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Well built and reliable (so far), but with a couple annoying quirks

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T.C.

January 10, 2018

Style: G3Size: 750WVerified Purchase

After using many Corsair PSUs over the years, I decided to give EVGA a try on my new build after seeing this on sale.
In general, it seems to be working great! I like what I read about it, and there have been no real issues. However, there are a few little things I've disliked that will hopefully not be an issue for everyone.
1. It was very difficult to plug the modular pins in the PSU. Other modular units I've used had no issue and the plugs went in pretty effortlessly. However, it almost felt like I was going to break some of these when inserting them.
2. The SATA connections are very...close...together. I'm using a Corsair 780T case which has pretty normally spaced hard drive cages with a special place for SSDs in the back. I really had to work to get my hard drives powered! For most people this won't matter, but I have a good amount of hard drives (around 7) and it was painful to get all this set up. If your hard drives are spread around or in strange places, this unit might make you invent new profanity getting all this plugged in. I ended up mounting some drives upside down and even some SSDs simply 'laying' wherever is available just to have enough reach for the drives. I never had that issue with Corsair PSUs.

Other than that, I have no complaints! Hopefully this will last even longer than my last one.

6 people found this helpful

Good, solid performance at a fair price.

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Amazon Customer

April 19, 2017

Style: G2Size: 650WVerified Purchase

I bought this to replace an EVGA 500 Bronze that kept shutting down due to a failed cooling fan, leading to constant reboots. I already own a G2 850 W Gold in another desktop PC, so I am familiar with its quality and performance. No great surprises here with the 650 W, it does what it's supposed to do quietly and efficiently. I never advocate skimping on price when it comes to power supplies, they are very important for the health of your rig. My builds are, fairly average tier, 4 to 6 core AMD FX CPU's, Gigabyte motherboards, medium end EVGA or Gigabyte graphics cards, an SSD for the OS and a large plate drive for mass storage. As such these G2's are more than adequate for my needs and I highly recommend them for part-time enthusiasts and home users.

7 people found this helpful

Works great! Also, Customer Service was a live person who was very helpful.

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Lloyd Hayes

January 12, 2018

Style: GQSize: 850WVerified Purchase

The old power supply was not keeping up with power requirements, causing memory to fail. I ordered this as an upgrade and it works great.

Customer service was also great. The wires are plainly marked for what they connect to. However, I still had a couple of questions about the connections. A live person was right there with the answers. The tester was missing from my box. I told them that it was not in the box, but I didn't think that it was necessary. They insisted that I should have it and sent it to me right away by USPS. (It's a simple small device.)

And unlike other power supplies being sold here on Amazon, there was plenty of length in all of the wires. I had no problems making the connections. (My old power supply even had an extension on one wire that the new wires did not need.)

The power supply also has the option of regulating the fans for my computer, turning them on/off as needed. Something that I have taken advantage of. So now, my fans are not running all of the time.

I would not hesitate to purchase another if I needed a power supply.

It's been in my computer for a couple of months now and is still working great.

4 people found this helpful

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July 19, 2016

Style: G2Size: 850WVerified Purchase

Bought this as an upgrade from what I had in my first PC build from three years ago. Originally I had purchased a Rosewill Capstone 650 as it was at a reduced price when I bought my original PC case, also a Rosewill (UT3 Challenger). While the Capstone did not have any issues, the one thing I absolutely hated about it was it was not modular. Given that the case I elected to buy was a mid size, having all the extra cables in there did not help with keeping my components as cool as possible and certainly did not look that great.

So far everything with this PSU has been fantastic. The packaging was nice, all the cables came in a pouch to store ones I would not be using in case I needed them in the future. My only gripe was the manual. As a person with just adequate knowledge of building PCs, I felt the description of the cables and their purpose could have been explained in more detail, whether in word form or picture form. Not anything huge that would detract from my review score, however. Installation was easy despite my slight cable confusion though I would have to stress that this PSU is certainly bigger than what I was expecting. Luckily I purchased a full size case or I may have had a tight fit when attaching and reattaching cables.

I've only had this for a week so I cannot say exactly how well it performs over time, but it is doing great for me out of the box, and it vastly improved my cable management issues I had with my old non-modular PSU. I would recommend this in a heartbeat to anyone. Below I will list my build as it currently is.

CPU- Intel 3570k i5 OC to 4.2 Ghz
GPU- Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3gb
PSU- EVGA SuperNova 850 G2
RAM- Mushkin Blackline 16gb (8x2)
MOBO- ASRock Extreme4 Z77
Case- CM Storm Stryker

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