 Okay, so I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing today of the BFG GS series power supply now I have specifically the 550 watt model so this may not Necessarily apply to the other models, but I think most of the same rules should be the same for both of them That was awkward. Okay, so basically you got dual 12 volt rails, okay? It's PCI Express data connectors thermal control technology protection circuitry I'm not even sure if you're gonna be able to read this you've got a mean time between failure rating of greater than 80,000 hours and high Efficiency so that did it did it did it did it up to 85% efficient so even though I don't Actually see an 80 plus certification Bear in mind that 80 plus certification does not necessarily mean that the power supply Does not comply with 80 plus even if it doesn't have the certification because the certification does cost money So even if you build an efficient power supply if you don't submit it for the cert Then you just don't have it, but it might still be 80 plus okay, so BFDs claim Here is that the efficiency oh yeah, that's not even close to 80 plus anyway, so they're saying that They're saying that on 120 volt or 115 volt input. It's around 75% at the lowest Around 80 to 82 percent at 50 percent and then it goes down to about 75 percent again If you load it up all the way, which is pretty typical For a modern power supply, I mean given that this one is such a value. It's such a low price It's pretty much what you would expect See if I can just get this Okay, so oh actually here's another thing that they call out on the front of the box so fully sleeved cables Which is really nice to see on a value power supply it makes it so you can do a nice tidy build with something like this 6-pin and 8-pin PCI Express imagine a video card company properly taking care of you for the PCI Express connectors, right? Then you've got a 24 pin power connector you got SATA and you got an 8 pin 4 plus 4 pin for the CPU Which is again pretty nice to see on just like a 550 watt fairly basic model power supply so inside we are going to find a power supply quick install guide Okay, something about power to the people and that's basically gonna have how to install a power supply in about umpteen billion different languages Which is great, and then we have four installation screws, okay. Thanks BFG Usually your case will come with those screws, but it's nice of them to include it just in case Okay, and then we have Nothing else in there you got some foam packaging make sure it doesn't get damaged in transit And then you've got a power like a standard PC power cord, so that's just your bone standard sort of thing Okay, then you surround it in bubble wrap in addition to the foam that was also in there So that'll protect the finish on it a little bit alright, so let's have a look at the unit itself here first It's got kind of a shiny sort of slightly brushed looking metal finish, okay, it's There's my camera see you can kind of see behind my camera as well You can see the LCD that I'm watching myself in right now at the back You've got your standard honeycomb grill with oh Actually you do have to select okay, so it does not have active power factor correction You have to actually decide whether you want 115 or 230 bolt input make sure you don't have that set wrong Okay, then you got your on off switch you got your power plug and then on this side You're going to find all of the basic specs of this power supply so you can see it's got two 12-volt rails each of which Are rated at 18 amps and between the two of them they can provide 404 watts of the total 550 watts that this power supply is rated for alright, so That's all the pertinent information there on the bottom you will find what appears to be a 135 millimeter fan with a nice fan grill a nice little BFG logo Which if I can get the sticker off, then I'll be able to yeah, see that's so shiny very nice Okay in terms of connectors So they tell you things like it has SATA connectors But they don't actually tell you how many on the outside of the box which is a very very odd thing to me Okay, so actually oh those are a reasonable length those are these are a pretty good length for like a value power supply So you kind of get some idea of the scale here I mean when they say fully sleeved I think they're you know exaggerating a little bit But honestly if you get a qual this this is higher quality sleeving than you see on most brand-name power supplies Even if it is a reasonably high-end power supply you can see that even on the 24 pin connector You can't really see the color of the cables underneath because it's a nice High density mesh over top of it whereas a lot of them You can just see kind of right through it, and it's all colorful anyway So let's get started having a look at what connectors we have so there's your 20 plus 4 pin or 24 pin if you will Alright, so then the next thing we've got here is Okay, oh yeah, two PCI Express So you've got a 6 plus 2 so an 8 pin and then you've got another 6 pin PCI Express Then next we've got an 8 pin or 4 plus 4 pin if you will CPU power connector okay, that's pretty straightforward as well, and then we've only got three other cables So I'll be interested to see what's actually attached to these alright on the oh, this is kind of a weird configuration Okay, first of all we've got one cable here that has three molex connectors on it alright So that's one of them, and then the other two both have Have SATA connectors okay, so we've got two SATA connectors on each of these so one two They're the first two on both of them one two and then the third connector on both of these cables here So we got one two three connectors on both is either a floppy connector or another molex connector So that's kind of a neat configuration anyway. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the BFG GS 550 watt power supply