#972 - Nexus NX-8060 600W Modular Silent Power Supply

[viljami99]

What is the music?

[athompson1989]

Anyone know a psu with 6x 6-pin pci-e conncetors, preferrably modular?

[djtekfour]

Why'd you want that?

[ams2990]

Well, I don't know of any with that many NATIVE 6-pin connectors. However, most graphics cards come with a converter that gives you a 6-pin connector from 2 molex plugs. If your cards don't come with them, I'm sure you can find them for cheap. Cheers.

[MugenRac1ng]

Think i'm gonna buy this one for my HTPC... :)

[Tomsiks]

This is GOOD but i recomend Chieftec Green Engel.. Its The best Its CHeap Its Super Silent and preformenc is Great!!!

[ams2990]

How about not. You should get a brand-name PSU, if you're not going to do research. You really should do research though.

[Bizziboy]

What ever, The Nexus 80 Plus line of power supplies is such garbage.. mine cought on fire 6 days after I installed it. I have been working with PCs, Macs for almost 15 years...and make gaming systems on the side... as well design games in my free time for fun.....The Nexus 80 Plus line of power supplies are crap. But go out and buy one... it's your house..

[Pabelseth]

holy shit this is expensive, $170 in BC at NCIX

[Rowdyeh]

Thanks for that, Rodney, I'm planning to start building entertainment systems soon, and every review helps determine my choices! Cheers!

[RenegadeFury]

Rodney come on you need a power supply tester, not a god damn voltage tester. You do not check efficiency, how the power supply handles cross loading, the inside whether it's group regulated or not. The voltage regulation etc, this isn't a power supply review more of a fashion show.

[jay52592]

why isnt this a 100% kick ass product?

[CIAmrx]

nice! new intro music!

[CsS1337h4x0r]

my fucking god, 4870's use 170watts.

sli ready can also mean 2x 6600 gt's

[DefendersGames]

holly crap he knows everything!

[mattmania843]

Its only great that means he does not like it that much.

[danpluso]

The 120mm fan plays music... OMG! :P :P

[Darkone01]

You need to know what rails are...

[792247]

Can you do a review on the Noctua NH-C12P?

[792247]

or any noctua CPU coolers/fans ?

[D0M1N8R1x]

Why great? Power rating? I think its awesome! Just curious about the cons that made it great.

[kuro1911]

thx 3dgameman

[iva666]

psu noice is no problem 4 most systems 4 my systems bigest problem is video card fan and on my p4 prescot system problem is cpu fan ....

( no i will NOT use water cooling EVER... 2 afraid from leeks )

[JaMrulezass]

MOARRR CASES : )

[ThrownFromHell]

Cool

[LETHLSS]

slick

[CreatureGam3r]

lol

[SimonLANO]

Hmm. wil a 600W with Four 12v+, Run a 4870x2 with a Q6660 oc to 3.5 Ghz

[thearmoredfatboy]

no your gonna need about 700 watts.

[LolChickenPie]

No, you need a single 12v rail for two GPUs if you want enough amps.

[operationturkey]

well im running an SLI setup on a quad rail PSU. I think that proves you wrong.

[TheTurban]

he didn't say it was necessary. just preferred.

[operationturkey]

He said 'No, you need a single 12v rail'

[shaun928]

the 8800gs's were shit, that's not worth bragging about..

+ SLi is pointless (its like quad cores), only get 12% more fps, might as well save up and spend your money on 1 decent, powerful gfx card.

[operationturkey]

If you don't know anything about computer hardware then just don't comment.

[shaun928]

that's abit rich coming from you...

in all REAL world, like games, it is proven to be true.

only time when Quads and SLi really show what they can do is in synthetics like 3D Mark 06 and vantage and other benchmarks

when they will be faster is when DX 11 comes out, and that is about a year by then your pc will be null and void and you will be buying a new one.

buy your hardware for what is supported at the time of purchase, other wise its all marketing and bragging rights, which is lame.

[operationturkey]

You clearly know nothing about SLI. The amount that SLI scaled depends completely on the software. Almost all games use SLI to some extent. However some games such as company of heroes, oblivion, doom 3, HL2 ep1 and supreme commander scale to give very close to 2x the performance.

You also seem to suggest that DX11 will give much better SLI performance. This is completely untrue. As I said, it is tied up with how the game engine manages SLI rendering and is not much to do with the API.

[shaun928]

you should get 2x the fps over all resolutions, which doesn't happen.

scaled down quote on DX 11:

* Full support on Windows Vista

* Compatibility with DirectX 10 and 10.1

* New compute shader technology that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor

* Multi-threaded resource handling that will allow games to better take advantage of multi-core machines

* Support for tessellation

[operationturkey]

go to slizone(dot)com > learn more >technology overview. They have benchmarks there. I really don't understand why you think SLI can't scale well. I have run benchmarks with and without SLI on company of heroes and it scaled near perfectly 2x. Also you seem to like the 9800GX2 which is an SLI setup in one. If you actually look inside the card, there are two PCBs using one PCI-E connection. It still uses SLI rendering modes which is why it performs almost exactly the same as 2x 8800GT's in SLI.

[shaun928]

i didn't say i liked the 9800gx2.. i said it is the better option than a gtx280 at the moment as it is 100 bucks cheaper and has the same performance. This could be subject to change as the drivers for the gtx280 are shit at the moment, nvidia will release the better drivers for it when the 4870x2 comes out (remember what ATi did not so long ago, 30-40% fps increase)... and there is the g200b in September, which is a die shrink of the gtx280

That on the slizone site is nvidia marketing.

[operationturkey]

Well you admit that the 9800GX2 performs close to the GTX 280. The 9800GX2 is just 2 8800GT's stuck together that share the memory and a single PCI-E connection. So there we go, you have just told me that SLI work fairly well.

[shaun928]

quote :

Today Microsoft unveils more details about the next generation API - DirectX 11. The Compute Shader, Tessallation, Multi-thread randerings and GPGPU support are included.

Details were given in Gamefest.

i can give you links if you wish to view sources

[DarkMuthaFucka]

well spoken, i saved up money and got a XFX 9800GX2 1GB DDR3 :D

[shaun928]

yeap, and at this point in time the 9800gx2 is just as fast as the gtx280 and is $100 bucks cheaper here than the gtx280

:D

[SimonLANO]

why?? i allready using Two 3870 with that

[ty99999returns]

NICE NEW MUSIC RODNEY!

[ty99999returns]

i feel dumb, i just found out its now new.

[ty99999returns]

*not new

[kapowwebuyer]

cool...i have the antec 550w psu

[gtiasd]

cool psu. I prefer the corsair HX, VX and TX series though.

[HgCst0]

i might need this PSU for my next build ( im not a harcore gamer )

[urlame101]

nice review

[urlame101]

nice review

[ewilson92]

Sweet! I'll probably pick this one up for my parents computer.

Nice review as usual! 5/5