Thermaltake Smart Pro RGB 850W Power Supply Review

I have already mentioned how the Smart Pro RGB is a fully modular power supply and it comes with enough cables to populate every available plug.  Most users who purchase modular power supplies do so to help with cable management since it is pretty rare that you’ll use "every" cable and is why the storage pouch is such an important accessory.

This heavy rubberized cloth bag comes with a Velcro flap and is actually what holds all of the cables when you first open the box.

Inside the storage bag you’ll find a main 24pin ATX cable that is not broken up into the +4pin variety but does have a split set of cables where it connects to the PSU. 

You will only get a single 12v CPU power cable that uses the popular 4+4 configuration for better compatibility.  Unfortunately a single CPU power connection won’t help you with high-end overclocking motherboards that come with dual CPU power connections.  Thing is, at this price point we will simply exclude the high-end motherboards as an option for any build using this PSU.  Not saying it can’t work but if you are spending that kind of money there are much better power supplies on the market.

The Thermaltake Smart Power RGB supports a variety of GPU configurations but is limited to only configurations using less than four 8pin PCI Express power connections.  This would equate to 2-way SLI or Crossfire unless you are using a high-end video card like the EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified Kingpin edition or MSI R9 290X Lighting where the cards come with three power connections each.

The final cables are the standard SATA and Molex power connections.  Each cable features three plugs per cable.  Each cable is dedicated to a certain connection type and you’ll get three SATA cables and two with Molex plugs and a single adaptor for the smaller four pin plug used on floppy drives.