Polywell Poly 976N4-SLI4 Quad SLI - PC Mag
PC Magazine has reviewed the Polywell Poly 976N4-SLI4 Quad SLI multimedia desktop package. 'The Poly 976N4-SLI4 is housed in a ginormous chassis and uses two 700W power supplies: one for the CPU, motherboard, and optical drives, and one for the hard drives and graphics cards. This is a questionable setup. I understand why Polywell went with two power supplies (to share the load and to keep each power-hungry component happy), but I think a single 1,000W (or higher) power supply would have been a wiser choice. The Poly 976N4-SLI4's 10,000-rpm hard drives and Quad SLI configuration (two graphics cards with two GPUs and two sets of memory per card) are certainly power hungry, but adding another power supply can tax your wall outlet if you're not careful, and ideally you'd want to plug each power supply into its own UPS for safety. The second power supply tempts fate by adding a layer of complexity and thus another opportunity for failure.'