okay so today i'm going to be having a look at another fractal designs product
this is the tesla 650 watt power supply
um are you going to be able to read this from here the cameraman is standing really far away from me due to the
lighting situation in this room so sorry about that it's a high efficiency 80
plus certified silent which means virtually inaudible 120 millimeter fan
okay so why don't we go around to the side it comes with a five year warranty
it has four 12 volt rails each up to 20 amps of power active power factor
correction it has over current and over voltage and over power protection
supports atx atx 12 volt b2.2 okay as well as the
older standards full range universal inputs okay extra long cables to support
full tower cases that makes sense because their case
uses a bottom mounted power supply design so if they built a power supply
that doesn't work very well in their case that would be stupid extra long
cables yeah okay ultra quiet 120 millimeter fan multi-language manual
five-year warranty okay so why don't we go ahead and get this open the tesla
series is based on the award-winning newton r2 power supply but with fixed
cables instead of modular so the tesla combines a higher power output with low
noise level by using premium quality power supply components can provide a
user with powerful outputs while the fan is still running at low speeds okay so
practical designs is based out of sweden i believe there's mention of that
somewhere here all right so why don't we get this box open it comes in a matte
black box and it feels kind of kind of flimsy but i guess it's not really going
to matter because most of the time the box is not going to
be subject to too much stress for a power supply all right so
the first thing we find inside is the user's manual which as they mentioned
comes in a bunch of different languages including english french
i can't remember if that means dutch or german i think it means german actually
cameraman i think is wrong but italian spanish and swedish
all right thank you for buying list some basic specs okay that's nice oh i always
like to see these little nice touches included so it has some little velcro
cable management ties very nice four screws for mounting the power supply
then you've got a oh wow that's uh interesting so i'm guessing the north
american version of this this is a sample we'll have a north american plug
okay but you'll have to find your own power connector for now piece of foam
some silica gel don't eat that it's bad for you
says right on it throw away do not eat
i love that that warning never gets old it's like everything inedible with every
product should come with a warning do not eat like if you buy your car your
car manual should come with like do not eat warning
it's like because there's a big risk that people will eat
anything um okay so let's have a look at the unit itself basic specs are here so
you've got up to 600 watts of the 650 total watts
for this power supply are available on the 12 volt rail now it looks like
they've over specced it a little bit because oh no no okay so that's all over
here so it's 650 watts total but they're cheating a little bit they're including
the minus 12 volt rail and the plus 5 volt rail as well those are not really
very relevant these days many high high quality power supplies can provide their
total maximum output on the 12 volt rails okay so there you've had enough
time to look at that the warranty void if seal label is broken is present on
here it's got a matte black finish okay so it sounds reasonably fingerprint
resistant that's always nice to see because you are going to have to touch it to install it in your case all right
at the back you've got your standard kind of honeycomb
air ventilation holes then you've got a power switch
power in and then here we find a 120 millimeter
fan this fits in with their usual color scheme which is black and white looks
very very sharp oh that's weird they've got little plugs
on the fan to make it so you can't remove it interesting okay so in terms
of connectors let's have a look at what we got first things first we've got a 20
plus 4 pin power connector that uses a breakaway style cable very nice it's
white it's nice to see somebody shaking this up everybody uses black
why doesn't someone use white you might ask well now they do okay then we've got
an eight pin power connector and as they
mentioned this is an adequate length to install in a full tower chassis even
with a bottom mounted power supply that's really nice to see
okay then we've got two pci express six plus two connectors
okay just like that these use a breakaway style and they're very clearly
labeled i like the labels on their connectors actually that's very nice
okay and then delving further into the recesses of
this power supply so to speak we have
two molex cables one of which features two molex and one floppy and one of
which features three molex connectors all right since molex is becoming so
much less relevant these days i don't mind seeing them cut down a little bit
on that and then for SATA we have two
cables each featuring three SATA connectors oh and this is interesting i
have never seen this before the two SATA cables are actually completely different
lengths look at that so they've accounted for the fact that one of them
is going to have to go further than the other because whether you're using a
bottom mount what are you doing whether you're using a bottom mounted power
supply or a top mounted power supply you're either going to need one to go further up to the optical drives or
further down to the hard drives and they've they've accounted for that look at that okay well thank you for checking
out my unboxing of the tesla 650 watt power supply from fractal design