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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with corsair Memory and western digital over at lipa they're running a really cool demo with their 1600 watt power supply they're getting around 1200 give or take a little bit wattage on this system it's a pretty beastly system running furmark GPU stress tests and then they get a rig together a lamp that they're powering so the lamp is running at four hundred and forty watts and the system is running at about seven hundred and something wats so together it's quite a bit and it's quite stable that added with an efficiency calculation means it's running at about 1300 something watts and that's a ton of power it's completely stable you don't see any flickering in the light and it's no problem at all this power supplies got it for all you guys out there that are looking into GPU mining you're starting to buy a lot of much higher end power supplies there wasn't that long ago that Linus and I were talking on the land show about how there's certain power supplies that just kind of don't make any sense because no one's really building systems like that but now that cryptocurrency is a thing it's starting to become quite popular I was actually talking to them here and they're saying that they're shipping a lot more of these than they normally do because people are running some pretty insane systems with some of the motherboards that are coming out that are made for crypto currency and a lot of these graphics cards that are really good with cryptocurrency some of the r9 290 s especially pull a lot of power so you need to be able to feed that all out with one of these power supplies so this might be something that you are looking for thank you for watching our lipa content if you want to see all of our CES 2014 content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips and as always thank you to our sponsors NCIX Corsair and WD