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hey everyone and welcome to Paul's hardware today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of this Rose wilheim series 550 watt modular power supply so let's take a closer look at the hive I'm going to start off by removing the plastic covering because otherwise all you're gonna see is reflections alright so talk about this first play when when Rose will first brought me the hive because this is been out for a little while now I was a little skeptical I'll admit it a little skeptical and after sort of taking a look at it and I will say more specifically after actually hearing some of the reviews on it by some of the review sites that I trust it's actually a really good unit so I think what Rose will did I think were they were going for as I said okay let's see the features that are wanted in a power supply for a gaming computer or any otherwise needed solid use computer we want solid internals we want efficiency so 80 plus bronze we want a single 12 volt rail design because although multi rail designs still work perfectly fine a lot of times it's just simpler to to work on a 12 volt rail a single one and if you look it's publicity at least a lot of times people say well don't don't buy a multi rail PSU that's not always necessarily the case that that's a bad thing to have multiple rails but it's it's not a bad thing to have a single rail either so that's what they've done here let's take a quick look at the power charts on the side this one here is for the 550 this is for the 650 it's also available in 750 watts so you can see it's 12 volt rail 38 amps on the 550 watt gives you four hundreds 456 Watts total available power on that 12 volt rail apart from that you pee ready kind of goes along with the efficiency here's a list of the connectors that are included I'm going to show you those as well when I get out of the box so going back to I think rose wills intent rose wills idea for this PSU they want an 80 X 12 volt they want a nice series of 80 plus bronze they want to make them affordable of course and this is definitely an affordable PSU they wanted it modular which is another very popular thing so the modular design full-range active PFC eup multi GPU support 135 millimeters silent fan modular cable design high quality Japanese primary capacitor over current voltage temperature power and protection under voltage protection and short-circuit protection 3-year warranty and one-to-one replacements so that was that's all the all the gritty details right there let's take a look inside the box here's your hive 80 plus bronze manual alright contents I get your contents repetition of stuff that was already on the box easy troubleshooting there it is alright so got your AC power of power cable of course this is just basic basic one they're got hundreds of those I think I might have said fully modular at the beginning if I did I apologize this is mostly modular I for one don't really care about mostly modular designs because if the cables that are permanently attached are the ones that you're going to be using ninety-nine times out of a hundred then make them permanently attached I don't mind if I had a choice I'll go for full modular over partially modular but again I'm keeping this thing within budget and the more of these connectors on the back the more those adds to the cost of the design and everything alright so uh apart from the documentation you get a nice little pouch here with the mesh side on one side so you can look at it and see what it is alright so here's a couple of your molex connectors these are two individual molex plugs either one has well let me just untwist it I'm twisting okay so two modular molex cables all right so this one is uh two molex connectors in a floppy connector this one okay they exactly the same this one's also two marks connectors in a floppy connector this is two more here and then these are for your video cards so PCI Express power these are just one to one block so block of eight the other side has your six plus two so it can plug into either a six pin or an eight pin PCI Express fire connector on a video card what else is in here all right look well beg give a zip tie nice little add-on looks like you get ten or so of those with some black zip ties to help you with your cable management that blog get baggy down there is four of the power supply mounting screws so you can not the power supply to your case and here are your other two modular cables so these are both for your serial ATA connectors for serial ATA powered peripherals so the side that plugs into the power supply and over here you have four serial ata connectors on that one and four serial ata connectors on that one so that gives you eight serial ata overall and I believe four molex and too floppy connectors finally of course the permanently connected cables right there and that is simply your twenty plus two two pin or 24 pin main motherboard power connector and your four plus four pin either four or eight pin supplemental CPU power connector and again I haven't seen a computer in years that does not use those so then being permanently attached isn't a big deal there's a look at the power chart again printed on the power supply nothing on this side nothing on this side not much labeling here but I mean as long as last is not something bright and gaudy and it will just kind of blend in with the black color that's the power supplies otherwise made of it should blend into most systems so there's your hundred and thirty five millimeter fan on that side here's your fully grilled exhaust for the back of the computer case input there it's a switching power supply so 100 to 240 volt on/off switch nice and solid and then of course here on the back modular connectors the black ones here for your peripherals red ones there for a PCI Express and all clearly labeled so very nice and again now we'll see solid power supply from Rose well once again we've been taking a look at the Roseville High of series 550 watt power supply thanks a lot for watching this video guys I'm Paulo false or if you would like to go ahead and subscribe and we'll see you all next time