Brusfantomet I must admit to not knowing much about the American market, but in Norway you can get 3 quality 650 W PSUs for the price of one 1000 W PSU and 4 1000W PSUs for the price of the AX1500i, add to that the inconvenience of always waving to run both systems with the 1PSU/2system version and the ONLY advantage it has over 2PSU/2system is space (unless you are using SFX PSUs, then the space advantage is also lost). Therefore the PowerCombo is, in my mind at least, a better product.



You then have the ultimate uselessness, 2 PSUs fed to the PowerCombo and then fed to the PowerSplitter to feed to systems, inconvenience in every step.



The PowerCombo can be useful in situations were you need more than 1500 watt, A dual socket workstation with 7 FuryX (or equivalent) cards for compute power will eat up over 2000 W.

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I am way far from US too, butpricing is pretty much the same everywhere.In case if you can find a dual-psu case you can either get, let's say, a pair of 80+ Gold certified 600W PSUs for $80-$100/ea plus another $35 (assuming price is the same as splitter), or simply invest $200-$250 into a decent 80+Gold 1200W PSU.Something like Aerocool Imperator (1150W, 80+Gold, modular) goes for less than $150 where I'm from (all estimates are current prices converted from UAH to USD).The argument about dual-PSU for a huge server with centi-core dual CPU and gazzilion Fury X cards is ridiculous. The only board that can actually accommodate all of that is EVGA Classified SR2, which is about as rare as a pink tasmanian badger.In regards of usefullness: power splitter can actually have a lot of practical applications.For example:- running 2 POS systems from one case (150W TFX PSU + pair of Celeron N3150 rigs or something alike).This is the most important use, because I got couple of those rigs and each runs from a separate 230W PSU while actually consuming less than 30W from the outlet.- Cubicle setups in offices are always paired. 2 PCs in one case + Wake-on-KB is excellent space/energy conservation strategy. I actually had a similar setup at work for the administrative desk. 2 mITX boards with 2 SFX PSUs were fitted in one tower.One PC was used for security camera monitoring, another one for booking administrative paperwork, both used from the same workspace by a single person.- Many of you are crunching for WCG, and some of you have several dedicated crunching machines. I think it will be very useful to run pair of rigs from the same PSU assuming that there are no videocards involved and you have the means of ghetto-mounting this stuff in some kind of box/case.