Just a few weeks in the past, photographs of an odd-looking PSU from Corsair leaked out (opens in new tab). What made it so odd? Effectively, the connectors have been on the “flawed” aspect. May such an aberration be actual? Yep: right now Corsair formally introduced the brand new RMx Shift ATX 3.0 (opens in new tab) line of PSUs, making it the “world’s first energy provide with side-positioned connectors,” and truthfully, I am stunned nobody has give you this sooner.
A normal energy provide normally has its connectors on the rear of the unit. The Shift PSUs have theirs on the aspect, which ought to make it simple so that you can entry the facility cables whereas selling higher cable administration, which is not a robust swimsuit for some PC builders (me included).
This additionally makes swapping out parts like followers and coolers much less of a nightmare because you longer have to stay your hand into the cramped inside of a case and hope that you just pulled the appropriate energy cable.
The RMx Shift collection has 4 fashions with wattages starting from 750W to 1200W, which suggests you shouldn’t have any downside feeding a kind of power-hungry RTX 40-series graphics playing cards all of the juice it wants.
The RMx Shift will not be a really perfect match for each PC case design on the market, however it looks like a really perfect cable placement for many mid-tower designs. As our personal Jacob Ridley factors out, you’d want sufficient room in your PC case to route the cables from the aspect, or else you’d threat placing an excessive amount of strain on the cables, supplying you with an unreliable connection or straining a connector.
Corsair says it has examined the RMx Shift in “all present Corsair circumstances to ensure compatibility.” It ought to match third-party circumstances so long as they’re at the least 210mm broad, offering sufficient aspect clearance to run the cables.
The RMx Shift collection PSUs can be found now via Corsair’s web site. Pricing is as follows:
- RM750x Shift – $149.99, €159.99
- RM850x Shift – $159.99, €174.99
- RM1000x Shift – $209.99, €219.99
- RM1200x Shift – $269.99, €259.99