The beautifully polished titanium finish is a perfect compliment to the rest of the X-Connect arsenal of great features and performance. As you can see, it's very close to a mirror finish with a small amount of distortion in the reflections. To further show that, I put a tin of Penguin Mints next to it. The highly reflective finish makes it a prime candidate to put inside of a case with a side window that, like many cases today, integrate cold cathodes or some other source for internal lighting. Be careful with the finish if you're going to open the PSU up; other than avoiding capacitor discharge, you don't want to ruin the immaculate finish on this power supply's enclosure.

Moving on to the revolutionary approach on cable organization and airflow. Now days, most cable organizing systems try to compact your cables, make their surface area smaller and neatly tucked away in order in gain airflow. Ultra has taken a different approach to the cabling issue: why have cables when they aren't being used? The Ultra X-Connect allows you to only attach the cables you need, to help maximize airflow. Each "port" that the cables attach to on the main enclosure has it's own black cover to avoid dust build up and any accidents. On top of that, the cables are sleeved very professionally with UV reactive, transparent tubing and some silver/chrome mesh covering the wires themselves. Very flexible and clean looking, both the sleeving and the approach to minimize the amount of cables is exquisite.

To test the UV reactive sleeving, Ultra sent along a few extra's. A set of Dual 12" UV Cold Cathodes, a set of 2x 80mm UV Fan CCFL's (denoted as "supper brite" on the package, yes supper.;)), and a UV reactive (blue) 80mm fan. As you can see in one of the pictures, the difference between a UV reactive, and non-UV reactive fan is obvious, with the one on the right being UV reactive. The sleeving glows a gentle blue and is definitely reactive. If you get just the right distance away from the tubing with the UV light, it looks almost like a ghost effect outlines the sleeving. In tandem with the reflectivity of the power supply, the UV lights and reactive sleeving added a nice touch for when the lights go out.

The rail stability on the X-Connect is rather good, not quite as tight as the 510 Deluxe, but they're close and for the MSRP difference, an obvious choice unless you want the closest possible to immaculate performance. While the -12v rail is slightly under-voltage as with the -5v, it's not enough to be overly concerned. The -12v does falter below a -5% tolerance while clean, which is a little peculiar but the rest of the rails, especially the 3.3v, +5vSB and +5v lines are solid. Overall, there is plenty of stability to keep your Ãœber Computer running at full power.

Conluding this review, the Ultra X-Connect power supply is a fairly good buy. For around $100 depending on where you purchase it, the X-Connect has a nice bundle of features. Superb sleeving, a tantalizing titanium finish, adequatly stable rails, and a flawless new way to attack cable organization and airflow issues. While I'm surprised that it didn't come with a single S-ATA power cable, I noticed on the site that you purchased one recently, you are able to get a free S-ATA cable (Here). All of this comes together to create one great power supply. The X-Connect receives a rating of 96%, the Gold Award, and Bleeding Edge Tech Award for their unique way of attacking the issue of cable management.

Thanks to Ultra for making this review possible.