Advantage in modular PSU?

Disjunto · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:07

I've noticed lots of talk on modular PSUs, I've also noticed they cost quite a bit more.

Is there any real advantage to using these over conventional ones?

reflux · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:08

They allow you to only plug in the cables you want to use, thus supposedly saving space. But if you have a reasonably large case anyway, you can easily hide spare cables so they're not all that useful.

Modular PSUs are also less efficient than captive cable PSUs.

Disjunto · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:17

Ok then, so no actual advantage? That'll save me some money when I upgrade

bledd · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:23

they save space and therefore, improve airflow

braided modular psu's are a dream to work with.

it's just a shame the Hiper Type R psu's had such poor internals, the connection system is awesome on them

roop128 · 11 Nov 2009 at 15:49

I thought that modular PSUs where more efficient, maybe i was wrong

reflux · 11 Nov 2009 at 15:52

Disjunto said:
Ok then, so no actual advantage? That'll save me some money when I upgrade

Well, there is an advantage but it depends how easily you can tidy your cables and how many you'll be using anyway.

roop128 · 11 Nov 2009 at 16:01

my case is quite small and with a modular PSU its quite packed so with a compliant one it would be a lot worse

Greebo · 11 Nov 2009 at 16:16

As said it depends on how much stuff you have in your system. With my old pc which had 3 optical drives and 6 hard drives, waterpump, fan controller, 8 fans, two graphics cards, a sound card I ended up connecting every modular lead anyway so nothing gained.

roop128 · 11 Nov 2009 at 16:23

wow thats a lot, it must have been a massive case