Modular power supplies: advantages and disadvantages

Nowadays, modular or semi-modular power supplies have been lowered sufficiently in price so that enthusiasts can quietly consider acquiring one of them. In today's article, we will talk about this type of power source and its advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional models.

In terms of aesthetics and internal ventilation of the box and the components that are mounted on it, one of the major flaws of portable power supply is the amount of cables that remain unused, and then the user must be found the life to be able to hide in a more or less adequate way, so that they do not interfere with the functioning of the rest of the components of your team. This may have a more or less simple solution since they began to install the sources in the bottom of the boxes of computer, but when the box only had the space to install the source on its roof, it was a nightmare that any computer installer has faced.

To try to eliminate these problems, several years ago some manufacturers decided to create modular power supplies. This type of source is characterized in that they do not connect the power cables to the components to the body of the source, but they go separately. When manufactured in this way, the user only uses those cables that he really needs from the source to feed his components, being able to leave the rest of them stored in the corresponding bag of cables that usually accompanies this type of source.

Modular power supplies have more advantages than disadvantages

Since the launch of the first modular power supplies, these have been divided into two categories:

Semi modular power supplies: those in which the cables that go to the main power connector of the motherboard (ATX 24 pins) and the power supply to the processor (EPS 8 pins) are permanently attached to the body of the source, not so the rest of the cables.

Fully modular power supplies: in this type of source, all cables have been separated from the source body.

Many users may think that it is silly to have all the power cables separated from the source body, since precisely these two cables are essential for the equipment to operate. However, this is usually done for certain types of users who need to put several power supplies connected in cascade to move their equipment. This type of situation is quite common in the users that are dedicated to the professional mining of cripotomonda, that require to give feeding to several graphic cards in the rigs that they use.

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