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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the fractal design Tesla R2 series of

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power supplies we've only got one here today this is the th000 watt but these

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are 80 plus gold value power supplies which is sort of an interesting position

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to be in because they're highly efficient but you won't find some of the

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bells and whistles that you find on their more high-end units the Newton

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power supplies so those ones are uh 80

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plus platinum and are just generally sort of better you know longer warranty

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all that kind of stuff but 80 plus gold

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is still pretty good and there's a lot to be said for just you know a generally

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well-built non-modular 80 plus gold power supply so threeyear warranty SLI

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and Crossfire certified which is sort of interesting um just because those

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certifications do cost do cost money uh

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80 plus gold certified efficiency okay silent temperature controlled 135

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mm fan doesn't ramp up past 40% until it

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reaches 60% load which is 600 watts that'll almost never happen and doesn't

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really ramp up until the last 20% Which again almost never happens with 1,000

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wat power supply so demanding high-end

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gaming machines powerful workstations single 12vt rail capable of providing up

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to 960 watts of the total 1,000 watt

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output Tesla R2 V Clint DC voltage regulation and ripple suppression they

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can deliver their full rated wattage continuously even with an

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intake temperature as high as 40° wow okay and it should almost never

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be in taking 40° air uh 80 plus gold efficiency extra

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long ATX cable that's actually really handy and it goes to show you know you

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can tell companies that make power supplies and companies that make cases

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and power supplies because it means that

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they just like they have cases there and they're like oh we should probably try

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our power supply in a case before we like release it and they're like oh we

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should have a longer cable see that's the kind of things you figure out if you actually have an ecosystem of products

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that you want to go together reasonably well so we've got an included power

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connector we've got a fair number of included cable ties only two velcro

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straps and then four five plastic zip ties included mounting

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screws and it comes in a fractal design bag hey look slick has a new bag to wear

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over his head is this going to fit let's try

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h no it doesn't fit that's too bad either way you know cute little bag you

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can store like you know your Barbies in it or

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something I meant Slick's Barbies not you the viewers Barbies I know you guys

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don't have Barbies but he does believe it or not lots of Barbies he's big into

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Barbies it's weird okay let's have a

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look at the power supply unit itself very clean overall design like we've

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come to expect from fractal with their cases simple fractal design snowflake on

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the top simple you know safety certifications and all that good stuff

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basic specs printed right onto the power supply no cheesy stickers here guys do

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not remove this cover please please please please please don't that's

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definitely a good thing to have on the side as well 80 plus gold efficiency

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1,000 wat Tesla and then we find the 135

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mm cooling fan so that looks like one of their uh R2 series fans actually which

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is uh actually a good thing because these are these are very quiet fans at

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the back you find a honeycomb mesh usual thing as well as power plug and power

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switch now let's have a look at what we've got in terms of connected cables

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because this will make or break any

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power supply let's face it it's pretty easy to find a good power supply these

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days there's lots of different options but if you have a great power supply

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that you know has very low Ripple provides good power etc etc etc but just

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doesn't have the right cable mix for you then you're not going to use

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it uh not great sleeving on this to be perfectly honest especially when you

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consider that it's uh better sleeving on their other unit as well as there's just

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kind of better options out there but again like I said this is in a bit of a

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unique position because it's an 80 plus gold unit that is value priced so you

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can expect certain things that don't affect that performance that efficiency

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to not be as premium as what you might expect from again their higher end unit

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so you got your 24 pin connector you got let me find that long eight pin that

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they were talking about over here where is it there it

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is okay that's reasonably long that's not the longest I've seen by any stretch

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of the imagination but uh should be should be good enough even for something

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like a defin XL which is about as about as bad as it gets to be perfectly honest

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okay and then in terms of GPU connectors we have many so we have three harnesses

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each with 2 six plus 2 pin connectors at the ends I actually I I have mixed

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feelings about this approach where you've got one connector and then

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another one that comes right off of it cuz I don't know I've just sometimes it

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looks really good sometimes it doesn't look that great this one actually looks

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all right because it comes off pretty clean and as long as like they Orient

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them right and you can kind of tie them together like here here okay I'll show

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you guys because this is what it'll look like actually installed in a graphics

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card okay so you'll have the one eight

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pin that goes in like this also they can be a bit of a bear to deal with just

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because all the cables are sort of wired together um although this one seems

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again it seems all right that's probably a good

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noise there we go there you go so that's

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what that'll look like so it can be quite it can look quite clean it comes

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down to your personal tastes and it's okay you could argue that it's a lot

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better than having two separate cables running to the video card which is

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totally unnecessary because the PCIe

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spec has nothing to do with how much

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current can actually be carried by these copper wires you can easily plug two of

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these into uh into a video card without worrying about like the wires heating up

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too much or anything like that so okay six of those again good lengths on those

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nothing that uh you know Rings any alarm

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bells or anything so let's go ahead and get the ones that we've looked at out of

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the way this is I'm not a big fan of non-m modular power supplies these days

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it is a way to get better efficiency out of out of the power supply design to use

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uh hard hard attached cables but um okay

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basically if you're trying to save a buck go for non- modular power supply otherwise maybe look at the Newton line

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okay so we got three SATA connectors here again nice long cable on that one

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that's good to see and very nice termination in between here so that'll

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look really clean no matter what you have to do to it uh here we've got

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another three here we've got another

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three and then only a single harness with two molex's and a floppy I wouldn't

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have minded seeing two harnesses with Molex just because you can run into

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situations where for example my system has only two needed Molex connectors but

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they're not this close together one of them runs off of the back of my sound

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card and the other one runs uh my pump which is down in sort of the basement so

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this wouldn't reach I would need an extension cable of some sort which I have in my current setup so that I only

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have to have one Mo X um MOX cable

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attached to my modular power supply so I'm not saying like I can't make do with

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this I'm just saying it might be nice if you need more than that so thank you for

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checking out my unboxing and first look at the Tesla R2 100080 plus gold power

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supply from fractal don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and

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that's it s to notice something I didn't notice

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before these are actually rubber isolated mounts here not screws so that

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fan should be even quieter