Raidmax Cobra RX-700AC-B 700W 80 Plus Bronze ATX12V 2.3 & EPS12V Power Supply

I ordered 5/27 and received it 6/5. The box was in good shape when it arrived. I knew this was non modular and was fine with that cause I was replacing an old non modular PSU in my old work station-turned gaming rig. My case is super old and doesn’t have much room for cable management so it was hard finding ways to bundle unused wires out of the way, but like I said I knew that going into it.All the wires are sleeved in black mesh. The 6+2 PCIe connectors on the raidmax are clearly labeled, and everything else is self explanatory (24 pin mobo, 4+4 CPU, etc.) The utility cables each have 2 sata plugs with a molex at the end, and I was easily able to hook up a CPU cooling tower, two hard drives and a disk tray without having to convert any of the molex plugs, something I’d had to do with my old psu.The computer booted with no problems, except I forgot to plug in one of my case fans and had to open it all back up haha...I’ve had the computer on for two days straight, run some updates, run a benchmark, launched a couple games, trying to put the system under load to see if anything happens, and so far there have been no issues. I will update this review if that unexpectedly changes.Overall I think the Raidmax Cobra is amazing bang for your buck, I got the 700w for $65. You won’t touch a 700w Corsair or EVGA for that, so if you can deal with the non modular cable set up I would optimistically recommend this productSystem Specs:Gigabyte GA 970A D3AMD FX 8350 (yes that crazy 125w cpu)16GB (4x4) HyperX Genesis 1600mzAorus RX 580 8GB500GB HDD132GB SSD

I bought this to replace an old 750w Raidmax power supply that had kept my PC going strong for 5+ years of heavy daily use. I did have the fan in my old power supply start making noise and eventually die about half way through it's lifespan but I replaced the fan and it continued to work perfectly fine. I think it's common for power supplies to start failing around the 5 year mark.Happy with my old Raidmax power supply and not wanting to break the bank to get my 6 year old PC back up and running this power supply seemed perfect. Replacing my old power supply was about as difficult as you would expect and my computer booted up perfectly the first time. I've had this thing doing work for a few months now with zero problems. Plenty of wattage. Cheap. Works.

First thing, it's kind of ugly, as are the non-modular cables that come out of it. Depending on your build and personal taste, this isn't really an issue. I built a sub-400 dollar gaming PC that was in an enclosed case with no RGB. The aesthetics of this thing certainly didn't matter in a case like that.With that being said, this is considered, from reading I did after buying the unit, to be a lower end power supply. One that people fairly universally say they'd never put in a build with quality components. A power supply is such an important component, because if it fails, it can take your system with it.This can be mitigated, however, by putting it in a build that won't stress the unit. The small build I put it in draws maybe 500 watts, max, thanks to the CPU and GPU I have in it. That means, in my use case, this power supply should never have to try to pull even close to the 700 watts it's rated at. That means, in theory, it is much less likely to fail and damage my parts.If you are thinking to making a build where 700 watts is way more than you need, and/or you are using cheap, old, used parts that you aren't as worried about some power supply failure possibly damaging, then this unit, for it's price, is probably worth considering. In my budget system I built, it seems to be working like a champ, without issue.I wouldn't trust it with a system that would need over 500 watts, however.

I have used it for a while now still doing its job

This was a great item for one of my new computers. The only down side is that it was not modular. It was easy to install and is quite quiet.

Hasn't blew my house up yet.

While this isnt a modular powersupply, it has more than enough connectors to satisfy most anyone's needs.I had my other ps go out unexpectedly, and needed one that would go into my rebuilt Antec 900 tower.I have a SSD, 2-7200 RPM HD's, 1 Dual DVDRW/Blu ray drive, 1 Asus video card, Ryzen 2700X processor, ASUS micro ATX board with 16GB ram.other than some mistakes i made starting up, its a nice power supply.Same wattage as the one it replaced, as i really can get by with 550w or so, so this has power to spare for future upgrades.have to wait and see long-term if there are any issues, but, as a new-built/upgrade for my tower, its great.price and value cant be beat.i know, i looked..

I installed my Raidmax 700W 4 and a half years ago. No issues, been going great. Noise level is decent, never draws my attention to it.