Asus' new 3,000-watt power supply requires its own circuit breaker and doesn't work everywhere

[Redaktion]

Asus is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Republic of Gamers sub-brand with a 3,000-watt power supply. However, the power supply is so powerful that some circuit breakers cannot handle it. In such cases, the power is throttled.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-new-3-000-watt-power-supply-requires-its-own-circuit-breaker-and-doesn-t-work-everywhere.1313456.0.html

[captainobvious]

This is retarded, I hate the gaming trend in PC.

[Nate]

This is retarded, I hate the gaming trend in PC.

I agree, but why do you hate it. Most are not going to use 3000 W constantly and in any case, they have to pay for the Wh consumed, so it's up to them what they do with their money. One will always be able to get, say, up to 300W consumer gaming GPU and 3DX / V-Cache energy efficient gaming CPU, that additionally can be undervolted (CPU: PBO all-core -25) and/or power scaled (nvidia-smi -pl <Watt number>). The 3000 W is for people who get many GPUs (e.g. several 5090 / RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (same chip as a 5090 but 3 times the VRAM)) to run LLM models locally.