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oh yeah way better modular power supplies are certainly

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nothing new but sea sonic has put

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a bit of a different spin on it this is the seasonic connect

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one clean solution and unlike other modular power supplies

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which have the psu itself and then a bunch of

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connectors on it this one

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ah comes out of the phone like that what

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what this video checking out the connect is brought to you guys by seasonic

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on the surface everything looks normal this is a 750 watt power supply it's 80

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plus gold certified just like sea sonic's prime gx it's got their hybrid

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mode for the fan so the fan will actually stop turning under low load and

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it's got a 140 millimeter fan but

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that's actually where things get interesting that 140 millimeter fan is

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taking up the entire surface you see look how short

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this thing is also how short this cable is so just

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like older non-modular power supplies the cable is hardwired into the unit but

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that's all you've got not even a full 24 pin atx power

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connector and then whatever this is you

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know this looks just like the old 20 pin motherboard power connector but

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if you plugged this into one of those boards it would definitely kill it let's

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have a look at what else is in the box so there's those funky magnets i found

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before ah wow those are super strong magnets these

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got to be rare earth magnets

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oh yeah and that's how they crack and i

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did say this was a modular power supply so here's our bag of modular cables

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nothing unusual about a bunch of modular cables and a modular power supply

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except look at this so here's our 24 pin power connector but

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it's a little baby one and it doesn't go in anywhere here

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ah that

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is where this comes in so what seasonic

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has done here is they have included most of the usual

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things you would find in a power supply except instead of doing the dc to dc

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conversion that is already industry standard where your power supply will

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take the ac mains power and just convert it to 12 volt dc power and then derive

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any other voltages 5 volt 3.3 volt from

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that now older power supplies used to actually take mains power and convert it

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separately for each voltage but this way ended up being more efficient and with

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cleaner output so what they're doing then is they're

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doing basically that but they're doing the 12 volt to other voltages conversion

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elsewhere basically here's how it goes down your

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power supply goes in this weirdo 20 pin goes into the bottom

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of the connect here and then there's also this little doodad

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that goes in a little something like that

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all down this side we've got our motherboard power couple pci express for

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graphics and a handful of ide or SATA

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plugs and then over here we've got these two plugs which would go right up to

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your CPU power and then one more peripheral one

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so basically the idea is you're taking

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that conversion and then you're running much smaller wires for a much cleaner

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look at the back of your case that all sounds fine and good in theory

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but is this even going to fit in anything we can do this right andy secure my ocd

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yeah i know right so say sonic

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has validated cases but

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we're all about making things interesting so instead

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we grabbed taryn's old editing workstation that he's been having some

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trouble with and we're going to try and cure the

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cable clutter on the back of a tempered glass case this system was originally

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built about three years ago before the concept of RGB light daisy chaining had

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really been introduced and back when power supplies still all had their

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cables plugged in at the bottom like you know like cavemen

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so let's see what we can do there honestly might not be much we can

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do about the RGB wiring but i'm going to be curious to see

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how much cleaner if at all this looks without so much power supply wiring so

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i'm gonna unplug everything from this side feed it back through

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24 pin for the motherboard oh you've got to be kidding me

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did not think that one through

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the four pin and the eight pin for the motherboard are covered by this aio

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water cooler guess we're taking the whole thing apart

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and of course these builds were the one time that we put all eight screws in a

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radiator out with the old power supply

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and maybe a little bit of dusting is in order

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we didn't specifically pick this case because it's listed as compatible in

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fact as far as i know it's not but we did pick something that we thought would

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have a chance of being compatible because the cable comes out on this side

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you can see obviously if we had to mount our power supply with the fan side up

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it wouldn't be able to reach and you could run into similar issues if you had

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a case with a top mounted power supply for example i really gotta wonder what

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this design costs them in added materials does it gain them back in

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shorter runs at lower voltages maybe the whole point really just is

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it's tidier looking well i'll be the judge of that that is

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pretty clean there's like nothing there

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of course we do still need to put this in here so compatibility wise it's about

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two centimeters thick so as long as you have that much room on the back your

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motherboard tray and enough uninterrupted space to mount it you

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should be good to go now this one has a bit of a fold-out lip

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around the back of the CPU cutout but i still think we should be able to make it

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work that's where our magnets come in a little bit of feedback for the buys back

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at seasonic if these pads could be pre-applied doesn't take that long but

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it would be a little bit faster to install that is really tight but we did

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manage to get it in there so i'm gonna pop this off

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let's finish the install you know what i'm kind of tempted to do

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is just nibble this a little bit normally i wouldn't recommend this to install a

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power supply but hey we gotta have our fun

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oh yeah way better starting with the 24 pin everything

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plugs in the way you would normally expect on a modular power supply this

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bad boy is gonna go here okay this one right here and then this

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goes straight over to the other side

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now our CPU connectors go right here and then over to the other side actually

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working exactly as intended so far that's good plenty of time for this to

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go south later though what else we got so our RGB controller needs a SATA power

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and then there's another led thing down in the bottom that needs say to power

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and well that's that's about it ain't it

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this has actually been pretty painless i'm already putting the aio back in

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now we just need to deal with all these fan cables

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you know what that's not actually bad if we can get everything contained like

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that i do like the magnetic mounting because it means if you need to route something under it you just pick it up

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and then put it back down that's pretty cool so there's one of our RGB connectors

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here's another RGB connector so many RGB connectors that's fine i

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think up so much for two and a half inch drives see ya it was nice knowing you

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i'm just trying to get my cable tie back through the loop

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come on see it just need the right tool for the job

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that's me now for the big test does it close

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without mashing it shut

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awesome got it obviously i knew what we were getting

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into going into the video but i'm still surprised at how much cleaner that looks

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we did this whole thing start to finish in just about an hour didn't we andy

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that's not bad for a component swap like that and

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cable management even though we don't have the cover

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anymore i actually think it looks cleaner without it see this cover used

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to be there so it's actually kind of similar looking theoretically that's

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plugged in

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oh hey it's got lighting too look at that not bad did somebody pre-configure this

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system for me so the lighting would match apparently this isn't RGB so that

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is something to watch out for however if you happen to be super into the blue

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color scheme that's going to look pretty darn sharp in it now of course the one

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remaining question is but at what cost well believe it or not compared to other

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750 watt modular power supplies

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it's not outlandishly priced so it kind of comes down to whether you want your

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modular interface on the back of your power supply the conventional way or

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whether you want it running up the back of your motherboard so that you can run

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off the cables wherever the heck you want so thanks again to seasonic for

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