In Win Commander II Series 80PLUS Bronze Military Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,618 words · ~8 min read
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welcome to a twin unboxing they're not really well they're sort of twins
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they're like um fraternal twins or paternal twins I think they both mean
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the same thing uh where they're non-identical twins so these are two
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similar products from inwin from their Commander 2 Series of power supplies so
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this is in line with a theme that we've seen quite a bit over the last little
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while in the tech industry and that is with boards like the Sabertooth from
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ASUS with cases like the um
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shoot okay I can't remember for the life of me but this military themed thing
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that's going on is
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now has now got a power supply to match
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so these are available in a variety of capacities the two that we have here
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today are the 850 watt and the 1200 watt
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they are modular cables Japanese industrial bre capacitors and strict
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voltage regulation which is plus or minus 5% although most high-end power
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supplies these days have voltage regulation that is well well under plus
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or minus 5% however I mean I'm sure they're just saying sort of in in
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General within spec 80 plus bronze
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certification NVIDIA SLI certification 5year warranties included with both of
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these and let's go ahead and flip them over they give us an outline of the
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cables they give us an outline of the fans so it has a silent Frozen flow fan
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interesting dual primary Japanese capacitors DC to DC design the DC to DC
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design is actually very interesting because what that means is you can
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provide almost the entire output wattage
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of the power supply on the 12vt rail so this one can do that's um yeah maximum
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okay that one's a little bit less than what I'm normally accustomed to seeing for a DC todc design and the 1200 watt
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is capable of doing over 1,000 Watts over
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9,000 from the 12vt rails they have four
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12volt rails each maxing out at 40 amps for the 1200 watt and 34 amps for the
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850 watt they support active power factor correction okay silent 13 I think
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they mean 135 mm fan 13.5 CM I think is
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more common in Europe than it is uh in North America where we refer to them all
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in military or millimeters here are your protections including over voltage over
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current under voltage I can't remember what they all stand for but they're good
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you want them let's come up here supports NVIDIA SLI and quad SLI and all
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multicore GPU Technologies that's kind of cool because let's see how many
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connectors the 850 wat has high efficiency voltage transfer Design
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Technology double forward circuit design high efficiency up to 85% yeah it's 80
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plus bronze 8 6 plus two pin PCIe connectors
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that is awesome especially and this is something honest okay here here bit of a
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tangent here guys while I open this up this bugs me about um about almost every
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Power Supply out there is they have all this wattage
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components are getting more efficient not less efficient every day whether
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it's CPUs or graphics cards or whatever
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else it's all getting more efficient these days so we see these you know
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thousand watt power supplies that for whatever reason only come with 4 PCIe
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connectors why they're capable of running 3 gpus just fine so inwin has
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gone ahead and included as many PCIe connectors as you could want even on
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their 850 W model so I applaud them for that that is a smart move because as
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components continue to deliver more
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performance per watt and to focus on that and emphasize it I think we're
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going to see lesser power supplies capable of powering a greater number of
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components with ease so let's go ahead and open up this so they both come with
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beefy power cords they both come with some you know pre-attached cables which
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some people mind I personally don't as long as it's sensible I had one modular
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power supply that had two8 pin and a
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four pin pre-attached so unless you're
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running like a and this is an 850 W power supply so that that's
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inappropriate on the other end of the spectrum cuz I'm looking at it going who
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has an 850 WT consumer grade power supply running their like server board
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not very many people um I mean hey if you're doing it go ahead leave a comment
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on the video let me know I have an 850 wat consumer grade power supply running
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my Server Motherboard with dual CPUs and I'll be like oh okay cool by the way get
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a new power supply um okay moving on here guys here is
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which one is this I can't even keep track they're both oh these look cool
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actually check this out so The Branding on them is very military great and it
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actually reminds me of something that uh NVIDIA sent me once so this is this is
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again the whole military theme that the whole industry like likes this whole
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like sprayed on like letters thing so you got your 1200 watt your 850 watt
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you've got all of your sort of key talking points supporting PCIe modular 1
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13.5 okay efficiency SL and all of that
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good stuff so anyway there showed off my NVIDIA military box for the last time
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here okay here's the connectors we have with the 1200 watt so we got our 24 pin
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20 plus 4 so if you are really still running a 20 pin motherboard then um
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good for you and I guess you can continue to do that we have an eight pin
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pre-attached and then we have four six
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no oh we have an eight pin and a four plus4 pin attached with a 1200 W power
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supply I don't mind that as much because you're far more likely to have like dual
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eight pins on something like that motherboard for example x79 a ud7 from
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Gigabyte you've also got two 6 plus 2 pin PCIe connectors pre-attached again
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1200 W power supply if you're not running SLI or Crossfire with two
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high-end cards um don't have a 1200 wat
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power supply because remember guys the most efficient point for power supply is
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in that sort of 40 to 60% load range so
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if you're running at like 20% load when your system's like chugging along doing
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as much as it can then you're not actually getting the best of efficiency out of it here we go we have another
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modular PCIe cable and what's cool about this hey check this out is they've got
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one more here and actually another two
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more here so yeah so there you go up to eight PCIe 6 plus two pin connectors are
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built into this power supply that means you can run up to quad gpus without any
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difficulty very very cool stuff okay moving along we've got a four Mo
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X another four Mo X these are actually using fairly high quality sleeving check
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that out guys those are full colored cables in there but you're having a
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pretty hard time seeing through them these look really nice and then they've got they haven't cheaped out on the heat
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shrink you see that from time to time where they use like little tiny heat shrink things cuz I don't know heat
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shrink's expensive I guess uh so no those look really good and then you've
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also got two four times SATA connectors
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so that's not quite as many peripheral cable harnesses as I would have liked to
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normally see but it's probably as many as most people will use not everyone is
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running 8 ssds in their machine Plus an additional cable to run up to their
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optical drive so uh the 850 W power supply includes is
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exactly the same it's just 850 Watts yeah I love that love that because who
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knows you might need four mid-range gpus
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maybe you're running a folding Farm maybe you just want a power supply that
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has lots of PCIe connectors in terms of modular connections here they are so
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there's your two PCIe there's your SATA / peripheral power and I think that
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pretty much wraps it up let's take a closer look at the units overall Aesthetics so we've got our honey Co
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mesh at the back your onoff switch power plug got your sweet like cool looking
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like branding thing ofam jig this is the second in the commander series there was the original Commander now there's
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Commander 2 who like outranks Commander one and
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like can order him around and stuff there's that which you've probably
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already kind of seen this is that patented modular power supply thing that
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Ultra has so they make you put this like Gody sticker on your power supply if you
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uh if you properly uh license the technology and then there is the 135 mm fan on the
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bottom so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the inwin
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Commander 2 Series of power supplies and don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
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