well this new XFX power supply brings a few interesting things to the table so
the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and open it
up so this is a h how should we put this
this is a second thing well the second time we've
encountered this on this particular Channel and what this power supply is is
an 80 plus Platinum power supply so as
I've sort of discussed in the past already 80 plus Platinum is pretty much
almost 90 plus I think uh at 100% load
it can go down as low as 89% efficiency
that is in the AC to DC conversion but we're going to go ahead and talk about
some of the other cool new things that this power supply brings to the table
very shortly here so it is 80 plus Platinum here we go uh 80 plus gold
certified means that this has 90 plus power efficiency and 80 plus Platinum
certified means okay so there yeah so at least 92% power efficiency and that is
at the at the Peak at sort of the optimal level in its uh in its load in
its power uh in its efficiency curve all
right continuous power yeah okay so XFX has got the true wattage guarantee yes
some power supplies are rated at
unrealistic sort of in unrealistic ways so that is maybe they're rated for the
peak output or maybe they're rated for
unrealistic testing environments like 25° C but XFX power supplies guarantee
their advertised wattage even at well above standard operating conditions at 50° cus which is that's that's probably
even a little bit on the high side clean power so power draw from your AC outlet
is typically dirty with W spikes and fluctuations this is very very true xax
power supplies give you tight DC voltage regulation with minimal AC Ripple you
say for cleaner power okay extreme heat tested capacitors up to
105° whereas some of their competitors are using Japanese caps but they might
only be rated for 85° this is all true
they say they've included all of the various safety protections although one
thing that's going to be a little bit challenging safety protection wise is
you guys have to bear in mind that ocp
over current protection is a yeah it's kind of hard to implement
on a single rail power supply and this is a single rail power supply that does
go for all single rail power supplies that is an enormous amount of current
running through a single rail so just bear that in mind hybrid fan control is
very cool the uh power supply operates silently that is the fan does not turn
on until it reaches 20% load or 25° now
bearing in mind that 20% load on a 1,000
watt power supply is 200 Watts I have
yet to see a system other than like an SLI quad core type system that idles at
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
actually doing anything intensive with it so that's very cool so note hybrid
mode is on the fan will not be on initially this does not indicate a fan
sorry about that guys so yeah it will turn on automatically when it's needed
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
to DC converter design is very efficient and allows you to maximize the 12vt rail
uh usage on your on your power Supply so that means that almost all of the rated
power of this unit can be delivered on the 12vt rail so you can see that that
is 900 can you even read that oh yeah you can wow it's really hard to see it
in person but up to 996 watts can be
pulled through the 12vt rail and then if you do use more plus 5 Volt or plus 3.3
volt you have up to 125 watts on those two combined quiet 135 mm ball bearing
fan okay supports multiple high-end graphics cards uh up to three graphics
cards natively highquality Japanese brand capacitors connectors included
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
for real high power gaming needs okay so this is uh easy rail is what they're
calling their single 12vt rail design so that single 12vt rail as I mentioned
before uh does does have some challenges
in that you're running a lot of current on one rail but it is the easiest way to
ensure that you're not going to have the safety mechanisms of your power supply
accidentally shut down your system when you actually just want it to run so you
don't have to worry about which connectors you're plugging into which graphics cards easy rail allows you to
not think about that solid link this is really cool so check this out they do a
cutaway of the power supply here you can see the modular interfaces now modular
aha okay so this is a bit of a history lesson modular power supplies when they
first started showing up in any real volume were well known to be far less
efficient than a traditional wired power supply and that was due to how
inefficiently how sloppily soldered and
how poorly designed the modular interfaces were at the time now you do
lose a little bit of efficiency just by having plugs like this that are plugging
into something else and maybe you're not making a perfect connection all of that
stuff but so how was XFX able to achieve a modular 80 plus Platinum power supply
still very efficient by the way 80 plus Platinum well that is or so they say by
using solid link so solid link instead of using a PCB with soldering points and
aha this is exactly what a traditional modular interface looks like on the
inside they've used solid pieces of metal to bridge the gap between the PCB
inside your power supply and the connectors on the outside so that's very
very cool that's the first time I've seen that it also comes with a 5year
warranty and less wires less Heat this is very much true that's modular power
supplies in general because by having fewer cables cluttering up your case you
do allow for better cooling for the rest of your system system they're going to
block less of the cooling so full modular design solid link hybrid fan
mode okay lots of PCI Express connectors and we are finally ready to have a look
at the unit itself after we look at the included modular connector so here you
can see we've got our 24 pin connector very nice feeling cables actually nice
flexible cables a what looks like a reasonably good quality sleeving so it's
not as opaque as some of the ones I've seen in the past but it's also much
better than some of the others that I've seen in the past so it's got a about
sort of this length to it so fairly standard you should be able to reach
pretty much any 24 pin power uh connector location on a given
motherboard the ones that are usually more challenging are these eight pin ones so this looks also fairly long so
as long as you're in some kind of a reasonable you know not like a uber full
tower case you probably won't need an extension cable for these and then it
comes also with another 4 pin power
connector which looks a little something like this there we go so you got another
one of those now okay so two of those what else we got here so we have two MOX
love this nice conservative numbers of
Molex connectors on one of the included modular cables why do I like that
because I use very few Molex connectors these days and when I do I just need to
run a couple of them somewhere this one has three Molex which is great because
I'm either using two or three in a given build and this one uses another three
and then that does it for Molex we do have a Molex to Tool floppy pin adapter
just in case you still have something that uses that whether it's a sound card or something like that um and then for
PCIe we've got uh three two three and
three so for more peripheral adapters you've got one here that's just got two
so you run that up to your optical drive or drives and then you've got a few more
here that each have three Molex or three SATA connectors on them and you'll use
that for the bulk of your drives here
wow these are nice and heavy these have some real heft to
them got to love heavy wiring it always
has that uh that quality feel to it okay
so these are I'm a big fan of these uh these are dual PCIe to uh or rather
single connector to dual 6 plus 2 pins this is the most flexible possible way
of doing it pretty much any high-end graphics card these days requires two
connectors so this way you can take this one brick where you can see you've got
two separate connectors just kind of coming out of it and then you plug that
into your card you've got three of these so you can do up to three dual six pin
or dual 8 Pin or 6 Plus 8 Pin cards natively with this power supply or you
can even do actually you can even do uh three or rather uh two like ASUS Mars or
something like that because you've got six total connectors all right we've got
some included thumb screws black thumb screws for mounting the power supply in
your case nice beefy power cable is included uses
a standard connector so you don't have to worry about uh having a custom custom
cable you forget your your special cable you go to a land or something you
realize you don't have it and all of a sudden it's a trip home which is a real
pain comes in a little bubble wrap black
package and that looks very nice XFX has done an outstanding job of really
setting aside the look of their power supplies from everyone else without
making them look tacky because that's the challenge that you run into a lot of
the time when you try and make your product look different is you make it look different in a bad way I don't
think XFX has done that at all so here's
our large 135 mm cooling fan you can see
they've got kind of a neat cutaway look here but what they've done in doing so
is they've actually not um made the cooling efficiency any worse like it's
still quite closed inside so all of the
down draft or updraft whichever way you Orient your power supply is going to be
focused on cooling the components Inside So speaking of components inside I want
to have a look at their solid link interface which I oh unfortunately I
can't really see so I guess we'll have to settle for the outside so on the back
we find kind of your Standard Grill your power switch on and off there's no 115
230 volt selector because it has uh Universal input so there's your power
cable spot okay let's move around to the other side so there's your Pro 1000
limited Black Edition full modular power supply unit So speaking of fully modular
there is your fully modular interface as well as your important info two fan
modes hybrid fan mode or the fan is always on normal I would personally
switch it this way I'm a huge fan of this feature hybrid fan mode very very
cool being able to have silence when my system is idling from my power supply is
just amazing I don't mind if it turns on while I'm gaming and while it's actually
providing all that juice but components these days are so efficient at idle that
why why would I why would I bother having that fan on all the time that's
outstanding okay so motherboard there's your 24 pin there's your CPU 8 Pin
there's your 1 two three PCIe um dual connectors then we've also
got 1 2 3 4 5 six peripheral connectors
and then finally check out this one so that's either for another eight pin or
for another dual PCIe connector so you have that flexibility XFX has included
two uh8 pin where are they ah here they
are two8 pin motherboard connector so
you can see that's designed to go into that one and then this one is designed
to go into that one but you could also um Source yourself an additional PCI E
connector and use that instead for up to four graphics cards so yes this power
supply would be capable of powering four-way SLI although I probably
wouldn't do it with 4 580s or anything like that because it is a th000 watt
unit and that's probably a little bit more than it's designed to deliver so
let's go ahead and flip it over to the other side where we can see XFX also has
their sort of you know their branding and their elements you can see once
again they've sort of designed the aesthetic to look kind of cool but they'
put a little plastic piece back there in order to keep the cooling efficiency
from actually being affected by what they've done so here we can see the
specs again on the unit itself very sharp looking power supply XFX is so
good at Aesthetics so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Pro 1000
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