The only wires that are 18 AWG are the +5 V ones on the main motherboard cable and the wires used on the peripheral and SATA power cables. The number of peripheral (five) and SATA (six) power connectors is also below what we would expect on a 800 W product, which is clearly targeted to users running two video cards and several hard drives.Īlmost all wires are 16 AWG, i.e., thicker than normal. This makes it impossible to install two high-end video cards that require two six-pin power connectors each under SLI or CrossFire mode (e.g., GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 285) – this installation is possible only by using adapters to convert peripheral power plugs into six-pin video card power connectors. Not only it has two video card power connectors sharing the same cable (the recommended configuration is having each video card power connector attached to an individual cable) but two of the connectors are eight-pin models without the option to convert them into six-pin models. We were disappointed by the cable configuration from this power supply, especially on the video card cables. The length of the cables may make it difficult for you to use this power supply inside a full tower case or even on a mid-tower case where the power supply is installed on the bottom of the case. The cables are somewhat short, having 18 ½” (47 cm) between the power supply housing and the first connector on the cable and 5 ½” (140 mm) between connectors, on cables with more than one connector. One peripheral power cable with three standard peripheral power plugs.One peripheral power cable with two standard peripheral power plugs and one floppy disk drive power connector.Two SATA power cables with three plugs each.Two cables with one six-pin auxiliary power connector and one eight-pin auxiliary power connector for video cards.Main motherboard cable with a 20/24-pin connector.
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