welcome to my unboxing of the final
chapter of XFX is 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 is the fact that they have easy
rail which is basically XFX is way of saying that they have a single powerful
12volt rail they've got a 5year warranty
so this is the 1050 wat 80 plus Gold version we've already
seen the limited edition 1 watt 80 plus
platinum and then so 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 wat 80 plus gold and
the 1250 wat 80 plus gold SCH is going to
be in the GPU support so the 1050 W unit
is only rated for 1,50 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 um
I said during the 1250 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
6970 um 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 3 to four high-end gpus depending which capacity you buy and be
confident that it's going to work with a 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
uh modular cables Each of which has two
six plus two pin connectors at the end so it's ready for three graphics 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 uh hold on let me just double
check yes when your power supply is under 20% load which let's face it a 150
W 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 cuz
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 at 1,000 Watts even 80 plus
let's say 80% efficiency is kicking out a lot of excess waste energy so you have
to get that I mean 80 plus gold is up in the neighborhood of 87 to 88% 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 eight pin guys for the
CPU we've got those three PCI E connectors so those are for these ones
so that's up to six uh that's up to six plugs off of these three then we've also
got 1 2 3 4 5 six peripheral connectors
and I'll show you all the cables we have for 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 in so the 1250 wat 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 four 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 oh 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 uh 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 tied I 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 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 1,50 wats 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 uh
continuous power at a realistic operation temperature which XFX is
rating at 50° which I would say is even a little bit aggressive um most power
supplies are not going to be 50° internally um under really any
circumstances we're talking 50° 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 solid
link 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 SATA another three SATA another three
SATA and a two SATA so that one 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
dual floppy adapters in case you still use any floppy connectors in your system
we've got a two Molex and two by three
mox's so you can choose whatever so you can plug in whatever you want because it
is fully modular so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the pro 150w
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