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well this new XFX power supply brings a few interesting things to the table so

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the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and open it

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up so this is a h how should we put this

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this is a second thing well the second time we've

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encountered this on this particular Channel and what this power supply is is

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an 80 plus Platinum power supply so as

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I've sort of discussed in the past already 80 plus Platinum is pretty much

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almost 90 plus I think uh at 100% load

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it can go down as low as 89% efficiency

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that is in the AC to DC conversion but we're going to go ahead and talk about

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some of the other cool new things that this power supply brings to the table

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very shortly here so it is 80 plus Platinum here we go uh 80 plus gold

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certified means that this has 90 plus power efficiency and 80 plus Platinum

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certified means okay so there yeah so at least 92% power efficiency and that is

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at the at the Peak at sort of the optimal level in its uh in its load in

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its power uh in its efficiency curve all

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right continuous power yeah okay so XFX has got the true wattage guarantee yes

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some power supplies are rated at

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unrealistic sort of in unrealistic ways so that is maybe they're rated for the

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peak output or maybe they're rated for

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unrealistic testing environments like 25° C but XFX power supplies guarantee

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their advertised wattage even at well above standard operating conditions at 50° cus which is that's that's probably

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even a little bit on the high side clean power so power draw from your AC outlet

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is typically dirty with W spikes and fluctuations this is very very true xax

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power supplies give you tight DC voltage regulation with minimal AC Ripple you

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say for cleaner power okay extreme heat tested capacitors up to

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105° whereas some of their competitors are using Japanese caps but they might

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only be rated for 85° this is all true

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they say they've included all of the various safety protections although one

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thing that's going to be a little bit challenging safety protection wise is

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you guys have to bear in mind that ocp

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over current protection is a yeah it's kind of hard to implement

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on a single rail power supply and this is a single rail power supply that does

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go for all single rail power supplies that is an enormous amount of current

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running through a single rail so just bear that in mind hybrid fan control is

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very cool the uh power supply operates silently that is the fan does not turn

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on until it reaches 20% load or 25° now

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bearing in mind that 20% load on a 1,000

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watt power supply is 200 Watts I have

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yet to see a system other than like an SLI quad core type system that idles at

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more than 200 watt so that means your power supply is pretty much going to be off 90% of the time whenever you are not

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actually doing anything intensive with it so that's very cool so note hybrid

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mode is on the fan will not be on initially this does not indicate a fan

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sorry about that guys so yeah it will turn on automatically when it's needed

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also I should note I said the power supply will be off 90% of the time I meant the fan not the power supply so DC

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to DC converter design is very efficient and allows you to maximize the 12vt rail

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uh usage on your on your power Supply so that means that almost all of the rated

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power of this unit can be delivered on the 12vt rail so you can see that that

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is 900 can you even read that oh yeah you can wow it's really hard to see it

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in person but up to 996 watts can be

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pulled through the 12vt rail and then if you do use more plus 5 Volt or plus 3.3

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volt you have up to 125 watts on those two combined quiet 135 mm ball bearing

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fan okay supports multiple high-end graphics cards uh up to three graphics

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cards natively highquality Japanese brand capacitors connectors included

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we'll get to that when we actually open up the thing I just want to go through and see if there's anything else here so

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for real high power gaming needs okay so this is uh easy rail is what they're

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calling their single 12vt rail design so that single 12vt rail as I mentioned

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before uh does does have some challenges

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in that you're running a lot of current on one rail but it is the easiest way to

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ensure that you're not going to have the safety mechanisms of your power supply

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accidentally shut down your system when you actually just want it to run so you

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don't have to worry about which connectors you're plugging into which graphics cards easy rail allows you to

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not think about that solid link this is really cool so check this out they do a

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cutaway of the power supply here you can see the modular interfaces now modular

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aha okay so this is a bit of a history lesson modular power supplies when they

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first started showing up in any real volume were well known to be far less

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efficient than a traditional wired power supply and that was due to how

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inefficiently how sloppily soldered and

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how poorly designed the modular interfaces were at the time now you do

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lose a little bit of efficiency just by having plugs like this that are plugging

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into something else and maybe you're not making a perfect connection all of that

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stuff but so how was XFX able to achieve a modular 80 plus Platinum power supply

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still very efficient by the way 80 plus Platinum well that is or so they say by

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using solid link so solid link instead of using a PCB with soldering points and

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aha this is exactly what a traditional modular interface looks like on the

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inside they've used solid pieces of metal to bridge the gap between the PCB

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inside your power supply and the connectors on the outside so that's very

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very cool that's the first time I've seen that it also comes with a 5year

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warranty and less wires less Heat this is very much true that's modular power

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supplies in general because by having fewer cables cluttering up your case you

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do allow for better cooling for the rest of your system system they're going to

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block less of the cooling so full modular design solid link hybrid fan

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mode okay lots of PCI Express connectors and we are finally ready to have a look

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at the unit itself after we look at the included modular connector so here you

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can see we've got our 24 pin connector very nice feeling cables actually nice

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flexible cables a what looks like a reasonably good quality sleeving so it's

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not as opaque as some of the ones I've seen in the past but it's also much

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better than some of the others that I've seen in the past so it's got a about

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sort of this length to it so fairly standard you should be able to reach

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pretty much any 24 pin power uh connector location on a given

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motherboard the ones that are usually more challenging are these eight pin ones so this looks also fairly long so

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as long as you're in some kind of a reasonable you know not like a uber full

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tower case you probably won't need an extension cable for these and then it

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comes also with another 4 pin power

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connector which looks a little something like this there we go so you got another

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one of those now okay so two of those what else we got here so we have two MOX

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love this nice conservative numbers of

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Molex connectors on one of the included modular cables why do I like that

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because I use very few Molex connectors these days and when I do I just need to

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run a couple of them somewhere this one has three Molex which is great because

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I'm either using two or three in a given build and this one uses another three

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and then that does it for Molex we do have a Molex to Tool floppy pin adapter

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just in case you still have something that uses that whether it's a sound card or something like that um and then for

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PCIe we've got uh three two three and

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three so for more peripheral adapters you've got one here that's just got two

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so you run that up to your optical drive or drives and then you've got a few more

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here that each have three Molex or three SATA connectors on them and you'll use

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that for the bulk of your drives here

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wow these are nice and heavy these have some real heft to

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them got to love heavy wiring it always

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has that uh that quality feel to it okay

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so these are I'm a big fan of these uh these are dual PCIe to uh or rather

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single connector to dual 6 plus 2 pins this is the most flexible possible way

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of doing it pretty much any high-end graphics card these days requires two

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connectors so this way you can take this one brick where you can see you've got

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two separate connectors just kind of coming out of it and then you plug that

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into your card you've got three of these so you can do up to three dual six pin

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or dual 8 Pin or 6 Plus 8 Pin cards natively with this power supply or you

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can even do actually you can even do uh three or rather uh two like ASUS Mars or

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something like that because you've got six total connectors all right we've got

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some included thumb screws black thumb screws for mounting the power supply in

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your case nice beefy power cable is included uses

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a standard connector so you don't have to worry about uh having a custom custom

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cable you forget your your special cable you go to a land or something you

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realize you don't have it and all of a sudden it's a trip home which is a real

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pain comes in a little bubble wrap black

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package and that looks very nice XFX has done an outstanding job of really

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setting aside the look of their power supplies from everyone else without

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making them look tacky because that's the challenge that you run into a lot of

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the time when you try and make your product look different is you make it look different in a bad way I don't

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think XFX has done that at all so here's

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our large 135 mm cooling fan you can see

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they've got kind of a neat cutaway look here but what they've done in doing so

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is they've actually not um made the cooling efficiency any worse like it's

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still quite closed inside so all of the

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down draft or updraft whichever way you Orient your power supply is going to be

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focused on cooling the components Inside So speaking of components inside I want

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to have a look at their solid link interface which I oh unfortunately I

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can't really see so I guess we'll have to settle for the outside so on the back

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we find kind of your Standard Grill your power switch on and off there's no 115

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230 volt selector because it has uh Universal input so there's your power

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cable spot okay let's move around to the other side so there's your Pro 1000

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limited Black Edition full modular power supply unit So speaking of fully modular

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there is your fully modular interface as well as your important info two fan

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modes hybrid fan mode or the fan is always on normal I would personally

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switch it this way I'm a huge fan of this feature hybrid fan mode very very

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cool being able to have silence when my system is idling from my power supply is

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just amazing I don't mind if it turns on while I'm gaming and while it's actually

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providing all that juice but components these days are so efficient at idle that

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why why would I why would I bother having that fan on all the time that's

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outstanding okay so motherboard there's your 24 pin there's your CPU 8 Pin

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there's your 1 two three PCIe um dual connectors then we've also

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got 1 2 3 4 5 six peripheral connectors

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and then finally check out this one so that's either for another eight pin or

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for another dual PCIe connector so you have that flexibility XFX has included

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two uh8 pin where are they ah here they

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are two8 pin motherboard connector so

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you can see that's designed to go into that one and then this one is designed

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to go into that one but you could also um Source yourself an additional PCI E

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connector and use that instead for up to four graphics cards so yes this power

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supply would be capable of powering four-way SLI although I probably

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wouldn't do it with 4 580s or anything like that because it is a th000 watt

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unit and that's probably a little bit more than it's designed to deliver so

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let's go ahead and flip it over to the other side where we can see XFX also has

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their sort of you know their branding and their elements you can see once

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again they've sort of designed the aesthetic to look kind of cool but they'

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put a little plastic piece back there in order to keep the cooling efficiency

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from actually being affected by what they've done so here we can see the

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specs again on the unit itself very sharp looking power supply XFX is so

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good at Aesthetics so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Pro 1000

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