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