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| Author: Whoopty | |||
| Posted: 23:00, October 18th 2006 | |||
| Link: http://www.spirecoolers.com | |||
| Score: 9 out of 10 [?] | |||
| Price: £40 | |||
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The Rocketeer III
As with most of the Rocketeer range the Rocketeer III has a nice silver surface and sports a large 120mm blue LED fan to aide cooling.

The fan grill itself is gold and has a small Spire logo in the center. These really adds to the aesthetic appeal of a PSU and can really set it above the competition.

The back is grilled with rounded rectangles, to again aide cooling of the PSU's insides. It is not uncommon for power supplies to sport a second fan on the back to increase the cooling performance of the unit. However, grilling the back and having a large powerful 120mm fan, as is the case here, is usually efficient enough and also much quieter than running 2 fans.

On the back of the PSU there is the mandatory safety warnings and power output specifications:

The cabling that comes with the PSU is partially sleeved. I.e. the ATX power cable and its clip on extra 4 pins are sleeved, but unfortunately the rest aren't. This seems a bit unusual as sleeving can really help with cable management as well as making the cabling look a lot more professional.

You can also see from the picture that only one PCIE cable is included, so no SLI/Crossfire with this PSU people, sorry. There are also only 2 SATA power cables and no extra splitter cables so those with lots of hard drives are going to have a few problems with this PSU.
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