OCC News Post

Ultra Products, a global leader in technology solutions, today announces that it will unveil the world's first 2000W ATX Power Supply Unit for the PC at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Ultra X3 Modular 2000W PSU has a footprint similar to some competitors' 1000W units (just 10.25 inches) and is 80% efficient under typical loads. The 2000W X3 will be available to consumers sometime in early 2007. The product will be on display at the ShowStoppers media showcase at the Wynn Hotel on Monday night, January 8th.

"It's not so much that we believe personal computers today need as much as 2000W of power," explains George Ali, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Ultra Products. "In fact, most household circuits can't even provide the AC power this unit would require in order to put out 2000W of DC power. But there's the always-inevitable questions of 'Do I have enough power?' or 'Does my power supply have enough juice where my high end components need it.' That is why we have put together this 2000W unit; as the end all of power supplies as far as DC output goes. With as much as 1800W available on the 12V alone, there should be no concern whatsoever that there is enough power available for quad core, quad GPU or large drive arrays."

Highlights of the new Ultra X3 Modular PSU include:

*Modular Design – Patented technology helps reduce clutter by using only the cables you need. This not only increases airflow within the case, but it gives the inside of the case a clean professional look.

*Power Protection – Short circuit protection, in-rush current protection, and thermal overload cutoff protection – covering all protection needs for your system.

*Warranty – Register your product online and receive a lifetime warranty.

i want one

Sorry Steve got dibs

I wonder who the OEM will be?

I don't think anyone would be using 2KW PSU unless they are running a Quad SLi 8800GTX rig with x4 QX6700 processors and 10 SATA HDDs and all that jazz...

I think it's overkill for PSUs, 1kw should suffice for now

saysbotnoodlehead, wait up man, when the 9x00 series from NVIDIA comes out, then things will get kickin somewhere in that realm of 2k watts!

Over 500 Watt's Under load for the FX74 so 1000 Watts is not going to do it running SLI

Lol FX74! "Twice the power consumption for the same or lesser performance!" woot woot!

Seriously though, 2KW does sound silly, but it's not unheard of. Besides, they have to start making it now so that when people like us actually need it it'll be decently priced

Steve needs one how do you think he keeps the light on for his camel

i thought that we were moving forward in tech i mean the father we go the bigger things or getting and more power i mean come on i thought by now we would make some break though i mean if i have to call the power company and tell them i need my own grid just to turn on my computer. this is just stupid things should be using less power and put more out.

2kW isn't a lot really, my 3 rigs combined probably use about that much, and the rig that would NEED a 2kW psu could probably do the work of all 3 rigs and more

@ camel light

so nrg, try running all your three rigs on this sucker I'm sure there's some molex to 24-pin adapters somewhere

I don't think this is a true 2kW device. I think that it will actually consistently put out 1800, but Ultra is gonna bank on no one having a circuit that can provide the 2kW.

Also, has Ultra cleaned up there act since the original XConnect? I know that was plagued with unsteady rails.

Yes, the X-Connect 2 is a good PSU now, along with there recent mid-high end lines

and the x-connects 1 weren't that bad... just people jumping on to the hate bandwagon

it will also power his tredmil to stay in shape


im curiouse to see if this is actually all they claim, ill be sure to check it out down in CES

It's also made by 'Ultra' which says alot considering their line of PSUs isn't quality/performance assured.

erm, yeah, maybe in crappy US where you blow fuses and circuit-breakers when running two computers in a room or something... over here in the UK where we have the best mains plugs in the world, it's 3.1kW per socket... you could easily have 8-12 sockets per room... quite common to have 50 or 60 amp fuses... so at 240V that's 12-14.4kW right there

i don't know how you crazy americans even have kitchens and not blow all your fuses... i remember an electric kettle taking like 5 minutes to boil a cup of water over there lol, my one over here takes about 30-40 seconds (3.1kW kettle)

You guys have 240V mains like us right?

yup... but generally with shedloads of amps that you don't seem to have in the US for some reason...

Infact the uk sockets/circuit lay out is quite silly as there in a ringmain... 30a tirp for one circuit but its feed from both sides of a socket (15amps from one set of wires and 15amps from the other at wich point the trip would trip to stop the cables bruning) so if you damaged a cable you could draw up to 30A down say a 16A (which would be one set of cables) cable befor the trip trips over a matter of time your cables may start a fire..

just so you no

Actually, "mine" was. I think my 12V rails was At 11.2 ish. and my 5 Was @ 3.8...

Besides I Wube the Hate bandwagon.

Nice. Has anyone thought about their power bill? I like the power, but does anyone really need that much? Besides, the average home/office circuit can only really support a maximum of 1500W. You'll have to do some upgrading to your wiring to your home/office/apartment to use that. Not worth it.

it's gotta be more than that surely lol... i've got twice that outta one socket

One ROOM in the US is usually set at around 120v at 20amps, MAX

so yes, this is the standard right now

Man you guys get really owned on your power. I *think* we can get about 5kw or so out of one outlet :/

The reason why Ultra is planning on releasing this isnt because they expect people to use 2Kw, it is because this unit is aimed to be 'the power supply to end all power supplies'. This is supposed to provide all the headroom neccesary for people with equally excesive rigs and money.

And as for Ultra power supplies sucking, you guys do realize that Ultra doesn't make any power supplies. Like all manufacturers, they rebrand power suppleis made by other companies and have various 'lines' of power supplies aimed at different users. Like all manufacturers again some are awesome while some suck, yes this even remains true with Coolmax with their Greenpower series.

It also isnt expected to retail for more than 500 doolars according to this.

One thing that intrested me about it when I got the press release, was the life time warranty that is pretty sweet if you ask me

Most of Ultra's higher end power supplies come with lifetime waranty

i was surprised and delighted to see the initial specs of it maintaining 80% efficiency from 150W load on up to max... that's possibly the most impressive thing i've seen about it so far