OCZ Fatal1ty 1000W Individually Sleeved Modular Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of a legitimately very high-end product with the Jonathan
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fatality wendle branding so we've seen our fair share of fatality products that
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the positioning is like yeah they're pretty good but they're a little bit
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expensive for what they deliver or they don't do anything particularly
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differently from their competitor such as you know remember the old Al fatality
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heat sinks where the fatality one had a red LED instead of a blue LED and it
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cost significantly more well this fatality product is a legitimately
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awesome product of its own right and it just happens to have the Jonathan
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fatality branding which I mean doesn't actually look that bad because this is
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like a cool logo and red as long as it goes with your color scheme is pretty
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good it wouldn't fit with my system cuz I'm going for a blue and black color
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scheme but if you have a red color scheme or no color scheme at all then
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this should work Prett pretty well say for example if you have a republic of Gamers motherboard actually before we
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open it up let's get into what exactly is going on with this product so one is
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it is a 1,000 wat power supply it is modular although not fully modular so
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I'll show you what that means once we open it up it has a 5year ocz power swap
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warranty which basically means it has a 5year warranty it's 80 plus gold and
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according to um oh here here's an aside
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so if you guys want to know the absolute Goods as far as power supply performance
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goes maybe not subject to ity maybe not you know the look or whatever else but
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that's less important when it comes to power supplies check out Johnny guru.com
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they do the best power supply reviews by far according to them the performance of
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this unit is outstanding and it does meet the 80 plus gold certification so a
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lot of the times in fact huh a funny story um I don't I'm not going to name
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any names but one company submitted a power supply I believe this was back
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when 80 plus silver was like the sexy certification they submitted it to the
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ad0 plus organization with shorter
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cables than the actual retail unit had
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and that little bit of extra a little bit of extra resistance in the longer
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cables was enough to knock it out of 80 plus silver but they got the
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certification even though the unit they delivered to Market wasn't actually 80
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plus silver so this one is actually 80 plus cool what else we got here
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continuous output rated at a demanding 50 c ambient temperature but with 100%
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Japanese low Sr on 105° Centigrade
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capacitors single 12vt rail which means that you can easily plug things wherever
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which way you want without worrying about any over uh overcurrent
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protections compliant with the latest ATX standard large temperature controll
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load temperature and load controlled 140 mm double ball bearing fan with a red
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LED 80 plus gold okay active power
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factor correction it better have it if it's a highend power supply these days heavy duty protection circuitry okay GE
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okay fiveyear Power extremely cool and quiet yeah let's go ahead and open this
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up I'm actually really excited about this product because it is the first to
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Market with with individually sleeved cables out of the box so yeah it's a
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little over 200 bucks so it's not cheap this is not a cheap power supply but it
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is a 1,00 wat power supply it is 80 plus gold it is modular and it has
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individually sleeve cables now individually sleeve cables whether you
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believe that is a selling point or a disadvantage is up to you personally I
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believe it's a selling point I think it looks slick I think that as far as a
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value proposition goes when you compare this power supply to one that doesn't
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have individually sleeve cables but maybe has a kit available like with
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Corsair or if you use those um here let
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me see if I can find one I should have o sorry uh I should have one lying
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around with ah yes there we go or if you buy these extension cables in order to
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um you know hide the not individually sleeve part of your cable and then you
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know wrap this around where you actually see it that is going to add up pretty
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quickly in terms of the cost of your power supply so you would be better off
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to buy the one that already comes with it and presents a good value
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by doing so now the disadvantage of individually sleeve cables is they do
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make the cables quite a bit bulkier so these are here here we go so this is
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what individually sleeve cables look they're actually using a very reasonable quality sleeving on here I'd say the
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heat shrink might be a touch on the long side but it's not the end of the world
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here's what but here's what they look like so you have to decide whether that
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aesthetic is for you sorry when that's plugged in then it actually won't move
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at all and uh you can you can you'll have you'll want to cut these off and
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then get things arranged really nice nice get them running really flat behind your motherboard so they do make them
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bulkier but I believe where you see them they actually look a lot sharper
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especially in places like graphics cards where you can run the individually
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sleeve cables you know they plug into your graphics card like this and then you have them you know wrapped out like
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that it's better than seeing any color you don't want to see any color to the cables and these uh these definitely
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prevent that from happening another cool thing about the individually sleeve cables is if you're running one that
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takes an eight and a six pin you go ahead you uh just clip this off take
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these two run them somewhere else in entirely and you don't have to have that extra two cables or that extra two pins
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just kind of randomly hanging off of your uh video card comes with a beefy
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power cable comes with a few black zip ties as
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well as uh four black screws for installing your power supply I did not
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mention the instruction manual but there you go it also comes in a little
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fatality wendle plastic and you know
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paper bag um and comes with modular
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cables so right this is a semi modular powerst Supply not fully modular which
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means that it has some cables preattached and some that come in a
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baggie and look like this so let's go through the pre-attached ones first the
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pre-attached ones are your 24 pin cable
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which looks like this next you've got a
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4 plus4 so that is an 8 pin connector for your motherboard next you have two
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PCIe 6 plus 2 pins so you have
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everything you need if basically if you are buying a 1,000 W power supply and
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you are not using using at least these four cables you're probably doing it
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wrong so I have no problem with them attaching these cables although you see
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some semi modular power supplies as I like to call them that have like a bunch
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of weird stuff attached like I have one semi modular power supply that has two
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eight pins and a four pin CPU connector
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all permanently attached to the power supply is ridiculous I mean what what
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kind of system are you installing an 850 W power supply in that needs three CPU
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connectors cuz you're using a Server Motherboard so so stuff like that I
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would like to see it be fully modular rather than pre-attached to the power
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supply now let's have a look at what we have in terms of modular cables so let's
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find all of our SATA got that one there we got uh hold
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on we got some MOX we got some
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PCI got some more PCI we got another
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eight pin CPU and then we have a couple of Molex to Floppy uh adapter
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doodads oh even those look sharp look at that looks fantastic
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I love it not everyone does but I do so let's have a look at our SATA
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cable these again individually sleeved they look Fantasmic so they got four
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connectors on each of our three cables
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let's just make sure they both they all have four yes they do yes they do you
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can see how sharp these look very nicely
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terminated in there you can see they've actually put the heat shrink on um from
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what I can tell purely for decoration because these SATA connectors uh bite
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right in into the wire so they probably just are running a single continuous
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piece of sleeve all the way down the uh the individual wire here and then just
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uh just putting these on for looks cuz you can see the sleeving actually runs
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right uh right through which makes them
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very very very sharp looking and that is the reason why someone might want to buy
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an individually sleeved power supply so the next one we've got here is our uh
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eight pin CPU connector so we've got another one of these so this guy will
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plug in right about
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here okay that matches the other one so if you did happen to have a power supply
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that needs a couple of eight pin connectors you would be covered and the
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power supply does have enough excuse me oh those are kind of
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tight there we go does have enough modular connectors for up to okay
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remember we got two 6 plus2 PCIe four
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more 6 plus2 PCI for up to three-way um
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three-way SLI or Crossfire then we have another one for the four pin CPU as well
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as the pre-attached one so or eight pin CPU so preattached one we can have up to
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two of those and then up to five peripheral connectors so that is the
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SATA ones as well as the uh Molex on so MOX wise we
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have two of those each with four four
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pin peripheral connectors once again these are terminated very very cleanly
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you can see they're actually using black wires as well so that's why you can't see any color whatsoever through the
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cables and finally let's have a look at the PC C Express cables that are
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included so length on these looks pretty good you can see that they've they've
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put these little uh these little zip ties on all of them just to help you I
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guess to help you route them the first time around personally I just take them all off and then just do as clean a job
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as I can of of routing the cables they look really really sharp when you get
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them sort of tucked away just right um
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so that you get a nice bundle coming out of whatever component that they have to
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happen to be plugged into looks really really really nice so we've got four of
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the as well so you can plug in all of the modular cables that come with the power
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supply but you don't have to cuz it's modular so let's have a look at the
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aesthetic of the unit so there you got your silhouette of uh Jonathan Wendell I
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think that picture was taken like eight years ago but he still looks pretty similar I ran into him at CES last year
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th000 wat power supply ocz technology all pretty standard Fair got a little
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fatality logo going on here as well as 140 mm red LED lit fan you can see huh
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nice touch actually hey check that out even the PCB inside is red can you see
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that down at the bottom red PCB down at the
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bottom yeah there you go okay there we go uh you can see correctly oriented
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they also have the uh fatality logo over here so you can see if I turn around
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this way it's upside down that means that whether your case mounts the power
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supply on the top or the bottom your
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logo will be correct side up very nice
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uh finally we got yet another sort of fatality looking logo here there's the
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closeup of the modular interface and then at the back we're going to find
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things look pretty standard with a honeycomb Grill as well as a nice big on
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andof switch and our power in overall
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spec of the unit you can see it can deliver up to 996 watts of its total 1,000 watts of
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continuous power on the 12vt rail which means no matter what you load this thing
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up with unless you are sucking more than
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110 Watts from the wall you're pretty much not going to run into any
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difficulty let me tell you making a configuration like that
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wouldn't be easy so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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at the fatality 1000 W 80 plus gold
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power supply with the individually sleeved cables which I personally think
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is a huge selling point although not everyone might agree but I think it's
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