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welcome to my unboxing of the final

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chapter of XFX is new Pro Series power

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supplies so these are all super

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efficient really like super efficient

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high performance power supplies that are also focused on silence clean power and

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ease of use so what makes them easy to use is is the fact that they have easy

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rail which is basically XFX is way of saying that they have a single powerful

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12volt rail they've got a 5year warranty

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so this is the 1050 wat 80 plus Gold version we've already

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seen the limited edition 1 watt 80 plus

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platinum and then so okay here we go and then we've also seen the 1250 watt 80

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plus gold as well so the key difference between the 1050 wat 80 plus gold and

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the 1250 wat 80 plus gold SCH is going to

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be in the GPU support so the 1050 W unit

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is only rated for 1,50 Watts which you

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know what some would argue you could probably get away with a four-way

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graphics card configuration but it wouldn't really be my recommendation um

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I said during the 1250 watt one that you could get away with it with 1250 and I

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stand by that especially now that AMD has released their new 7970 graphics

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cards which we found out actually don't

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consume much more power in fact if any than the

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6970 um which is a really good sign what

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that means is maybe we're kind of getting to the end of this more power

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with every generation of graphics card thing so you can buy a power supply now

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that's good for 3 to four high-end gpus depending which capacity you buy and be

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confident that it's going to work with a Next Generation product so this one

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right here is 80 plus gold is 1050 Watt

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and it is it comes equipped with three PCI Express

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uh modular cables Each of which has two

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six plus two pin connectors at the end so it's ready for three graphics cards

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by default also comes with black screws for installing it in your case as well

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as a super beefy thick power cord now this is one of the killer

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features of this guy right here the I would never even consider turning it off

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this is hybrid fan mode and what hybrid fan mode does is when your power supply

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is under uh hold on let me just double

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check yes when your power supply is under 20% load which let's face it a 150

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W power supply is usually going to be under 20% load especially when you're

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idling when it's under 20% load the fan turns off completely this is not a flaw

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this is not a defect this is by Design so what that means is you're not

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accumulating dust in your grill and in your fan and in your power supply cuz

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it's not even spinning whenever your system is not actually actively doing

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something which is outstanding I think that's the coolest thing in the world

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and every Power Supply from now on until the end of time should come with this

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feature you can't really enable a feature like this unless you build a

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very efficient power supply though because at 1,000 Watts even 80 plus

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let's say 80% efficiency is kicking out a lot of excess waste energy so you have

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to get that I mean 80 plus gold is up in the neighborhood of 87 to 88% efficiency

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so that is what enables them to achieve that so in terms of modular interface

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back here we've got motherboard we've got one of these eight pin guys for the

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CPU we've got those three PCI E connectors so those are for these ones

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so that's up to six uh that's up to six plugs off of these three then we've also

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got 1 2 3 4 5 six peripheral connectors

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and I'll show you all the cables we have for options for those and then over here

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we have either an additional CPU connector and this power supply actually

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comes with both 8 Pin CPU cables or you

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can plug PCIe in so the 1250 wat comes with that additional PCIe this one

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doesn't but I don't think it's relevant because you're not going to be powering four graphics cards off this guy in

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terms of the of the aesthetic I think XFX has done a fantastic job of making

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their power supplies stand apart from everyone else's so you got your XFX

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shiny logo there stand apart from everyone else's without looking tacky

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because you see a lot of power supplies that stand out but they just look awful

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and XFX has not gone down that path at

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all well oh actually before we before we wrap up here one of the things that

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makes this power supply kind of unique is if you look inside you don't see that

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huge thick thing of wires running up to the modular interface and that's because

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they're using a solid link interface so what the solid link interface does is it

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takes uh solid pieces of metal and

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they're just routed like this off the PCB up to the modular interface rather

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than running wires it's more efficient that way and it's tied I internally

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which is not only better for efficiency but also better for cooling let me just

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see if there's anything I'm missing here we covered easy rail we covered solid link and we covered hybrid fan control

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so all those major ones are there and then what have we got over here yes okay

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yes true wattage guarantee it is 1,50 wats of continuous power lesser power

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supply brands are known to leave out things like some of the automatic

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protection sensors which are all in this guy and to not actually deliver uh

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continuous power at a realistic operation temperature which XFX is

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rating at 50° which I would say is even a little bit aggressive um most power

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supplies are not going to be 50° internally um under really any

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circumstances we're talking 50° internal temperatures in your case which doesn't

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happen very often so there that's the example of the solid Link versus the the

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big thing of wires that goes out to that soldered modular interface that looks

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really messy and unrealistic but trust me most of them look like that solid

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link okay so I think we've pretty much covered everything there so let's have a

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look at what we've got in terms of peripheral connectors and then I think we're pretty much wrapping it up we've

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got our 24 pin here and then in terms of

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options here so for SATA we've got a

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three SATA another three SATA another three

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SATA and a two SATA so that one I'd probably run up to my optical drive and

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then the others I'd use for hard drives or ssds we've got one of those Molex to

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dual floppy adapters in case you still use any floppy connectors in your system

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we've got a two Molex and two by three

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mox's so you can choose whatever so you can plug in whatever you want because it

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is fully modular so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the pro 150w

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power supply from XFX don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips from

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