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today we will be doing an upside down unboxing of the fsp AUM series gold 400

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power supply so personally I'm a big fan

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of Highly efficient reasonable wattage power supplies and the reason for that

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is actually outlined in a recent edition of NC Tech tips that I did and uh you

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you should check that out it's called power supply y power consumption system

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power consumption or something like that and um what we basically do is we take a

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system we upgrade it from a very very basic configuration all the way through

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all the steps up to a very high-end machine and then we discover as we go

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along how much power it consumes so what we found out was we plugged in a 1200

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watt 80 plus gold power supply and power consumption sucked the efficiency was no

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good because we were consuming so little power from it whereas if we'd taken a

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400 watt 80 plus gold power supply we

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would have actually consumed less power as a whole so it's got kind of a neat

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finish on it it's got a 5-year warranty it's recommended for gaming and

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workstation remember you can power a decent gaming machine off a 400 wat

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power supply here's the overall specs which we'll see as we open up the unit

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itself fsp Maya IC multiple intelligence

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ability chipset okay uh what else have we got here constant holdup control

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performs continuous adjustments according to the output load in order to

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achieve the best possible efficiency so this is all about efficiency as I

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mentioned before it is 80 plus gold let's just go ahead and start opening up

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the unit itself so the first thing we find inside is a quick start guide which

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pretty much tells you not a whole

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lot English is the fourth language in

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here if I can even find it shows you the connectors and whatnot we've also got

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four black thumb screws nice little touch an FSB case badge as well as uh

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three velcro cable ties power cable is

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included and then the power supply

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itself uh wrapped in my favorite kind of foam so the Clos cell foam that is

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really very very durable and you can see

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right here this is a 400 W power supply so it doesn't have a whole lot of cables

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attached but let's look at the unit itself first so it's got a goldish

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blackish darkish this is a really neat powder coat finish this is actually very

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similar to the finish that I have on my tj07 case my personal case I had it done

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by Mountain mods it's they call it black wrinkle it's very durable completely

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fingerprint proof almost scratch proof and looks outstanding it's like a matte

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black but it has a little bit of shine to it almost like it has brush Strokes

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in it like it was painted piece of plastic in there we've got a 120 mm

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cooling fan covered by a grill it's covered by a little piece of plastic

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here that'll protect that go ahead and remove that there you go now you can see the full shininess at the back we have

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kind of an arrow design to The Back Grill that looks like it should provide

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pretty unrestricted air flow through the back of the power supply uh Power input

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power switch on both sides of the unit we

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find oh hold on what's that oh that

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comes off okay we find fsp branding as

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well as that nice uh black wrinkle finish on the top we find the overall

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specs of the unit so let's have a look here you can see it does have dual 12vt

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rails that are together capable of providing up to 384 watts of power so

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that is almost the full 400 wat capacity of this power

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supply and then we move around to the other side of the unit where we find

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more fsp branding you can see what they've done is if your Windows on the

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normal side of your case no matter oh no okay it will be upside down if you go

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this way so the fsp will be right side up if you install it this way around

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we've got a few more of those ventilation arrows here on the front of the unit and now let's have a look at

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the sleeving as well as the cables that come preattached to the r from 400 wat

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so here we are we have our 20 plus 4 pin power connector you can see that uses a

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a pretty decent quality sleeving on it so you can't really see the color of the

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wires too much through that okay next we have our 4 plus 4 pin EPS power

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connector so this is quite a long cable which is good because if you have a

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bottom mounted power supply you're going to want to be able to reach the top left corner of the motherboard where that's

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usually situated here we have a 6 plus2

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so 8 Pin PCIe power adapter I would have liked to see an additional one of these

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but you can always use adapters so we do have three Molex connectors and one

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floppy connector so you could use a couple of those to get another PCIe 6

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pin out of it remember this will power a decent machine right guys so even with

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like a GTX 560 you'll have no problem using a 400 wat power supply and then

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finally four SATA power connectors so

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all of those are sleeved and then terminated individually so it looks

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quite nice so let's just see if there's anything else we missed here before we

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wrap it Up acoustic noise they're claiming it's whoops they're claiming

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it's quite quiet even up to 100% load most power supplies you see on their

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noise charts they usually kind of ramp up like this near 100% load this one

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does not and in terms of efficiency because it is 80 plus gold it is peaking

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up at around 90% efficiency so thank you

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