ACXP Review
When you're after every possible gram of performance from your equipment, when you've tuned every RAM setting and BIOS option, made your voltage mod, maxed your front side, upgraded your power supply, shoehorned in every last fan you can fit, what's left? Simply put, your power cable. Serious overclockers have long acknowledged the stability benefits of ultra-clean mains power to the PSU. Is it worth it to get an extra 5% overclock? I think you know the answer to that.
For a long time, using expensive high-end power conditioners, isolation transformers, and even portable generators was the only way to get that purest of waveforms into their power supply, and this elusive goal was reserved for the truly elite. Well, with the introduction of the new ACXP line of power cables from Performance Power Purveyors (P3), I can tell you that the performance benefits previously accessible only to the hardcore. The review sample I obtained was in OEM packaging, but a retail version should be in the US and UK channel by early May.
P3 is probably best known as the contractor responsible for the power connections that interface with and supply power to the Russian modules aboard the International Space Station, so you can rest assured that this product is the latest in power connection technology from a firm with a background in systems that are truly "mission-critical." In fact, P3 is positioning the ACXP series as power connections for data center and high-density clustering applications, but there's no reason to ignore the benefits to the overclocker community. If it's good enough for Sandia National Laboratories, it should be just fine in my rig. P3 mainly supplies OEMs directly at this point, but most of the major online retailers should be carrying the ACXP by the time this review goes live.