Not enough voltage for desktop gaming computer

A desktop computer for gaming is overbuilt and will pull way too much power.

What you should be doing instead is going for a gaming laptop that contains the latest in dual or even triple video cards and so forth where you can perhaps transfer the monitor signal to a larger screen television at the end of your bunk in the sleeper via wireless or blue tooth etc and game there adequately for way way less power than a desktop rig. (Less space, heat etc.)

My desktop that I built is a monster. If I had to replace it part for part it's between 6000 to 10K dollars retail. It has a radiator capable of holding or heating my entire home 8 to 12 degrees during winter should I give it a few hours. I cannot imagine what a sweat sauna it will turn that cab and sleeper into after 15 minutes gaming. It will cook me like a poached egg.

Power? It's off a 25 amp T outlet. I require three of them in total. There is a 1000 watt battery backup feeding off it too which protects the machine for. oh... 40 minutes. Enough to shut down when the power is destroyed by a tornado passing through. I literally have had several instances of them tearing out my road's utility poles leaving my home dark while I continued to game unaware for a few minutes that mains were gone. Then it's time to shut down properly without errors.

15 amps at 120 volts is thousands of watts. My power supply in the bottom of the case as it sits now pushes a minimum of 1500 watts at idle. It does have the ability to disperse heat upwards of more if it needs to. It does have a SECOND power supply inside the other end of that case at the bottom which I can build into or plug into to gain more power.

There is NO way a semi truck can convert and invert that kind of power and stay alive from the alternator, battery etc. It will be stripped and then killed off rather quickly trying to feed a desktop beast with a 5000 watt inverter etc. Just cooling that inverter will heat you out of that sleeper quick enough when temps rise too high. It's silly.... very silly.

So. Ease your mind. Get a nice small gaming laptop with two or three built in video cards moderately able to game at 30 to 60 frames a second and perhaps transfer your video to a larger monitor in your sleeper cabinet. It's probably 500 to 1000 watts easy. But other than it's CPU core at the bottom which requires a laptop cooler tray to save your jewels from being overly cooked. Or a big metal block you can use as a heat sink. Any old inverter can feed that small thing.

Some day if not already we will have the ability to have 15 amp 120 volt house power in them tractor trailers so we can really enjoy life when we are not pushing it down the road as if you were at home. Until then try to think smaller and lighter in your electrical demands.

 

lol, sure you do.

 

As I said again. 2k rig ain't pulling 1500 watts!

 

My gaming laptop pulls 150w at most during intense gaming, turning off the CPU turbo boost lowers that to 130w.