welcome to a twin unboxing they're not really well they're sort of twins
they're like um fraternal twins or paternal twins I think they both mean
the same thing uh where they're non-identical twins so these are two
similar products from inwin from their Commander 2 Series of power supplies so
this is in line with a theme that we've seen quite a bit over the last little
while in the tech industry and that is with boards like the Sabertooth from
ASUS with cases like the um
shoot okay I can't remember for the life of me but this military themed thing
that's going on is
now has now got a power supply to match
so these are available in a variety of capacities the two that we have here
today are the 850 watt and the 1200 watt
they are modular cables Japanese industrial bre capacitors and strict
voltage regulation which is plus or minus 5% although most high-end power
supplies these days have voltage regulation that is well well under plus
or minus 5% however I mean I'm sure they're just saying sort of in in
General within spec 80 plus bronze
certification NVIDIA SLI certification 5year warranties included with both of
these and let's go ahead and flip them over they give us an outline of the
cables they give us an outline of the fans so it has a silent Frozen flow fan
interesting dual primary Japanese capacitors DC to DC design the DC to DC
design is actually very interesting because what that means is you can
provide almost the entire output wattage
of the power supply on the 12vt rail so this one can do that's um yeah maximum
okay that one's a little bit less than what I'm normally accustomed to seeing for a DC todc design and the 1200 watt
is capable of doing over 1,000 Watts over
9,000 from the 12vt rails they have four
12volt rails each maxing out at 40 amps for the 1200 watt and 34 amps for the
850 watt they support active power factor correction okay silent 13 I think
they mean 135 mm fan 13.5 CM I think is
more common in Europe than it is uh in North America where we refer to them all
in military or millimeters here are your protections including over voltage over
current under voltage I can't remember what they all stand for but they're good
you want them let's come up here supports NVIDIA SLI and quad SLI and all
multicore GPU Technologies that's kind of cool because let's see how many
connectors the 850 wat has high efficiency voltage transfer Design
Technology double forward circuit design high efficiency up to 85% yeah it's 80
plus bronze 8 6 plus two pin PCIe connectors
that is awesome especially and this is something honest okay here here bit of a
tangent here guys while I open this up this bugs me about um about almost every
Power Supply out there is they have all this wattage
components are getting more efficient not less efficient every day whether
it's CPUs or graphics cards or whatever
else it's all getting more efficient these days so we see these you know
thousand watt power supplies that for whatever reason only come with 4 PCIe
connectors why they're capable of running 3 gpus just fine so inwin has
gone ahead and included as many PCIe connectors as you could want even on
their 850 W model so I applaud them for that that is a smart move because as
components continue to deliver more
performance per watt and to focus on that and emphasize it I think we're
going to see lesser power supplies capable of powering a greater number of
components with ease so let's go ahead and open up this so they both come with
beefy power cords they both come with some you know pre-attached cables which
some people mind I personally don't as long as it's sensible I had one modular
power supply that had two8 pin and a
four pin pre-attached so unless you're
running like a and this is an 850 W power supply so that that's
inappropriate on the other end of the spectrum cuz I'm looking at it going who
has an 850 WT consumer grade power supply running their like server board
not very many people um I mean hey if you're doing it go ahead leave a comment
on the video let me know I have an 850 wat consumer grade power supply running
my Server Motherboard with dual CPUs and I'll be like oh okay cool by the way get
a new power supply um okay moving on here guys here is
which one is this I can't even keep track they're both oh these look cool
actually check this out so The Branding on them is very military great and it
actually reminds me of something that uh NVIDIA sent me once so this is this is
again the whole military theme that the whole industry like likes this whole
like sprayed on like letters thing so you got your 1200 watt your 850 watt
you've got all of your sort of key talking points supporting PCIe modular 1
13.5 okay efficiency SL and all of that
good stuff so anyway there showed off my NVIDIA military box for the last time
here okay here's the connectors we have with the 1200 watt so we got our 24 pin
20 plus 4 so if you are really still running a 20 pin motherboard then um
good for you and I guess you can continue to do that we have an eight pin
pre-attached and then we have four six
no oh we have an eight pin and a four plus4 pin attached with a 1200 W power
supply I don't mind that as much because you're far more likely to have like dual
eight pins on something like that motherboard for example x79 a ud7 from
Gigabyte you've also got two 6 plus 2 pin PCIe connectors pre-attached again
1200 W power supply if you're not running SLI or Crossfire with two
high-end cards um don't have a 1200 wat
power supply because remember guys the most efficient point for power supply is
in that sort of 40 to 60% load range so
if you're running at like 20% load when your system's like chugging along doing
as much as it can then you're not actually getting the best of efficiency out of it here we go we have another
modular PCIe cable and what's cool about this hey check this out is they've got
one more here and actually another two
more here so yeah so there you go up to eight PCIe 6 plus two pin connectors are
built into this power supply that means you can run up to quad gpus without any
difficulty very very cool stuff okay moving along we've got a four Mo
X another four Mo X these are actually using fairly high quality sleeving check
that out guys those are full colored cables in there but you're having a
pretty hard time seeing through them these look really nice and then they've got they haven't cheaped out on the heat
shrink you see that from time to time where they use like little tiny heat shrink things cuz I don't know heat
shrink's expensive I guess uh so no those look really good and then you've
also got two four times SATA connectors
so that's not quite as many peripheral cable harnesses as I would have liked to
normally see but it's probably as many as most people will use not everyone is
running 8 ssds in their machine Plus an additional cable to run up to their
optical drive so uh the 850 W power supply includes is
exactly the same it's just 850 Watts yeah I love that love that because who
knows you might need four mid-range gpus
maybe you're running a folding Farm maybe you just want a power supply that
has lots of PCIe connectors in terms of modular connections here they are so
there's your two PCIe there's your SATA / peripheral power and I think that
pretty much wraps it up let's take a closer look at the units overall Aesthetics so we've got our honey Co
mesh at the back your onoff switch power plug got your sweet like cool looking
like branding thing ofam jig this is the second in the commander series there was the original Commander now there's
Commander 2 who like outranks Commander one and
like can order him around and stuff there's that which you've probably
already kind of seen this is that patented modular power supply thing that
Ultra has so they make you put this like Gody sticker on your power supply if you
uh if you properly uh license the technology and then there is the 135 mm fan on the
bottom so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the inwin
Commander 2 Series of power supplies and don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
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