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welcome to my unboxing of the final chapter of X F X's new pro series power supplies so these are all super efficient really like super efficient high performance power supplies that are also focused on silence clean power and ease of use so what makes them easy to use is the fact that they have easy rail which is basically XFX is way of saying that they have a single powerful 12 volt rail they've got a five-year warranty so this is the 10 50 watt 80 plus gold version we've already seen the limited edition 1000 watt 80 plus platinum and that's okay here we go and then we've also seen the 1250 watt 80 plus gold as well so the key difference between the 1050 watt 80 plus gold and the 1250 watt 80 plus gold is going to be in the GPU support so the 1050 watt unit is only rated for 1050 watts which you know what some would argue you could probably get away with a four way graphics card configuration but it wouldn't really be my recommendation I've said during the 12 50 watt one that you could get away with it with 1250 and I stand by that especially now that AMD has released their new 7970 graphics cards which we found out actually don't consume much more power in fact if any than the 69 70 which is a really good sign what that means is maybe we're kind of getting to the end of this more power with every generation of graphics card thing so you can buy a power supply now that's good for three to four high end GPUs depending which capacity you buy and be confident that it's going to work with the next generation product so this one right here is 80 plus gold is 1050 watt and it is it comes equipped with three PCI Express modular cables each of which has two six plus two pin connectors at the end so it's ready for three graph six cards by default also comes with black screws for installing it in your case as well as a super beefy thick power cord now this is one of the killer features of this guy right here the I would never even consider turning it off this is hybrid fan mode and what hybrid fan mode does is when your power supply is under hold on let me just double check yes when your power supply is under 20 percent load which let's face it a 1050 watt power supply is usually going to be under 20% load especially when you're idling when it's under 20% load the fan turns off completely this is not a flaw this is not a defect this is by design so what that means is you're not accumulating dust in your grill and in your fan and in your power supply because it's not even spinning whenever your system is not actually actively doing something which is outstanding I think that's the coolest thing in the world and every power supply from now on until the end of time should come with this feature you can't really enable a feature like this unless you build a very efficient power supply though because add a thousand watts even 80-plus let's say 80% efficiency is kicking out a lot of excess waste energy so you have to get the I mean 80 plus gold is up in the neighborhood of 87 to 88 percent efficiency so that is what enables them to achieve that so in terms of modular interface back here we've got motherboard we've got one of these 8 pin guys for the CPU we've got those 3 PCIe connectors so those are for these ones so that's up to 6 that's up to 6 plugs off of these 3 then we've also got 1 2 3 4 5 6 peripheral connectors and I'll show you all the cables we have 4 options for those and then over here we have either an additional CPU connector and this power supply actually comes with both 8 pin CPU cables or you can plug PCIe and so the 1250 watt comes with that additional PCIe this one doesn't but I don't think it's relevant because you're not going to be powering for graphics cards off this guy in terms of the of the aesthetic I think XFX has done a fantastic job of making their power supplies stand apart from everyone else's so you got your XFX shiny logo there stand apart from everyone else's without looking tacky because you see a lot of power supplies that stand out but they just look awful and XFX has not gone down that path at all well actually before we before we wrap up here one of the things that makes this power supply kind of unique is if you look inside you don't see that huge thick thing of wires running up to the modular interface and that's because they're using a solid link interface so what the solid link interface does is it takes solid pieces of metal and they're just routed like this off the PCB up to the modular interface rather than running wires it's more efficient that way and it's tidier internally which is not only better for efficiency but also better for cooling let me just see if there's anything I'm missing here we've covered easy rail we covered solid link and we covered hybrid fan control so all those major ones are there and then what have we got over here yes okay yes true wattage guarantee it is 1050 watts of continuous power lesser power supply brands are known to leave out things like some of the automatic protection sensors which are all in this guy and to not actually deliver continuous power at a realistic operating temperature which XFX is rating at 50 degrees which I would say is even a little bit aggressive most power supplies are not going to be 50 degrees internally under really any circumstances we're talking 50 degree internal temperatures in your case which doesn't happen very often so there that's the example of the solid link versus the the big thing of wires that goes out to that soldered modular interface that looks really messy and unrealistic but trust me most of them look like that solidly okay so I think we've pretty much covered everything there so let's have a look at what we've got in terms of peripheral connectors and then I think we're pretty much wrapping it up we've got our 24 pin here and then in terms of options here so for SATA we've got a three theta another three SATA another three SATA and a two SATA so that when I'd probably run up to my optical drive and then the others I'd use for hard drives or SSDs we've got one of those molex to do a floppy adapter in case you still use any floppy connectors in your system we've got a two molex and 2x3 molexes so you can choose whatever so you can plug in whatever you want because it is modular so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the pro 1050 watt power supply from XFX don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos