Fractal Design Newton R3 1000W 80PLUS Platinum Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,120 words · ~5 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at a fractal power supply that is an all
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new series for them so they're completely rejiggering their power
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supply lineup and they are bringing them into the whatever Sentry we're in I can
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never remember so 80 plus Platinum NVIDIA SLI and AMD Crossfire
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certification a 5year warranty and it
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doesn't get much more beastly than that does it what do they have to say for
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themselves here well first there's some plastic that needs to go on the floor
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and go away okay so a bunch of other languages ah English on the back here we
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go so the Newton R3 series power supplies provide clean power efficiently
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and silently demanding for gaming computers and ultra quiet media PCS the
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visual appearance is proof of fractal's commitment to providing Innovative
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computer components infused with stylish elegant contemporary Scandinavian design
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excellent electrical performance with DC voltage regulation rable suppression they can deliver their full rated
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wattage continuously even with intake temperatures as high as 50° wow okay
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certified with the latest graphics card 80 plus Platinum certification means
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we're pretty darn near 90 Plus at this
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point in time guys so the Newton 1000
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well they're saying it's actually above the 80 plus Platinum bar pretty much
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across the board so it only dips below 90% at the very very very end of its
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output capacity which for most users
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even for most very high-end users you're not going to get anywhere near that with
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a gaming system oh check this out semi- passive fan
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operation the fan only kicks in at 50%
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load and then ramps up from there out
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standing assuming you're in a well ventilated case love seeing that long
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life ball bearing fans compant with latest standards premium Japanese
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capacitors single powerful 12vt Rail and extra long ATX 12vt kale oh interesting
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okay so wow so far although we haven't gotten very far it looks like they've
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done a lot of things right here you got a user's manual which
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is glued in okay I'm expecting this to
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pretty much say the same things as the Box yep okay thank you for choosing a
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fractal design Newton series power supply for your convenience we've enclosed some zip ties and velcro straps
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in the bag for the modular cables well okay
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then soft foam oh compartmentalized soft
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foam it's almost like like a 2d like puzzle
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game oh I can't get
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through power cable nice thick one modular cable bag ooh haven't seen
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this design before fold over like that oh I have
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seen something similar before but not quite like this so look at that it's all
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like tidy uh it it 800 watt plus oh 800
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watt plus only I thought it meant 800 watt only I was like well why did they
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include one this is 1,000 watt power supply ooh sexy ribbon cables love it so
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I'm guessing the white end is the end that goes in the power supply and the
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other end is the end that goes somewhere else so there's your extra eight pin
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there's two PCIe there's a few three Bas
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look at that they include different lengths and they even like look at that
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they even like label them for you so you've got four three byas two 2 by mole
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X's one with an auxiliary floppy and then you've got some cable ties and
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screws some velcro some plastic and then
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silver screws oh oh fractal would have
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expected to see black screws although with their cases so if you pair this up
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with a fractal case the case is already going to include black screws for your
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power supply anyway all right now let's check out the
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PSU itself very impressed so far though
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looks like they are serious business about coming
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after ooh very nice so that's either a
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135 mm or 140 mm ball bearing fan in
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there on the side you're going to see a fractal design logo very clean looking I
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really like their logo it's like I said very clean looking on the top again you
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see a fractal design logo very stylish
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and on the other side you see it's capable of riding up to 960 watts of its
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total th000 watt output on the 12vt rail so it's a little lower than we've seen
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on some power supplies that are capable of almost the whole thing however I
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can't imagine a scenario where you would actually need to draw 1,000 Watts from
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the 12vt rail itself it is a single rail power supply so you don't really have to
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think about what you're plugging all right so here we are guys looking at the
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uh permanently attached cable so it's a semi modular power supply you got a 20
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plus 4 pin sleeved H not quite as close to the end as I would have normally
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liked to see all right moving right
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along we've got uh what what do we have here okay we've got a four plus 4 pin
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and that is a long cable look at that it's almost one line of ARM length long
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pretty much it is one Linus ARM length long almost right to the armpit there so
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that should be able to reach pretty much no matter what case you're using it also
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comes with two preattached 6 plus 2 plus
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6 plus 2 so dual 6 plus 2 connectors I
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like this design personally it means you don't have to run as many cables up to
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your graphics card you just run one per graphics card and then it splits out
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from there so those are your included ones and then optional stuff so you can
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attach those additional two PCI or you
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can attach one additional PCIe and one 8 Pin CPU power connector and then you can
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attach six peripheral or SATA SL floppy
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connectors as well you got more ventilation holes here you got
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ventilation holes in the back and the usual honeycomb configuration as well as
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a power switch so there's not a whole lot else to say at this point in time
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R3000 wat 80 plus Platinum power supply
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