this is a very cool product this is uh I believe the second fanless power supply
that I have unboxed but what's really special about this one is the fact that
it achieves its fanless design not by
the use of extremely heavy heat sinks but rather through incredible efficiency
so this is a 400 wat unit from seic and it is 80 plus gold certified we're
starting to see more and more 80 plus gold certified power supplies but this
is the first one that uses that incredible efficiency now remember
efficiency means how much power it can produce versus how much excess random
heat that it outputs so it uses that efficiency to Output so little heat that
it can just run without a fan at all so
you can see here we have a summary of the connectors oh this is also really
cool single 12vt 33 amp rail so this is
a single rail design 80 plus gold
fanless power supply let's have a look at the back here so seic has a uh a
slightly different design for the output
uh okay you know what I'll just let you look at the diagram because I haven't
really studied it ahead ahead of time but uh basically what they're able to do
is by keeping the amperages lower within the power supply overall they're able to
lose less efficiency that way so they have high current goldplated terminals I
guess we can start the unboxing Now High reliability 105 degree grade A
capacitors conductive okay so solid
solid capacitors and a fiveyear warranty
on this unit it is fanless 0
DB so this would be great for a media PC
for uh you know what this would be great for almost any PC because the reality of
it is if you're running uh a single graphics card like single PCI E six pin
or8 pin connector and you're running like almost any almost any CPU on market
like if you just need a computer with like good CPU lots of RAM you throw an
SSD in there a hard drive in there and you don't need like uh a high-end video
card or anything like that this is like perfect because you can just have
perfect silence for your power supply and 400 watts really is enough for
almost any PC unless you start throwing like overclocking and high-end graphics
cards into the mix so for okay and only
should operate in a well-designed system chassis that provides good ventilation
for modern computer components so you don't want to throw this in a sealed box
is basically what they're saying you need to use a proper case that has uh
probably at least one fan in it to provide some incidental air flow to your
power supply so here's a summary of some of the extra features wow special
features gets all of two pages in this in this manual out of eight in English
so go ahead and pause the video and read through that if you so desire uh here we
are a little bit more about it their whole X Series so it goes all the way
from 400 watt for fanless units all the
way up to 12200 WTS just
incredible okay let me see warranty and disclaimer some safety notes very nice
is this a modular power supply too oh look at that it's modular Okay cool so
why don't we have a quick look here at what we get in terms of
accessories some seasonic cable ties very nice we get some uh some zip ties
and then we get a nice little uh seic sticker powered by
seic all right let's have a look at the power supply first for a change I
normally look at the cables first but we're going to do it the other way around o nice sticker it's a very nice
sticker feels like quality okay so I actually don't have my tripod propped
against me today so um maybe I'll just pause the video for a sec all right as
soon as we take the power supply out of the satiny sleeve that it comes packed
in we see a sticker on top that says install with the ventilation top cover
facing up and please remove this label before use so let's go around to the
side where we also have some more ventilation here at the front we have
the modular interface we're going to go ahead and remove that label on the other
side we have some more ventilation holes so I guess presumably the way this works
is simply via convection so as components in here heat up the heat gets
uh exhausted out here just because of the simple fact that heat does rise and
then seic has strategically plac placed the intake holes which are presumably at
the back and here along the sides so and
the front so that the air comes in cools the most critical components first and
then once it's heated Rises out the top of the power supply so it's very cool
looking you know it's not nearly as heavy as uh as the other fanless power
supply that I had a look at which is kind of uh kind of refreshing in some
ways because it means that your system doesn't already weigh as much as a like
wheelbarrow full of brick before you even start putting other components in
it so there's the full specs there I think we already showed this on the side
and you can see even at the bottom of the unit there are a few ventilation holes so these are likely strategically
placed so they can get a little bit of air flow to some critical component that
needs to get a little bit of cooling done so let's have a look at the modular
cables that are included with the uh X
Series 400 W fanless power
supply okay I might have to pause CL again here
actually here I'll just get someone else to hold the camera uh Rumble can you hold the camera for me thanks
bu all right so inside here we will
find uh okay one modular to two four to
four plus 4 pin power connector so that's either a four pin or an eight pin
depending on what your motherboard requires then we have a PCI Express 6
plus2 pin as well as a 24 pin power for
your mother motherboard in the next bag
in the handy dandy cable holding bag we
have oh okay we've also got a power cord for the back of the
unit and then in here we will find SATA and Molex
cables okay so we got one single Molex Conn no two Molex
connectors and then we have uh you know what let's just here let's
just crack this open here so I can
clearly see what I'm
doing all right what do we have so this one has two
SATA this one has this is a Molex to two
floppy adapter so you can use that if you still require one of those
connectors we have a a triple SATA connector and then we have a three Mox
and a two MOX so that's all the modular cables now I'm just going to check
really quickly if you can actually plug in all modular cables at the same time
time and it looks like you cannot so you're going to have to decide uh which
which three of these four connectors you
are going to want to plug in so you can either have uh five SATA and three Molex
or five Molex and three SATA so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
cic X Series 400 wat 80 plus gold power
supply and I love those gold heat sinks in there just a nice little accent