{"video_id":"Q2gYS4MkSNA","title":"Seasonic X-Series 650W 80+ Gold Certified PC Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":483,"segments":[{"start_s":0.56,"end_s":7.279,"text":"So today we're going to be having a look at the cic X Series 650 W power supply","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.279,"end_s":10.36,"text":"now the front of this box is pretty bare as you may or may not have noticed it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.639,"end_s":16.6,"text":"features Advanced DC power conversion technology for blah blah blah blah blah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.36,"end_s":18.6,"text":"and it is 80 plus gold that is the real","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.6,"end_s":24.68,"text":"draw for this power supply Series right there so that means power 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if you want that then we have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":467.68,"end_s":474.12,"text":"eight four pin Molex connectors so you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":470.759,"end_s":475.639,"text":"can plug in as many as five Al together","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":474.12,"end_s":483.319,"text":"of the Molex and SATA connectors thank you for checking out my unboxing of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":477.479,"end_s":483.319,"text":"cic X Series 8 plus gold power supply","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"So today we're going to be having a look at the cic X Series 650 W power supply now the front of this box is pretty bare as you may or may not have noticed it features Advanced DC power conversion technology for blah blah blah blah blah and it is 80 plus gold that is the real draw for this power supply Series right there so that means power supply efficiency of 87% or more regardless of the load on it so that's pretty awesome actually you should check out my video that I did recently on my NCI .c Channel where we talked about how much money you can save in a year by using an 80 plus gold power supply so you can see this power supply has a single 12volt rail at 54 amps and it's capable of outputting almost its entire 650 wat maximum on the 12vt rail let's move around to the back where all of a sudden the box design gets a lot busier so they show you a little bit of the internal design of the X Series 650 watt they talk a little bit about their DC connector module with integrated vrm voltage regulator module there is your 80 plus gold spec so that means it's 8790 87% at 2050 and 100% operating loads so as high as 90% um in what I would consider a typical gaming system which would top out around 300 watts under load okay silent fan control this is a big thing for seic is they typically have very very quiet power supplies so they're using a Sano Deni San pwm silent fan let me see this is a fully modular it looks like like no it couldn't be this is a modular power supply looks like it might be fully modular you know what we're going to have to open it up to find out so why don't we just do that it's SLI certified also I didn't mention that before and oh it's not even sealed Okay cool so first we'll find an owner's manual which reemphasizes it is 80 plus gold okay it's in five different languages and gives us the basics tells us thank you for purchasing I didn't purchase one but you know you're you're welcome anyway uh gives you a little bit of information about the connectors that are connected to it they don't give you the rail breakdown because because it's a single rail power supply on the 12 VTS so you don't have to worry about what you're plugging in where and whether it's going to overload a single rail okay they talk about their 5-year warranty a little bit are simple and effective oh and they even tell you how to do an RMA if you have a DOA unit that's really nice of them to include that information okay so then we've got a little fold out thing here let's see Sonic logo very nice box I really like it okay then we have have wow this is hey this is nice go for gold and just in time for the Olympics too um X Series okay see Sonic it's got two separate little oh wow this is two separate little baggies which each include modular cables I'm just going to dump these out yes there we go okay so this is fully modular let's pull the power supply out we've got a pretty beefy looking power cord just your standard computer power cord all right then we have a little seic case badge power by cic and four case screws just in case your case doesn't include the case screws if that's the case then well okay that joke got old really fast okay so it comes in a little velvet bag which makes it feel very high-end which it is by the way I mean it's an 80 plus gold 650 wat unit that should be all you really need to know and it's kind of got a unique look to it okay the first thing you'll notice is that the accents are in kind of a Goldie sort of finish so you've got your basic specs here all of your safety certifications all of your testing all on this side of the unit then at the front you will find the fully modular interface and I'm going to go ahead and oh this is weird look at this so they've actually got the 24 pin connector Consolidated down to only 16 pins so that means that many of the duplicated cables are probably each plugging into just one pin because it wouldn't matter because it's a single rail power supply very interesting so here we've got our peripheral IDE and SATA connectors all along here up here is our PCI Express and CPU 8 Pin okay here we have CPU and here we have motherboard all right so we'll figure out what all of that means in a moment oh yeah down here we have the 120 mm pwm fan okay temperature activated fan rotates only when required right because a very efficient power supply only needs to turn on the fan when it gets overwhelmed and since it's a fairly low wattage very efficient power supply it's going to mean that you've got far less excess heat than you would have in a less efficient unit so that fan probably doesn't have to work very hard at all on the back of the unit you find your typical honeygom grill with a power switch and a power input for the power cable then on this side you'll find some seic branding with the X Series go for gold branding there as well wow I'm really tired today this is uh I'm repeating myself awful lot but what are you going to do okay let's see if I can figure out how to get this open there we go so here is the oh so they didn't they didn't actually consolidate this cable down what they've done is they've made two separate cables for some reason okay so basically you plug it in like this and then you plug it in like this I cannot imagine why they've done it this way but they did I sure there's a reason for it somewhere and I don't know what it is so that's your 24 pin cable and here if you want to shift the angle there so it's reasonably long you're not going to have trouble with this power supply having any sort of short cable problems where you can't actually reach the important parts of your PC all right let's look at what else we have included for modular cabl so you got a four pin CPU connector then you have oh this is great I I love these the the ones that are sort of a single brick that you plug in so this is for PC PCI Express and then that goes out to two 6 plus2 pin PCI Express connectors so you've got two of those so you can actually C Sonic has configured it so you can easily run two high-end graphics cards requiring as many as two 8 Pin PCI Express connectors each off of this power supply so this cable right here oh no maybe they haven't oh I see what they've done so either you're using four wow you know what this is one of the most confusing modular interfaces I've seen uh ever okay I get it so you can either have an 8 Pin CPU power connector here and then you can add a second one and then you can have only two PCI Express connectors or you can run a motherboard that requires only a single eight pin and then you can have as many as four PCI Express connectors so they're limiting you with the connectors a little bit to make sure that you don't go ahead and over load this with like you know that new EVGA board that has two LGA 1366 sockets and supports like seven graphics cards you wouldn't want to be running that on a 650 W power supply so they're protecting consumers a little bit that way all right so in terms of the other modular cables we have we've got one with three SATA another one with three SATA another one probably with three SATA I'm guessing yeah there's another one so you can connect up to oh no that one has only two so you can connect up to eight SATA hard drives natively on this power supply and then I'm going to go see what I dropped here oh okay this is an adapter oh okay so they haven't actually included any floppy connectors on the modular cables by default but you can use this adapter to get a couple floppy connectors if you want that then we have eight four pin Molex connectors so you can plug in as many as five Al together of the Molex and SATA connectors thank you for checking out my unboxing of the cic X Series 8 plus gold power supply"}