Rosewill Gaming 80 Plus Gold 1200W Power Supply / PSU, PHOTON Series Full Modular 1200 Watt 80 PLUS Gold Certified PSU with Silent 135mm Fan and Auto Fan Speed Control

I finally appreciate why a fully-modular power supply is a good idea. If my old one were fully-modular, I wouldn't have had to pull out all of the cables and re-thread new ones; I could've just swapped out the two units. Oh well. Live and learn.This new Rosewill PSU seems very well made. I like the adaptive fan. I like the flat cables (for all but the mobo cable). It was easy to install. However, apart from the grossly outdated industry standards (mobo and CPU connectors, I'm looking at you!), I'd suggest a few improvements in the next generation.1. Do not split the PCI-E cables all the way down at the PSU side of the cable. Combine the two flat ribbon cables into a single ribbon cable until maybe 3-inches from the PCI-E connectors. I shouldn't have to deal with a dual ribbon cable when it's all going to the same place.2. Don't put a Molex connector on the end of every SATA cable. Ship a single Molex cable instead (because nobody needs it). Or maybe put a Molex connector on the end of ONE SATA cable--not ALL but one. (Yes, one of the included SATA cables does NOT have a Molex on the end. I used that one first, of course.)3. Ship at least one SATA cable with the SATA connectors closer together. They're so far apart that I had to use two SATA connectors and alternate the drives between them--and even THEN I had to really jam them down so the chassis could close. (Alternatively, make them more flexible.)4. Turn the SATA connectors over so they're pointing in the right direction. If drives are installed right-side up, the Rosewill SATA connectors are upside down. I had to run the SATA cable from the bottom of my chassis to the top and then run the cable back down to the PSU. Ridiculous. Of course, some PSUs are installed at the top of the chassis, so maybe ship one cable right-side up and another upside-down. Rosewill includes six PCI-E cables, so maybe include only four and ship different configurations of SATA cables instead. (Do people really have six GPU cables and like 28 drives? Wow.)5. Finally, the ancient mobo and CPU connectors are ridiculous (and painful). They're incredibly difficult to plug and unplug. My mobo connector is under my CPU fan, for crying out loud. I'm not an electrical engineer, but can't someone design a better connector and create an adapter from the old to the new, so that I can leave the old on the mobo and use the new connector to unplug/plug a new cable? Maybe that's too costly, but we migrated from Molex to SATA just fine. (In fact, we even have an easier-to-use Molex connector now.) It's time to eliminate the ancient, horrible mobo and PCI-E connectors, too.

I had bought a Chinese power supply that was 975 Watts, it was good for regular not demanding tasks, light overclocking too, but after tried a stability test on my graphic card, it fell on short circuit and died, short circuit protection did not work.That's why I decided to buy this Rosewill power supply that was 1200 watts, after installation, I overclocked my PC at its max I could, run an stability test, and everything worked as expected, also my PC had some other rare issues, after swapping the power supply, these issues disappeared, Now I know the power supply was failing before the short circuit occurred.

The first thing that you notice is that the feel of the unit is very robust.This has tons of power. I am running a 14 core I9, Nvidia 2080 card, three 6 terabyte internal HDs plus the WiFi and bluetooth radios and this unit does not even get warmThe fan is super quiet, adjusts speeds and keeps things coolThis is my Premier Pro box, so I could do without every device having RGB LEDs running, but if that is the only downside to screaming fast rendering speeds . . . I will live with it

I saw 4 stars average on this supply, and thought "How could I possibly go wrong?"This is one of the first times that I have regretted doing my homework before purchasing. I wasted my time passing up supplies with poor reviews and looking for one that had better reviews for supplies of that price. Had I not done so, this would have been a lot less disappointing.I thought I was overloading my original 750 watt supply, when I tried to add something and it refused to start. Turns out, it should have been able to handle it, but it's capacity had somehow degraded over time.This one would start up my system, but would cut off if my system was under heavy load. At this point I tallied up what I had in my system, and found that I would only be drawing around 600 watts! So, I grabbed my second 750W supply (I had bought 2 so I'd have a spare for troubleshooting) and that one worked fine.I contacted Rosewill directly instead of returning to Amazon, having worked for a company that did more extensive reliability testing than any consumer electronics company is likely to do, and we still occasionally had DUDs/DOAs get sent back, so I understood that this could happen to anyone.I got an RMA, shipped it back and waited patiently. In the mean time, I used my remaining 750W supply. I didn't get confirmation that the new one was sent out, but you can't always have everything. Anyway, I got the supply back, connected it and it worked, for about a week, then started doing the same thing again.I'm just glad I wasn't doing an important project (like photo or video editing) that I would have lost when the power supply cut off. Even as it is, I'd still have to reroute all the cables again to put my 750 watt supply back in place, which I've now had to do multiple times already anyway, and I really don't want to do that again if they sent back another one. At this point I'm trying to get Rosewill to issue me some kind of credit towards other merchandise.