welcome to my unboxing and first look at the fractal design Tesla R2 series of
power supplies we've only got one here today this is the th000 watt but these
are 80 plus gold value power supplies which is sort of an interesting position
to be in because they're highly efficient but you won't find some of the
bells and whistles that you find on their more high-end units the Newton
power supplies so those ones are uh 80
plus platinum and are just generally sort of better you know longer warranty
all that kind of stuff but 80 plus gold
is still pretty good and there's a lot to be said for just you know a generally
well-built non-modular 80 plus gold power supply so threeyear warranty SLI
and Crossfire certified which is sort of interesting um just because those
certifications do cost do cost money uh
80 plus gold certified efficiency okay silent temperature controlled 135
mm fan doesn't ramp up past 40% until it
reaches 60% load which is 600 watts that'll almost never happen and doesn't
really ramp up until the last 20% Which again almost never happens with 1,000
wat power supply so demanding high-end
gaming machines powerful workstations single 12vt rail capable of providing up
to 960 watts of the total 1,000 watt
output Tesla R2 V Clint DC voltage regulation and ripple suppression they
can deliver their full rated wattage continuously even with an
intake temperature as high as 40° wow okay and it should almost never
be in taking 40° air uh 80 plus gold efficiency extra
long ATX cable that's actually really handy and it goes to show you know you
can tell companies that make power supplies and companies that make cases
and power supplies because it means that
they just like they have cases there and they're like oh we should probably try
our power supply in a case before we like release it and they're like oh we
should have a longer cable see that's the kind of things you figure out if you actually have an ecosystem of products
that you want to go together reasonably well so we've got an included power
connector we've got a fair number of included cable ties only two velcro
straps and then four five plastic zip ties included mounting
screws and it comes in a fractal design bag hey look slick has a new bag to wear
over his head is this going to fit let's try
h no it doesn't fit that's too bad either way you know cute little bag you
can store like you know your Barbies in it or
something I meant Slick's Barbies not you the viewers Barbies I know you guys
don't have Barbies but he does believe it or not lots of Barbies he's big into
Barbies it's weird okay let's have a
look at the power supply unit itself very clean overall design like we've
come to expect from fractal with their cases simple fractal design snowflake on
the top simple you know safety certifications and all that good stuff
basic specs printed right onto the power supply no cheesy stickers here guys do
not remove this cover please please please please please don't that's
definitely a good thing to have on the side as well 80 plus gold efficiency
1,000 wat Tesla and then we find the 135
mm cooling fan so that looks like one of their uh R2 series fans actually which
is uh actually a good thing because these are these are very quiet fans at
the back you find a honeycomb mesh usual thing as well as power plug and power
switch now let's have a look at what we've got in terms of connected cables
because this will make or break any
power supply let's face it it's pretty easy to find a good power supply these
days there's lots of different options but if you have a great power supply
that you know has very low Ripple provides good power etc etc etc but just
doesn't have the right cable mix for you then you're not going to use
it uh not great sleeving on this to be perfectly honest especially when you
consider that it's uh better sleeving on their other unit as well as there's just
kind of better options out there but again like I said this is in a bit of a
unique position because it's an 80 plus gold unit that is value priced so you
can expect certain things that don't affect that performance that efficiency
to not be as premium as what you might expect from again their higher end unit
so you got your 24 pin connector you got let me find that long eight pin that
they were talking about over here where is it there it
is okay that's reasonably long that's not the longest I've seen by any stretch
of the imagination but uh should be should be good enough even for something
like a defin XL which is about as about as bad as it gets to be perfectly honest
okay and then in terms of GPU connectors we have many so we have three harnesses
each with 2 six plus 2 pin connectors at the ends I actually I I have mixed
feelings about this approach where you've got one connector and then
another one that comes right off of it cuz I don't know I've just sometimes it
looks really good sometimes it doesn't look that great this one actually looks
all right because it comes off pretty clean and as long as like they Orient
them right and you can kind of tie them together like here here okay I'll show
you guys because this is what it'll look like actually installed in a graphics
card okay so you'll have the one eight
pin that goes in like this also they can be a bit of a bear to deal with just
because all the cables are sort of wired together um although this one seems
again it seems all right that's probably a good
noise there we go there you go so that's
what that'll look like so it can be quite it can look quite clean it comes
down to your personal tastes and it's okay you could argue that it's a lot
better than having two separate cables running to the video card which is
totally unnecessary because the PCIe
spec has nothing to do with how much
current can actually be carried by these copper wires you can easily plug two of
these into uh into a video card without worrying about like the wires heating up
too much or anything like that so okay six of those again good lengths on those
nothing that uh you know Rings any alarm
bells or anything so let's go ahead and get the ones that we've looked at out of
the way this is I'm not a big fan of non-m modular power supplies these days
it is a way to get better efficiency out of out of the power supply design to use
uh hard hard attached cables but um okay
basically if you're trying to save a buck go for non- modular power supply otherwise maybe look at the Newton line
okay so we got three SATA connectors here again nice long cable on that one
that's good to see and very nice termination in between here so that'll
look really clean no matter what you have to do to it uh here we've got
another three here we've got another
three and then only a single harness with two molex's and a floppy I wouldn't
have minded seeing two harnesses with Molex just because you can run into
situations where for example my system has only two needed Molex connectors but
they're not this close together one of them runs off of the back of my sound
card and the other one runs uh my pump which is down in sort of the basement so
this wouldn't reach I would need an extension cable of some sort which I have in my current setup so that I only
have to have one Mo X um MOX cable
attached to my modular power supply so I'm not saying like I can't make do with
this I'm just saying it might be nice if you need more than that so thank you for
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that's it s to notice something I didn't notice
before these are actually rubber isolated mounts here not screws so that
fan should be even quieter