Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
How big is Mac Pro PSU? (power wise)
- Thread starter dokebi
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I believe it's a 1000 Watt, Apple says the total power usage (most of it dedicated to the PCI Express slots) is 930 Watts.
You should just get a 1200 AVR/UPS a 900 will not be enough (or just barely).
Is that your question?
Is that your question?
Josias said:I know the G5 Quad has a 1000W PSU, and other PM G5's have 700W, but I just gotta ask, what is this redundant powersupply for the Xserve, I don't get it?
One fails, you have an instant backup.... Servers are all about redundancy.
Redundant means that if one should fail, another will take over.Josias said:I know the G5 Quad has a 1000W PSU, and other PM G5's have 700W, but I just gotta ask, what is this redundant powersupply for the Xserve, I don't get it?
So if one power supply should break, the other one will take over and the server wont go down.
kered22 said:
300 watts is dedicated to PCI Express
Some power usage benchmarks: http://www.macintouch.com/reviews/macpro/benchmarks.html
Be interesting to see what idle power usage is with one cpu off (can apples CHUD tools do this ?)
Here's Rick LePages writeup on the MacPro. 980 Watts TOTAL, versus 1000 for the Quad G5. I'm assuming that's for the 3Ghz MacPro ,since the Xeon in that uses 80watts versus the 65 for the other 2 models.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/08/10/xeon/index.php
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/08/10/xeon/index.php