ASRock Steel Legend SL-850G PSU Review

1. Introduction2. Bundle & Cabling3. External4. Internal5. Testing Methodology and Results6. Closing Thoughts7. View All Pages

The SL-850G artwork is quite subdued but it lists a range of selling points on the front such as the 10 year warranty, noise rating, efficiency rating and ATX 3.1 / PCIe 5.1 compatibility.

The rear of the box highlights the cables, an efficiency chart and a list of features.

Inside the box, the power supply is sandwiched between two slabs of foam. The accessories are on the other side of the box.

ASRock supply a little leaflet on the power supply along with a regional specific cable and two kinds of cable tie.

ASRock are using thin ribbon style cables which can help with routing during a system build. The company are using 16AWG cables UL4411 and UL3266 spec which meet thermal resistance up to 105c. There is an NTC sensor on the 12v-2×6 cable shown above which monitors the temperature and sends a signal to the PSU to ‘ensure safe operation'.

In the efforts to help end users be assured their cables are plugged in correctly, ASRock have coloured the connector parts green – as the diagram above shows, this ensures you can see if they are seated properly before turning on the system. A pretty neat idea, but we imagine most people may not even realise.

None of the cables have in cable capacitors which is good.

• Motherboard cable (24pin) – 1x
• EPS 12V CPU connectors (4+4pin) – 2x
• PCIe5.1 connectors(12+4pin) Dual Color – 1x
• PCIe connectors (6+2pin) – 3x
• 4-pin Peripheral connectors – 3x
• SATA 5-pin connectors – 9x

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