WHEN IS A POWER SUPPLY WORTH ALMOST $500?
How about when it feeds a hungry dual-core processor, a pair of graphics cards running in SLI mode, and an array of hard drives? PC Power & Cooling's Turbo-Cool 850 SSI is designed for such grueling duties. You could even say its prowess is underrated, straight from the factory. Whereas most manufacturers advertise their hardware as it runs at unrealistically low temperatures, PC Power & Cooling cites real-world environments that take their toll on efficiency but yield realistic performance results.

Consequentially, a little education is in order when you pitch the Turbo-Cool 850 SSI or any of its smaller variants. Even though the 850 SSI delivers up to 850W of continuous power, it peaks at 950W in particularly intense situations and can recover from brownouts dipping as low as 80V AC. The efficiency and regulatory circuitry is such that PC Power & Cooling claims voltages 10 times more stable than the competition.

PC Power & Cooling endows the 850 SSI with an amazing level of connectivity, including a 24-pin motherboard connector, a 4-pin auxiliary plug, an 8-pin SSI connector, and a pair of 6-pin SLI graphics card plugs. You also get six SATA cables, eight large Molex connectors, and one mini floppy drive power cable.

Other manufacturers deliver power to critical +12V components, such as processors and graphics cards, over a single rail. The 850 SSI employs four +12V rails with 17A each. You can drive a pair of dual-core Opterons, two NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards, and a RAID 5 configuration without breaking a sweat. It may be overkill for an average desktop machine, but when you're talking about workstations that require EPS12V compliance, the Turbo-Cool 850 SSI just can't be beat.