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2.0 out of 5 starsMisleading pictures, cables unseat themselves
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024
I'll start with the smaller issue. The images on this page imply that the cables use the nice, individually sleeved braiding that you see on cable extenders. What you actually get are nylon-braided cables, which is the braiding most stock 24-pin motherboard cables come with. I do kind of like how these look at the back of the case, but at the front, which is the side of the case you're looking at the most, they all look like (and are about as stiff as) those ugly 12V adapters Nvidia provides with 40-series cards.
I could look past that if the cables plugged in properly. The main issue is the 24-pin cable. Once I managed to plug both segments in on the PSU side, which was hard to do because of the stiffness, I noticed that they were bending their sockets and slowly unseating themselves. The clips seemed to be keeping the cable plugged in, and it was probably fine in the short term, but I'm definitely not comfortable using it in that state long term. I'd be afraid of them potentially melting themselves or something they're plugged into. I also wonder if this could be the cause of the random shutoffs some other buyers have mentioned.
One final thing, kind of small, but I don't like that it doesn't come with five PCIe/CPU sockets and 3 pcie cables. I feel like a 1200W PSU should have that many. It's generally better to use single cables instead of dual ones, but if your graphics card needs 3 pcie cables, using both connectors on one them is a necessity. This probably won't be a problem for most people though; only high-end AMD cards this generation have 3 6+2 pin sockets.
