Corsair officially announces new RMx Shift PSUs (side-positioned connectors)

[polonyc2]

today Corsair officially announced the new RMx Shift ATX 3.0 line of PSUs, making it the "world’s first power supply with side-positioned connectors"...the RMx Shift series has four models with wattages ranging from 750W to 1200W...Corsair says it has tested the RMx Shift in "all current Corsair cases to guarantee compatibility"...tt should fit third-party cases as long as they're at least 210mm wide, providing enough side clearance to run the cables...

RM750x Shift - $149.99
RM850x Shift - $159.99
RM1000x Shift - $209.99
RM1200x Shift - $269.99

 

[GoldenTiger]

That's... actually kind of a cool idea, if the connectors are facing the right side of the case where you wouldn't see them through a window.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

Great idea and all, if you have a case that will accommodate that PSU. 99% of the cases out there won't, I'd expect a high number of returns because of it.

 

[Zepher]

Just saw that earlier and it's a pretty cool feature. Some cases are so tight that it's hard to add or remove a cable from the PSU without almost removing the PSU from the case.

 

[Elf_Boy]

Nifty! It would work with my current case.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

That's... actually kind of a cool idea, if the connectors are facing the right side of the case where you wouldn't see them through a window.

You watch the video, it looks like that is the case.

I think this could be either really useful, or plain awful depending on your case design, where the PSU mount is, and where the cable passthrough holes are.

On my current case this would actually be quite helpful, but I can easily picture cases on which this would be a bloody nightmare.

 

[polonyc2]

I love this...I'm surprised no one has thought of it before...I usually prefer full tower cases but had to go with Mid-Tower for my latest build and hate that it's such a PITA to switch out GPU's or anything else which requires switching out PSU cables as I have to pretty much pull the PSU out of the case first

 

[dogDAbone]

Cool idea no doubt, but it makes me wonder why they didn't put ALL the sockets vertical instead of 1/2 vertical & the other 1/2 horizontal, if for nothing else than consistency ???

And yea, if you have a case that can accomodate this arrangement, you are golden, otherwise meh

 

[Elf_Boy]

Cool idea no doubt, but it makes me wonder why they didn't put ALL the sockets vertical instead of 1/2 vertical & the other 1/2 horizontal, if for nothing else than consistency ???

And yea, if you have a case that can accomodate this arrangement, you are golden, otherwise meh

Just eye-balling it, it looks like all horizontal wouldn't fit. As for all vertical, my guess would be either a constraint we cant see based on how the guts are configured? Or mayhaps it is based on what someone thinks is ideal for running cables, that can be so case specific though, maybe Corsair has a specific case in mind it is(/was) optimized for?

Now you have me curious too.

 

[dogDAbone]

Just eye-balling it, it looks like all horizontal wouldn't fit. As for all vertical, my guess would be either a constraint we cant see based on how the guts are configured? Or mayhaps it is based on what someone thinks is ideal for running cables, that can be so case specific though, maybe Corsair has a specific case in mind it is(/was) optimized for?

Now you have me curious too.

Yea, after thinking about it for a few minutes, I came to the conclusion that it is probably limited by the internal component arrangement more than anything else, but surely the engineering geniuses at Corsair could have overcome that with a bit of thought & ingenuity.....maybe they should talk to the group that designed the Air 740/540/240 Series of cases....

As for the ideal way to run cables, well I think that just about anyone who cares enough about cable clutter/routing to consider buying this psu would look at several ways to ensure a clean build....myself included

 

[Thunderdolt]

In a high power build in a typical Corsair case, I think this would actually fit worse than a traditional PSU. I already run into trouble closing the doors on water cooled 2-GPU 5000D builds (not a problem on air cooled ones though). That's just going to be made worse with the side connector layout.

I realize that's a niche though. This is probably going to be great for the 99% of builds which are 1-GPU and air cooled.