welcome to my unboxing and first look at the seasonic g series modular power
supply this is an 80 plus gold but still value oriented power supply line from
sea sonic so their g series has well the
usual things you've come to expect from seasonic of course efficiency is a huge
one build quality as well as a very very
silent mode of operation so let's get it opened up and then we'll go over those
things in a little bit more detail the first thing inside is the user's manual
which is available in a variety of language including english deutsche
francais and each page is like or each each
language is like one page so yeah we're not going to spend too much time on that
next we've got some accessories this is so actually this is a pretty generous
number of cable ties to include like to see that
so there you go you got some black cable ties to manage the cables in your system
that you're probably building if you bought a power supply a little powered by sea sonic sticker some thumb screw or
rather some mounting screws and three
velcro cable ties that are reusable soft
foam of course although very thin soft foam i might add
modular cables so this is a semi-modular power supply
which means that the connectors that everyone needs every time they build a
system are hardwired whereas the connectors
that not everyone needs not every time they build a system are not
connected by default okay so there's the power supply itself
now let's go through some of the things that csonic wants us to know about this
particular series of power supplies so dc to dc converter design that gives you
almost full access to the output power of the power supply unit on the 12 volt
rail because what a dc to dc design is doing is it's actually taking the 12
volt rail and down converting it to other voltages so almost the entire bulk
of the power supply is all about converting 120 volt to 240 volt ac
to 12 volt dc tight voltage regulation
plus or minus 3 this is well within specifications for an atx power supply
smart and silent fan control good good good we've come to expect that from sea
sonic they remember guys see sonic was the one to pioneer that feature on the
back of the power supply where you can turn the fan off outright up to fifty
percent load on their eighty plus platinum thousand watt unit
unfortunately that feature is not available on this one but it goes to show you how serious they are about
silence high reliability 105 degree
aluminum electrolytic capacitors and for those of you who criticize my
pronunciation of aluminum yes i know aluminium is also correct but it should
be noted check the spelling guys there's no
second eye aluminum is also correct although most
prevalent in the us and canada okay detachable modular cables yup high
current gold-plated terminals this is kind of a new thing haven't seen much of
that yet 12 centimeter ball bearing cooling fan double ball bearing okay
ultra ventilation honeycomb structure multi GPU technology is supported
universal ac input and a five year warranty wow that's actually very
aggressive given that this isn't one of their super duper premium you know full
modular you turn off your fan up to 50 kind of products
really like the sleeving they've included these are extremely flexible
cables compared to uh ones that i've seen in the past
and they have this see i love to see this they have
not hardwired anything that they didn't have to so you've got a four plus four
which everyone needs and a 24 pin which everyone needs some guys hardwire an
additional you know SATA thing or like a couple PCIe connectors not everyone has
an aftermarket GPU or like an off board or a dedicated graphics card not
everyone needs that everyone needs these too love to see that they've also given
you a pretty good selection it looks like of modular cables here so we're
going to go ahead and check these out
something to note guys if you don't already know this is seasonic is an
actual manufacturer most of the power supplies you buy are manufactured by
someone other than the label on the front of the box seasonic actually
designs manufactures packages then supports the
seasonic branded power supplies that you're buying from them so just kind of
think about that if you're ever curious who's an actual manufacturer you can
always google it online but i can tell you right now that most of the top
brands that you're familiar with do not make power supplies many of them design
them and they help you know specify they help with the specifications and what
they want to see but in terms of actual manufacturers with actual retail
presence sea sonic is one of the only ones
so modular cables included love flat
ribbon modular cables and they're all in black and the sleeving is black and it's
not very see-through so it's going to look good in your system no matter what
you've got two six plus two pin PCIe connectors this is a 550 watt power
supply so it's probably most suitable for a single GPU system anyway if you're
using a high-end graphics card so that is the perfect number of connectors
those ones go right here then you have four more modular connectors and those
ones can be used for a dual molex harness nice short one so if you're
plugging in just a water cooling pump or like one thing this will be perfect for
that a triple molex and then you can use an adapter if you really need a floppy
connector still so that's great if you're going
somewhere sort of a little bit further away you can see that's a significantly longer cable it's about one minus ARM
length okay then you've got a double SATA so this
will be perfect for running to a hard drive cage or a couple ssds or something
nearby and finally a quad SATA harness
as well so this will be perfect if you need to run sort of one two kind of a a
hard drive here and then you need one to go up to an optical drive or something like that so they've given you a good
variety of connectors the power supply itself has a pretty standard matte black
paint finish looks pretty oh wow actually that's
pretty good yeah it's powder coated so there's not really a whole lot to go wrong all your
safety certifications and all that stuff that we pretty much take for granted at
this point but bear in mind guys it actually does cost a lot of money to
bring a power supply to market we've got to go through a whole slew of tests
honeycomb here on off switch here power in here
oh look at that the labels are oriented correctly so that in a standard case
whether it's top mounted bottom mounted flip like this flip like this all of the
text will be correctly oriented and finally a honeycomb mesh here to go with
the 120 millimeter fan that takes care of cooling for your power supply thank
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