FSP Aurum CM 750W 80PLUS Gold Modular Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,855 words · ~9 min read
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welcome welcome welcome to my unboxing
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of the fsp RM series RM CM series and
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I'll get to what that means in a moment gold 750 wat power supply they have
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their W upside down actually they intended for that to be an m and I'll
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more on that after okay has a 5year warranty it is 80 plus gold as you may
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or may not have been able to figure out by now it features support for NVIDIA
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SLI remember they do have to pay for that badge so um Extra Value ad having
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that certification for NVIDIA SLI technology it has reliable performance
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and here finally I'll have to tell you what the CM and what the M is for cable
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management so that is their way of saying that they do have a modular
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interface on this particular power supply why don't we go ahead and start
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the unboxing process with the removal of
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the plastic shrink wrap around the
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outside oh the
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suspense Tada oh no no not taada yet
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okay now we will remove the paper sleeve
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with all the fancy shiny graphics and
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shiny NVIDIA logo and ooh look at that
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shiny fsp logo does that look shiny in
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the camera excellent glad to hear it okay next we have the black box that the
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the power supply itself ships inside with a few different labeled
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compartments so first we have our quick guide which is going to tell you
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probably pretty much what a power supply is and why you care yep troubleshooting
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installation of the power supply and what your connectors all are okay good
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pretty basic stuff all right next we have ooh playtime uh actually not only
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for people who play this is for gamers and workstations remember any
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highquality efficient power supply is going to be suitable for pretty much any
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application that needs high efficiency high quality and uh quiet cuz 80 plus
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gold gives you a few different advantages one it means you draw overall
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less power from the wall two it means that you are producing less heat as
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waste when you are consuming an inordinate amount of power from your
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power supply whether it's with a high-end gaming machine or a high-end
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workstation and three you are saving the environment because you are consuming
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less power to power your
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computer now these are interesting I have never seen modular cables like this
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before and I may never see modular cables like this again these are very
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very unique okay we'll get to those in a minute because those are those are
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almost like the highlight of the show at this point those look cool okay let's
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take this out let's leave this up here
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let's get rid of those and then we are finally going to be left with only the
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things that are relevant on my table here to this rmcm series power supply so
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let's start with the cables that are pre-attached on the power supply itself
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and those are going to be your 24 pin connector and I don't object to this
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cable being preattached some people do but I think that's just being fussy
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because you need it every computer needs an ATX main connector period so there
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you go next we have two PCIe power
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connectors these are both 6 plus2 these I also don't object to them being
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pre-attached because anyone who's buying a 750 W power supply probably has a
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graphics card okay next we have a four
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plus four pin connector and an eight pin connector I would have preferred to see
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one of these attached and the other as an optional cable simply because um most
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motherboards only require one of the two but at least they given you those
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options and you can always tie back the extra one like this in order to hide it
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in your case the modular interface is right here so
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it looks like we've got four peripheral modular cable slots and then one uh
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eight pin that would be for an additional two PCIe 6 plus2 pin
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connectors which are likely there as a modular cable and we will get to those
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in just a moment let's have a look at the rest of the unit itself this is my
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personal favorite paint finish I I don't know if I've ever said that in a video
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before in the past but in my Silverstone tj07 I've actually had this paint finish
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with which mountain mods they call it or they used to call it anyway uh they call
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it black wrinkle and it's kind of a
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textured um powder coat finish that is
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extremely fingerprint resistant extremely scratch resistant and I think
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it looks just great I hope the light is catching it okay but you can see how it
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has kind of a different look to it if you look at it from a different angle
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the way it catches the light just just love it it's a matte finish but it has
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kind of a a shininess to it you can see
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there's an fsp logo there it's going to look just great in any case all right on
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the back we have a power switch we have our power plug and they have kind of a
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unique arrows type design for the air flow that's coming out of the back of
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the unit I mean it's just it doesn't really matter it just looks kind of neat
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okay and then finally we have a 120 mm
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fan in the bottom or top of the power
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supply depending on how you choose to mount it so you put it in this way it's on the top you put it in that way it's
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on the bottom it's going to depend on whether your case has ventilation
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through the bottom of the case for the fan
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itself all right let's put the power supply down for a minute and let's have
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a look at these here cables these are awesome okay so uh as I suspected these
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are for peripherals so this guy right here is AO we have one two SATA cables
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two Molex cables and one floppy connector all on one cable so you can
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see about how long it is it looks like it's probably about 3 ft long 3 and 1/2
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ft long okay next we
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have two SATA connectors and two Molex
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connectors so these first two are SATA and these next two are
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Molex okay next we have dual MOX oh
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rather one SATA and one Molex
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sorry um and finally oh no not finally
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not just yet oh we have three SATA that's good I was looking for one native
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dedicated SATA cable and that's really good to see because this is great for
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cable management you throw this one over to where all your hard drives are you
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take one of these uh combo SATA and Molex ones you throw that up to your
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optical drive there's your SATA and then you run your Molex around behind your
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motherboard tray to plug in your fans or whatever else the case may be and all of
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a sudden this modular power supply makes a lot more sense to me now that I've
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seen that we have one dedicated SATA cable and finally we have that eight pin
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to dual six plus TW pin power connectors
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so that means you can install your second high-end graphics card in NVIDIA
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SLI mode so now let's have a look at these cables themselves so check this
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out okay so here's how it works basically we've got all of our cables
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we've got some heat shrink and then we have everything laid flat inside what
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appears to be almost like a like a thicker heat
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shrink there you go so this will be awesome for cable management because
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look how thin that is that's like here I'll bring out my
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iPhone for comparison so you guys can see but if you're running this behind
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your drive cages or behind your motherboard tray even if you don't have
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a great high-end case that has a ton of room for managing cables behind it I
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mean I would almost take this um the the
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native PCIe connectors and just tie them
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away somewhere and I would run this up to my single graphics card if I was only
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running one graphic card because you're going to be able to manage it so well I
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actually I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the rmcm series gold 750m not watt that is M
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for modular or cable management it actually comes with three velcro
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ties three more other more different velcro ties okay so these ones actually
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these are super handy I use these on my test bench all the time just run them
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through there TI them up there velcro
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okay and finally a sticker that says powered by F Power by fsp and last but
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not least four thumb screws for plugging the power supply into your case thank
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys couple more notes here
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that I didn't mention before this is a quad rail power supply with each rail
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capable of providing up to 18 amps and the 12vt rails themselves are capable of
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providing almost the entire capacity of this power supply so that's good because
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most modern systems are very 12vt rail dependent we've also got all of the
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japanes made capacitors are rated for up to 105° C this is critical because if
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you're using capacitors that are rated at whatever they're rated at but only at
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30° C 40° C those are lower rated
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capacities or capacitors than ones that are rated for that performance at a high
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temperature so it means no matter what happens with this power supply it will
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actually perform according to its specification quiet and durable cooling
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yeah they mentioned that the uh the 120 mil fan is a fluid Dynamic bearing fan
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that makes a big difference it will be quieter and
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finally last but not
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least oh that's kind of neat fsp's own patented uh IC design allows you to um
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it allows it to make continuous adjustments according to the output load in order to achieve the best possible
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efficiency so that's neat so they've actually got their own custom chipet in
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this part particular power supply that's going to optimize the efficiency
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according to what kind of loads you're pulling through it so there now I'm done