{"video_id":"I2q96mhrDqw","title":"BFG GS-450 450W Computer Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":384,"segments":[{"start_s":0.719,"end_s":11.24,"text":"why you might ask am I unboxing a product from a company that no longer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.2,"end_s":15.68,"text":"exists well I have a very good reason so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.24,"end_s":18.4,"text":"MCX still has a lot of these gs450 power","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.68,"end_s":23.599,"text":"supplies and they are still selling very well and it's the return rates on them","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.4,"end_s":29.48,"text":"are very very low so seems to be an adequate quality unit it's at a very","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.199,"end_s":32.16,"text":"aggressive price and NC is 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stuff","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"why you might ask am I unboxing a product from a company that no longer exists well I have a very good reason so MCX still has a lot of these gs450 power supplies and they are still selling very well and it's the return rates on them are very very low so seems to be an adequate quality unit it's at a very aggressive price and NC is actually covering one-ear warranty on it uh regardless of whether we're getting any support from from BFG so yeah it's kind of even though the company that makes it no longer exists this product is still out there and you can still buy it and it does come with a one-year warranty directly from NC which in some ways especially if you buy it at one of our stores is even more convenient than having a manufacture warranty for for a year or whatever because then you can just go right to the store and exchange it if it dies so anyway there you go this is the gs450 power supply it is a BFG power supply from their GS series and it provides 450 watts of power so let's go around to the back where it says something along the lines of efficiency meets affordability it's definitely affordable although with the later with the newest standards of 80 plus going up to 80 plus gold it's no longer really a leading uh on the Leading Edge in terms of efficiency in terms of features it still is reasonably up to date because you do have an 8 pin 12volt connector you have a 24 pin motherboard connector you've got dual 12vt rails which is still pretty much standard and you've also got a six pin power connector to ensure compatibility with many high-end graphics cards without having is okay well this is this is BS unreliable often performance hindering adapters yeah those don't do anything bad anyway so you can read that if you want pause the video if you feel like it I'm just going to go ahead and open up the box here's some more specifications for you if you want to check those out actually oh that's the uh sorry that's the wrong language there we go specifications so we've got uh 18 amps on each of the two individual 12vt rails and you can see the rest of it here so up to 304 Watts total on the 12vt rails so because this isn't using DC todc conversion like many of the more modern power supplies you find that yeah you can't provide quite all of the power supplies total available wattage to the 12vt rail we see included mount M screws because even though like I said it's a value power supply it is a full retail box so you do get things like mounting screws you get BFG power to the people what's in here need help yeah don't call that number doesn't exist uh don't go there doesn't exist uh what else do we have in here installation guide that's still relevant and that's all that's in there okay let's see what else we got in here power cord that still works even though BFG no longer makes them and the power supply itself here we go I always kind of liked bfds power supplies I like the overall finish of them I think they're kind of nice they're not quite shiny it's kind of like a a matte brushed shiny like it's almost like a hybrid finish like I hope I can get you guys an angle can you see the brush of it at all okay so so depending how you look at it you get kind of a bunch of different finishes in one very fingerprint resistant very scratch resistant and I really like that because something can look as good as it wants when it's brand new but if it's just going to look like crap as soon as you take it out of the box man handle it a little bit and put it in your case well then what's the point right you've got a 140 mm cooling fan here on the bottom of the unit so make sure that that's got access to Fresh Air whether you're mounting it fan side down or fan Side Up doesn't really matter we've got the overall specs over here on the side again so you can see those if you so desire on the back we have our little 115 versus 230 volt input switch make sure if you're in North America which if you're buying this from NC which is as far as I know the only place that still has these make sure it's set to 115 please we've got our onoff switch as well as our power Inlet port for wall power on the other side we have nothing on the top we have nothing and then let's have a look at the cables hope I don't o this elastic is pretty tight I hope I don't break it and snap myself here cuz that would hurt so basically this power supply I wouldn't recommend it if you're running any more than one modern video card and even then I probably wouldn't recommend it for anything higher end than maybe like a 6870 something along those lines you don't want to uh be trying to power up like GTX 580 on something like this so remember with a 6870 uh one six pin PCI press connector won't be enough so you'll probably have to use a so you'll probably end up using an adapter with two Molex to another six pin in order to run a video card like that and you're going to be just fine that way so in terms of other connectors okay so we got our six pin PCIe we have a very very short 8 pin connector so either you're going to want to make sure your case has a top mounted power supply or you will need to buy an extension cable for that so bear that in mind we have again a very short 24 pin connector although that'll be just fine for top or bottom mount doesn't really matter how it's mounted from the top or the bottom okay here we have a dual Molex single floppy Pin cable next we have another cable harness with two SATA yeah two SATA that's that's how old this unit is in terms of when they designed it uh back when it was like primarily people were running like a couple hard drives and then all Optical drives still ran on IDE sort of back when this was was popular and then two more Molex here although once again you can use Molex TOA adapters there is no real drawback there so thank you for checking out my unboxing on the uh ever persevering gs450 watt which has outlasted the very 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