WEBVTT 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:14.200 well this new XFX power supply brings a few interesting things to the table so 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:22.800 the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and open it 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:24.279 up so this is a h how should we put this 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:30.080 this is a second thing well the second time we've 00:00:27.599 --> 00:00:37.440 encountered this on this particular Channel and what this power supply is is 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:39.280 an 80 plus Platinum power supply so as 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:47.239 I've sort of discussed in the past already 80 plus Platinum is pretty much 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:51.039 almost 90 plus I think uh at 100% load 00:00:47.239 --> 00:00:53.840 it can go down as low as 89% efficiency 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:57.120 that is in the AC to DC conversion but we're going to go ahead and talk about 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:01.280 some of the other cool new things that this power supply brings to the table 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:06.360 very shortly here so it is 80 plus Platinum here we go uh 80 plus gold 00:01:04.559 --> 00:01:09.479 certified means that this has 90 plus power efficiency and 80 plus Platinum 00:01:07.720 --> 00:01:14.439 certified means okay so there yeah so at least 92% power efficiency and that is 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:20.759 at the at the Peak at sort of the optimal level in its uh in its load in 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:22.960 its power uh in its efficiency curve all 00:01:20.759 --> 00:01:28.520 right continuous power yeah okay so XFX has got the true wattage guarantee yes 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:31.360 some power supplies are rated at 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:36.920 unrealistic sort of in unrealistic ways so that is maybe they're rated for the 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:38.439 peak output or maybe they're rated for 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:43.520 unrealistic testing environments like 25° C but XFX power supplies guarantee 00:01:42.119 --> 00:01:50.600 their advertised wattage even at well above standard operating conditions at 50° cus which is that's that's probably 00:01:48.399 --> 00:01:53.880 even a little bit on the high side clean power so power draw from your AC outlet 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:58.280 is typically dirty with W spikes and fluctuations this is very very true xax 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:02.240 power supplies give you tight DC voltage regulation with minimal AC Ripple you 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:06.759 say for cleaner power okay extreme heat tested capacitors up to 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:11.520 105° whereas some of their competitors are using Japanese caps but they might 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:13.000 only be rated for 85° this is all true 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:16.120 they say they've included all of the various safety protections although one 00:02:14.920 --> 00:02:21.800 thing that's going to be a little bit challenging safety protection wise is 00:02:18.239 --> 00:02:23.800 you guys have to bear in mind that ocp 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:30.000 over current protection is a yeah it's kind of hard to implement 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:34.040 on a single rail power supply and this is a single rail power supply that does 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:37.879 go for all single rail power supplies that is an enormous amount of current 00:02:35.519 --> 00:02:42.480 running through a single rail so just bear that in mind hybrid fan control is 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:47.599 very cool the uh power supply operates silently that is the fan does not turn 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:51.080 on until it reaches 20% load or 25° now 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:54.480 bearing in mind that 20% load on a 1,000 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:56.519 watt power supply is 200 Watts I have 00:02:54.480 --> 00:03:01.400 yet to see a system other than like an SLI quad core type system that idles at 00:03:00.040 --> 00:03:07.200 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 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:11.599 actually doing anything intensive with it so that's very cool so note hybrid 00:03:10.239 --> 00:03:15.000 mode is on the fan will not be on initially this does not indicate a fan 00:03:13.519 --> 00:03:18.080 sorry about that guys so yeah it will turn on automatically when it's needed 00:03:16.799 --> 00:03:24.720 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 00:03:22.519 --> 00:03:30.760 to DC converter design is very efficient and allows you to maximize the 12vt rail 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:34.799 uh usage on your on your power Supply so that means that almost all of the rated 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:39.439 power of this unit can be delivered on the 12vt rail so you can see that that 00:03:36.760 --> 00:03:43.879 is 900 can you even read that oh yeah you can wow it's really hard to see it 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:46.239 in person but up to 996 watts can be 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:51.760 pulled through the 12vt rail and then if you do use more plus 5 Volt or plus 3.3 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:57.360 volt you have up to 125 watts on those two combined quiet 135 mm ball bearing 00:03:55.519 --> 00:04:01.959 fan okay supports multiple high-end graphics cards uh up to three graphics 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:05.280 cards natively highquality Japanese brand capacitors connectors included 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:10.760 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 00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:15.760 for real high power gaming needs okay so this is uh easy rail is what they're 00:04:12.799 --> 00:04:21.519 calling their single 12vt rail design so that single 12vt rail as I mentioned 00:04:17.840 --> 00:04:22.919 before uh does does have some challenges 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:28.040 in that you're running a lot of current on one rail but it is the easiest way to 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:31.560 ensure that you're not going to have the safety mechanisms of your power supply 00:04:30.039 --> 00:04:34.680 accidentally shut down your system when you actually just want it to run so you 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:41.440 don't have to worry about which connectors you're plugging into which graphics cards easy rail allows you to 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:44.600 not think about that solid link this is really cool so check this out they do a 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:49.360 cutaway of the power supply here you can see the modular interfaces now modular 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:53.240 aha okay so this is a bit of a history lesson modular power supplies when they 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:58.440 first started showing up in any real volume were well known to be far less 00:04:55.960 --> 00:05:03.960 efficient than a traditional wired power supply and that was due to how 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:05.720 inefficiently how sloppily soldered and 00:05:03.960 --> 00:05:10.720 how poorly designed the modular interfaces were at the time now you do 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:13.720 lose a little bit of efficiency just by having plugs like this that are plugging 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:18.160 into something else and maybe you're not making a perfect connection all of that 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:21.840 stuff but so how was XFX able to achieve a modular 80 plus Platinum power supply 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:27.080 still very efficient by the way 80 plus Platinum well that is or so they say by 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:32.520 using solid link so solid link instead of using a PCB with soldering points and 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:37.319 aha this is exactly what a traditional modular interface looks like on the 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:41.800 inside they've used solid pieces of metal to bridge the gap between the PCB 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.759 inside your power supply and the connectors on the outside so that's very 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:50.759 very cool that's the first time I've seen that it also comes with a 5year 00:05:48.080 --> 00:05:54.520 warranty and less wires less Heat this is very much true that's modular power 00:05:52.840 --> 00:05:59.000 supplies in general because by having fewer cables cluttering up your case you 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:02.240 do allow for better cooling for the rest of your system system they're going to 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:06.680 block less of the cooling so full modular design solid link hybrid fan 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:11.880 mode okay lots of PCI Express connectors and we are finally ready to have a look 00:06:08.919 --> 00:06:16.680 at the unit itself after we look at the included modular connector so here you 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:21.280 can see we've got our 24 pin connector very nice feeling cables actually nice 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:25.199 flexible cables a what looks like a reasonably good quality sleeving so it's 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:28.520 not as opaque as some of the ones I've seen in the past but it's also much 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:32.880 better than some of the others that I've seen in the past so it's got a about 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:37.160 sort of this length to it so fairly standard you should be able to reach 00:06:34.400 --> 00:06:40.639 pretty much any 24 pin power uh connector location on a given 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:47.039 motherboard the ones that are usually more challenging are these eight pin ones so this looks also fairly long so 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:51.120 as long as you're in some kind of a reasonable you know not like a uber full 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:57.440 tower case you probably won't need an extension cable for these and then it 00:06:53.560 --> 00:07:00.360 comes also with another 4 pin power 00:06:57.440 --> 00:07:04.840 connector which looks a little something like this there we go so you got another 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:10.879 one of those now okay so two of those what else we got here so we have two MOX 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:13.759 love this nice conservative numbers of 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:17.840 Molex connectors on one of the included modular cables why do I like that 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:22.080 because I use very few Molex connectors these days and when I do I just need to 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:26.080 run a couple of them somewhere this one has three Molex which is great because 00:07:23.960 --> 00:07:31.039 I'm either using two or three in a given build and this one uses another three 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:35.000 and then that does it for Molex we do have a Molex to Tool floppy pin adapter 00:07:33.919 --> 00:07:45.840 just in case you still have something that uses that whether it's a sound card or something like that um and then for 00:07:39.280 --> 00:07:48.120 PCIe we've got uh three two three and 00:07:45.840 --> 00:07:51.440 three so for more peripheral adapters you've got one here that's just got two 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:56.120 so you run that up to your optical drive or drives and then you've got a few more 00:07:53.639 --> 00:08:01.639 here that each have three Molex or three SATA connectors on them and you'll use 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:03.240 that for the bulk of your drives here 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:07.639 wow these are nice and heavy these have some real heft to 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:10.840 them got to love heavy wiring it always 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:13.520 has that uh that quality feel to it okay 00:08:10.840 --> 00:08:20.280 so these are I'm a big fan of these uh these are dual PCIe to uh or rather 00:08:17.400 --> 00:08:23.840 single connector to dual 6 plus 2 pins this is the most flexible possible way 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:28.360 of doing it pretty much any high-end graphics card these days requires two 00:08:26.159 --> 00:08:32.120 connectors so this way you can take this one brick where you can see you've got 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:36.519 two separate connectors just kind of coming out of it and then you plug that 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:42.240 into your card you've got three of these so you can do up to three dual six pin 00:08:39.599 --> 00:08:47.480 or dual 8 Pin or 6 Plus 8 Pin cards natively with this power supply or you 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:52.519 can even do actually you can even do uh three or rather uh two like ASUS Mars or 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:57.080 something like that because you've got six total connectors all right we've got 00:08:55.120 --> 00:09:01.040 some included thumb screws black thumb screws for mounting the power supply in 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:04.600 your case nice beefy power cable is included uses 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:09.920 a standard connector so you don't have to worry about uh having a custom custom 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:13.120 cable you forget your your special cable you go to a land or something you 00:09:11.160 --> 00:09:19.560 realize you don't have it and all of a sudden it's a trip home which is a real 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:21.920 pain comes in a little bubble wrap black 00:09:19.560 --> 00:09:25.600 package and that looks very nice XFX has done an outstanding job of really 00:09:24.040 --> 00:09:29.800 setting aside the look of their power supplies from everyone else without 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:32.680 making them look tacky because that's the challenge that you run into a lot of 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:39.360 the time when you try and make your product look different is you make it look different in a bad way I don't 00:09:35.760 --> 00:09:42.920 think XFX has done that at all so here's 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:45.040 our large 135 mm cooling fan you can see 00:09:42.920 --> 00:09:50.120 they've got kind of a neat cutaway look here but what they've done in doing so 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:54.800 is they've actually not um made the cooling efficiency any worse like it's 00:09:51.760 --> 00:09:57.200 still quite closed inside so all of the 00:09:54.800 --> 00:10:02.399 down draft or updraft whichever way you Orient your power supply is going to be 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:07.040 focused on cooling the components Inside So speaking of components inside I want 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:10.839 to have a look at their solid link interface which I oh unfortunately I 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:15.480 can't really see so I guess we'll have to settle for the outside so on the back 00:10:12.959 --> 00:10:20.480 we find kind of your Standard Grill your power switch on and off there's no 115 00:10:17.800 --> 00:10:25.360 230 volt selector because it has uh Universal input so there's your power 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:29.720 cable spot okay let's move around to the other side so there's your Pro 1000 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:34.640 limited Black Edition full modular power supply unit So speaking of fully modular 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:38.839 there is your fully modular interface as well as your important info two fan 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:43.600 modes hybrid fan mode or the fan is always on normal I would personally 00:10:41.079 --> 00:10:49.440 switch it this way I'm a huge fan of this feature hybrid fan mode very very 00:10:46.839 --> 00:10:53.920 cool being able to have silence when my system is idling from my power supply is 00:10:51.959 --> 00:10:58.480 just amazing I don't mind if it turns on while I'm gaming and while it's actually 00:10:55.839 --> 00:11:04.279 providing all that juice but components these days are so efficient at idle that 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:07.720 why why would I why would I bother having that fan on all the time that's 00:11:05.680 --> 00:11:14.120 outstanding okay so motherboard there's your 24 pin there's your CPU 8 Pin 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:21.680 there's your 1 two three PCIe um dual connectors then we've also 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:23.360 got 1 2 3 4 5 six peripheral connectors 00:11:21.680 --> 00:11:28.360 and then finally check out this one so that's either for another eight pin or 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:36.000 for another dual PCIe connector so you have that flexibility XFX has included 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:39.440 two uh8 pin where are they ah here they 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:41.519 are two8 pin motherboard connector so 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:46.279 you can see that's designed to go into that one and then this one is designed 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:51.320 to go into that one but you could also um Source yourself an additional PCI E 00:11:48.959 --> 00:11:55.600 connector and use that instead for up to four graphics cards so yes this power 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:59.560 supply would be capable of powering four-way SLI although I probably 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:03.519 wouldn't do it with 4 580s or anything like that because it is a th000 watt 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:06.800 unit and that's probably a little bit more than it's designed to deliver so 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:10.320 let's go ahead and flip it over to the other side where we can see XFX also has 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:14.079 their sort of you know their branding and their elements you can see once 00:12:12.160 --> 00:12:17.519 again they've sort of designed the aesthetic to look kind of cool but they' 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:21.000 put a little plastic piece back there in order to keep the cooling efficiency 00:12:19.079 --> 00:12:25.440 from actually being affected by what they've done so here we can see the 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:29.519 specs again on the unit itself very sharp looking power supply XFX is so 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:34.839 good at Aesthetics so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Pro 1000 00:12:32.040 --> 00:12:38.320 wat 80 plus Platinum power supply don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:41.480 more unboxings reviews and other computer videos