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a global leader in tech recruiting is celebrating geek pride by giving away ten amazing tech prizes for more info visit the modus Facebook page or modus com so many of you commented on my recent video on the Corsair 230 T case that you'd like to see more videos where instead of focusing on the latest and greatest most amazing thing ever we take some time to point out a value oriented product that's a good buy and not too expensive I've decided to turn these videos into a series called stuff that doesn't suck at $100 for a 650 watt the V 650 semi modular from cooler master is right in line with other 80 plus gold modular power supplies from a pricing standpoint but it offers a couple of other things that not all the others do physically there's nothing not extraordinary about it inside the box you find a Quick Start Guide some environmentally friendly packaging a power cord 5 installation screws which is a nice touch in case you lose one the power supply itself and the small bundle of surprisingly supple black modular ribbon cables you get 2 quad SATA harnesses and to triple molex ones with one of the latter also including a floppy connector moving on to the unit itself we find a tastefully styled matte black gray and gold color scheme with all of the pertinent information on a large label on the top here you'll see that this power supply features a single 12 volt rail capable of delivering just shy of its entire 650 watt capacity so you won't need to worry about which connectors you plug into what this is fine for a relatively low capacity unit and this is also where you'll find the pertinent safety certifications by the way on the opposite side cooling is handled by a 120 millimeter fan and this is where we see the first differentiating feature compared to C Sonics G Series which is similarly priced and 160 millimeters long the VSM unit here is only a hundred and 40 millimeters long if you're installing it into a full tower case or something it doesn't matter but if you wanted to do a compact build this power supply should be on your shortlist so to speak ha anyway which leads us over to the cabling side the pre-attached cables use pray unexceptional sleeving which isn't great but it's also not a big deal at this price point and looking at the pre-attached connectors we've got our 24 pin motherboard connector which seems a little bit long our a pin CPU connector which seems a touch short but should be fine for most mid towers even writing up the back and then a single PCI Express cable that has 2 6 + 2 connectors on it that means that unless we want to use janky adapters were limited to a single high performance graphics card I do see this as a bit of a non-issue though since a dual graphics configuration on a 650 watt power supply would have to be with mid-range cards and I generally recommend a single high-end card versus two mid-range cards anyway not to mention that the 750 watt version is available for another ten dollars with four PCI Express connectors if you want that so take that for what it is finishing up we've got four more plug spots here for the modular cables that I mentioned before they're keyed so they only go in one way and are an ample length for easy installation again into pretty much any mid Tower I'd like to see the SATA connectors perhaps a little bit closer together on the harness but this is something that I've been saying for a long time and no power supply maker has yet been to my will in this way so we'll see if Coolermaster decides to I don't know maybe it'll be like an optional cable kit or something like that in the future on the back is the usual honeycomb grille a power switch and a standard power input and then we're led into the stuff that I guess you can't really see on the surface color master is really proud of this unit for a couple of reasons first up is that they're using all Japanese capacitors inside the quality of which compared to other options on the market is fairly well-established and next up is something that they're calling the gold guarantee a five-year warranty is good a five-year warranty with costs completely covered is outstanding now I know in many industries it's standard for a company to cover shipping both ways for a return but in the computer industry the standard procedure is to have the customer cover shipping the item back to the depot and the manufacturer cover shipping it back to the customer this is because unlike clothing or pet supplies there really isn't that much margin in most computer parts because high-end monix are legitimately expensive to make and the VSM series is no exception so Coolermaster it's not that they have like a ton of margin on the thing and they're just like yeah whatever we can afford to ship six of them to people if it comes to that know what they're doing is they're basically betting big that these things are so reliable that they're hardly going to take any back and it's nice to see a manufacturer approaching a product with that kind of confidence it's stuff like this that makes me happy to give the coolermaster VSM series my personal doesn't suck award kudos for taking a step like this in the right direction in terms of customer support now I just hope the rest of the industry starts to shift that way too as usual guys the link to pricing and availability is in the video description below the like dislike and share buttons which none of you ever use no one ever shares my videos it's like you're embarrassed to think computer stuff is cool or something is that true anyway the simple also in the video description is a support link where you can buy a t-shirt give us a monthly contribution if you appreciate our work or change your Amazon bookmarks so we get an affiliate kickback whenever you buy stuff that helps us out a lot thanks again for watching it as always don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more this stuff oh and hold on and tell us what you think of our stuff 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