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I love the part where it say's "believe it".

No it doesn't! The initial claim was, you can change resistors, add bigger mosfets, better diodes, etc. and "always" make it better". It is simply inaccurate to claim it will "always" make it better. You presenting one possible example does not prove it will "always" happen.

And again, when the existing MOSFETS are already fully capable of dealing with the current temperature characteristics of the circuit and environment (as they would be with a quality PSU), you adding higher temperature MOSFETS does NOT make it better - regardless how many times you say it, or how strongly you think it does.

I don't care what you think of that. The Laws of Physics don't change based on what you think might happen.


Nobody said you couldn't.
Resistance plays a role in how capacitance and inductance affects a circuit. And cable length affects resistance. So the location of the caps on a quality cable may not matter significantly, but it could affect the value of the caps needed. I note some PSU makers put the caps in the middle of the cables because they simply look better there. The caps don't get in the way of the connectors and can be hidden away more easily.

Now you have got it all wrong. If I were you I would go back thought the thread & look at who said what.

Adding higher Temperature MOSFETS is not the point I was trying to put across. Work this one out for yourself.
 
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If I were you I would go back thought the thread & look at who said what.
Follow your advice there.

YOU claimed in post #44 you can "always make it better" by using higher grade components. Then YOU changed it to "higher temperature" in post #46 and YOU again talked about higher temperature MOSFETS. So it sure would seem adding higher temperature MOSFETS as a way to "ALWAYS make it better" was indeed your point.

To be clear, MY point has been from the start that simply upgrading the components does not automatically or "always make it better".

Please go back and read through what was said so you understand what it is you are disagreeing with.
 
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Follow your advice there.

YOU claimed in post #44 you can "always make it better" by using higher grade components. Then YOU changed it to "higher temperature" in post #46 and YOU again talked about higher temperature MOSFETS. So it sure would seem adding higher temperature MOSFETS as a way to "ALWAYS make it better" was indeed your point.

To be clear, MY point has been from the start that simply upgrading the components does not automatically or "always make it better".

Please go back and read through what was said so you understand what it is you are disagreeing with.

You have still not caught on what my point is. It's your very own words posting in this thread. Trust me, you do not want me to point it out.
 
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It is always recommended to use the cables that came with your power supplies. I'v read threads of people damaging their power supplies by using third party cables, some PSU's even have a warning on them to only use the cables that came with the unit itself.
Sorry for my part in the nonsense, SSS.

In reading back through this thread, I noticed no one replied to your comments about swapping cables.

Part of the problem with using 3rd party cables, or cables that came with different PSUs (even from the same manufacturer) is there are no industry standards for the PSU end of modular cables. Of course, there are ATX standards for the motherboard, drive and other device connectors, but PSU makers can do anything they want for the connector that plugs into the PSU. Rather than retype everything, you can see my concerns about modular cables in a 2016 post I made here. Note #8.
 
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