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this is actually the fourth time recording this video because I've had nothing but audio problems and other boneheaded mistakes that I've been doing watch this video out of sympathy Jase T cents here and as my childhood idol Tim the Toolman Taylor always said this thing needs more power oh and that's exactly what we're gonna look at the EVGA supernova 1600 g2 4 stands for duty to lift bro I'm not even kidding guys I feel like such a youtube noob considering this is the fourth time I've done this video although it should flow pretty good now I guess recently I stuck the EVGA up supernova 1000 G to in skunkworks and today we were taking a look at the 1600 which might lead to the question why on earth what I need 1600 watts of power well we're going to talk about that today now first things first let's go ahead and talk about what's in the box inside the box you find two more boxes this is the power supply right here which might end up being one of the longest power supplies you've really ever taken a look at and there it is right there in all of its textured goodness 140 millimeter fan fully modular cables nice giant on/off switch and fully meshed exhaust plate on there giving it amazing airflow but where the weight is actually coming from is this guy right here because this is all of the all those modular cables and my god do they give you a lot of them now we'll just go and get this guy out of the way we're going to set the power supply aside for a second because we'll get back to that in a moment now these are all of the cables that they give you here just way way more than anyone would ever need for a single system but hey they're included so you get this kind of a nylon pouch here where you can put all your extra cables in there and the only way to really do this is just dump them out and as you can see we have got a lot of cables now the first thing you I notice and maybe you didn't if they actually give you this this 24-pin exhilarating which is perfect for jump-starting the power supply if you wanted to use it as a test bench or something like that or if you're doing a water cooling bill this is how you can jump-start your your your water pump so that you don't have to bring up your system when you're trying to bleed it this is cool it's only a couple bucks but I'm glad to see that they've included it shows that going in sort of the extra mile there you've got some velcro straps here to keep things nice and tidy and you've got a whole bunch of modular cables now when I'm digging for down here is these guys right here now I've docked power supplies in the past for including the floppy drive cable power cables because normally I just clip them off anyway which I don't like to do but they give you two of them here with four pin molex bleeds so that you can plug them in if you need them now that comes in handy because there are some accessories out there that actually run off of this floppy drive cable connector so you can include it in your system if you need it and just toss it aside if you don't now the other thing that I'm going to give positive points for here is that EVGA also went the extra mile of including all black cables ah black cables are just so nice now I like all black cables because even though you may have blacks leaving on here once you see the exposed part of the cables here and the reason why these are exposed if you guys have ever wondered it so that you can make those bends most of the time you have you know it comes up off your motherboard it has to bend down so you couldn't bend it very well if you had it all sleeved up all the way to the end but it keeps it from looking like a 1972 psychedelic acid trip inside your computer if you're going for some sort of a color aesthetic or theme you can actually not have to worry about it because it's all black you know what you go black you never go back to colored cables that is now they give you nine PCI Express cables nine cables is more than enough for you to be able to do a quad or four-way SLI now let's go ahead and go to the class real quick guys because I get asked an awful lot about quad versus four-way and what the difference is and I figure will just kind of throw that into this video real quickly Quad SLI is when you take two dual GPU cards like the Titans it Quad SLI is when you take two dual GPU video cards like the AMD R ix 295x2 and you put two of them in a single system that is a Quad SLI four-way SLI is when you take four single GPU cards and you run them an SLI config that is a four-way SLI so I will be going 3-way SLI when I put my third GTX 780 in skunkworks when I go to the x99 extreme processor platform refresh a little bit later on so I will be going with a 3-way not a tri sli guys it's not not tri us-ally 3-way yeah thing is going to be getting a little freaky-deaky in my system if you will all right moving on moving on so you get all of these cables with it and the cool part about these cables is not only does it have all black you know sleeve cables that come with it but if you fancy yourself wanting some color you can actually pick up one of EVGA x' color cable kits like I did with my review of the thousand watt had the red ones here and they all share the exact same modular cables so they are compatible with any of these supernovae power supplies that are fully modular like this so that is really cool I don't have to worry about compatibility issues later on if I decide to upgrade to maybe a titanium version of this if one comes out later I just have a plug and plug the new one in all the cables stay intact that is a great feature I like when companies incorporate cross-platform compatibility with their accessories that's a huge deal if they were to change their proprietary plugs or their modular plugs every refresh then if you had custom cables and that would just be a turn-off it would make you pretty upset alright so moving on guys I'm going to be referencing Johnny gurus full in-depth load testing of this power supply as a guide for what I'm about to tell you guys I highly highly recommend you guys all open the description go to his review and read it it's funny and it's very very educational it will actually teach you guys a lot about power supplies but we're going to talk about some of the high level stuff here in this overview because I'm not load testing it so I can actually speak from any first-hand experience moving on to power delivery this thing does feature some pretty impressive power delivery here in fact the volt and 3.3 volt rails can both deliver 24 amps up to 120 watts of power and the single 12 volt rail can actually supply 133 point 3 amps of power now some power supplies will actually have multiple 12-volt rails in there where the amps are divided and that actually leads to an issue when you go with very power hungry graphics cards especially if you're going with SLI configs it's much better to have a nice beefy powerful single 12 volt rail across the entire power supply and that's exactly what they've done here highly highly recommended max output on the 12 volt rail 100 or 1/100 150 watts guys right here you heard it first now fifteen hundred and ninety nine point six watts yeah it's delivering the power baby now the impressive part about that is the fact that it's able to do it while maintaining 50 degrees Celsius temperature and that's because of the massive 140 millimeter intake fan and very the components inside are arranged in such a way so it has very good airflow now it's actually a very quiet power supply as well because it is PWM load controlled fan and the fan will only ramp up if they load on the CPU increases as well so it keeps things nice and cool there's no software with this power supply the old 1500 Nova super nova version of the power supply used to actually contain a built in software that you could use but I like letting the power supply take control of itself that's just the way I've always felt so I've never bought into the whole you know software controlled power supplies but that's just me now when it comes to power efficiency curve if you take a look at Johnny gurus in-depth load testing review please go check it out do yourself a favor you'll see that this thing was actually maintaining a very impressive power efficiency curve in fact bumping its head up against platinum during that test was actually pretty damn impressive and he said that when you take into account the margin of error of the testing equipment it very well could have passed platinum standards if EVGA wanted to be a little less conservative but EVGA chose to put a gold rating on here instead of a platinum rating because they'd rather under-promise and over-deliver rather than vice versa that would make for a very angry situation now why would you want to go with a massive power supply like this J you're not going to be using 1600 watts of power even with 3-way SLI and an ex 99 8 core overclock you're not going to income anywhere near that and you're right I'm probably going to top out somewhere between a thousand to 1100 watts a total system draw including the water cooling the light fans the 3-way SLI and all of that now the reason for that is if you take a look at his testing you'll see that a 50 percent load at 800 watts drawn from the power supply he was actually maintaining in 91.8% efficiency that is pretty damn cool and once you take into account that I'll be running right around 1,000 to 1,100 watts I'm still going to be maintaining over 90% efficient that's what I'm after and the reason for that is because as I mentioned earlier the efficiency curve of the power supply if you can keep it in its max efficiency range based on your power draw then you actually get the benefits of a cooler power supply longer life less noise and you're going to get a little bit money saved on your power bill now I did a video before where I talked about power bill but guys when you're talking about a thousand watts the amount of power that you save by drawing a hundred to 150 watts less from the wall at any given time is actually beneficial over the life of your computer now we'll get more in the depth of that later in another video video where we talk about power supplies and how to pick the right size why you should over size how much you should over size etc so we'll talk about that an entirely separate video but if you want to know more about this power supply I highly recommend you head over to Johnnie gurus video or actually it's a written review it's not long it's fun to read he's a very good writer he doesn't even know me I'm just pointed out because I think it's a great resource to learn not only about this power supply but all power supplies so guys I'm going to get the hell on out of here because I've got a well we got to see a man about a wallaby to be quite honest sorry for the graphic details not really alright guys hope to see on Twitter and some social media and stuff and if you've just stumbled across my channel I hope you stick around maybe you can learn something maybe you can even teach me a thing or two as always guys I will see you in next one unless that next one happens to be another version of this video because I somehow dumped and I have to do it for a fifth time which wouldn't be surprising in fact during the editing of this video the battery died which is funny because it was fully charged so I've got a bad battery my second battery is actually bad on top of all of this that's really annoying