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so many of you commented on my recent video on the Corsair 230t case that

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you'd like to see more videos where instead of focusing on the latest and

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greatest most amazing thing ever we take some time to point out a value oriented

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product that's a good buy and not too expensive I've decided to turn these

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videos into a series called stuff that doesn't suck at $100 for a 650 watt the

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v650 semi modular from Cooler Master is right in line with other 80 plus gold

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modular power supplies from a pricing standpoint but it offers a couple of

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other things that not all the others do physically there's nothing that

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extraordinary about it inside the box you'll find a quick start guide some

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environmentally friendly packaging a power cord installation screws which is

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a nice touch in case you lose one the power supply itself and a small bundle

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of surprisingly Supple black modular ribbon cables you get two quad SATA

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harnesses and two triple Molex ones with one of the lad also including a floppy

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connector moving on to the unit itself we find a tastefully styled matte black

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gray and gold color scheme with all of the pertinent information on a large

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label on the top here you'll see that this power supply features a single

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12volt rail capable of delivering just shy of its entire 650 W Capac capacity

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so you won't need to worry about which connectors you plug into what this is

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fine for a relatively low capacity unit and this is also where you'll find the

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pertinent safety certifications by the way on the opposite side cooling is

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handled by a 120 mm fan and this is where we see the first differentiating

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feature compared to cic's G Series which is similarly priced and 160 mm long the

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vssm unit here is only 140 mm long if

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you're installing it into a full tower case or something it doesn't matter but

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if you wanted to do a compact build this power supply should be on your short

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list so to speak anyway uh which leads

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us over to the cabling side the pre-attached cables use pretty

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unexceptional sleeving which isn't great but it's also not a big deal at this

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price point and looking at the pre-attached connectors we've got our 24

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pin motherboard connector which seems a little bit long our eight pin CPU

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connector which seems a TT short but should be fine for most mid Towers even

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rting up the back and then a single PCI

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Express cable that has two 6 plus2 connectors on it that means that unless

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we want to use janky adapters we're limited to a single high performance

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graphics card I do see this as a bit of a non-issue though since a dual Graphics

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configuration on a 650 W power supply would have to be with mid-range cards

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and I generally recommend a single high-end card versus two mid-range cards

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anyway not to mention that the 750 watt version is available for another $10

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with four PCI Express connectors if you want that so take that for what it is

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finishing up we've got four more plug spots here for the modular cables that I

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mentioned before they're keyed so they only go in one way and are an ample

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length for easy installation again into pretty much any mid Tower I'd like to

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see the SATA connectors perhaps a little bit closer together on the harness but

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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

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way so we'll see if Cooler Master decides to I don't know maybe it'll be

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like an optional cable kit or something like that in the future on the back is

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the usual honeycomb grill a power switch and a standard power input and then

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we're led into the stuff that I guess you can't really see on the surface

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Cooler Master is really proud of this unit for a couple of reasons first up is

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that they're using all Japanese capacitors inside the quality of which

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compared to other options on the market is fairly well established and next up

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is something that they're calling the gold guarantee a 5-year warranty is good

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a 5-year warranty with costs completely covered is outstanding now I know in

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many Industries it's standard for a company to cover shipping both ways for

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a return but in the computer industry the standard procedure is to have the

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customer cover shipping the item back to the depot and the manufacturer cover

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shipping it back to the customer this is because unlike clothing or pet supplies

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there really isn't that much margin in most computer parts because high-end

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electronics are legitimately expensive to make and the vssm series is no

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exception so Cooler Master it's not that they have like a ton of margin on the

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thing and they're just like yeah whatever we can afford to ship six of them to people if it comes to that no

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what they're doing is they're basically betting big that these things are so

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reliable that they're hardly going to take any back and it's nice to see a

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manufacturer approaching a product with that kind of confidence it's stuff like

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this that makes me happy to give The Cooler Master VSM series my personal

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doesn't suck a w kudos for taking a step like this in the right direction in

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terms of customer support now I just hope the rest of the industry starts to

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shift that way too as usual guys the link to pricing and availability is in

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