Besides that, the TG500-U35 features independent regulation of the output voltages and active PFC. In other words, it’s got everything a modern PSU is expected to have.

The card with the output connectors is located near the back panel of the PSU.

The combined load capacity of the +12V rail is 432W. It is divided into four output lines with a limit of 20A on each.

I call such outputs “virtual” because there is actually only one +12V power rail inside the PSU but it has four shunts to control the load current on the output, each of which makes up one “virtual” +12V output line. The shunts can be easily seen in the photo above: they are the short thick U-shaped things among the wires soldered into the PCB.

The PSU offers the following cables and connectors:

• Mainboard cable with a 20+4 connector (56cm)
• CPU cable with a 4+4 connector (50cm, screened)

• A wire to connect the PSU’s ground to the PC case
• Six connectors for HDD power cables
• Two connectors for graphics card power cables

The following is supplied together with the PSU:

• Two power cables for graphics cards (53cm, screened)
• One cable with one Molex connector (53cm, screened; it is meant to provide additional power to an AGP graphics card if you’ve got one)
• One cable with two Molex connectors (30+14cm, screened)

• Two cables with two Molex connectors on each (45+15cm)
• Two cables with two SATA power connectors on each (30+14cm)
• Two cables with two SATA power connectors on each (45+16cm)
• Adapter from a Molex to two mini-connectors for floppy drives

Three drawbacks can be noted here. First, the detachable cables have handy but very large connectors. There must be some 6-7 centimeters of free space behind the PSU in your system case for you to be able to plug these cables in normally.

Second, the power connectors for graphics cards (both 6- and 4-pin ones) have clumsy rubber knobs which even make it impossible to connect this cable into some graphics cards as the knob presses against the card’s PCB. In this case you have to take a sharp knife and carefully remove this embellishment from the cable.

And third, these graphics card cables are screened and packed into thick plastic tubes. There is no practical sense in screening power wires while the thick plastic makes them stiff and unwilling to be laid properly inside the system case.