welcome to my unboxing of something that
at this time is pretty difficult to get in North America this is a be quiet! no
that's not how you say this is a be quiet! dark Power Pro 10 high-end see
they helpfully call that out for you high-end power supply this is an 80 plus
Platinum power supply this is what they consider to be a no compromises product
so that means even everything down to spending more on the fan that's cooling
it they are using their own here they go
very well reged silent Wing fan see right there
you can see they're using a custom fan they're using a custom enclosure they're
using custom pretty much everything because again no compromises so the
highest efficiency the a fully modular
inter interface let's just I mean we'll get it open but no compromise silence
and performance so using virtually in audible silent Wings fan world class
efficiency up to 94% top performance overclocking key for multi or single
rail use that's cool actually so you can actually switch Professional Cable
Management 5year warranty let's go ahead and have a look at what else they have
to say for themselves here so 80 plus Platinum versus 80 plus I guess those
graphs look more impressive if your graph starts at 75% but trust me it does
make a difference dark Power Pro certification allows you to save up to
34 in electricity versus a standard 80 plus per year perom that's sort of a
more European so this is a European brand actually that's something you guys
should be aware of this is a German brand and you know there's there's my
card to give you some idea what I think of German Brands
um it is a little different and you know
what it's not it's not racism it's not like you
know it it's just different I I mean
it's it's the kinds of details that matter to German versus the kinds of
details that matter to for example the Japanese like Japanese why they're known
for their capacitors whereas that car for example is just it feels really
solid it's kind of heavy it doesn't perform that great it's a rabbit by the
way in case you guys can't tell but little things like when you close the
doors like it just it feels like really
solid the car actually has a uh um a
completely welded frame so there aren't any seams there are no bolts in terms of
the of the outer shell of the car which is which is kind of neat so anyway okay
so the car is not related to the power supply other than the fact that they are
both designed in Germany and I have a
bit of a of a sort of German engineered bias let's just put it that way speaking
of engineering be quiet! is not a rebrander so if they I mean power
supplies it's no secret that every power supply is made in Asia somewhere so no
it's not manufactured in Germany I'm sorry however be quiet! unle like many
other companies out there is not simply taking a design that someone else worked
on and rebranding it so what they're doing is they are designing the power
supply they are designing the specification if somehow you know
someone can produce something where they've already got a kitted thing that's ready to go that meets their spec
then that's one thing but otherwise they are actually having it fully built from
the ground up according to their own spec so what that means is little things
like if you guys have paid any attention to my videos over the years you'll I
hate coil wine be quiet! does not accept coil wine they don't accept electrical
noise because the worst thing in the world is a great power supply with a
quiet fan that goes when it's underload because there's
some coil somewhere or some component inside that's making electrical noise
totally unacceptable so we're going to fire this guy up just to make sure that what I'm saying is accurate but from
what I understand about this brand about what they're about is that they would
not accept that in any way shape or form
so let's go ahead and have a look at the English so multi CPU based okay
virtually in audible thanks to the silent Wings fan long lifeband up to
300,000 hours thanks to a fluid Dynamic bearing with copper core an individually
balanced fan wheel yes their fans are serious business guys very well regarded
worldwide like right up there with the no tuas of the world so bear that in
mind you are getting a good fan with your power supply and you don't have to
you know do a dangerous fan swap in your PSU in order to make it happen so yeah
the OC key for either multirail or single Rail and actually here we can
have a look so if you decide to go multi- rail it'll be four rails and if
you decide to go single rail then it'll be a single 70 amp rail capable of
providing almost the entire maximum output of the power supply on the single
rail J Le efficient straight forward
optimal cooling system and okay let's go
ahead and actually that's really cool check this out has direct connectors for
up to four fans so the fan control can actually be done by your power supply
which is like the smartest thing ever because I would trust these guys to
manage my fans correctly versus a lot of the tools that I've seen built into
motherboards and other things like that I mean personally I'm using a te
balancer so it's a non-factor for me but not everyone has that luxury pretty
decent sleeving not the best I've seen it's certainly not the worst I've seen
you can see it's uh even though they're using fully colored cables underneath it
is looks pretty good even when you bend it like that okay and this is kind of
neat got like a rubberized like thing going on here for where the 24 pin comes
out of the power supply so it's not fully modular but it is almost fully
modular and since every system needs a
24 pin um and someone's going to be a
smartass and sort of uh make some comment about a system that wouldn't
need a 24 pin but you're wrong they all need 24 pins if they're real systems uh
these are the fan connectors so you can this is kind of neat because even Molex
fans can now be managed by your power supply or you can plug in a three pin
very good stuff okay so it comes with four of those would have liked to see
those black but not the end of the world they're fairly easy to sleeve for what
it's worth because they've got these nice small connectors on the
ends this is cool so this is the uh the OC key
evidently so you go ahead you plug that in there you can actually you can
actually change it no way I thought it was something where
it's like you know you set up your system you like put it in or don't put
it in but oh wait no no no hold on yeah no you can okay so you can either just
jump it per look at all these options this is hilarious so you can either jump
for it permanently or you can go well I might want to switch between multi rail
or single rail sometime in the future and you can include this just like that
okay uh you can tell this is a sample unit from Europe because this won't be
useful to me but okay there you go comes with the manual so it's available in a
variet of different wattages 8 51,200 for the dark Power Pro 10 Deutch English
safety instructions stuff like that and this is very nice I love matte black
boxes with silver writing that's just the best thing
ever these look very nice too actually these feel good you can often tell are
they using high quality wires inside or
are they not just by taking the cables and feeling them again actually this
might be better sleeving than what's on here uh no it's the same okay maybe I
just sort of maybe I was judging this too harshly cuz the sleeving looks and
feels really good very flexible um very
difficult to see even no matter what I do to it you can't really see through it
very well very nice cable sleeving and lots of included module cables let's see
what we got going on in here okay give me a sec you know what I'll just plug
things in and then we'll have a look now this is actually one of the most
flexible and smartest modular cable uh
packages that I've ever seen um yeah I'm
not going to not going to mince words about it because this is outstanding so
a couple things okay number one yes 850 W power supply so why would you need six
PCIe 8pin connectors I will tell you why you need that because it's not
necessarily for a triple GPU setup it could be for a dual GPU setup where for
example you know not that cards like this
exist a single card might have three PCIe connectors on it then they give you
an additional single PCI E6 pin that can
also plug in which you know not that not that these exist but you know I heard
that there was a rumor that there might be like motherboards coming in the
future that have an auxiliary six pin PCIe connector so you see these
configurations on the motherboards and on the video cards and you kind of go
what power supply is actually designed to run a couple of lightnings in SLI
with a six pin auxiliary connector plugged into the board this is the only power supply I've ever seen where you
won't have to do something goofy like plug in sort of too many connectors or
two few connectors depending on your config very smart the way they've done
the PCIe so there you go and each harness uh gives you two 6 Plus tws okay
moving right along so the 24 pin goes over there ah yes the CPU connector so
you can see the modular cable includes a 4 plus4 or an 8 Pin and they're both
attached and I've seen this a lot of times where modular power supplies will
not really give you any flexibility like uh for example the cougar
sx850 the modular or not modular I don't remember whatever the cable for the CPU
power connector has like two eight pins and a four pin on one harness I'm
looking at this going are you kidding me how many boards need that well be quiet!
thought of that so they include that one or they include a single eight pin or
they include a single four pin totally up to you what you want to plug into
that slot since you can configure figed as a single rail power supply anyway it
doesn't matter if you're doing two connectors off one port or one connector
off one port or whatever else the case may be now again
like cardinal sin number one on power supplies is making a modular interface
with five plugs and including five cables that are just you know like
there's two Molex harnesses and then like three SATA harness and you're like
okay so I plugged them all in now it's not modular anymore because everything
you plugged in is everything that you could possibly need and you get like and
every harness looks like this now you might have a system that needs you know
two satas and then a couple moxes and then a floppy or you might not so
they've included a lot of smart harnesses this one for example I only
have a single MOX connector that I need in my system on the back oh actually no
I have two now well at any rate uh I used to only have a single one and I
could just use two of these see two uh so I have two that I need one plugs into
the back of my Zonar zense sound card and the other one plugs into my mCP 655
pump that's it so why do I have to attach a huge harness with four
connectors when I have a modular power supply why aren't they including options
that I care about so you got two single MOX ones you've also got this one a
single SATA one you've got a multi-a one so this guy has what three SATA
connectors this guy's got three SATA connectors you've got a three Mo X1
you've got a two mole x one and a floppy you got that one I showed you before
with the couple satas and a few Molex and two moxes and a floppy so you've
actually got flexibility you've actually got options in terms of what you're
plugging into your modular interface now we haven't taken a close look at the
overall fit and finish of the power supply yet and that is again where the
whole you know German engineering etc etc thing that Volkswagen would have you
believe uh really starts to come in so everything looks really good you know
you got your silver and your 80 plus platinum and your warranty void okay
that doesn't look very good but other than that um this is unique haven't seen
anything like this before so it's got a fan grill that you know you not it's not
going to be a problem you're not going to be able to accidentally like touch the fan but I guess if you wanted to
touch the fan you could looks very slick anyway that's for sure especially with
that fan spinning in there that looks great oh
yeah they've got everything oriented correctly so as long as you've got a
sort of 99.9% of cases out there that mount the power that have the window on
this side uh the text will be right side up no matter what you do and ah this is
smart too that warranty void if removed is on the side where you're less likely
to have it facing because this on most
cases these days will draw air in right from the bottom of the case through a filter and you will see just this looks
good check this out as well see this
rubber noise dampening so that will keep
vibrations from passing from the power supply to the case just another you know
nice little touch that I haven't seen before and uh makes sets this a little
bit apart from the competition that does not include noise isolators on their
power supplies so whether you're case includes it or not you will have a noise
dampened vibration isolating power supply no matter
what cuz the Germans have deemed it to be lustly uh so thank you for checking
out my unboxing and terrible German accent I'm just never going to do that
again of the dark Power Pro 10 from be
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos and we missed something check
this out so they actually include Cable
Management velcros which is not unique
at all uh lots of guys include these however normally when you see these
included they include like two or three
be quiet! has included a whack of them I
mean we could count them if we wanted 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 of them which is actually
enough to help cable manage your system because it's one thing when they're just
making a gesture of you know oh yeah we included Cable Management uh Pros but
it's another thing when they actually include enough that you can actually cable manage your whole system with them
very cool stuff also some zip ties okay
just a few of those and this is what I'm actually excited
about oh yes sexy thumb screws I mean it does not
get any better than that that is your power supply mounting screw that is
beastly way to go be
quiet