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EVGA SuperNOVA 1200 P2 Power Supply 220-P2-1200-X2

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EVGA SuperNOVA 1200 P2 Power Supply 220-P2-1200-X2

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The EVGA SuperNova P2 1200 is an exceptional high end design. 10 Year Warranty, Highest quality Japanese brand capacitors, Fully modular, 80 PLUS Platinum certified, ECO Mode.
 

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It can power a battleship, but it's not perfect...

review by ypsylon

I always thought that Corsair is top name in the PSU market, but decided to try something different. Read plenty of reviews, tests and stuff. Finally decided that this one is the answer. On paper its magnificent, but when you start playing with it, niggles coming right, left and center.

First let's get 2 things straight. A. I love EVGA. B. Technically (power delivery-wise) its superb, I can't praise it enough. It could power a battleship. And finally EVGA ditched that sick red connectors and cables (+1 point for that!).

Unfortunately for the price expected a bit more.

1. Biggest problem by galaxy length is just idiotically loud fan. If Eco mode is disabled I can hear the fan 3 rooms away standing in the entry doors to my house (that's about 20 steps and concrete walls). I have 19 fans inside my TH10A case, 8x7200 rpm HDDs, D5 pump and air cooled EVGA 970 (so technically it's 21 fans - 17x120 loop, 2x100 vga, 2x92 cooling RAID RoC). All together + loud music can't drown out that PSU racket. So to turn off the fan Eco mode is permanently On despite very hot summer. It's quiet system (believe or not) and when HDDs are powered down by RAID controller it's barely audible (I can easily sleep with it running)... that is as long PSU fan is off. I have 3 Corsair PSUs running and all 3 together are just quiet, have to put ear on top of PSU for some louder humming sound.

2. Cabling is extremely stiff. Some cables (24 pin) I had to put in hot sunlight to get them slightly more flexible. Prefer just simple (and by miles more flexible) cabling that Corsair is using without partial sleeving. Partial sleeving is not exactly sought after feature in the enthusiast market. Simple black cabling is just fine in my case. Because of stiff cables I had one giant snag when trying to connect reversed X99 Classified with angled 90 degree connector. I was really afraid I will just tear the connector off the motherboard, but it finally clicked.

3. As a whole tight connectors are generally a good thing. Well as long as they won't screw the plugs. And it happened with for example D5 pump cable. Molex from PSU just didn't want to disconnect from D5 cable (had to fix the plug). Same thing happened with LED cabling powered by Molex. Solution was simple - I've put pass-through Molex connectors you get with the fans with small 3pin cable dangling. That way I have to unplug connector from pass-though not directly from PSU cable.

4. Little annoyance is silly cable spacing. SATA power comes with 3 connectors/cable. For advanced RAID setups its more logical to have 4/cable.

Perhaps it's one off, perhaps not. Still it is my first hand experience with EVGA Supernova 1200 P2.

ProsCons
Exceptionally good power delivery, looks really badassVery Loud fan, Extremely Stiff cabling, Very Tight Molex connectors

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It can power a battleship, but it's not perfect...

review by ypsylon
I'm not agree with fan noise and cables.
1m away from computer I can't hear PSU with Eco Mode Disabled.
But my PSU work with 50-60%. My PSU could work with 750W but when I Enable Fan he spin and only I can hear him when I open PC case and come very close to PSU. If you look this video of 850 G2 my EVGA 1200 P2 is same...



I didn't had problem with molex connectors and very important cable from H100 and very gently is connected with SuperNOVA 1200 P2 Molex. Actually one wire lose one small hook and its very easy to remove one wire from H100 molex and because of that I need perfect tight and flat molex connector on PSU and I didn't had problem on 1200 P2, it's perfect. I notice it's little harder to connect SATA power cable but my opinion is that on this way is much better because it's impossible to fall out cable somehow... Only customer should pay attention while connect to avoid to break plastic on HDD/SSD.If put everything on place cable will lock perfectly and they are tighter connected than on other PSU.
I use this black sleeve cables...
 
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