Corsair TX850 850W Power Supply Review

Cables and Connectors

As expected of a power supply in the TX850’s price range, all of the cables have a perfect length with the PCI-E cables standing out as especially bright points at a full 24” in length. Normally, 22” is sufficient for the ATX, CPU and PCI-E cables so seeing all of these between 23” to 24” long are a welcome surprise. The fact that you have enough cables here to power any dual card SLI or Crossfire system on the market also says a lot about the confidence Corsair places in this unit’s output potential.


We love seeing sleeved cables as they make for a nice, clean build but as we mentioned before: things would have looked even better had the cables been sleeved all the way into the TX850’s housing instead of leaving an inch or so of bare wires.


All of the PCI-E connectors on this power supply are the 6+2 pin type which means they can be adapted to either 6 or 8-pin PCI-E equipped graphics cards.


While the SATA cables are run of the mill as they are on every power supply, it is good to see that Corsair has chosen to go with quick-release Molex connectors. These connectors have two small tabs on them which when depressed allow the connector to be easily removed from the component you have it attached to.