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why you might ask am I unboxing a product from a company that no longer

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exists well I have a very good reason so

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MCX still has a lot of these gs450 power

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supplies and they are still selling very well and it's the return rates on them

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are very very low so seems to be an adequate quality unit it's at a very

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aggressive price and NC is actually

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covering one-ear warranty on it uh regardless of whether we're getting any

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support from from BFG so yeah it's kind

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of even though the company that makes it no longer exists this product is still

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out there and you can still buy it and it does come with a one-year warranty

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directly from NC which in some ways especially if you buy it at one of our

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stores is even more convenient than having a manufacture warranty for for a

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year or whatever because then you can just go right to the store and exchange

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it if it dies so anyway there you go this is the gs450 power supply it is a

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BFG power supply from their GS series and it provides 450 watts of power so

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let's go around to the back where it says something along the lines of

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efficiency meets affordability it's definitely affordable although with the

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later with the newest standards of 80 plus going up to 80 plus gold it's no

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longer really a leading uh on the Leading Edge in terms of efficiency in

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terms of features it still is reasonably up to date because you do have an 8 pin

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12volt connector you have a 24 pin motherboard connector you've got dual

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12vt rails which is still pretty much standard and you've also got a six pin

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power connector to ensure compatibility with many high-end graphics cards

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without having is okay well this is this is BS unreliable often performance

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hindering adapters yeah those don't do anything bad anyway so you can read that

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if you want pause the video if you feel like it I'm just going to go ahead and

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open up the box here's some more specifications for you if you want to

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check those out actually oh that's the uh sorry that's the wrong language there

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we go specifications so we've got uh 18

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amps on each of the two individual 12vt rails and you can see the rest of it

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here so up to 304 Watts total on the 12vt rails so because this isn't using

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DC todc conversion like many of the more modern power supplies you find that yeah

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you can't provide quite all of the power supplies total available wattage to the

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12vt rail we see included mount M screws because even though like I said it's a

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value power supply it is a full retail box so you do get things like mounting

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screws you get BFG power to the people

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what's in here need help yeah don't call that number doesn't exist uh don't go

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there doesn't exist uh what else do we have in here

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installation guide that's still relevant and that's all that's in there okay

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let's see what else we got in

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here power cord that still works even though BFG no longer makes

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them and the power supply itself here we

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go I always kind of liked bfds power supplies I like the overall finish of

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them I think they're kind of nice they're not quite shiny it's kind of

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like a a matte brushed shiny like it's almost like a

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hybrid finish like I hope I can get you guys an angle can you see the brush of

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it at all okay so so depending how you look at it you get kind of a bunch of

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different finishes in one very fingerprint resistant very scratch

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resistant and I really like that because something can look as good as it wants

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when it's brand new but if it's just going to look like crap as soon as you

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take it out of the box man handle it a little bit and put it in your case well

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then what's the point right you've got a 140 mm cooling fan here on the bottom of

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the unit so make sure that that's got access to Fresh Air whether you're

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mounting it fan side down or fan Side Up doesn't really matter we've got the

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overall specs over here on the side again so you can see those if you so

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desire on the back we have our little 115 versus 230 volt input switch make

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sure if you're in North America which if you're buying this from NC which is as

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far as I know the only place that still has these make sure it's set to 115

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please we've got our onoff switch as well as our power Inlet port for wall

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power on the other side we have nothing on the top we have nothing and then

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let's have a look at the cables

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hope I don't o this elastic is pretty tight I hope I don't break it and snap

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myself here cuz that would hurt so basically this power supply I

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wouldn't recommend it if you're running any more than one modern video card and

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even then I probably wouldn't recommend it for anything higher end than maybe

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like a 6870 something along those lines

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you don't want to uh be trying to power up like GTX 580 on something like this

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so remember with a 6870 uh one six pin PCI press connector

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won't be enough so you'll probably have to use a so you'll probably end up using

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an adapter with two Molex to another six pin in order to run a video card like

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that and you're going to be just fine that way so in terms of other connectors

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okay so we got our six pin PCIe we have a very very short 8 pin connector so

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either you're going to want to make sure your case has a top mounted power supply

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or you will need to buy an extension cable for that so bear that in mind we

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have again a very short 24 pin connector although that'll be just fine for top or

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bottom mount doesn't really matter how

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it's mounted from the top or the bottom okay here we have a dual Molex single

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floppy Pin cable next we have another cable harness with two SATA yeah two

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SATA that's that's how old this unit is in terms of when they designed it uh

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back when it was like primarily people were running like a couple hard drives

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and then all Optical drives still ran on IDE sort of back when this was was

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popular and then two more Molex here although once again you can use Molex

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TOA adapters there is no real drawback there so thank you for checking out my

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unboxing on the uh ever persevering

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gs450 watt which has outlasted the very

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company that manufactured it don't forget to subscribe to lonus Tech tips

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