Enermax Revolution 950W PSU Review

Cable Layout:

When it comes to power supplies, cable layout is almost as important as the quality of the internal components.  After all, if you don't have the right plugs to power your parts, what good is the power supply?  So let's take a look at the layout for the Revolution:

Enermax's website does a pretty good job of laying out the connectors for their power supplies.  As we can see from this graph, the Revolution 85+ is equipped with a standard 24 pin connector, dual 4-pin connectors that can be converted to the EPS 8-pin connector, another 8-pin EPS connector, and two 6+2-pin PCI-e connectors that are hard-wired into the PSU.  For the modular cables, we get a 3x Molex, a 3x Molex plus floppy connector, two dual PCI-e 6+2 pin cables, and three 4x SATA connectors.   

While it makes perfect sense to hard-wire the 24-pin connector, hard-wiring both an 8-pin and dual 4-pins connectors makes less sense, since it is very rare for both to be necessary.  I would have preferred that the EPS connectors be made modular as well.  

The sleeving for the hard-wired cables are very similar to the ECO review we recently looked at.

Also included are two owner's manuals, the standard power cable, screws, and a nice pouch for housing your extra modular bits and pieces. 

The Innards:

The layout of the internals for the Revolution is actually remarkably similar to that of the Liberty and ECO lines, with two passive heatsinks lining the center. 

The primary capacitors are also Nippon ChemiCon, typical for Enermax products. 

Unlike the ECO, which used the bizarre looking batwing fan, the Revolution uses a fan with standard blades, and feeding Google the model number reveals that the fan is capable of 98.5CFM at 40.4dB, though the fan generally runs much slower and quieter than this, usually 700 to 1500 RPM.