I have another XFX power supply to unbox
so this one is slightly different from
the last XFX power supply that I took a look at and in terms of the overall
platform and the overall feature set it is fairly similar however this is a
higher wattage unit than the 80 plus Platinum
1,000 watt that we looked at before so this is a 1250 W power supply which yes
there are higher wattage power supplies out there but I would say that for all
practical intents and purposes 1 12200
Watts or 1250 Watts or whatever you want to call it is pretty much as high-end as
you need to go because you can power almost anything I can imagine I mean
okay yeah you can add pelier and things like that to your system that would make
it consume more power but with this you can easily power four graphics cards a
quad core or rather quad cores aren't even high-end anymore I forgot a six
core CPU and you know all the extra little random peripherals and
accessories that you could want so the one that we had a look at before was the
1000 watt one and that was more of a limited edition skew and I just hold on
a second hold on just a moment so the th000 watt is the limited edition 80
plus platinum and then the 1050 and the 1250 watt are the Black Edition
non-limited Edition ones so these are 880+ gold which is to be expected
because uh 80 plus gold is a little bit easier to achieve especially with a 1250
wat unit I mean look at what you'd be expecting from a 1250 wat 80 plus
Platinum unit we're talking what 90% efficiency basically uh for
1,50 Watts so what does it have in terms
of the overall other features that are similar to the 80 plus Platinum unit the
answer is a whole lot it actually looks very similar so XFX has done a great job
I mean back when they first launched their power supplies I was looking at it going well what can XFX do any different
and what they're doing is they're using a very highquality manufacturer for the
power supply units themselves and what they've also done is they found a way to
set apart their aesthetic from what others are doing so you look at it and
you go well really anything but black T not to look that great like you go and
you do like a you know like a bronzy colored power supply and it might look
kind of cool on its own but you go and put that in the system it looks kind of out of place so I was like okay well
what are they going to do and what they did do is they did kind of a unique
overall look so it's got a very XFX look
to it it's still black they've done kind of silver accents um and rather than
going the rather than going the You Know cover it with gold colored stuff root
that a lot of guys have done with their 80 plus gold power supplies and when you
combine good Aesthetics with very high quality I'd say you generally speaking
end up with a winner so that's that's what they've decided to do with their
power supply products and I have no
hesitations whatsoever in recommending their power supply products so they do
okay I'm going to say it one more time they do use a high quality manufacturer
and then they do offer a 5-year guarantee that's from XFX so that's
their legendary warranty service so it's hard to go wrong that way as well let's
have a look at the modular fan interface where you're going to find a few different things so you'll see your
motherboard modular connector so it's a fully modular power supply you also see
a CPU connector so that uses an8 pin to8
pin which I'm going to find right about here all right so that guy plugs in
right there and then what you see is three more PCIe connectors and then an
additional PCIe or CPU connector so that
means you can either use this guy right here to do another eight pin although I
would personally argue that unless you're using a dual socket motherboard
that is entirely unnecessary so a single
eight pin even if your okay I don't by dual socket I mean dual CPU sockets not
dual uh eight pin sockets so I would argue if you have a single CPU you're
going to be more than enough served by a single eight pin connector even if your
motherboard has two connector slots so what that means is you could use this
power supply to provide up to eight PCI
E connectors so that is up to fourway
dual pin requiring graphics card so you can see each of these connectors nice
long cables has dual 6 plus two pin
connectors at the end and XFX includes
four of them so with the 1050 watt they include three and with the 1250 watt
they include four and then they also include the CPU one so you can actually
use it whichever way you want cuz if you're running two or three graphics cards and you do have the Dual 8 Pin
connectors on your motherboard then I guess you might as well use them both
high quality power cord included very very thick good to see it's just those
little touches that do make a difference oh I want to talk about you know what
I'll talk about that after okay let's have a look at the rest of the included connectors so you got your 24 pin which
is pretty much bog standard I would hope that any PC power supply comes with a 24
pin connector uh do I have all of them here yeah Okay so we've got a 3 by SATA
connector one so two of them are right angle one of them is straight then we've
got a two by SATA connector one right angle one straight that's what I'd
recommend running up to your optical drive then we have another 3x SATA power
connector and finally another 3 by SATA
power connector so that's nine that you can run over to your hard drive bays and
then two that you can run up to your Optical drives which is a good
balance okay next we've got a dual Molex
I'm a big fan of this CU I don't use many moxes in my uh case so I'd run that
to my pump and I'd run that to my fan controller and then I'd be pretty much
done then we've got one of those Molex to dual floppy adapters just in case you
still use any floppy devices in your system whether it's a card reader or
whatever else if they need floppy power they need it you got a triple Mox and
then you've got another triple MOX that is also included now this is cool check
this out I wonder if we can see the solid link interface down there you know
what we can't see that but we can see something so I want you guys to check this out you know how on most modular
power supplies you see a big bundle of cables coming off can you see inside
sort of going to try and get an angle where you can see along the right hand Edge so most modular power supplies
you'll see a whole bunch of cables that are soldered down there and then run
over to the back of the PCB that makes up the modular interface which is going
to be right behind here the way that these power supplies work in order to
conserve efficiency is rather than using those cables and those solder points
which tend to be somewhat inefficient they use solid pieces actually here they
have a good diagram here where is it ah
they use solid metal pieces to run right off the PCB onto the modular interface
itself so you can see what it looks like with this uh with this back piece taken
off so that does provide I mean we're talking very small amounts of increased
efficiency but you'd be amazed how much
uh how much these things can add up over time like I'm aware of at least one 80
plus gold power supply where this was a less reputable manufacturer this was not
fxfx so don't don't take that away from this story but what they did was when
they actually sent their unit away to the 80 plus certification committee they
included cables that were 30% shorter
because just that extra little bit of
resistance that they're taking away from the power output earned them an 80 plus
gold certification instead of 80 plus silver so that's something to bear in
mind if you're buying a power supply you want to buy from someone reputable who
doesn't sort of fudge the numbers in order to hit a particular Plateau um
that's actually one of the other things that XFX really feels is important so
their capacitors and their operating uh
specs are based on a standard operating condition of 50° so they're not actually
going to go ahead and put the power supply in a colder environment which
does help it perform more efficiently in order to achieve a better rating they're
putting it in a more uh realistic scenario so they've got all Japanese
capacitors as well as uh testing them
wow cool so they test them at 50° and they're rated to withstand up to
105° automatic protection sensor so you got all of your usual safety
certifications I would expect that from someone like XFX as well as from the
manufacturer that is building the power supply in the first place cuz I mean
when it comes to actual manufacturing plants someone like an XFX is going to
stand behind the warranty for you they're going to support the product for you they're going to bring it to market
for you they're going to do you know promotions and MIRS and all that good
stuff for you but when it comes to an actual Factory not everyone owns a power
supply Factory so uh they are using a very very high quality OEM arguably the
best one out there hybrid fan mode so
we're finally on to what I think is really the uh best feature of this
particular series of power supplies their Black Edition full modular and
that is hybrid fan mode here so when you enable that feature what you're actually
doing and they include a useful graph right on the power supply itself I will
show you that graph when I find it aha very cool check this out so up to 20%
load plus orus 5% you it operates in silent mode that means your fan is off
remember 20% load on a 1250 wat power
supply is about 300 watt you'd be hard
pressed to find a system that idles above 300 watts in fact let's take this
system right here which is dual GTX 580s
and a 2600k no what is this this is a 39
uh 3930k 6 core processor and I'm going
to go ahead and I'm going to show you guys this system idles at 144 Watts
check that out can you see that it's okay you'll have to take my word for it
it idles at 144 Watts 8 gigs of RAM the
works so that means that whenever you're
browsing the web or doing just general low maintenance stuff your power supply
fan is going to be off that's great not only for noise reduction but also for
dust reduction that means your power supply isn't even going to get dust
caked into it because unless you're actually playing a game rendering a
video or doing something intensive like that your fan isn't even going to be on
so this is by Design if you flick the switch you know don't be scared that
your fan isn't on um but yeah pretty
cool right okay two more things uh one is that this is a single rail power
supply so it's capable of providing up to 104 amp on a single rail that is only
two Watts shy of the entire rated output of this power supply so what that does
mean is that you don't have to worry about which connector you're plugging
what high draw device into so you know short of accidentally plugging
everything in your system into a single Molex connector and overheating this
entire wire which is very unlikely to happen um you don't have to worry about
having you know two graphics cards on one rail and One graphics card on the
other Rail and accidentally triggering the over current protection don't have
to worry about that you just go ahead and worry free you plug everything into
everything and it's all coming from a single 12vt rail inside the power supply
so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the XFX Pro 1250 wat solid
link 80 plus gold power supply and don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for
more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and honestly if you're shopping for a power supply tomorrow
look for one with hybrid fan mode so remember the XFX 1050 watt 80 plus gold
the 1250 watt 80 plus gold as well as the 1000 w80 plus Platinum all have this
feature and it's very very cool