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The MPG A1000GS arrives in a very colourful box with a high resolution image of the product taking centerstage. A list of Gold rated certifications are listed bottom left alongside a ‘Ready for Ai PC' badge. Not sure exactly what that means, but right now ‘Ai' is the buzzword that companies love to focus on regardless of the product.
The rear of the box highlights the 105c Japanese Capacitors, ‘optimised sound levels' and dual native 16 pin connectors.
Inside the box is a power cable, mounting screws, some literature and a bag of power cables.
The quality of the cables is first class, they both look and feel great. They are soft and embossed as you can see in the image above. They include a pair of 12V 2×6 cables which can handle 600 watts per cable. Not sure this is really suitable for a 1000W power supply mind you, 1600W yes.
I was surprised to see only a single PCIe (6+2pin) cable which means this will not be an ideal power supply for AMD graphics cards. I can't help but feel this is a rather strange and somewhat controversial decision. AMD's 7900 XTX is a popular graphics card and this may cause problems for future releases too, with RDNA 4 on the horizon.
While there has been a lot of talk on the controversial 12V-2×6 cable design lately (something we have covered a few times before) MSI have designed a cable that is effectively colour-coded – if you can still see the yellow pins on the connector, it is not inserted properly. This seems to be super critical now after analysis into this cable and possible issues when not connected correctly. It is a topic for another day.
