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why you might ask am i unboxing a product from a company that no longer exists well I have a very good reason so NCIX still has a lot of these GS 450-pound they are still selling very well and it's the return rates on them are very very low so seems to be an adequate quality unit it's at a very aggressive price and NCIX is actually covering a one year warranty on it regardless of whether we're getting any support from from bfg so yeah it's kind of even though the company that makes it no longer exists this product is still out there and you can still buy it and it does come with a one-year warranty directly from NCIX which in some ways especially if you buy it at one of our stores is even more convenient than having a manufacturer warranty for for a year or whatever because then you can just go right to the store and exchange it if it dies so anyway there you go this is the GS 450 power supply it is the bfg power supply from there GS series and it provides 450 watts of power so let's go around to the back where it says something along the lines of efficiency meets affordability it's definitely affordable although with the later with the newest standards of 80 plus going up to 80 plus gold it's no longer really a leading on the leading edge in terms of efficiency in terms of features it still is reasonably up to date because you do have an 8-pin 12 volt connector you have a 24-pin motherboard connector you've got dual 12 volt rails which is still pretty much standard and you've also got a 6 pin power connector to ensure compatibility with many high-end graphics cards without em knees okay well this is this is bps unreliable often performance hindering adapters yeah those don't do anything bad anyway so you can read that if you want pause the video if you feel like it i'm just going to go ahead and open up the box here are some more specifications for you if you want to check those out actually oh that's the sorry it's the wrong language there we go specifications so we've got 18 amps on each of the two individual 12 volt rails and you can see the rest of it here so up to 304 watts total on the 12 volt rail so because this isn't using DC to DC conversion like many of the more modern power supplies you find that yeah you can't provide quite all of the power supplies total available wattage to the 12 volt rail we see included mounting screws because even though like I said it's a value power supplied is a full retail box so you do get things like mounting screws you get DFG power to the people what's in here need help yeah don't call that number doesn't exist duh don't go there doesn't exist ah what else do we have in here installation guide that's still relevant and that's all that's in there okay let's see what else we got in here power cord that still works even though bfg no longer makes them and the power supply itself here we go I always kind of liked to be up to use power supplies I like the overall finish of them I think they're kind of nice they're not quite shiny it's kind of like a matte brushed shiny like it's almost like a hybrid finish like I hope I can get you guys an angle can you see the brushed pneus of it at all in case so depending how you look at it you get kind of a bunch of different finishes in one very fingerprint-resistant very scratch resistant and I really like that because something can look as good as it wants when it's brand new but if it's just going to look like crap as soon as you take it out of the box manhandle it a little bit and put it in your case well then what's the point right you've got a one hundred forty millimeter cooling fan here on the bottom of the unit so make sure that that's got access to fresh air whether you're mounting it fan side down or fan side up doesn't really matter we've got the overall specs over here on the side again so you can see those if you so desire on the back we have our little 115 vs. 230 volt inputs which make sure if you're in north america which if you're buying this from NCIX which is as far as I know the only place that still has these make sure it's set to 1 15 please we've got our on-off switch as well as our power inlet port for wall power on the other side we have nothing on the top we have nothing and then let's have a look at the cables hope I don't move this elastic is pretty tight up and I'll break it and snap myself here that'd hurt so basically this power supply I wouldn't recommend it if you're running any more than one modern video card and even then i probably wouldn't recommend it for anything higher end then maybe like 68 70 something along those lines you don't want to be trying to power up like gtx 580 on something like this so remember with the 6870 one 6-pin PCI Express connector won't be enough so you'll probably have to use a so you'll probably end up using an adapter with two molex to another six pin in order to run a video card like that and you're going to be just fine that way so in terms of other connectors ok so we got our 6-pin PCIe we have a very very short 8-pin connector so either you're going to want to make sure your case has a top-mounted power supply or you will need to buy an extension cable for that so bear that in mind we have again a very short 24-pin connector although that'll be just fine for top or bottom mount doesn't really matter how its mounted from the top or the bottom ok here we have a dual molex single floppy pin cable next we have another cable harness with two SATA yeah to say that that's that's how old this unit is in terms of when they designed it back when it was like primarily people were running like a couple hard drives and then all optical drives still ran on IDE sorta back when this was popular and then two more molex here although once again you can use molex to SATA adapters there is no real drawback there so thank you for checking out my unboxing on the ever persevering DS 450 watt which has outlasted the very company that manufactured it don't forget 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