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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today we are building a computer if you couldn't tell from all the hardware lying around me but there is a purpose for it we're not just doing this for shit's and gigs although I like to do that sometimes what we're essentially building a PC for today is to test a single component and that is this thing right here this is the power combo from fantex and I did check this out at CES back in January and I thought it was really cool because it's really the first of its kind that I've seen and what it essentially allows you to do is connect to power supplies to a single motherboard in in a single system so that's basically for redundancy and the event of a power failure let's say one of your power supplies dies your system can continue running what's going on in the background ok mono just turned off don't mind that so in case of a power failure and one of your units dies your system will continue running because it's backed up essentially by a second connected power supply so just kind of the same reason more or less why you would have a raid one set up for your hard drives for example just for that peace of mind for done Dhin see you know instead of data loss recovery you're essentially recovering power in this situation so that's going to be kind of cool to test out and we're not gonna be able to test it out really until we build the system so that's why we're doing it today speaking of the power supplies that we're using we've got a g7 50 M from coolermaster and in Earth wats platinum 650 watt from an tech notice that they are two different wattages and you can have two different wattages when connecting to the power combo they don't need to be identical however each power supply needs to be powerful enough and have enough wattage to drive your entire system by itself otherwise it's kind of a moot point to have one for backup additionally we've got a cooler here I guess I'll just go in no particular order we've got the fan Tech's pH TC 14 PE this is an awesome air cooler again we're going for high reliability for the system so I didn't want to mess around with any liquid or you know water cooling things like that so no chance of leaking here but this is a pretty awesome cooler it's very silent as well got a gtx 980ti right here from ZOTAC this is their amp Edition killer card beast of a card it's definitely going to be you know power efficient enough to be driven by either of these power supplies so that's good we've got a 6700 K from from Intel of course core i7 so we are going skylake for this now I could have gone x99 however I wanted to save that for Broadwell even that come because x99 as of now or as well I I should say is kind of you know being phased out for broad belly coming up really soon so but that's going to be for later videos so stay tuned for that but I'm pretty sure we're still going to get some decent performance here with skylake we've also got 32 gigs of corsair dominator platinum at 3000 megahertz however I've only got a 16 gig kit right now there's actually another 16 gig kit on its way right now from Amazon so I'll be installing that kit when it gets here we've also got two SSDs for our storage we've got a boot drive for our for our system the 850 Evo SSD which is a 250 gigs as well as a one terabyte MX 200 from crucial and this is going to be where all of our RAW files ideally will be edited off of so let's say we're doing a video editing system here it's really much nicer to edit off of an SSD than a mechanical hard drive you won't get nearly as many drop frames and things like that I've also got two mechanical hard drives of those speaking of which just for backup for example we've got two two terabyte WD blacks and those are going to be put in a raid 1 array for extra redundancy goodness and I think finally we've got no no we've got the case which the case is very very important because this this is the enthu primo and from fan ticks of course and it does support two power supplies so that's there's really not many cases out there that do that however you are probably going to want a case that does so if you are going to be using a power combo and there is ample room in here to mount the power combo as well so I kind of just made sense if you're going with kind of a niche product like the power combo to actually get a case from the same manufacturer so you know everything is compatible other than that excellent case great airflow tons of mounting options obviously and then finally we've got this workstation board from AC so this is the z170 WS and this is just a beast of a board it's got tons of connectivity options and while it while it is really tailored for workstation applications like rendering and things like that streaming it is really good for gaming as well you can see it's got four PCIe by 16 slots Gen 3 of course and it does support up to four white sli or crossfire so it's pretty nice you've also got 2 m2 PCIe nvme slots that is by 4 and you also have a u2 connector right here by your SATA ports of course your USB 3.1 type A and type C connectors on the Rayo and just just coated in a beautiful aesthetic overall so those are all the parts I know I kind of rushed through it but I just want to get this thing built really quickly because I'm super excited about it and and then I'm going to go ahead and test this power combo as I mentioned earlier so why don't we go ahead and do that now alright y'all so the build is finally complete here she is in all of her glory and here we have her running Unigine Heaven 4.0 in the background everything is looking good vitals thermals everything's checking out so that's a good sign we have a good boot so far however if you were paying close attention to the time lapse you might have noticed one or two different snags that I encountered during the build process the first of which which happened early on was noticing or realizing that the CPU cooler I picked out initially was way too big to actually clear our RAM here so we're running into some RAM clearance issues that was just a huge oversight on my part so what we ended up doing or what I ended up doing was downsizing to a smaller fantex cooler the pea HTC 12 DX which has two 120 millimeter fans at a single heatsink tower and that seems to be working out just fine the second thing that I overlooked was how freaking large this case is the enthalpy mo is just a behemoth of a case and I haven't built in a full tower for quite some time so what I overlooked and what I completely didn't think of is having a cable that would route all the way from the power combo which is mounted at the very front at the bottom of the case to the eight pin EPS connector on the motherboard so what I ended up having to do was actually take two eight pin extensions and link them together it's the first time I've ever really had to do that and thank God I had two of them on hand otherwise I don't know what I would I would have done I probably would've had to take the the power combo and physically move it closer to the eight pin and do some kind of nasty routing where I had to like run run the cable over the video card or something like that so I'm glad I didn't have to do that it all worked out in the end however what we're here to discuss is the power combo so right now we've got both power supplies that are pooling their resources essentially to drive the system now let's see what happens when I unplug one of the power supplies from from our rig here it's still scary even though I know it's going to be fine it's scared it scares me ahaha okay so we just unplug the GG 750m and it's completely normal nothing nothing's changed it was not even any like flinching or like flickering or anything like that I've even checked gpu-z and monitored the GPU load and so far nothing I mean it's still at 99% plug it and it doesn't even flinch so that's a really good thing now we can go ahead and plug this back in and you shouldn't do this you should power off the system before you plug a power supply back in if if you're in this kind of situation sorry for the ambient noise go ahead and plug this back in all right now I'm going to go ahead and unplug the other power supply now this is the power supply that is actually the one powering the the graphics card because the power combo you're only plugging in your 8 pin EPS as well as your 24 pin cables from each from each unit however SATA and PCIe are connected directly from one of the power supplies to to your drives and video card and it doesn't matter you can you can mix and match here so you could actually have one power supply powering your GPU and the other one powering your drives or vice versa so let's go ahead and unplug the one that is powering our video card I believe the drives are powered on the 750m so I'm going to go ahead and unplug this and Unigine Heaven 4.0 is still running strong all right guys so what we've just witnessed is that you can essentially yank out the AC cord from either power supply with little to no effect on your systems overall performance we didn't see any kind of CPU or GPU Dru pitch which is pretty awesome and to validate that point even further I actually ran some benchmarks on this system in Unigine Heaven 4.0 what I found was whether whether I was just running the system and not touching it with both power supply's plugged in or yanking out the power supply midway through didn't matter which one the framerate was consistent across the board so um it's actually kind of funny I scored three frames per second on average higher when I was yanking out the power supplies as opposed to just letting the system go so I think I'm just going to start yanking out the AC cord when I'm in mid-game to give me a little bit of a performance boost but that's pretty much it guys and this shows that the power combo really does work nifty little gadget here from fantex so be sure to let me know what you think of it in the comments below if you have any use for it yourself or if you can see yourself utilizing it in a different way but that's all for now guys be sure to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon until next time I'll see y'all in the next