Ultra X-Connect 500w Power Supply

The lines are all wrapped in a tinned copper braid which is then surrounded by a green outer covering.  As you may guess from looking at the pictures below, the lines are all UV reactive.  Often, sheathed or covered cables loose flexibility or become just too stiff.  Not so with the X-Connect.  The lines felt rugged but remained very pliable.

  

Our review unit itself is painted in a mirror finish black.  The X-Connect is also offered in several other paint schemes.  Black, Blue, Green and Titanium may be selected as a base coat to be augmented by Blue, Green or Orange UV reactive windows.  Ultra Products also offers the X-Connect in a windowless Black or Titanium colored model.  Whatever model suits your fancy, it will have a large 80mm cooling fan on the base with a Ultra logo fan grill on top.  The non restrictive grill has a small honeycomb pattern grate just beneath it that really brings out the chrome color of the grill material.  You can also see the UV reactive green colored windows below that favor the top and two opposing sides of the unit.

     

Each port on the rear of the X-Connect has a cover on it keeping things nice and neat.  Also seen below is the high gloss paint job we mentioned earlier.  You could shave off the reflection of this thing.

  

The connector covers remove easily to allow installation of whatever power cable combination you need.  Each receiving port is also a 4-pin Molex connection which opens up possibilities of plugging a device directly into the unit and eliminating needless cable when appropriate.

  

A peek inside

Cracking the X-Connect open we find lots of color.  The heatsinks are anodized gold and look to be of standard size.  The two 80mm cooling fans are visible here as well.  If you look closely at the fan pictured topmost in the photo below, you will see that it is not any old LED fan.  It is in fact a CCFL ring type light.  This will put out a brighter and fuller lighting effect than an LED number.

I can feel the power

Installation went MUCH easier than any other power supply I've dropped into a system in the past.  Having to fish wires around on my own terms is a pleasant experience to say the least.  Remember all those times of draping lines over a case and holding them there with one hand out of the way so you could tuck things away one at a time?  Those days are gone, thank goodness!  I'll tell you one other thing that's gone, even though X-Connect includes it, that crazy worthless AUX 6-pin power cable that no one has needed in five years can be left in the box.

  

The windows and lines above five off a nice color and glow.  In the above pictures, they are reacting to a 4" UV tube light.
 

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