best bet.

The reasoning is a lot like hard drive partitioning, you impose unnecessary limitations when splitting the power up to multiple rails.


this_is_gav
I just love how it was “co-developed” by him. He is a talented bloke.

He probably choose the colour and which of his logos would go on it :p
Posted by miniyazz - Wed 26 Nov 2008 17:05
400W, a gaming power supply? Bit optimistic isn't it?
Posted by staffsMike - Wed 26 Nov 2008 17:19
miniyazz
400W, a gaming power supply? Bit optimistic isn't it?

Not really. 400W will run pretty much anything based around a single GPU, including the very expensive offerings.
Posted by Hansink - Wed 26 Nov 2008 19:36
No mentioning of noise levels on the ocz site though.
Posted by Dark Sun - Mon 01 Dec 2008 20:01
I'm going to buy a

Fatal1ty-branded PSU
Fatal1ty-branded sound card
Fatal1ty-branded ram
Fatal1ty-branded headset
Fatal1ty-branded underwear
Posted by matty-hodgson - Mon 01 Dec 2008 21:05
MadduckUK
should do a Clarkson branded one tbh, just call it “POWERRRRRRR!”

isn't that May? :P
Posted by TAKTAK - Mon 01 Dec 2008 21:07
madduckuk
should do a clarkson branded one tbh, just call it “powerrrrrrr!”

matty-hodgson
isn't that may? :p

fail!

:p
Posted by matty-hodgson - Mon 01 Dec 2008 21:14
TAKTAK
fail!

:p

me or him?
cos i'm uploading a video of May doing the whole ‘poweeerrrrrrr’ thing right now :P

edit: here :D
Posted by TAKTAK - Mon 01 Dec 2008 22:56
matty-hodgson
me or him?
cos i'm uploading a video of May doing the whole ‘poweeerrrrrrr’ thing right now :P

edit: here :D

well done for finding May's first proper track drive for the show, where he takes the pee out of Clarkson who always says power :P (hence saying, “i'm not entirely sure what to do”……. “i think i know what to do at this point, POWERRRRRR”)

you failed :D
Posted by OilSheikh - Tue 02 Dec 2008 00:00
TAKTAK
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!


why must everything be fatal1ty or ‘i’ branded these days?

it's doing my nut in!!

Nicely put.
Posted by jackvdbuk - Tue 02 Dec 2008 00:52
well obviously theres a market and lets be honest hardware enthusiasts i.e us know the differnce but to the average joe it looks cool, must be good, and obv worth the extra couple of thousand for a complete wendel pc.

i spent extra on a GPU heatsink back in the x850xt days on a fatality HS, simply becuase it was black and lighted up :P
Posted by MadduckUK - Tue 02 Dec 2008 08:18
jackvdbuk
and obv worth the extra couple of thousand for a complete wendel pc.

:)
Now that I know him, to give him money isn't charity. He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some shoes
Posted by miniyazz - Fri 05 Dec 2008 01:10
staffsMike
Not really. 400W will run pretty much anything based around a single GPU, including the very expensive offerings.

Not sure if a 9800GX2 counts as a single GPU here, and I don't know how much power the 4870X2 takes, but the 9800GX2 needs an 8-pin and a 6-pin connector. That makes a theoretical power draw of 150W+75W+75W (for PCI-e power). Add an “energy efficient” Q6600 CPU at 95W and all of a sudden you're over your 400W PSU at 80% efficiency without even factoring in RAM or hard drives.
So, still not convinced by the gamer's PSU title!

Btw, does anyone know how much power a HDD/ODD actually draws?