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so today we're going to be having a look at the see sonic x-series 650 watt power supply now the front of this box is pretty bare as you may or may not have noticed it features advanced DC power conversion technology for blah-blah-blah-blah-blah and it is 80 plus gold that is the real draw for this power supply series right there so that means power supply efficiency of 87 percent or more regardless of the load on it so that's pretty awesome actually you should check out my video that I did recently on my NCIX dot-com channel where we talked about how much money you can save in a year by using an 80 plus gold power supply so you can see this power supply has a single 12 volt rail at 54 amps and it's capable of outputting almost its entire 650 watt maximum on the 12 volt rail let's move around to the back where all of a sudden the box design gets a lot busier so they show you a little bit of the internal design of the x-series 650 watt they talked a little bit about their DC connector module if integrated vrm voltage regulator module there is your 80 plus gold spec so that means it's 87 ninety 87 percent at 20 50 and 100 percent operating loads so as high as 90 percent in what I would consider a typical gaming system which would top out around 300 Watts under load okay silent fan control this is a big thing for C sonic is they typically have very very quiet power supplies so they're using a sanyo Genki Sony's PWM silent fan let me see this is a fully modular it looks like no it couldn't be this is a modular power supply it looks like it might be fully modular you know what we're gonna have to open it up to find out so why don't we just do that it's sli certified also I didn't mention that before and oh not even sealed okay cool so first we'll find an owner's manual which ii re emphasize --is it is 80 plus gold okay it's in five different languages and gives us the basics tells us thank you for purchasing I didn't purchase one but you know you're you're welcome anyway gives you a little bit of information about the connectors that are connected to it they don't give you the rail breakdown because because it's a single rail power supply on the 12 volts so you don't have to worry about what you're plugging in where whether it's going to overload a single rail okay they talk about their five-year warranty a little bit our simple and effective own they even tell you how to do an RMA if you have a DOA unit that's really nice of them to include that information okay so then we've got a little full note thing here let's see sonic logo very nice box I really like it okay then we have wow this is hey this is nice go for gold and just in time for the Olympics two x-series okay so Sonic it's got two separate little oh wow two separate little baggies which each include modular cables I'm just gonna dump these out yes there we go okay so this is fully modular let's pull the power supply out we've got a pretty beefy looking power cord just your standard computer power cord alright then we have a little C Sonic case badge powered by C Sonic and four K screws just in case your case doesn't include the case screws if that's the case then yeah okay that joke got old really fast okay so it comes in a little velvet bag which makes it feel very high-end which it is by the way I mean it's an 80 plus gold 650 watt unit that should be all you really need to know and it's kind of got a unique look to it okay the first thing you'll notice is that the accents are in kind of a Goldy sort of finish so you've got your basic specs here all of your safety certifications all of your testing all on this side of the unit then at the front you will find the fully modular interface and I'm going to go ahead and oh this is weird look at this so they've actually got the 24 pin connecter consolidated down to only 16 pins so what that means that many of the duplicated cables are probably each plugging into just one pin because it wouldn't matter because it's a single rail power supply very interesting so here we've got our peripheral IDE and SATA connectors all along here up here is our PCI Express and CPU a pin okay here we have CPU and here we have motherboard alright so we'll figure out what all of that means in oh man oh yeah down here we have the 120 millimeter pwm fan okay temperature egg activated fan rotates only when required right because a very efficient power supply only needs to turn on the fan when it gets overwhelmed and since it's a fairly low wattage very efficient power supply it's going to mean that you've got far less excess heat than you would have in a less efficient unit so that fan probably doesn't have to work very hard at all on the back of the unit you find your typical honeycomb grille with the power switch and a power input for a deep power cable then on this side you'll find some C Sonic branding with the x-series go for gold branding there as well wow I'm really tired today I'm repeating myself a lot but what are you gonna do okay let's see if I can figure out how to get this open there we go so here is the O so they didn't they didn't actually consolidate this cable down what they've done is they've made two separate cables for some reason okay so basically you plug it in like this and then you plug it in like this I cannot imagine why they've done it this way but they did I'm sure there's a reason for it somewhere and I don't know what it is so that's your 24 pin cable and here if you want to check the angle there so it's reasonably long you're not going to have trouble with this power supply having any sort of short cable problems where you can't actually reach the important parts of your PC all right let's look at what else we have included for modular cables so you've got a four pin CPU connector then you have oh this is great I love these the the ones that are sort of a single brick that you plug in so this is four PCI Express and then that goes out to two six plus two pin PCI Express connectors so you've got two of those so you can actually see sonic has configured it so you can easily run to high end graphics cards requiring as many as two eight pin PCI Express connectors each off of this power supply so this cable right here did it did it did it didn't Oh No maybe they haven't I see what they've done so either you're using 4-pin well you know what this is one of the most confusing modular interfaces I've seen ever okay I get it so you can either have an 8 pin CPU power connector here and then you can add a second one and then you can have only 2 PCI Express connectors or you can run a motherboard that requires only a single 8 pin and then you can have as many as four PCI Express connectors so they're limiting you with the connectors a little bit to make sure that you don't go ahead and overload this with like you know that newly BGA board that has 2 LGA 1366 sockets and supports like 7 graphics cards you wouldn't want to be running that on a 650 watt power supply so they're protecting consumers a little bit that way all right so in terms of the other modular cables we have we've got one with three Saito another one with three SATA another one probably with three SATA and guessing yeah there's another one so you can connect up to oh no that one has only two so you can connect up to eight SATA hard drives natively on this power supply and then I'm gonna go see what I dropped here okay this is an adapter oh ok so they haven't actually included any floppy connectors on the modular cables by default but you can use this adapter to get a couple floppy connectors if you want that then we have 8 4 pin molex connector so you can plug in as many as five altogether of the molex and SATA connectors thank you for checking out my unboxing of the see sonic x-series 80 plus gold power supply