Final thoughts and rating

The Corsair GS800 is a PSU whose aesthetics are designed to draw the gamer. Equipped with multi-coloured LEDs and presented in a nice-looking chassis, the £80 supply is based on a modern architecture from CWT and has strong performance across the board. Cabling is generous and we like the fact the 14cm fan remains switched off until the PSU is required to deliver at least 160W to the PC.

We'd prefer the supply to have modular cabling, ensuring tidier builds - the competition has £80 modular supplies, we note - and Corsair would do well to shave £10 off the GS800's price in order to elevate it from good to excellent.

Aimed at users with a side window who want to colour-coordinate their kit while not compromising on quality, the Corsair GS800 is a solid investment. We'd really love it if it shipped with modular cables: hint, hint Corsair.

The Good

Gamer-orientated aesthetics
Good selection of cables
Strong performance
Silent at up to 20 per cent load

The Bad

Non-modular cables

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Corsair Gaming Series GS800 PSU

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Corsair Gaming Series GS800 PSU

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No Nvidia green?

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

.Blue and red? bleugh, at least give different colour surrounds like the fans do.

non modular…yuk!!!, insta fail.

It is the Gaming Series, and I think it was meant to be a cheaper series to cater to all types of gamers: casual to hardcore (at least on the average), making them forget about modular cabling for this series of PSUs. But, if they wanna talk about aesthetics, I suppose that neat modular cabling plays an important part. Maybe, it was way better if this aesthetic concept was done on the modular units in the TX series, or maybe do another line of modular PSUs intended for color-coordinated systems. I guess people who really are strict about making their systems color-coordinated are willing to pay extra for a complete aesthetic features - nice color-schemed PSU cases with modular cables.