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what's going on guys you're watching Jays two cents and today we're gonna take a look at an 80 plus gold rated power supply that actually meets platinum standards what the heck kind of voodoo magic is this also magic at all it's the v-series power supply from coolermaster now before we open up the box we're gonna go ahead and take the ceremonial tour around the outside of the box and take a look at the packaging on the front here you've got a nice image of the power supply and a silver label on here it says power supply it's good to know fully modular cables which is really good for easy cable management get rid of the ones you don't need and keep the ones you do it's got a hundred and thirty hundred and thirty-five millimeter fluid dynamic bearing a high quality extended life silent fan they use a pretty good quality fan on this and it's a hundred percent Japanese made capacitors which is really good for quality and having a nice silent operation without having any sort of coil whine or capacitor buzz or anything like that so does say V 700 right here on the front I do like the styling of the logo because sometimes you do look at that on the power supply 80 plus gold but with platinum rating as I mentioned a nice Coolermaster logo there on the side here we do have some specs Intel form factor atx12v it does work on AMD so don't let that worry you it's got active PFC dimensions are 150 millimeters by 170 by eighty six millimeters or five point nine inches by six point seven by three point four one hundred thirty-five millimeter fan as I mentioned the efficiency is 90% on typical load 90% efficiency that's awesome and it's got a hundred thousand hours rated life that's a long time guys so you've got all your connectors listed there we'll go over that when we open the package and on the back here you have fully modular as it says and it's got some fan curves and power curve on here we'll take a look at that a little more in-depth when we get into the actual power supply and it's got pictures of the cables that come with it but who wants to look at pictures we're gonna actually unbox this thing and take a look so let's go ahead and get this package open and let's see exactly what you get inside get the package open here you know so the sides if we can do this without ripping everything apart cuz I hate this type of packaging honestly it's got these little flaps on there and they like to get in there nice and tight and I like to keep the packaging looking nice and new because I'm kind of weird like that so alright there's the outer sleeve off the box you've got a nice coolermaster logo right there and just like everything else these days is one of those flippy open type boxes there and right off the bat on the top you get a nice very heavy-duty heavy gauge power cable for your power supply from the wall you get a very nice pouch with all of your cables in there we'll take a look at that one in a second and then you get foam high-tech foam I love high tech foam Tyga's point this up a little bit better how cake I love high tech foam and then you get the power supply inside of this pouch which is really kind of cool and then you get your instruction manual that comes with it and just toss the boss's box aside over there so as you can see here or maybe you can't see this power supply is available in seven hundred eight fifty and thousand watt variants and they do show different mounting options in there they've got your pin out on here you know it's standard stuff it's pretty much the same for almost every power supply this on the 24 pin and eight pin for the power CPU power but when it comes to the actual individual modular cables it's probably proprietary but this manual is repeated in a bunch of different languages and we're not that interested in that we want to take a look here at this bad boy and as you can see this is actually a very attractive looking power supply I really like this it's got a honeycomb mesh grille on here which is really good for airflow you've got your cooler master fan on there as has a set on the box it is a fluid dynamic bearing so that means that it's going to be nice and vibration free it's all metal construction I love this brushed aluminum look this two-tone look on there the v700 is actually printed directly on to the metal so it's not a sticker it's not a sticker that's gonna peel up or come off on you and then you've got as you can see right there v700 and all the technical information about the power supply and on the back of course you've got your toggle switch all high end power supplies definitely come with toggle switches so we'll go ahead and set this aside here I really like the aesthetics oh and then on the back here not only do you have your modular plugs but they are all labeled for you so there's no guessing as to which one is which and those look this is a very sharp power supply oh my gosh I've never actually seen one of these in person only in pictures and they look very it looks very good I really like it inside the package here you've got your 24 pin they it is sleeved it's not individual sleeved but it is sleeved and you can see length is pretty decent but it might be a little bit on the short side to be honest with you if you're running it up the backside of a big case a little bit short I would like to see a longer cable though especially if for a high end power supply like this and then all the other cables that come with it are very akin to just about every power supply on the market now there are these flat cables these ribbon cables which theoretically make them a lot easier to route and it also makes a lot easier to individually sleeve these if you decide you want to do that it's probably something I'll end up doing is I'm going to be using this power supply and a build I'm working on here at the end of this year you get 1/2 okay so you get two sets of PCI Express cables which is good enough for ya so they're they're piggyback off of each other so you've got one power cable can supply a graphics card so this is a two-way SLI friendly power supply so you see you've got six pin and eight pin on there and you've got two of these so this can handle a two-way SLI or to a crossfire you've got four pin molex here with a floppy drive cable who the heck uses floppy drives anymore so it's got a floppy drive on there you've got another four pin molex R take that back you've got your SATA another 4-pin molex your another SATA your CPU eight pin power as which is also split for four pin if you're using it on an older board or an AMD type board or old Intel board and then you've got your another SATA here so that's pretty much it oh and you also get nice black case mounting screws here for your power supply now what sets this power supply apart honestly and I asked this Coolermaster straight up if this meets platinum specifications that's a great selling point so why not classify this and advertise this as being 80 plus platinum and basically the response was under-promise over-deliver 93% is excellent efficiency but it's not 93 percent at full load obviously if you take a look at the power curve here which I'm gonna put up on the computer the full load tends to drop to efficiency to approximately again right about ninety percent efficiency so that's still I mean that's amazing that's amazing rating it's just I guess they want to like they said under deliver and over-promised or under okay okay let's get that straight I apologize under-promise over-deliver there we go we don't want to sound like some of the other guys out there that over-promised under deliver yeah we don't want that but if you're looking for a great power supply that's gonna keep things nice and cool nice and quiet make great use of the power being pulled from the wall so you're not killing your energy bills for a gaming computer or a rendering computer and it's gonna take that power and turn it into usable usable efficient power and not turn it into heat that's just gonna disappear into the atmosphere definitely check out the V 700 series 700 watt 850 watt a thousand watts and if you've looked at my video that I did in the past about how much why does your power supplies are really using you'll see that 700 watts 850 and a thousand is perfect sweet spot you don't need any more than that even if you're running multiple graphics cards so there you have it guys if you want to learn more about this product or learn a little bit more about the efficiency rating and stuff Coolermaster has an awesome website called cm university go and check it out I'll put the information down in the description and you can go and learn about all this stuff and it's very good educational site you'll learn all about 80 plus ratings and power supplies and all sorts of stuff there so go and check it out so there you have it this is definitely something I think should be on your holiday buyers list this is a series that I'm gonna be doing here it's I'm gonna be doing a whole holiday buyer's guide for 2013 because I know Christmastime is right around the corner you guys are starting to get together some Christmas money maybe some bonuses maybe you mowed some extra lawns or or whatever and you want to take advantage of some good deals that are me coming out this year this holiday season definitely put the v-series power supply on your list as a great buy for the holidays the price on this and the efficiency and the quality of parts to the price ratio on this is absolutely superb so there you have it guys the v700 power supply great great buy I definitely will be using this power supply this is not one of those ones as they send me and I'm gonna just stick it on the wall this is definitely going in a build of mine so if you liked this video you know what to do check out some of my other videos and as always guys I will see you in my next video and we are going to talk a little bit more about this later when you start the bill but it's quite a bit different than my 900 D which you're used to seeing for graphics were going with the EVGA GTX 780 super clock 2 graphics card