Thermaltake Rolls Out Toughpower GF3 PSUs with PCIe Gen 5 Connector and ATX 3.0 Compliance

Assimilator · Sep 6, 2022

Given that the 750W supports only two "legacy" PCIe 6+2 pin power connectors natively, I wonder if they're going to ship 12VHPWR-to-PCIe adapters with these PSUs, or expect customers to buy them separately?

Space Lynx · Sep 6, 2022

YangYang12345 said:
Just curiousity to ask, I pretty like Thermaltake's case like Tower 500, but i have no idea about their power supply. Is that so bad? Was there any issue before?

I was always told to buy EVGA (only certain models) or Seasonic PSU's, and more recently Corsair PSU's have entered the realm of trust. I haven't researched it too much these days though, who knows anymore.

80-watt Hamster · Sep 6, 2022

YangYang12345 said:
Just curiousity to ask, I pretty like Thermaltake's case like Tower 500, but i have no idea about their power supply. Is that so bad? Was there any issue before?

Like most manufacturers, it depends on which product you're looking at. TT's PSUs range from not-particularly-good to pretty-okay, though the Toughpower line seems to be genuinely good overall, IIRC. Also keep in mind that you're on a tech-enthusiast forum, so sometimes stuff that's perfectly fine for 90% of people will get written off as worthless by commenters here. Power supplies are particularly susceptible to this. Though it's worth noting that there are a LOT of genuinely terrible PSUs out there.

LuxZg · Sep 7, 2022

Good: 750W model
Bad: no price, and probably ending up expensive

But we're getting there. By year end there should be quite some choice.

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Thermaltake Rolls Out Toughpower GF3 PSUs with PCIe Gen 5 Connector and ATX 3.0 Compliance

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Space Lynx

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80-watt Hamster

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