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so many of you commented on my recent video on the Corsair 230t case that
you'd like to see more videos where instead of focusing on the latest and
greatest most amazing thing ever we take some time to point out a value oriented
product that's a good buy and not too expensive I've decided to turn these
videos into a series called stuff that doesn't suck at $100 for a 650 watt the
v650 semi modular from Cooler Master is right in line with other 80 plus gold
modular power supplies from a pricing standpoint but it offers a couple of
other things that not all the others do physically there's nothing that
extraordinary about it inside the box you'll find a quick start guide some
environmentally friendly packaging a power cord installation screws which is
a nice touch in case you lose one the power supply itself and a small bundle
of surprisingly Supple black modular ribbon cables you get two quad SATA
harnesses and two triple Molex ones with one of the lad also including a floppy
connector moving on to the unit itself we find a tastefully styled matte black
gray and gold color scheme with all of the pertinent information on a large
label on the top here you'll see that this power supply features a single
12volt rail capable of delivering just shy of its entire 650 W Capac capacity
so you won't need to worry about which connectors you plug into what this is
fine for a relatively low capacity unit and this is also where you'll find the
pertinent safety certifications by the way on the opposite side cooling is
handled by a 120 mm fan and this is where we see the first differentiating
feature compared to cic's G Series which is similarly priced and 160 mm long the
vssm unit here is only 140 mm long if
you're installing it into a full tower case or something it doesn't matter but
if you wanted to do a compact build this power supply should be on your short
list so to speak anyway uh which leads
us over to the cabling side the pre-attached cables use pretty
unexceptional sleeving which isn't great but it's also not a big deal at this
price point and looking at the pre-attached connectors we've got our 24
pin motherboard connector which seems a little bit long our eight pin CPU
connector which seems a TT short but should be fine for most mid Towers even
rting up the back and then a single PCI
Express cable that has two 6 plus2 connectors on it that means that unless
we want to use janky adapters we're limited to a single high performance
graphics card I do see this as a bit of a non-issue though since a dual Graphics
configuration on a 650 W power supply would have to be with mid-range cards
and I generally recommend a single high-end card versus two mid-range cards
anyway not to mention that the 750 watt version is available for another $10
with four PCI Express connectors if you want that so take that for what it is
finishing up we've got four more plug spots here for the modular cables that I
mentioned before they're keyed so they only go in one way and are an ample
length for easy installation again into pretty much any mid Tower I'd like to
see the SATA connectors perhaps a little bit closer together on the harness but
this is something that I've been saying for a long time and no power supply maker has yet bent to my will in this
way so we'll see if Cooler Master decides to I don't know maybe it'll be
like an optional cable kit or something like that in the future on the back is
the usual honeycomb grill a power switch and a standard power input and then
we're led into the stuff that I guess you can't really see on the surface
Cooler Master is really proud of this unit for a couple of reasons first up is
that they're using all Japanese capacitors inside the quality of which
compared to other options on the market is fairly well established and next up
is something that they're calling the gold guarantee a 5-year warranty is good
a 5-year warranty with costs completely covered is outstanding now I know in
many Industries it's standard for a company to cover shipping both ways for
a return but in the computer industry the standard procedure is to have the
customer cover shipping the item back to the depot and the manufacturer cover
shipping it back to the customer this is because unlike clothing or pet supplies
there really isn't that much margin in most computer parts because high-end
electronics are legitimately expensive to make and the vssm series is no
exception so Cooler Master it's not that they have like a ton of margin on the
thing and they're just like yeah whatever we can afford to ship six of them to people if it comes to that no
what they're doing is they're basically betting big that these things are so
reliable that they're hardly going to take any back and it's nice to see a
manufacturer approaching a product with that kind of confidence it's stuff like
this that makes me happy to give The Cooler Master VSM series my personal
doesn't suck a w kudos for taking a step like this in the right direction in
terms of customer support now I just hope the rest of the industry starts to
shift that way too as usual guys the link to pricing and availability is in
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