Seasonic G Series 550W 80PLUS Gold Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the seasonic g series modular power
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supply this is an 80 plus gold but still value oriented power supply line from
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sea sonic so their g series has well the
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usual things you've come to expect from seasonic of course efficiency is a huge
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one build quality as well as a very very
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silent mode of operation so let's get it opened up and then we'll go over those
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things in a little bit more detail the first thing inside is the user's manual
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which is available in a variety of language including english deutsche
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francais and each page is like or each each
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language is like one page so yeah we're not going to spend too much time on that
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next we've got some accessories this is so actually this is a pretty generous
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number of cable ties to include like to see that
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so there you go you got some black cable ties to manage the cables in your system
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that you're probably building if you bought a power supply a little powered by sea sonic sticker some thumb screw or
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rather some mounting screws and three
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velcro cable ties that are reusable soft
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foam of course although very thin soft foam i might add
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modular cables so this is a semi-modular power supply
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which means that the connectors that everyone needs every time they build a
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system are hardwired whereas the connectors
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that not everyone needs not every time they build a system are not
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connected by default okay so there's the power supply itself
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now let's go through some of the things that csonic wants us to know about this
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particular series of power supplies so dc to dc converter design that gives you
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almost full access to the output power of the power supply unit on the 12 volt
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rail because what a dc to dc design is doing is it's actually taking the 12
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volt rail and down converting it to other voltages so almost the entire bulk
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of the power supply is all about converting 120 volt to 240 volt ac
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to 12 volt dc tight voltage regulation
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plus or minus 3 this is well within specifications for an atx power supply
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smart and silent fan control good good good we've come to expect that from sea
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sonic they remember guys see sonic was the one to pioneer that feature on the
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back of the power supply where you can turn the fan off outright up to fifty
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percent load on their eighty plus platinum thousand watt unit
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unfortunately that feature is not available on this one but it goes to show you how serious they are about
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silence high reliability 105 degree
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aluminum electrolytic capacitors and for those of you who criticize my
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pronunciation of aluminum yes i know aluminium is also correct but it should
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be noted check the spelling guys there's no
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second eye aluminum is also correct although most
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prevalent in the us and canada okay detachable modular cables yup high
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current gold-plated terminals this is kind of a new thing haven't seen much of
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that yet 12 centimeter ball bearing cooling fan double ball bearing okay
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ultra ventilation honeycomb structure multi GPU technology is supported
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universal ac input and a five year warranty wow that's actually very
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aggressive given that this isn't one of their super duper premium you know full
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modular you turn off your fan up to 50 kind of products
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really like the sleeving they've included these are extremely flexible
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cables compared to uh ones that i've seen in the past
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and they have this see i love to see this they have
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not hardwired anything that they didn't have to so you've got a four plus four
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which everyone needs and a 24 pin which everyone needs some guys hardwire an
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additional you know SATA thing or like a couple PCIe connectors not everyone has
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an aftermarket GPU or like an off board or a dedicated graphics card not
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everyone needs that everyone needs these too love to see that they've also given
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you a pretty good selection it looks like of modular cables here so we're
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going to go ahead and check these out
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something to note guys if you don't already know this is seasonic is an
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actual manufacturer most of the power supplies you buy are manufactured by
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someone other than the label on the front of the box seasonic actually
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designs manufactures packages then supports the
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seasonic branded power supplies that you're buying from them so just kind of
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think about that if you're ever curious who's an actual manufacturer you can
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always google it online but i can tell you right now that most of the top
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brands that you're familiar with do not make power supplies many of them design
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them and they help you know specify they help with the specifications and what
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they want to see but in terms of actual manufacturers with actual retail
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presence sea sonic is one of the only ones
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so modular cables included love flat
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ribbon modular cables and they're all in black and the sleeving is black and it's
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not very see-through so it's going to look good in your system no matter what
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you've got two six plus two pin PCIe connectors this is a 550 watt power
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supply so it's probably most suitable for a single GPU system anyway if you're
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using a high-end graphics card so that is the perfect number of connectors
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those ones go right here then you have four more modular connectors and those
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ones can be used for a dual molex harness nice short one so if you're
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plugging in just a water cooling pump or like one thing this will be perfect for
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that a triple molex and then you can use an adapter if you really need a floppy
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connector still so that's great if you're going
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somewhere sort of a little bit further away you can see that's a significantly longer cable it's about one minus ARM
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length okay then you've got a double SATA so this
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will be perfect for running to a hard drive cage or a couple ssds or something
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nearby and finally a quad SATA harness
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as well so this will be perfect if you need to run sort of one two kind of a a
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hard drive here and then you need one to go up to an optical drive or something like that so they've given you a good
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variety of connectors the power supply itself has a pretty standard matte black
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paint finish looks pretty oh wow actually that's
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pretty good yeah it's powder coated so there's not really a whole lot to go wrong all your
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safety certifications and all that stuff that we pretty much take for granted at
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this point but bear in mind guys it actually does cost a lot of money to
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bring a power supply to market we've got to go through a whole slew of tests
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honeycomb here on off switch here power in here
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oh look at that the labels are oriented correctly so that in a standard case
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whether it's top mounted bottom mounted flip like this flip like this all of the
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text will be correctly oriented and finally a honeycomb mesh here to go with
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the 120 millimeter fan that takes care of cooling for your power supply thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the seasonic g series 550
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