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For a power supply using 80mm fans I kind of expected to see the heat sinks a little larger than they are. With the rear fan blowing laterally along the heat sinks and the bottom fan able to directly cool the heat producing components perhaps larger sinks just weren't necessary.
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Those heat sinks aren't the prettiest you'll ever see, and while they do kind of detract from the sense of quality I think it's fair to remember that most people will see nothing more than a fleeting glance of them through the case or fan blades. It's far more important that they work well than look good. The use of gold sinks with a black PCB does make me wonder is there was some styling input went into the design phase but it seems unlikely somehow.
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Component layout is generally quite neat and tidy with steel posts used to elevate some components and a fuse that you can almost get to.
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By far my biggest concern with this power supply is the fact that the PCB which feeds the external 4-pin connectors is fed by a single set of wires. Load up the first set of connectors with high draw devices and you have to question how much clean power will be available to the last device on the last connector. Some power supply manufactures question the idea of having three or more Molexes on a single line, but with a two-connector cable plugged into each of the rear connectors you basically have up to ten devices on a single line plus the 4-pin auxiliary feed and SATA power feeds too possibly. I'm no electronics guru but this surely can't be an efficient way to distribute power, even though it does considerably de-clutter the internal wiring.
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This is where the internal cables plug in to feed the external ATX power connector
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