so today I'm having a look at another product from fractal Design This is
their Newton R2 800 wat power supply so we had a look at the Tesla the other day
which is according to them a very similar platform but the big difference
is that the Newton is modular okay there
are a couple other key differences they're both 0 plus but the Newton also
includes a 135 mm fan instead of a 120
mm fan so let's have a look at what it says about itself on the box first of
all they have a chart here that gauges the noise level versus the wattage of
power output so they're saying it stays under 30 DB even if you're going up to
800 watts of power but you can see The Sweet Spot is in the 350 to 400 watt
range like most power supplies you get the quietest most efficient operation at
about half of the rated output okay attached cables and modular cables we'll
get into those when we open it up so I'm not going to worry too much about that
we've got a picture of it it's an award-winning series with a focus on
high power output and low noise level that seems to be what fractal design is
all about in general another key difference with the Newton series is
that we're looking at a single 12vt rail so that's a 60 amp 12vt rail capable of
providing up to about 720 watts of power now I do like to see power supplies that
can provide at or near their entire rated output on the 12volt rail because
systems are so 12vt heavy these days
that that's really the most important one but I mean you got to not everyone's
going to be specking their power supplies out the same way and you got to
accept that so let's get this
open yeah there's nothing really along there okay so opening up the box taking
off the check this out I have a knife today yes success okay we have a users
manual the users manual is in probably six different languages like there other
users manuals including Swedish because that's where the company is based so it
talks about the warranty a little bit gives you the specs introduction to the
company and tells you how to install it great thank you for that next we we have
a couple of velcro cable ties as well as four screws for installing at the back
of the case now these are longer than normal screws and I discovered why that
is yesterday because the fractal design R2 case actually has padding at the back
near the power supply for noise deadening so that's why the screws have
to be a little bit longer to reach through that padding so then we have a
European style power cord which I'm assuming the North American models will
ship with a North American model plug but this is this is just a sample so I'm
guessing that that didn't happen so much do not eat this thank you that is all
piece of foam don't eat that either decorational bag do not eat uh
sorry sorry the joke's old now I know uh let's have a look at the power supply
first and then we'll look at the modular cables that are included with it so it comes in a nice little frackle design
bag that has the string wrapped 352
million times around the power cord so I'll have to detangle that somehow
before I can open it there we go very clean modular interface on this unit I
really like that all of the modular cables look like they are the same and I
can't see if it's labeled right it wouldn't be labeled which rail they're running off of because there is a single
12vt rail so my bad you know what there
there okay fractal designs has figured out some things that it seems to take
other companies way too long to figure out there are two attached cables and
that is it there's a 20 plus 4 pin so a 24 pin ATX connector and then there is a
4 plus4 8 Pin uh P4 connector that's it
you see so many fully modular power supplies that have a 24 pin a four pin
and a separate eight pin how many motherboards take a four pin and an
eight pin very few very few although there are some that do so I'll give them
that okay let's have a look at the overall finish of this unit it's a matte
black it's fairly fingerprint resistant based on my Quick Test here where I
basically put my finger on it and see if it leaves a print at the back we've got
a standard honeycomb sort of of a mesh onoff switch as well as the power plug
receptacle there here we list the specs again which we already had a fairly
close look at but it also says something about warranty void if the seal and
label is broken so be careful of that on the top you've got that it passed all of
its tests that's really good if you don't see those stickers maybe uh maybe
return it and then on the bottom we find 135 mm fan so there you go past warranty
voider removed okay let's have a look at all of the cables that we plug into this
modular interface so they allow us to plug 10 additional cables into this guy
so let's get started here in the first
pouch we have two 6 plus2 pin PCI
Express okay oh no we have three that's
kind of random 3 6 plus two pin okay hopefully there will be another one
later because I can't think of any configuration that would need three
except maybe no not even that okay yeah no I
can't think of anything there it is another 6 plus2 cable there you go so
you can plug in up to four six pin or 8 Pin PCI Express plugs next we have two
Molex actually we've got more you know what I'm just going to take all of these out so that I can talk about them all at
the same time there we go that would be more
efficient right okay so let's get all the Molex ones together here so we have
three Molex plugs that we could potentially use one of them has four
Molex connectors on it one of them has
uh another four Molex connectors on it and another one has two Molex connectors
and one floppy connector okay and then next we have SATA and this seems like a
bit of a deficiency oh no that's not too bad I thought it was only only 2x3 but
it's actually 2x4 so you can plug in eight SATA devices and you can see these
cables are nice and long I mean can you imagine a tower that's actually that
tall to your optical drive at the top very few okay maybe there is one but I I
kind of I kind of doubt it and actually that's another thing I wanted to point
out you can see that the cables for the a pin here is also very long and there's
a reason for that their R2 case actually
has a bottom mounted power supply so they've accounted for you to have to
Route it up behind the motherboard tray and then bring it around to where the normal eight pin or four pin connector
would be on your motherboard thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
Newton 800 W modular power supply