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The EVGA SuperNova 1600 P2 ships in a dark box with no images of the product visible.
No shortage of information on the back of the box.
Inside the box, the power supply is encased between thick slabs of foam and is wrapped inside a bag.
Interesting to see the little storage bag is resealable.
Inside the box, a felt cable bag to store the modular cables, along with a user manual, mounting screws, felt ties, and an ATX bridging adapter. This allows the power supply to be used without load.
The modular cabling is all black sleeved, which is very sexy indeed.
| Cable | Connectors |
| MB 20+4 pin | x1 (600mm) |
| CPU 4+4 pin | x2 (750mm) |
| PCI E 8 pin (6 pin +2) | x9 (750mm. 900mm) |
| PCI E 8 pin (6 pin) | x5 (750mm) |
| SATA | x16 x (550mm, 650mm, 750mm, 850mm) |
| MOLEX | x6 (550mm, 650mm, 750mm) |
| FDD | x2 |
Certainly no shortage of cables with the EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 P2 power supply – it has been designed with monster multi card SLI and Crossfire systems in mind.
Who the fuck needs a 1600 watts PSU nowadays with Intel Haswell mere 88 W TDP and Nvidia GM204 low 165 W TDP???
Even with a workstation running 2 X Haswell Xeon and 4 X GM204 GPU, that’s still only 836 W! Add on top a “worse case scenario” 100 W for the motherboard, 3 more PCI-e expansion card, 64GB of RAM, 2 X SSD, 4 X hard drives and a dual water cooling loop for CPU/GPU, and you don’t even break the 1000 W barrier!
For a regular single air cooled i7-4790K, 32GB RAM and 2 X GTX 980, 2 X SSD in RAID0 and 2 X hard drives in RAID1 + a few accessories and motherboard, you are looking at WELL below 600 watts, even overcloked! 800 W PSU are already overkill now, imagine 1600 W…