Silence junkies rejoice. This is the C
Sonic 80 Plus platinum fanless,
guys. Fanless 520 W power supply. Very, very cool
stuff. So, we're going to go ahead and get this pretty much sort of opened up
quick fast here with all the accessories and cool stuff while I explain how the
heck CIC managed to produce a power
supply that even four or 5 years ago
would have been as high-end as it gets in terms of the wattage that it outputs.
Not only that, but oh, actually, I need this for a little bit longer. but crank
up the efficiency to the point where the thing doesn't even need a fan. And they
are confident providing a 7-year warranty to people to use this thing
with no freaking fan for 7 years and
actually have a chance of that happening. Well, not just chance. I'm
sure if they're putting a 7-year warranty on it, their actual meantime
between failure is going to be significantly longer than that cuz that's generally how that works. All
right. So, accessory-wise, we've got some screws for mounting. We've got some
zip ties for cable management. We've got some Velcro ties for cable management. A
powered by CIC sticker. Look at that. It's fully modular, too. Owner's manual.
This power supply is designed for to be responsible for its own cooling and
functionality only. So, guys, think about it this way. So, sometimes when
you have a power supply and it's got a fan on the top of it and you have like a
passive graphics card near it, you can rely on some of that incidental air flow
to cool your graphics card. This power supply doesn't contribute to the rest of
your systems cooling in any way. So, you got to make sure that if you're building
a silent system, you're doing it responsibly and there's enough overall
system air flow that none of the components are just going to burn out.
That's basically what they're trying to say here. Next, we've got our commitment
to superior quality with their 24-hour service and their call out for the
7-year warranty as well as sort of where to find your serial number and all that good stuff. So, the PSU itself install
with the ventilation top cover facing up. This is common sense, but it's a
good thing they say so because someone was going to install it like this and
they were going to have the heat not actually be able to rise anywhere. So,
the way this is designed is for natural convection to take place. So, a little
bit of air will come in here and will waft out the top of the power supply and
that is how it is intended to be cooled. So, we're actually going to take this
off so you can actually see there's nice tall heat sinks in there. See those ones
right by the side that are near that intake that I showed you on the side?
That's how it's supposed to work. It is designed for that. If you run this in a
configuration other than what they're recommending, like if you were to run it
on its side, I'm sure CIC would kind of give you the please don't do that. Uh
because that might explode things sort of speech. So, make sure you run it this
way. On the back, you find your standard honeycomb ventilation. In fact, this
whole power supply is basically honeycomb ventilation. See that? More
there, more there. There's the fully modular power supply. So, let's go
ahead. All right, power supply the fully modular interface. So, let's go ahead
and have a look at what we've got included in terms of cables. It looks like they give you a lot of options
because we have a big cable pack considering that this is a 520 W power
supply. Here we go. So, we've got this
is a dual Molex here. I'm going to put them over there. Here's a Molex to
floppy adapter just in case you need one of those. There's a triple Molex
harness. There's a quad SATA harness and a dual SATA harness. That's actually a
pretty good mix. And then I suspect in the other one we're going to find things
like 24 pin PCIe and 8 pin which happens
to be exactly what we're going to find
there. So there you go. There's your 24 pin. Beautifully sleeved all black
cables. Love to see that. Uh and then there is an 8 pin. That's a breakaway 4
plus4. Look at that. A ribbon cable 8 pin. Gorgeous. I don't know if I've seen
that before. Uh and then finally two ribbon cable power supply uh 6 plus2s.
So the only one that's actually sleeved here is the 24 pin. And even that one
uses gorgeous sle and uh all black
cables. So this will look extremely clean in your case no matter what you
install. Now they actually include more options here than you actually can can
fully utilize, I think. Oh, wait. No, no, they don't. You can plug in all of the modular cables. Hold on. two SATA,
three Molex, two Molex. Yeah. Yeah. They all go in. But they've got an extra one
for CPU PCIe. So, it's possible if you contacted CSIC and asked them for, you
know, you had a board that has two eight pins or something like that or you had a
single video card that has three six or three eight pins, they might be able to
send you another one. So, this is for your 24, there's your 8, there's your
auxiliary, and there's your PCI Express.
Uh, let's see if we missed anything. So, oh, right. My suspicion for how they did
this, right? Because I don't know if you guys know this, but CIC has a 1000 watt
unit that doesn't even turn on the fan until 50%. So, if you do sort of the
rough mental math, that's about 500
watts. So, I suspect when you buy this, the price is going to be pretty high.
And what you're actually getting is probably a much much beefier power
supply that is just sort of scaled down so that they can run it without a fan.
However, the advantage of buying this versus just buying the thousand watt is
that this one is going to get the proper efficiency at the kind of system loads
that you're going to be using it with. So, when you run a 1000 watt power supply at, you know, 200 watts under
load with your system because you have a power silence optimized system, you're
actually getting like the worst possible efficiency on that curve, which they
conveniently do not have on this box. but on the efficiency curve which
basically goes not very efficient very very very efficient and then kind of tails down like that. Um so you're
better off to run a lower wattage power supply if you're not going to use the full capacity of it. Patented DC
connector panel with integrated voltage regulation. So basically what they're trying to say here it was 105° Celsius
Japanese cap solid cap 7 your everything is just sort of the bomb. I love CIC
power supplies. Uh if people ask me sort of what's a good power supply to buy a
very safe answer is CIC. Good stuff. Don't forget to subscribe to Lis Tech
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