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
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