Is this powersupply fully modular?

Azarathal · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:18

As the title suggests, is this fully modular or only partly?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-032-OC

Surveyor · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:29

The motherboard and CPU power connectors are hard wired.

But then it's not like you can get very far without them.

Azarathal · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:33

I suppose

Cheers, looking to slowly upgrade to xfire 6950's but I currently only have a 500w
Going to be after a second card and a bigger case soon I think.

Surveyor · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:50

If you're going to have Crossfired HD 6950's then you should look for a PSU with four PCI-E power connectors.

The OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W only has two.

olivier renault · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:59

for the price, a Antec TP-650 or a Lepa B-750.

Azarathal · 26 Sep 2011 at 13:48

Ah thanks for that Surveyor.

Olivier would a 650w be sufficient for 2x oc'd 6950 TwinFrozr III's and a i5 2500k @ 4.4ghz 1.34v?

MSI P67a-G45 mobo rated at having two 16x pcie slots to run the cards at max speeds.

Surveyor · 26 Sep 2011 at 14:15

650W should be fine but you may want to hedge your bets with 750W if you plan to heavily overclock the graphics cards.

The Antec TruePower New Modular 650W can produce 648W on the 12V rail which is good.

Two graphics cards will run at x8/x8 but there's very little performance loss from x16 so don't worry about it.

The Lepa-B 750W only outputs 648W on the 12V rails so in that respect it's no better than the Antec 650W.

Azarathal · 28 Sep 2011 at 11:38

Only just seen this reply, thanks for the advice

Running 2x 6950's I doubt I'd need to overclock them tbh.

650w will be fine then yeah? Two hard drives, SSD in the future and 5case fans.