oh yeah way better modular power supplies are certainly
nothing new but sea sonic has put
a bit of a different spin on it this is the seasonic connect
one clean solution and unlike other modular power supplies
which have the psu itself and then a bunch of
connectors on it this one
ah comes out of the phone like that what
what this video checking out the connect is brought to you guys by seasonic
on the surface everything looks normal this is a 750 watt power supply it's 80
plus gold certified just like sea sonic's prime gx it's got their hybrid
mode for the fan so the fan will actually stop turning under low load and
it's got a 140 millimeter fan but
that's actually where things get interesting that 140 millimeter fan is
taking up the entire surface you see look how short
this thing is also how short this cable is so just
like older non-modular power supplies the cable is hardwired into the unit but
that's all you've got not even a full 24 pin atx power
connector and then whatever this is you
know this looks just like the old 20 pin motherboard power connector but
if you plugged this into one of those boards it would definitely kill it let's
have a look at what else is in the box so there's those funky magnets i found
before ah wow those are super strong magnets these
got to be rare earth magnets
oh yeah and that's how they crack and i
did say this was a modular power supply so here's our bag of modular cables
nothing unusual about a bunch of modular cables and a modular power supply
except look at this so here's our 24 pin power connector but
it's a little baby one and it doesn't go in anywhere here
ah that
is where this comes in so what seasonic
has done here is they have included most of the usual
things you would find in a power supply except instead of doing the dc to dc
conversion that is already industry standard where your power supply will
take the ac mains power and just convert it to 12 volt dc power and then derive
any other voltages 5 volt 3.3 volt from
that now older power supplies used to actually take mains power and convert it
separately for each voltage but this way ended up being more efficient and with
cleaner output so what they're doing then is they're
doing basically that but they're doing the 12 volt to other voltages conversion
elsewhere basically here's how it goes down your
power supply goes in this weirdo 20 pin goes into the bottom
of the connect here and then there's also this little doodad
that goes in a little something like that
all down this side we've got our motherboard power couple pci express for
graphics and a handful of ide or SATA
plugs and then over here we've got these two plugs which would go right up to
your CPU power and then one more peripheral one
so basically the idea is you're taking
that conversion and then you're running much smaller wires for a much cleaner
look at the back of your case that all sounds fine and good in theory
but is this even going to fit in anything we can do this right andy secure my ocd
yeah i know right so say sonic
has validated cases but
we're all about making things interesting so instead
we grabbed taryn's old editing workstation that he's been having some
trouble with and we're going to try and cure the
cable clutter on the back of a tempered glass case this system was originally
built about three years ago before the concept of RGB light daisy chaining had
really been introduced and back when power supplies still all had their
cables plugged in at the bottom like you know like cavemen
so let's see what we can do there honestly might not be much we can
do about the RGB wiring but i'm going to be curious to see
how much cleaner if at all this looks without so much power supply wiring so
i'm gonna unplug everything from this side feed it back through
24 pin for the motherboard oh you've got to be kidding me
did not think that one through
the four pin and the eight pin for the motherboard are covered by this aio
water cooler guess we're taking the whole thing apart
and of course these builds were the one time that we put all eight screws in a
radiator out with the old power supply
and maybe a little bit of dusting is in order
we didn't specifically pick this case because it's listed as compatible in
fact as far as i know it's not but we did pick something that we thought would
have a chance of being compatible because the cable comes out on this side
you can see obviously if we had to mount our power supply with the fan side up
it wouldn't be able to reach and you could run into similar issues if you had
a case with a top mounted power supply for example i really gotta wonder what
this design costs them in added materials does it gain them back in
shorter runs at lower voltages maybe the whole point really just is
it's tidier looking well i'll be the judge of that that is
pretty clean there's like nothing there
of course we do still need to put this in here so compatibility wise it's about
two centimeters thick so as long as you have that much room on the back your
motherboard tray and enough uninterrupted space to mount it you
should be good to go now this one has a bit of a fold-out lip
around the back of the CPU cutout but i still think we should be able to make it
work that's where our magnets come in a little bit of feedback for the buys back
at seasonic if these pads could be pre-applied doesn't take that long but
it would be a little bit faster to install that is really tight but we did
manage to get it in there so i'm gonna pop this off
let's finish the install you know what i'm kind of tempted to do
is just nibble this a little bit normally i wouldn't recommend this to install a
power supply but hey we gotta have our fun
oh yeah way better starting with the 24 pin everything
plugs in the way you would normally expect on a modular power supply this
bad boy is gonna go here okay this one right here and then this
goes straight over to the other side
now our CPU connectors go right here and then over to the other side actually
working exactly as intended so far that's good plenty of time for this to
go south later though what else we got so our RGB controller needs a SATA power
and then there's another led thing down in the bottom that needs say to power
and well that's that's about it ain't it
this has actually been pretty painless i'm already putting the aio back in
now we just need to deal with all these fan cables
you know what that's not actually bad if we can get everything contained like
that i do like the magnetic mounting because it means if you need to route something under it you just pick it up
and then put it back down that's pretty cool so there's one of our RGB connectors
here's another RGB connector so many RGB connectors that's fine i
think up so much for two and a half inch drives see ya it was nice knowing you
i'm just trying to get my cable tie back through the loop
come on see it just need the right tool for the job
that's me now for the big test does it close
without mashing it shut
awesome got it obviously i knew what we were getting
into going into the video but i'm still surprised at how much cleaner that looks
we did this whole thing start to finish in just about an hour didn't we andy
that's not bad for a component swap like that and
cable management even though we don't have the cover
anymore i actually think it looks cleaner without it see this cover used
to be there so it's actually kind of similar looking theoretically that's
plugged in
oh hey it's got lighting too look at that not bad did somebody pre-configure this
system for me so the lighting would match apparently this isn't RGB so that
is something to watch out for however if you happen to be super into the blue
color scheme that's going to look pretty darn sharp in it now of course the one
remaining question is but at what cost well believe it or not compared to other
750 watt modular power supplies
it's not outlandishly priced so it kind of comes down to whether you want your
modular interface on the back of your power supply the conventional way or
whether you want it running up the back of your motherboard so that you can run
off the cables wherever the heck you want so thanks again to seasonic for
sponsoring today's video if you guys are looking for another video to watch they
also sponsored the compensator pc 2020. it's supposed
to be 2019 but it took us until 2020 to build it anyway we're gonna have that
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