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80 plus platinum power supplies are here this is the Platinum Series of power supplies from C sonic which is a very creative name because it has a t+ Platinum certification very creative okay so we've got sort of a platinum theme to the overall look of the package sort of this like shiny whitish metallic II sort of thing going on let's have a look at hmm let me see let's look at this side of the box first so here we see the general specs this is an ATX 12-volt or EPS 12-volt power supply there's the dimensions 80-plus Platinum one of the first power supplies to obtain that certification it's got all your usual protections under voltage protection over current protection over voltage protection all that good stuff okay full range something something yep so it accepts all inputs whether you're in Europe or Japan or Canada or wherever the case may be all the connectors are here but we'll see that when we when we open up the box so you can see it can provide up to nine hundred and ninety six watts on the 12 volt rail almost the entire rated wattage on the 12 volt rail alone it is a fully modular power supply as you guys can see here and here's a little switch this has fan control hybrid and normal I wonder what that means I guess we'll find out as we move along with this unboxing so let's get the Box open first and we find a couple of things here our commitment to quality 24 hour service I was not aware that see sonic had 24 hour service but apparently they do they also have a 7 year warranty on this particular unit here is your owner's manual and a variety of different languages hopefully one of them is English well look at this there's an 8 60 watt available as well but we only have the 1000 watt to show you guys so 80-plus platinum here let's see what they have to say check this up greater than 90 92 and 89 percent efficient at twenty fifty and a hundred percent operating loads that is un-freakin'-believable because you could almost call it 90 plus at this point and it wouldn't be much of a stretch yeah the 80 plus program which was designed to make power supplies or consumers were aware of the efficiency of the rule that efficiency plays in your power supply has has brought us a long way in the last few years because it used to be that you know a great power supply was 80 plus well now we have left that benchmark long far far far behind so we got a couple of accessories here including some velcro cable ties silver start browser silver see sonic powered by sticker we've got some regular zip cable ties we've got a little screwdriver which helps you install these screws to install the power supply in your case you've also got some great closed cell foam padding that's going to keep it nice and protected we've got a well that's gold marks off for that see sonic this is an 80 plus platinum power supply now I'm just kidding it's fine okay we've actually got the power supply itself which I'm not going to show you yet okay so we'll put that aside for now and let's have a look at the modular cables that are included so here we go the first thing we're going to check out is the 24 pin connector so the 24 pin connector looks a little something like this okay there we go it's approximately sort of one Linus arm length in length and it plugs in via split connector on the power supply side and then it has a split 20/4 pin 24-pin connector on the other side plenty long for whatever you might need it for we've got one of these single connector two dual PCIe six plus two pin connectors so you have one of those two of those three of those three of those four up to 3-way SLI or crossfire with high end cards natively and then we've got dual and I'm going to see how long these ones are because I'm a little bit on the curious side here dual 8 pin connectors so these ones plug into probably the same outlets on the power supply and then they go to an eight pin or a four plus four pin and these look like they should be plenty long enough at about one Linus arm length to reach from your power supply in the bottom of your case to top although you might need a bit of an extension if you have a particularly tall case with a bottom mounted power supply all right what do we got here lots and lots of different kinds of adapters so we've got a molex to do a floppy just in case you still need one of those we've got a three SATA cable we have another three SATA cable and we have another three SATA cable we have a two SATA cable and that is it so three three SATA cables and one two SATA cable and then we have a three molex cable a three molex cable and a two molex cable so that gives you all of your options in terms of mounting so I'm just going to take this box and this is going to help me as I tell you about some of the cool features of this particular unit so let's check out the physical aspects of it first so on the back we find the fully modular power supply and check this out so remove before use okay fine do 200 didn't say rip it and pieces before use but whatever so check this up hybrid or normal fan control so what hybrid fan control actually does is it allows the fan to operate completely silently up until about 30 percent load so it's actually going to take this very high quality fan which by the way is a sin a sanyo Denki fan so very very commonly widely known to be some of the highest quality fans available and it just turns it off because when you're 80 plus platinum and you're only pulling about you know 330 watts apparently this power supply with the heat sinks that you can see through the the grille here on the top with those heat sinks is capable of being passively cooled up to that point then the fan ramps up actually they've got a picture of the fan curve here so I might as well show it to you on the box so then this is fanless mode up to 30 percent up to 50 percent were in silent mode so where the fan RPMs are you can see on this part of the graph barely barely barely doing anything okay and then finally greater than 50 percent were in cooling mode and that is going to ramp up the fan you don't reach sort of a hundred percent of your rpms until a 100 percent load and by the time you're actually pulling a thousand Watts through power supply we're talking like dual GTX 590 s you know heavily overclocked CPU bunch of drives this is a very very loaded system and it's only going to reach that kind of a load once in a very very very while so see Sonic's also claiming tight voltage regulation plus or minus two percent which is way way way within the ATX specification so let's have a look at the rest of the unit here we've got our power switch we've got our power input we've got honeycomb grills which are optimal for the best airflow okay moving over here we've got the 80 plus Platinum branding as well as the Platinum power supply series grant branding here on the modular interface side you can see we've got our motherboard stuff CPU this is an okay and interesting okay so here is three PCIe those dual connector ones and he and then okay okay here here here here here okay so I'm going to explain how this works so you can either have three graphics cards and then dual EPS connectors or you can have four graphics cards and a single EPS connector because that is the point of a modular power supply which many manufacturers by the way seem to have forgotten is that it should give you some kind of a choice in terms of which connectors you want to plug into it we then also have six peripheral connectors so you can use those for your molex four pins or your SATA cables and that is pretty much it you also get to choose which fan mode you want I think I mentioned that a couple times but I think that's really cool you can go in hybrid mode or you can just go in normal mode which is not going to turn off the fan should you not desire it to do so although I cannot imagine why you would not want it to do that so in summary it is a D+ Platinum which is about as efficient as it gets these days has a very high quality fan which it if you prefer will just simply turn off when your computer is idling which means that this should be in theory pretty much the quietest power supply you can get short of C Sonic's own x-series passive power supplies which I love and their 80 plus gold so this is like even more loveable than 80 plus gold so thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look don't forget to subscribe planners tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos a couple things we missed gold plated connectors are going to give you the best possible connection between these power supply and the motherboard so you've heard of people talking about things like that where is it 24 pin burn where there's too much current being drawn through the 24 pin connector because you've got a lot of graphics cards installed and a bad connection causes the the wires to actually burn inside whether it's on the motherboard or whether it's in the connector well gold plating remember gold is not actually the most conductive substance but what it is is it is malleable it is soft so it is it has a better chance of making a good connection between one thing and another thing then something that is not gold so that is something that I did miss another thing is that the capacitors in here are all solid caps and they are rated at 105 degrees so that is definitely hotter than I hope your power supply ever runs but in the event that it does it is rated for it