okay so I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing today of The BFG GS series
power supply now I have specifically the 550 W model so this may not necessarily
apply to the other models but I think most of the same rules should be the
same for both of them that was awkward okay so basically you got dual 12vt
rails okay it's PCI Express data connectors thermal control technology
protection circuitry I'm not even sure if you're going to be able to read this
you got a meantime between failure rating of greater than 80,000 hours and
high efficiency so up to 85% efficient so even though I
don't actually see an 80 plus
certification bear in mind that 80 plus certification does not necessarily mean
that the power supply does not comply with ad plus even if it doesn't have the
certification because the certification does cost money so even if you build an
efficient power supply if you don't submit it for the CT then you just don't
have it but it might still be 80 plus okay so bfds claim here is that the
efficiency oh yeah that's not even close to 80 plus anyway so they're saying that
H here we go right there they're saying that on 120 volt or 115 volt input it's
around 75% at the lowest around 80 to
82% at 50% and then it goes down to about 75% again if you load it up all
the way which is pretty typical
um for a modern power supply I mean given that this one is such a value it's
such a low price it's pretty much what you would expect um let's see if I can
just get this out here this is not going
very well for me today okay so oh
actually here's another thing that they call out on the front of the box so fully sleeved cables which is really
nice to see on a value power supply it makes it so you can do a nice tidy build
with something like this six pin and 8 Pin PCI Express imagine a video card
company properly taking care of you for the PC Express connectors right then
you've got a 24 pin power connector you got SATA and you got an 8 Pin 4 plus 4
pin for the CPU which is again pretty nice to see on just like a a 550 W
fairly basic model power supply so inside we are going to find a power
supply quick install guide okay something about power to the people and
that's basically going to have how to install a power supply in about EMP
billion different languages which is great and then we have four installation
screws okay thanks BFG usually your case will come with those
screws but it's nice of them to include it just in
case okay and then we have nothing else
in there you got some foam packaging make sure it doesn't get damaged in
transit and then you've got a power like a standard PC power cord so that's just
your your bone standard sort of thing okay then you surrounded in bubble wrap
in addition to the foam that was also in there so that'll protect the finish on
it a little bit all right so let's have a look at the unit itself here first
it's got kind of a a shiny sort of slightly brushed looking Metal finish
okay it's uh there's my camera see you can kind of see behind my camera as well
you can see the LCD that I'm watching myself in right now at the back you've
got your standard honeycomb grill with uh oh actually you do have to select
okay so it does not have active power factor correction you have to actually
decide whether you want 115 or 230 bolt input make sure you don't have that set
wrong okay then you got your on off switch you got your power plug and then
on this side you're going to find all of the basic specs of this power supply so
you can see it's got two 12vt rails Each of which are rated at 18 amps and
between the two of them they can provide 404 watts of the total 550 Watts that
this power supply is rated for all right
so that's all the pertinent information there on the bottom you will find what
appears to be a 135 mm fan with a nice fan grill a nice little BFG logo which
if I can get the sticker off then I'll be able to yeah see that's so shiny very
nice okay in terms of connectors so they tell you things like
it has has SATA connectors but they don't actually tell you how many on the
outside of the box which is a very very odd thing to me okay so actually oh
those are reasonable length those are these are a pretty good length for like
a value power supply so you can kind of get some idea of the scale here I mean
when they say fully sleeved I think they're you know exaggerating a little
bit but honestly if you get a qual this
this is higher quality sleeving than you see on most brand name power supplies
even if it is a reasonably high-end power supply you can see that even on
the 24 pin connector you can't really see the color of the cables underneath
because it's a nice uh high density mesh over top of it whereas a lot of them the
you can just see kind of right through it and it's all colorful anyway so let's
get started having a look at what connectors we have so there's your 20 plus 4 pin or 24 pin if you will all
right so then the next thing we've got here
is okay oh yeah two PCI Express so you've got a 6 plus two so an eight pin
and then you've got another six pin PCI Express then next we've got an eight pin
or 4 plus 4 pin if you will uh CPU power
connector okay that's pretty straightforward as well and then we've
only got three other cables so I'll be interested to see what's actually attached to these all right on the oh
this is kind of a weird configuration okay first of all we've got one cable
here that has three Molex connectors on it all right so that's one of them and
then the other two both have have SATA
connectors Okay so we've got two SATA
connectors on each of these so one two they're the first two on both of them
one two and then the third connector on both of these cables here so we got one
two three connectors on both is either a floppy connector or another Molex
connector so that's kind of a neat configuration anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of The BFG GS
550 W power supply