Fractal Design Tesla 650W Silent Power Supply Unboxing & First Look
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,147 words · ~5 min read
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okay so today i'm going to be having a look at another fractal designs product
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this is the tesla 650 watt power supply
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um are you going to be able to read this from here the cameraman is standing really far away from me due to the
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lighting situation in this room so sorry about that it's a high efficiency 80
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plus certified silent which means virtually inaudible 120 millimeter fan
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okay so why don't we go around to the side it comes with a five year warranty
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it has four 12 volt rails each up to 20 amps of power active power factor
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correction it has over current and over voltage and over power protection
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supports atx atx 12 volt b2.2 okay as well as the
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older standards full range universal inputs okay extra long cables to support
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full tower cases that makes sense because their case
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uses a bottom mounted power supply design so if they built a power supply
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that doesn't work very well in their case that would be stupid extra long
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cables yeah okay ultra quiet 120 millimeter fan multi-language manual
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five-year warranty okay so why don't we go ahead and get this open the tesla
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series is based on the award-winning newton r2 power supply but with fixed
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cables instead of modular so the tesla combines a higher power output with low
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noise level by using premium quality power supply components can provide a
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user with powerful outputs while the fan is still running at low speeds okay so
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practical designs is based out of sweden i believe there's mention of that
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somewhere here all right so why don't we get this box open it comes in a matte
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black box and it feels kind of kind of flimsy but i guess it's not really going
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to matter because most of the time the box is not going to
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be subject to too much stress for a power supply all right so
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the first thing we find inside is the user's manual which as they mentioned
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comes in a bunch of different languages including english french
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i can't remember if that means dutch or german i think it means german actually
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cameraman i think is wrong but italian spanish and swedish
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all right thank you for buying list some basic specs okay that's nice oh i always
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like to see these little nice touches included so it has some little velcro
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cable management ties very nice four screws for mounting the power supply
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then you've got a oh wow that's uh interesting so i'm guessing the north
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american version of this this is a sample we'll have a north american plug
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okay but you'll have to find your own power connector for now piece of foam
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some silica gel don't eat that it's bad for you
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says right on it throw away do not eat
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i love that that warning never gets old it's like everything inedible with every
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product should come with a warning do not eat like if you buy your car your
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car manual should come with like do not eat warning
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it's like because there's a big risk that people will eat
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anything um okay so let's have a look at the unit itself basic specs are here so
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you've got up to 600 watts of the 650 total watts
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for this power supply are available on the 12 volt rail now it looks like
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they've over specced it a little bit because oh no no okay so that's all over
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here so it's 650 watts total but they're cheating a little bit they're including
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the minus 12 volt rail and the plus 5 volt rail as well those are not really
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very relevant these days many high high quality power supplies can provide their
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total maximum output on the 12 volt rails okay so there you've had enough
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time to look at that the warranty void if seal label is broken is present on
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here it's got a matte black finish okay so it sounds reasonably fingerprint
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resistant that's always nice to see because you are going to have to touch it to install it in your case all right
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at the back you've got your standard kind of honeycomb
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air ventilation holes then you've got a power switch
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power in and then here we find a 120 millimeter
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fan this fits in with their usual color scheme which is black and white looks
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very very sharp oh that's weird they've got little plugs
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on the fan to make it so you can't remove it interesting okay so in terms
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of connectors let's have a look at what we got first things first we've got a 20
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plus 4 pin power connector that uses a breakaway style cable very nice it's
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white it's nice to see somebody shaking this up everybody uses black
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why doesn't someone use white you might ask well now they do okay then we've got
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an eight pin power connector and as they
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mentioned this is an adequate length to install in a full tower chassis even
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with a bottom mounted power supply that's really nice to see
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okay then we've got two pci express six plus two connectors
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okay just like that these use a breakaway style and they're very clearly
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labeled i like the labels on their connectors actually that's very nice
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okay and then delving further into the recesses of
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this power supply so to speak we have
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two molex cables one of which features two molex and one floppy and one of
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which features three molex connectors all right since molex is becoming so
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much less relevant these days i don't mind seeing them cut down a little bit
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on that and then for SATA we have two
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cables each featuring three SATA connectors oh and this is interesting i
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have never seen this before the two SATA cables are actually completely different
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lengths look at that so they've accounted for the fact that one of them
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is going to have to go further than the other because whether you're using a
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bottom mount what are you doing whether you're using a bottom mounted power
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supply or a top mounted power supply you're either going to need one to go further up to the optical drives or
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further down to the hard drives and they've they've accounted for that look at that okay well thank you for checking
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out my unboxing of the tesla 650 watt power supply from fractal design