Raptoxx RT-EBAD1200 Exxtreme 1200W PSU review

Page 3 - Installing

For the period through which Raptoxx 1200W remained in the ModReactor Lab it was installed in tree different cases of medium and medium-high class priced between 120$ and 200$. The first of them was Cooler Master Mystique 632.

Mounting the heavy PSU in it was not exactly care free. First of all due to the case specific design, the additional USB, FireWire & Audio connectors are on top of it. Unfortunately - smack in the middle of the top cover too. The PSU being longer that anything the designers of Mystique 632 expected was unmountable unless the circuit board with the additional connectors is removed, which in the end was done. Pity, to say the least, as nowadays additional connectors are more of a norm than bonus, due to the popularity of plug'n'play devices such as flash drives. The lack of long rail on which Raptoxx RT-1200EBAD could rest stable is another bad thing, since considering its weight and length after being installed it did hung a bit.

Rapcom Power Station had no such problems. But still, regardless of how high-class an MidTower case is, it is not intended of housing components and systems requiring that amount of power. Thus, again, the PSU was mounted a bit unstable.

Here is a case worthy of the 1200W Raptoxx monster. Inside NOX Coolbay HX the PSU is positioned on the bottom of the case, just as in most modern Fulltower cases. Bugger! We ran into problems with this case too. There was no way of adding or removing hard drives without removing the PSU too. That however might be blamed on Coolbay, since hard drives aren't mounted perpendicularly as in other high-class cases, but instead are mounted in special bay with a 120mm fan attached to it, a bay that have to be completely removed for any adding/removing operations.