Cables & Connectors cont'.


The Zeus comes with more PCI-E connectors than you can shake a stick at and by the looks of it, this will be the weapon of choice for people running a Tri-SLI or Crossfire X setup. There are a pair of stand-alone PCI-E connectors as well as two double PCI-E connectors which means you will have enough connectors to run three 8800GTX cards or a pair of HD3870 X2s.


On a power supply with such a staggering price, I would have liked to have seen fully sleeved connectors but once again Silverstone provides us with the hideous yellow wires to fondle. While there is sleeving up to the first PCI-E connector on each of these cables, the wires running to the second connector are not sleeved at all which is a huge disappointment. Having these daisy-chained connectors on the same cable is a great idea; its implementation would have been so much smoother if the few extra bucks would have been spent on completely sleeving them.

There is also a pair of 6+2 pin PCI-E connectors for all of your uber-GPU needs. Silverstone did their homework here and made sure that the extra two ground wires could break off since without this function the Zeus would not be able to run three 8800GTX / Ultra cards.


There are more than enough SATA and Molex connectors but we would have liked to have seen the Molex connectors come with the quick-disconnect feature. This can be seen on many FSP-built power supplies in addition to products made by other OEMs so their inclusion would have been nice on a power supply that has pretty much everything else. Nonetheless, Molex connectors are quickly diminishing into legacy status so it is very likely that you will not be using them.