 So today we're gonna be having a look at the see sonic x-series 650 watt power supply now the front of this box is pretty bare as you may or may not have noticed it features advanced DC power conversion technology for blah blah blah blah blah and It is 80 plus gold that is the real draw for this power supply series right there So that means power supply efficiency of 87% or more Regardless of the load on it, so that's pretty awesome actually You should check out my video that I did recently on my NCIX calm channel where we talked about how much money you can Save in a year by using an 80 plus gold power supply So you can see this power supply has a single 12 volt rail at 54 amps and it's capable of outputting almost its entire 650 watt Maximum on the 12 volt rail. Let's move around to the back where all of a sudden the box design gets a lot busier So they show you a little bit of the internal design of the x-series 650 watt They talk a little bit about their DC connector module with integrated VRM voltage regulator module There is your 80 plus gold spec so that means it's 87 90 87 percent at 20 50 and 100 percent operating loads So as high as 90 percent in what I would consider a typical gaming system Which would top out around 300 watts under load okay silent fan control This is a big thing for see sonic is they typically have very very quiet power supplies So they're using a Sanyo Denki San E's PWM silent fan. Let me see. This is a fully modular It looks like no it couldn't be this is a modular power supply. It looks like it might be fully modular You know what we're gonna have to open it up to find out. So why don't we just do that? It's SLI certified also. I didn't mention that before and it's not even sealed. Okay, cool So first we'll find an owner's manual which re-emphasizes. It is 80 plus gold. Okay, it's in In five different languages and gives us the basics tells us thank you for purchasing I didn't purchase one but you know here you're welcome Anyway, it gives you a little bit of information about the connectors that are connected to it They don't give you the rail breakdown because because it's a single rail power supply on the 12 volts So you don't have to worry about what you're plugging in where and whether it's gonna overload a single rail Okay, they talk about their five-year warranty a little bit are simple and effective Oh, and they even tell you how to do an RMA if you have a DOA unit That's really nice of them to include that information. Okay, so then we've got a little fold out thing here Let's see Sonic logo a very nice box. I really like it. Okay, then we have Wow, this is hey, this is nice go for gold and just in time for the Olympics to X series. Okay, see Sonic. It's got two separate little. Oh, wow Two separate little veggies which each include modular cables. I'm just gonna dump these out There we go, okay, so this is fully modular let's pull the power supply out We've got a pretty beefy looking power cord and just your standard computer power cord All right, then we have a little see sonic case badge powered by see sonic and 4k screws Just in case your case doesn't include the case screws if that's the case then Okay That joke got old really fast Okay, so it comes in a little velvet bag, which makes it feel very high-end which it is by the way I mean, it's an 80 plus gold 650 watt unit That should be all you really need to know and it's kind of got a unique look to it Okay, the first thing you'll notice is that the accents are in kind of a goldy sort of finish So you've got your basic specs here all of your safety certifications all of your testing all on this side of the unit Then at the front you will find the fully modular interface and I'm gonna go ahead and Oh, this is weird. Look at this So they've actually got the 24 pin connector consolidated down to only 16 pins So that means that many of the duplicated cables are probably each plugging into just one pin because it wouldn't matter Because it's a single rail power supply very interesting So here we've got our peripheral IDE and SATA connectors all along here up here is our PCIe And CPU 8 pin. Okay, here we have CPU and here we have motherboard All right, so we'll figure out what all of that means in a moment Oh, yeah down here. We have the 120 millimeter PWM fan. Okay Temperature activated fan rotates only when required Right because a very efficient power supply only needs to turn on the fan when it gets overwhelmed And since it's a fairly low wattage very efficient power supply it's gonna mean that you've got far less excess heat Than you would have in a less efficient unit So that fan probably doesn't have to work very hard at all on the back of the unit You find your typical honeycomb grill with a power switch and a power input for the power cable Then on this side, you'll find some see sonic branding with the X series go for gold branding there as well Wow, I'm really tired today I'm repeating myself a lot, but what are you gonna do? Okay, let's see if I can figure out How to get this open there we go, so here is the oh so they didn't they didn't actually Consolidate this cable down what they've done is they've made two separate cables for some reason Okay, so basically you plug it in like this and then you plug it in like this I cannot imagine why they've done it this way, but they did I'm sure there's a reason for it somewhere and I don't know what it is. So that's your 24 pin cable and here if you want to So it's reasonably long you're not gonna have trouble with this power supply Having any sort of short cable problems where you can't actually reach the important parts of your PC Alright, let's look at what else we have included for modular cables So you got a four pin CPU connector, then you have oh, this is great I I love these the the ones that are sort of a single brick that you plug in So this is for PCI Express and then that goes out to two six plus two pin PCI Express connectors So you've got two of those so you can actually see sonic has configured it So you can easily run two high-end graphics cards requiring as many as two eight pin PCI Express Connectors each off of this power supply. So this cable right here Did it did it did it did it? Oh, no, maybe they haven't oh I see what they've done. So either you're using four pin Wow, you know what? This is one of the most confusing modular interfaces. I've seen ever. Okay, I get it So you can either have an eight pin CPU power connector here and then you can add a second one and then you can have only two PCI Express connectors or You can run a motherboard that requires only a single eight pin and then you can have as many as four PCI Express connectors So they're limiting you with the connectors a little bit to make sure that you don't go ahead and overload this with like You know that new EVGA board that has Two LGA 1366 sockets and supports like seven graphics cards You wouldn't want to be running that on a 650 watt power supply So they're protecting consumers a little bit that way All right. So in terms of the other modular cables we have we've got one with three SATA another one with three SATA Another one probably with three SATA. I'm guessing yeah, there's another one so you can connect up to oh no That one has only two so you can connect up to eight SATA hard drives natively on this power supply And then I'm gonna go see what I dropped here. Oh, okay. This is an adapter Oh, okay So they haven't actually included any floppy connectors on the modular cables by default But you can use this adapter to get a couple floppy connectors if you want that then we have eight four pin molex connectors So you can plug in as many as five altogether of the molex and SATA connectors Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the CSONIC X series 80 plus gold power supply