Silver Power SP-S850 PSU

Cables and Connectors

• One 50cm 20+4-pin ATX power cable
  
• Two Molex cables with connectors at 50cm and 65cm and a floppy power connector at 80cm
  
• One Molex cable with connectors at 50cm, 65cm and 80cm
  
• Two SATA cables with connectors at 50cm, 65cm and 80cm
  
• One 50cm 8-pin EPS 12V CPU power cable
  
• One EPS 12V CPU power cable with an 8-pin connector at 50cm and 4-pin at 65cm
  
• Two PCI-Express power cables with an 8-pin connector at 50cm and 6-pin at 65cm
  
• Two PCI-Express power cables with an 6-pin connector at 50cm

If everything you have is in a 50cm diameter from the point of cables sprouting, then the Silver Power SP-S850 will be right up your street, however without some differentiating lengths you'll likely have to find somewhere to hide away excess cable.


The quality of braid is very good and it appropriately matches the width of cable mass within, as well as protruding inside the PSU making it look far neater. It's not perfect though, as the ends are zip tied so they don’t look quite as neat as glued ones, but the ends are well sealed and the braid does not move even when aggravated.

The connectors are all black to match the braid, and the Molex even includes the usual push-release plastic to help get them out of their sockets. Interestingly, instead of being the same colour, the ATX cable has a weird green-yellow 4-pin connector in addition to the black 20-pin connector. This doesn't make any difference to the functionality, but it does alert people to the fact it's there.


Silver Power uses a mixture of 16 and 18 AWG rated wire where a lower number offers a thicker cable with a lower resistance and over all slightly greater efficiency. The 16 AWG stuff is used extensively for the 12V and 5V connectors in the ATX cable, and 12V PCI-Express and EPS12V CPU power connectors. However the 8+4-pin EPS and 8+6-pin PCI-Express cables feature 18 AWG instead - this is thinner wire with a slightly higher resistance. We don't understand the reasoning behind using this when there will potentially be two devices connected to these cables. That's especially true with the PCI-Express connector cables, where an 8-pin and 6-pin will likely be connected to very high power graphics cards like the Radeon HD 4870 X2.