Corsair unleashes a monster 3,000-watt PC energy provide

The previous few PCs I constructed topped out at 850 watts… and I assumed that was fairly beefy. Should you’re aiming for one thing over a kilowatt, most traditional desktop customers would name {that a} monster. However Corsair’s latest PSU scoffs at such paltry energy. The brand new WS3000 energy provide outputs 3,000 watts! So far as I do know, that’s a brand new document for something that matches in a regular ATX case.

The Corsair WS3000 is absolutely modular, with a minimum of six 8-pin PCIe rails for the CPU and 4 of the newest 12v-2×6 rails for graphics playing cards at as much as PCIe 5.1 and ATX 3.1 requirements. That could be a ton of energy and tech, although the spec sheet says it’s 175mm lengthy and tastefully omits a weight ranking. The 140mm inside fan makes use of double ball bearings, although it’s decidedly not silent, and has no iCue help (that’s Corsair’s semi-proprietary lighting system). No RGB gentle reveals on this factor? Oh my, Corsair, you’re singing my track!

The promotional materials says that the WS3000 is for “system integrators and inventive professionals constructing heavy compute bins: multi‑GPU rendering nodes, AI/ML coaching rigs, and excessive‑decision put up‑manufacturing workstations.” So yeah, if you wish to cram a whole Pixar render farm inside a single case, or extra realistically a large rig for working sufficient AI fashions to soften a toaster, that is the ability provide for you.

You’ll want yet one more factor to get your arms on it—or, extra precisely, 600 extra issues. $600 USD is what I’m saying right here, although Tom’s {Hardware} discovered a retail itemizing for lower than that already. All issues thought-about, that’s not solely unreasonable for a lot over-the-top, specialised {hardware}.