 A monstrous 2,000 watt power supply for this price? I mean, to be clear, $160 is a lot of money, but compared to a 2,000 watt power supply from a reputable brand like Silverstone, it not only costs a lot less, this is $550, but it weighs a lot less. Not to mention, who the heck is Senlifang? What the heck is 95 plus gold? And why is there a Bitcoin logo on it? To find out if this can actually meet its rated specifications, yes, my friends, 2,000 watts, we are gonna be risking not one, not two, but $6,000 worth of the fastest gaming hardware money can buy. Are we gonna ruin something today? No, we're gonna tell you about our sponsor. Crucial, with Crucial's MX500 SSD, you can enjoy speedy system startups and lightning fast file loading. Plus with their dynamic write acceleration, even the most demanding applications open faster than ever. Get yours today using the link down below. Everything about this product screams sketchy, from the obviously fake certification label to the spelling errors all over the warnings, I mean, or war nungs, as I should call them. And of course, do not ever move this cover, train de service people only, a cushion to the fact that the supposed 2,000 watts of total output is achieved by adding together 1,600 watts, 150 watts, six watts and 10 watts, which by my rough math comes to 1,766 watts, not 2,000. Obviously the weight is not the be all and end all of a product's quality, but for power supplies, it can be an indicator because both quality components and cooling do add weight to the final product. And compared to our real 2,000 watt power supply, which comes in at 2.6 kilograms, our selling Sendlin Fang comes in at 1.6. 1.6, there is a whopping kilo less electronics in this than that. I just wanna come in here. I think this power supply is fine. Yeah. I think it's good. You think it's fine. I think it's fine. And here's why, Sendlin Fang only supports that level of output at 240 volt inputs. And compared to building a power supply that's designed to take a full range of input voltages, this is a lot less complicated. I do wanna say that this warning is very valid. Hazardous voltages contained within this power supply, not user serviceable, returned to the service center for repair. But we believe it is safe to open these because neither of them has been plugged into the wall in literally a year. We forgot about this video. It's been sitting on the shelf the whole time. You have life insurance, right? Yes, actually. I have a wonderful life insurance policy. Please don't die though. I'll try not to. I mean, arguably today, I'm not doing a great job of that, but. No, this is fine. Yeah, see if Alex says it's fine. Officially never do this. Oh my God. I've never cared that like a company used a cheap label before, but really? Ah, come on. What are you doing? It's not, ah. Okay. Wow, that was on there really tight. DC brushless fan, Madel, whoops. This is a really cool power supply. There's a lot of stuff in here. Well, there's sure a lot more stuff than I have. There's so many transformers. They've got one, two, three, four, five. Don't touch these. I actually got jazz, bumblebee. I have a Madel FD13525B12M, which according to my Google search is just completely not a thing. And you are rocking a globe fan, RL4Z 140 millimeter fan. Yep. Has 1700 RPM. Oh, neat. Yes, actual specs. How nice for you. Why don't you talk us through what we're looking at here, Alex? I'm gonna take a couple of guesses why our Chinese power supply is so much cheaper. So first of all, 120 volts just sucks. For the same amount of wattage that you're outputting, you just need so much more amperage. And then all of your components have to be beefier and stuff. You also need a whole big power factor correction circuit to go along with that. It only needs to switch up way more. Big pain. This doesn't have to deal with any of that, but there isn't very much in there. There really isn't. Kyle, what are the main differences we're looking at here? You can see there's a lot more chunky boys over here. Wait, you can't call them chunky boys. Probably transformers or inductors of some kind, but something that's got like lots of copper, lots of magnets and wrapped up and it looks like it's got some party material in it. This has one transformer and one and two inductors, but you can see there's a ton more components that are a lot heavier, which is where your weight's coming in. Plus there's this entire modular interface, which you plug into in the Silverstone. So that's probably where your weight differential is coming from. Obviously, as Alex mentioned, this can take both North American power, so like 110, and European and the rest of the world, 240. Don't forget Japan. So there are bros. Oh, they do 110 as well? Yeah, they do. Oh, okay. I'm sorry, Japan. So because you have both circuits in here, obviously you're gonna have way more circuitry and without gaining into too much of the details. This doesn't have to worry about any of that. So there's less stuff. Tell me something. Yes. Have you heard of this capacitor brand, Nippon? That's a very good Japanese brand. Okay, have you heard of Hoicom? No, but just because I haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's bad, but definitely good. Unknood, do you see an EMI filter on the AC input on that one? Oh. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that might not be a problem for your power supply, but it could be a problem for other devices. Oh no, there it is there. There it is. Nevermind, I was wrong. Okay, so we're good? I mean, I wouldn't go that far. Let's put it that way. Here's the summary. More capacitors, these are for the AC side. These are for the DC side, mean less VDroop and in general, a higher quality unit. Our quality unit also has more transformers, some of which comes down to it being designed to take both 120 and 240 volt input, but some of which comes down to just transformers being made of metal and magnets, both of which cost money, money that Stanley Fang didn't want to spend. I just discovered something that's kind of interesting. Oh, tell me. After looking up that transformer, I found another review of a similar looking power supply. It's only 150 watts, but that doesn't really matter, but it seems very likely this is made by Great Wall, which is- Really? Kinda good. Wow, the layout is really close, isn't it? Yeah. This has beefier bits in some spots, like these are larger caps, but for the most part, it looks a lot like this Great Wall made power supply from 10 years ago. With that said, just because it looks like a Great Wall power supply, doesn't mean it wasn't cloned from a Great Wall power supply. True, yeah. Now we're looking for a MOV. Can you explain what a MOV is? A MOV is basically a resistor that changes its resistance based on the voltage going to it. So if you were to have a voltage spike, it would basically act as a short, dumping it to ground. So it'll level off the spike. So you don't want voltages to spike, spiking is very bad, right? So it's just a style of voltage protection, like circuit protection. There's other ways to do it. But it would have to probably be pretty close to the end. Usually it's a through hole looking diskey thingy. You can probably show it on the Silverstone. Yeah, this one says TVR. I think that's... What about this boy? That could be it. 5D. Dash 15. Dash 15, yeah boy. Yeah, and I think it's either DS. I got it, NTC MOV. Yeah, it is a MOV. Okay. Is it? Hey, I found a thing. Yeah, you found a thing. This thing might not be a total piece of crap then. Hey, here's another one. NTC2. Yeah, I mean... I'm going by the label on the PCB. It's also actually touching the... That looks like an inductor. So it could be... Oh, temperature based on the temperature of the inductor. So yeah. Oh. Obviously we're missing out on creature comforts like the modular interface, but that shouldn't affect the performance of it. This thing may very well not totally suck. Maybe. It's probably fine. I'm almost disappointed. I mean, there's still plenty of time for it to blow up though. Which is a perfect time to show you guys the system that we'll be using to stress test it. We've got a 12900KS that's modded with a copper IHS that'll pull anywhere between 350 to 400 Watts at load. We've got an RTX 3090 Ti. This guy gets up in the neighborhood of 450 Watts. And we have our shunt modded RTX 3090 that is capable of pulling up to seven, 800 Watts, depending on the load. That means altogether we could reach darn near 2000 Watts with all of these guys going full bore. Raising a pretty big question. What kind of outlet could we possibly power this with? One for the router. No, no, I know. I'm asking a hypothetical question. That'll be a spot for the cut. With one of these. Now, before we start adapting this to this, we wanna make it very clear that you are never to do this because it can cause all kinds of confusion when at one end of a power cable, you've got something designed for 240 volt. And at the other end, something designed to have 120 volt devices plugged into it. Bad. Also never modify your extension cables or work on these if you're not qualified or just do anything that we've done in this video so far. Though let's say here's how to do it. First step, we're going to put on a large yellow flag to indicate that this is the spicy power cord. Next, this end needs to go. It's good. 240 volt. Do you have a Jerry Rake everything knife? You need a cut up? It's fine, I'm gonna back. I'm doing it. Next, we're just gonna strip this back a little bit so we can get access to the real wires. I've done this a couple of times before, but we've never filmed it. Cause just don't. Should probably use wire strippers for this, but I don't know where our proper size one went. So we're just doing this. Total side note here, but Zach from Jerry Rake everything had no idea how bad our knife situation was before he sent over some of his. This is the Trilliar knife drawer. Now we just need to look up which wire goes where into our new connector. The green one is almost certainly ground, but for the other two, there's gonna be a hot and a neutral. And we're 90% sure that our white, which is usually hot in Canada is gonna go to Y and our black one is gonna go to X for extreme. Cause black is like the color of performance. That's why, right? I mean, WHY, Y that's Y. Cause black is performance and X for extreme. Extreme performance. What? I love bothering them. It's so much fun. Look at Kyle over here. It's great. That's why we don't film videos. Just talk smack the whole day. Our meetings are great. I love talking about how he's been employed here for over a year and still hasn't shipped a product. I've almost been here two years and you know why I haven't shipped a project? Is you change it every single time I'm ready to freaking ship it, mate. Before he was hired, I almost had the screwdriver done. Do you know why it's not here yet? Yeah, the next thing we're gonna do is this black piece is keyed to only go on one way. And we just screw this bad boy in here. Rint, rint, rint. Just a little something like that. Okay. And hey, where'd that back piece go that holds this in snug? Hey, look at that. Oh wow. That's gonna really clamp down on that. I mean, that's good. The last thing you wanna do is rip the cable out of the plug. This poor thing. Moist. All right. I mean, it's definitely not coming out of there. Okay, ready? Huh. It won't fit in that plug. Yeah, yeah, no, we're gonna use this one. Ah! That's really bright now. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. There's a little light in here that's supposed to indicate if it has power or not. And it's like super bright. That's great. Where'd our power supply go? We should wear eye protection when we plug this thing in. David's way back there using the zoom. Okay, David, come on. Go ahead and plug it in. Oh, okay. That's a... This is not the best cable I've ever seen. Look at this end of it. We should get a new cable. Okay, ready? Yeah, that's all good, it's fine. Okay. Let's look it up at the PC. Hey, stop. This 24 pin is so wimpy. You guys did unplug it before you started to plug in, right? Yeah, just unplug it. It's on. I trust it. Yeah. Whoa, hey, motherboard RGB is lit. Ah, for like five seconds while the caps die. Is there only one eight pin EPS? I mean, I guess if it's a like mining power supply, it's pretty focused on powering GPUs. Now the 3090 Ti is tons of fun because the single 16 pin connector that it uses takes three of these higher powered eight pin traditional PCIe connectors. We're not actually gonna connect the second 3090 for now. Are you ready? That's loud. The fan really goes. Wow. We don't even need to look up the specs of this fan. Under RPM, it would just say brrr. This has been surprisingly uneventful so far. But then we are also only pulling probably like 50, 60 watts right now. 373 watts. 373 watts, not bad. And it has not blown up even a little. Oh, 415 on the GPU. That 3090 Ti though, hey? Absolute beast. Let's just talk about worst case of what can happen. Everything dies. Now I've seen stuff before where people are like, oh no, the power supply shut down when I use my 3090. That's fantastic. If your power supply shuts down, that's good. That means your overcurrent protection is A, present and B, worked. I've seen some people be like, oh, this 500 watt power supply will run a 3080 no problem. It's like, no, it shouldn't. That's bad. Yeah. That's not a good thing to be putting on Reddit. I think it's time to add another GPU. Yeah. For those of you that didn't watch our shunt mod video, this GPU has a resistor on top of the resistors that measure how much power it's drawing. That means that the GPU thinks it's drawing like 300 watts or whatever, when it's actually drawing 600. That lets you overclock it a bunch. And in this situation allows us to destroy a power supply or something. Alex, we've got a bit of a problem. These cables aren't especially long. The thing is that copper is expensive and cables are made of copper. So a lot of the time cheap power supplies will cheap out by running shorter cables. It also helps power supply manufacturers hit higher efficiency certifications because there's less loss from the long cables. Although these guys don't have any kind of real certification anyway. So that clearly wasn't a factor. I can't believe that across two GPUs, just two, we're gonna have a total of six eight pin PCIe power connectors here. Okay. We good? So loud. It's really loud. Feel the air, like from here. Oh wow, that's true. You really can. PCIe has been detected into blah, blah, blah. Oh shoot, okay. There's only so many PCIe lanes on the Z690 platform and it looks like our dual GPU configuration is interfering with the M.2 slot that we have our SSD in. Conveniently this motherboard has one of these DIMM.2 things from Asus. So we're just gonna use that. Oh, our 3090 is not showing up. Wait. Oh, you know, oh wait, what? Driver verified. You know what I think it is? In order to populate that slot, let's go manually change it to PCIe1 and PCIe2. Okay. That didn't help. They're both there. Yeah, it was something else getting this to work. Holy crap. So Anthony also lost an hour yesterday because he put a 3090 in a board after the 3090 Ti. Turns out the hardware variables for literally every other Nvidia GPU do not exist in the 3090 Ti drivers. So in order to get that fixed, we need to disable driver verification, change the INF file. And Dan did a write-up on everything that you need to do right here. That's so stupid. Come on Nvidia, are you guys new? Let's make these things burn. We'll make them pay for what they did to us. Mostly you and Anthony and Dan. Yeah. Dan's comment was, I can't believe they shipped this. Show me some Furmark. Wait, does it hit both? No, GPU2 is not doing anything. I just want my payoff for this video, darn it. The people need to know. New idea. We disable the 3090 Ti. Boop. See you later, buddy. Now we run Furmark. You are running on the 3090. Thank you. We are now drawing 760 Watts. Okay. Now, device manager, enable. Yeah, the 3090, it's only drawing like 400 now. Oh, a little more. 500. I'll settle for 500. Okay, now what will you run on? Nothing. You will crash. Please, I just want to hurt my GPU. I'm hitting both. 460 on the 3090 Ti, I'm just shy of 500 on the 3090, plus the 300 on the CPU. What's that work out to? Closing in on 1300 Watts. 1300 Watts. It's definitely toasty. It's really toasty. Is it? You want to feel the exhaust? Oh, yeah. Like, yeah. It's a goer. Oh, wow. The back of the board right here is hot. Did you touch that spot? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So what is on the other side of that? Here, what are we looking at? It's either our high voltage transformer or high voltage MOSFETs. Probably the high voltage MOSFETs. Well, it's not the sort of thing I'd recommend buying for your gaming rig. It's loud and the chassis gets frighteningly hot under load, but it's a lot better than I thought it would be. Yeah, it's alive. I figured 170 bucks for a 2000 watt power supply. It would just immediately blow up, but it didn't. And it really is delivering 1300, probably more. We've got a lot of fans running up, probably closer to the 1400, 1500 Watts right now. Yeah. GG. The label fell off at some point. I don't even remember what they're called anymore. And GG, our sponsor. Vessi. 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