SilverStone ST85F 850W ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: great power....gigabyte M59SLI-S5 mobo, amd 5200+ 2.6Ghz clocked to 2.85Ghz @ 1.4V, 8800 GTS not clocked yet and kept but played with ntune and didnot get unstable and crash until 3750Mhz ...that was a 50% OC as it started at 2500 Mhz. 4G corsair xms 6400C4 set factory OC recommend 2.1V vs 1.8 JEDEC default. Fans = 3-120mm, 2-90mm, thermaltake TMG A1 cpu cooler, 1 Tt memory cooler, 2 X 250G raid 0, DVD, FDD. all running VERY stable. as for those getting power error msg with the 8800GTX see if your mobo has a 4 pin molex connector tagged for PCIe 12V, mine does and it would probably solve your problem, that what it's there for.

Cons: none...ya know some people really should check things out ..in reply to NOT THRILLED...case in point from your test...ALL of those 12 volt reading are WELL WITHIN +12V range..12 volt DOES NOT mean that it will supply 12 volts at all times...check manufac spec MOST ALL specs for +12v is 12V + or - up to 5% in the case of this particular PS the spec is 12V +5/-4 which means the PS will supply power on the 12 volt rail within -4% to +5% of 12V which equals 11.52 - 12.60 volts and that is the operating range of the +12V rail so your disappointment with 11.71V is really not valid,

Overall Review: 11.84V on the 4 pin at IDLE is actually pretty much EXACTLY where it should be, try testing at FULL LOAD and i'll bet you see that 11.84 jump to something like 12.25 (point is, the item and PS will only use/supply what is NEEDED, if it doesn't need 12+ volts to idle then it won't take them) another thing to consider here is if your that concerned with it dropping to 11.71 THEN STAY AWAY FROM MODULAR CABLING, modular cabling creates 1 more connection in the power scheme which INCREASES resistence and therfore will leave wide open the possibility of a +12V rail dropping to its low in range as well as make it harder to deliver it's max range voltage, ANY modular cabling PS will have the same problem. then again if PS did infact supply 12 volts at all times (impossible cuz power fluxuates regardless!!) people would groan cuz the power bill went up a little, so look at it this way over the course of a year that 11.84 vs 12v will save a few bucks on your power bill.

Pros: Silverstone has done it first - offering a great power supply at an affordable price. I upgraded from the old ST60F (600 watt) to the new ST85F. I needed a new power supply that would give enough power for the next-gen of graphics cards; both the nVidia 8800 & 8900 series and AMD/ATI's new R600 series. The new PCI-E 8-pin power connector is coming out soon and the ST85F comes equipped with two of them! I plan to upgrade next month to either the R600XTX or 8900GTX. For now, here's my current setup: AMD Athlon 64 4600+ (OC'd to 2.6ghz) 2GB (2 x 1GB) OCZ PC4000 DDR 2 x nVidia 7900GTXs in SLI 2 x WD Raptors in RAID 0 2 x Seagate 320GB SATAII HDDs w/NCQ in JBOD 4 x 120mm fans 1 x Danger Den 12V MAG waterpump

Cons: Silverstone decided to get rid of the adjustable pots (for fine-tuning voltages). Too bad as my ST60F had this feature. Also, internal packaging could be better as no styrofoam was used to protect the unit against impacts. Thanks to newegg for outstanding packing as always which protected my PSU during UPS shipping from Cali to Colorado.

Overall Review: I disagree with the initial Neoseeker hardware review saying it was a downgrade for Silverstone to go with two 12V rails instead of sticking with four 12V rails. The PC Power & Cooling company has been using SINGLE 12V rails for years and are one of the top rated power supply makers out there. Going to two 12V rails @ 35A/each ensures overloading won't occur versus four 12V rails @ 18A/each. Today's high-end cards need power and Silverstone's new ST85F delivers at an affordable price!

Pros: The first model I had to RMA due to a harmonic noise that would eminate from it after warming up. It was kinda of freaky, and it was driving me nuts. Thanks to Newegg's reliable support, I received a replacement, and this one didn't have that problem! The noisy one was a rare incident indeed.

Cons: I have the 850 watt Strider, and I also have the 1000 watt Strider. They are long PSUs and you have to make sure they will fit your case before you purchase. Sometimes you have to make room or use "persuasion" to make them fit. Even large cases can have this fit problem, so be cautious and do your research. I replaced my lower-chamber 120mm fan with a smaller 80mm fan, so that the power supply would fit in my Antec P180B case.

Overall Review: This PSU is in my MSI Crossfire Ready K9A-Platinum motherboard with two MSI RX2600XT video cards. It does the job with low noise. It's not as quiet as the Zalman ZM600-HP power supply, but it's quiet enough for my gaming standards!

Pros: Does a great job so far. Output is very clean and steady. Modular cables are plenty long for my Lian Li PC-V1200Bplus II (which is a big case). Supports everything I needed it for. Quiet and doesn't seem to get very hot.

Cons: None...

Overall Review: Powering an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700, EVGA nForce 680i SLI, 2x XFX 8800GTS 320MB @580Mhz, 3ware SATAII RAID5, 4x 160GB WD Caviar RE SATAII, 2x DVD burners, 8GB Patriot Performance DDR2-800 without any problems.

Pros: Low clutter (modular) and high efficiency. It runs quietly and cool even under high load. My last PSU ran scorchingly hot under slight load and had very few connectors

Cons: Price dropped AFTER I got it.... GRRR SATA rail is absurd! if you want to use 1 SATA you have to hook up a cable with 6 ends! I just need 2. PSU is rather long, make sure your case has room. dont forget the ends have to be reachable.

Overall Review: Running currently dual 8800GTX (SLI), e6600, liquid cooled rig (swiftech mcp655 pump), 2 250mm fans, 3 120mm fans, 2 optics, 2 hds, 3 cathodes, and pci/usb + garbage.

Pros: More than enough power for a 8800GTX SLI setup. Has 2 PCI-Express 8 pin connections for future cards. Its completely modular, so there is no unecessary cables. Plenty of 4 pin molex connections for everything in my case. Its silent and has a nice big fan to aid in cooling. Stable power. Not as heavy as other higher power PSUs.

Cons: It is slightly larger than my old PSU (Antec TrueBlue 480), so it was tricky to install in my ThermalTake Tsunami case...had to unscrew the USB/Firewire module in the top of the case to install...fine after that.

Overall Review: For the price, this is a great buy. It supplies more than enough power for anything you can throw at it. Its good for future systems as well.

Pros: just got it...nice PS, ample power, modular cabling total 100% modular, some modular cabling psu's still have the main 20/24 pin and cpu pin connector hard wired. not this baby, EVERY cable is modular, ok so not needed for the main pin but for the cpu it's nice as ATX 12V 4pin and EPS12V 8pin are both supported so you don't have one of them hangin around.

Cons: PS..none so far..to those saying not enough power for 8800GTX,..I think its actually a problem with..how much extra junk do you have in your system (are you running excessive fans, more than 2 HDD's, fan controllers, multiple DVD's? gotta consider these will suck up a lot of power and may not leave enough for your card, a link for a wattage calculator to see what wattage your system requires as per EACH component..http://www.pcpower.com/technology/power_usage/) take the high value on all to be safe. or your motherboard not sending ANY power to pcie x16 except for what the pcie bus needs and relying totally on the card connector for the rest, this PS puts out plenty of power and amps for dual 8800GTX in sli (suggested minimum 60amp for 8800GTXsli) this PS puts out 64amp continual and (70amp peak)

Overall Review: take a look at your motherboard folks, some boards have an extra PCIe 12V 4pin molex connector for pcie x16 to give added power to the pcie x16slots, my manual says use it depending on system requirements and in that case I would use it. this should solve your problem by giving the card a little more juice through the pcie slot. some have said that modular is not the way to go as you may get bad connection between pins, I wouldn't worry about that with this PS the connectors are so tight it was a fight to get then UN-plugged as they came all plugged in and needed to unplug the ones not needed. anyway you not gonna be swapping them on a weekly basis where you might cause bad connections from wear.

Pros: I know it's pointless now, given that the product is no longer even in stock, but whatever. Anyway, this power supply just failed. I have a core i7 960 pushing 16GB of RAM acting as my home server and test environment (Microsoft Hyper-V, hosting separate VMs for Active Directory, DHCP, File/Print, and a few other misc. apps). Storage is in another box through a SAN. Well, the most important part of that is 'active directory' and 'dhcp'. That means that without this machine running, I can't pull an address, and I can't resolve DNS queries, and my network is dead in the water, and my wife can't do her homework, and I'm in trouble. Bad times. So last night I gracefully shut the machine down, unplugged everything, and moved it to the other side of my small home office, and plugged it in. It won't turn back on. I was very upset. Furious even, because I was under the impression that I had "just" bought this power supply last year, and for it just fail like that, for no good reason, was intolerable. well I came online today to see if it was still under warranty and it turns out I purchased it in January of 2008. Thinking back on it now, I remember that this is the same power supply I had in my gaming rig that I shipped to myself in Afghanistan, used and abused in that horrible country, on a NATO camp that suffered from frequent power problems including blackouts, brownouts, and power surges for 15 months, shipped back to the states, and have used in various functions since then. So, yes it failed, but it performed admirably under a variety of different loads in often harsh and austere environments. So I leave this to you, my Silverstone ST85F 850W ATX power supply, Good Game, Sir. Good Game.

Cons: Failed, eventually.