A very long-cabled PSU..?

[lordbertus]

Hi!

A friend of mine would like to buy a thermaltake shark. The only problem is that this case is 54cm tall.... so he needs a good PSU whose cable are pretty long.

Consider about 550-600W.

Thanks!

[jonnyGURU]

The Thermaltake isn't unusually large.

The PSU is above the CPU, not below the board, so you're not reaching across the board to plug in the ATX and the 4/8-pin and the PSU is only 1.5" above the top edge of the board.

[lordbertus]

Ok, but... what about vga and hard disks?

[jonnyGURU]

Unless the video cards aren't getting mounted on the motherboard, their position isn't going to change. This is a very typical layout. PSU manufacturers know where the PCI-e connectors need to plug in in relation to the edge of the board.

The hard drives may be another issue. If you use those bottom drive bays, there will be a stretch, but the cables will still reach.

I speak from experience. This case is the exact same dimensions as an Ultra Aluminus.

[lordbertus]

Ok, but, you know, some PSUs, especially modular ones, got remarkably short cables. I'm ok with this, because modular's point is to be essential, but in a case of this size it could be a major problem.

This is why I suggested him to take a non-modular PSU, just to go easy. I saw a Sharkoon SilentStorm120 600W for 89€, and i think it should work fine. Have you ever reviewed somenthing like it?

Or even, you reviewed quite a lot of PSUs, do you remember any of them with pretty long cables? I mean good ones, of course.

Thanks.

[jonnyGURU]

Ok, but, you know, some PSUs, especially modular ones, got remarkably short cables.

Specifically? Not any I can think of unless they're made for SFF cases. :D

This is why I suggested him to take a non-modular PSU, just to go easy. I saw a Sharkoon SilentStorm120 600W for 89€, and i think it should work fine. Have you ever reviewed somenthing like it?

Ok. Although that PSU is based off the Epsilon with beaucoup ripple, the cables are long enough.

Again: You don't need unusually wrong cables. You just need to avoid PSU's with unusually short cables... like the Enermax Infiniti I'm looking at now or the nMedia I had last week. Those are exceptions to the norm.

[lordbertus]

UPDATE:

What if instead of Shark it's a Kandalf?

PSU structure is quite different...


And, another question:
I'm thinking about buying an Antec Ultimate Gamer Case, do you think a Zalman ZM600HP would fit well? Consider that this case mounts psu in the bottom, and it has a fan on the roof side.

[jonnyGURU]

Kandalf: Same story. PSU isn't any farther away from the motherboard. It's turned on it's side, but the DC output cables are on the side of the PSU closest to the motherboard.

Antec "Ultimate Gamer Case": Now you're talking about problems with cable length. PSU is on the bottom without flipping the board over. Ultimately dumb design IMHO. I mean, it has it's obvious cooling and quiet advantages, but it seems like a half-ass effort.

[lordbertus]

Kandalf: Same story. PSU isn't any farther away from the motherboard. It's turned on it's side, but the DC output cables are on the side of the PSU closest to the motherboard.

Antec "Ultimate Gamer Case": Now you're talking about problems with cable length. PSU is on the bottom without flipping the board over. Ultimately dumb design IMHO. I mean, it has it's obvious cooling and quiet advantages, but it seems like a half-ass effort.

So.. what about my Zalman ZM600HP?