Super Flower Leadex Platinum 850W

The Leadex Platinum 850W boasts 80 Plus Platinum certification for just £123 inc VAT. This PSU has a single-rail design, delivering 70.8A on the 12V rail. It can also run in semi-passive mode by switching the ‘Eco’-button on the back. Meanwhile, the many connectors are mounted on flat cables that are more than long enough for any system. Unlike the other 850W models on test, the Super Flower ‘only’ has four PCI-E graphics connectors, but realistically, you’re very unlikely to need more from an 850W PSU anyway.

SilverStone Strider Gold S 750W

SilverStone’s Strider Gold S is reasonably priced at £96 inc VAT, and offers pretty much everything you could want in the features department, including four PCI-E graphics connectors and plenty of SATA and Molex plugs, as well as long, flat cables and a fully modular design. The enclosure is surprisingly small too, measuring just 141mm long, so it will fit in plenty of cases.

Fractal Design Edison M 750W

Swedish brand Fractal Design is represented in this segment by the Edison M 750W, an 80 Plus Gold unit with modular cabling, denoted by the ‘M’ in the model name. The unit distinguishes itself visually through Fractal’s signature white fan, which is visible underneath the grille.

EVGA SuperNova G2 750W

EVGA’s entrant in this segment is the SuperNova G2 750W, and like EVGA’s 550W PSU on test, it comes in at a very tempting price. What’s more, the low price of £87 inc VAT doesn’t seem to have had any impact on the feature set. It has a fully modular design and a lot of attractive, long, sleeved cables. The cable set includes four PCI-E graphics plugs, which is plenty for a PSU in this class and, remarkably, the SuperNova G2 measures only 140mm long, meaning you can fit it into just about any case.

Corsair RM750i

Corsair’s RM Series justifiably won a lot of praise when it entered the market, bringing 80 Plus Gold-rated PSUs to a new price point, and performing well in all departments. One aspect of the range kept haunting the company, though, at least with demanding users: its use of Taiwanese rather than Japanese capacitors, as the latter are perceived as being superior.