Rather than posting them on the side, Thermaltake posts the power specifications for the Toughpower 1000W on the top. Here is where you can see the full breakdown of this power supply’s output specs, and how it breaks down to equal 1000W. Once we get the Toughpower installed, and everything connected, we’ll really get to stress these specs and see how well the unit stays within specs.
Connectors
The bottom of the Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W power supply may have a large 140mm fan, and the front may be a fancy display of electronic wonder, but the back is where the action is. On the rear of the power supply is the bank of component power connectors; nicely organized and colour coded. Each rail is also labelled, so you can ensure that your video cards are all on separate rails. Now the only cables in this whole arrangement that aren’t modular are the cables for the 24-pin, the 8-pin, and the 4+4 pin connectors. These connectors are generally used for motherboard bound sockets, and it’s very uncommon to see them as modular options on a power supply as every modern motherboard seems to use them anyway. Everything else is modular, and is very configurable due to what is included by Thermaltake.
With all these cables, you can hook up one motherboard, three video cards, eight standard molex devices (hard drives, optical), two floppy disks, and five SATA devices. That’s all at the same time. I don’t know if the power supply would run all that gear, but I’m not quite to that point yet. That being said, the amount of cables and adapters included with the Toughpower 1000W will give you these kinds of connection options. From left to right in the above picture, we have three 8-pin PCIe cables, three 8-pin to 6-pin PCIe convertors, three 6-pin PCIe cables, two standard molex cables sporting four 4-pin molex connectors each, and two SATA power cables with four SATA power connectors each. These cables should be able to power any system configuration, given enough thought to their setup.
Installation
Installing the Toughpower 1000W into our Antec P182 test case was extremely easy. To some that may be a given, seeing as this is a power supply. However in my past experience, power supplies can have installation issues like any other component. Most of these issues are due to shoddy workmanship, and run the gamut from offset screw holes to low quality materials used in construction. The Toughpower 1000W has no such problems, as Thermaltake pays close attention to the quality of their products. The only gripe I can think of is that the rubber gasket that is meant to act as a sound dampening device, doesn’t fit all that snug to the power supply. The only outcome I can see from this is a little extra collected dust. All in all, installing the Toughpower 1000W was as trouble free as I could hope for.
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