 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PC power and cooling silencer MK3 1200 watt. This is a very odd way to lay out the text given you're supposed to read it in this order. I don't know if there's any culture on earth that reads things in this order, but you know, whatever. If the power supply is good enough that it doesn't really matter because this is basically the equivalent to the boyfriend or girlfriend that has it all, looks and brains and conversational ability and the ability to attract ducks with bread and when they throw it, you can do anything pretty much. So yeah, it has a 7 year warranty, 80 plus platinum efficiency, it's got a modular interface that actually looks pretty baller so we're going to have a closer look at this once we open it up and it has my favourite thing in the world, a silent fan mode operation feature. The fan does not turn on until it reaches 600 watts. So that means this power supply is passively cooled up to 600 watts. It is also rated for its full output at a 50 degree ambient temperature. It has all Japanese solid caps that are rated up to 105 degrees Celsius. It uses a single powerful 12 volt rail so it does have the usual industrial protections however if you are or you're not comfortable with that, you can always choose a multi-rail power supply but for those of you who want that hassle free, no matter what I plug something into, there won't be any overcurrent protection that's triggered, this is pretty much the way to go. Up to 92% efficiency although I think that's on 230 volts AC and honestly, that silent mode switch is like the be all and end all of features to me because for a power supply like this where it gets up to 600 watts before turning on the fan, that means that even a fairly beefy gaming system with a single or dual GPU cards is almost never even going to turn on your power supply and if you're a silence aficionado like myself, then that's a big deal for you. Let me just see if I missed anything here, large 140mm fan and active power factor correction, all that good stuff, ah yes silent mode, so it gives you a key of which switch position is which which is good because on the power supply itself, it actually doesn't tell you so there you go. So the power supply itself, let's have a look at the physical attributes, you got your honey comb mesh on the back, you got your power switch here, you got your silent mode switch here, power input, very very clean overall look and aesthetic, we've become used to this with PC power and cooling silencer products so you got your white finish which is extremely resilient and hides scratches incredibly well because it's very matte and like a matte white finish will actually hide blemishes way better than a matte black finish. It's also got the black and silver, or rather platinum, black and platinum accents on it and everything even down to, see these kinds of details make all the difference in the world, everything down to the quality control stickers uses that same kind of color scheme so it will look really great in your system. So our MK3 got like a nice shiny badge there, there's your 140mm dual ball bearing fan and there inside are all those beefy heatsinks because you can have the most efficient power supply in the world but it's not going to be able to output 600 watts of power to your computer passively unless it's got some decent cooling inside so the unit definitely has some weight to it. Now it's not fully modular however I personally don't find that to be the end of the world because all the cables that are on here I hope, at least I think, oh that's rough, okay almost all of the cables on here are ones that everyone will need anyway so you've got two PCIe 6 plus 2 pins, you can have a look at the sleeving here, decent sleeving, not the best I've seen but definitely far from the worst so you're masking most of the color of those yellow cables but not all of it. You've got a 6 plus 2 configuration which is my favorite by far and these are nice thin wires so you'll be able to tuck this away pretty easily if you want if you only require a 6 pin. They've got an additional cap down here so I'm guessing that's helping with power stability somewhat and then your 24 pin is a 20 plus 4, again wouldn't have minded seeing dark cables or somehow stealth cables in some way but again the sleeving is not bad so that hides a lot of the color there when you're doing your cable management. Now this is something I would have preferred to see just one permanently attached, your CPU 4 plus 4 pin connectors so most motherboards on the desktop anyway only require one of those which means that most people won't need the two pre-attached so that's one cable that most people are going to end up tucking away somewhere. Let's have a look at what we've got in terms of modular cables. I mean it comes, okay here, let's finish off with the accessories first so it comes with a power cable, some zip ties, you've got 5 of them in there which will sort of go 30% of the way to cable managing your system. It's okay, hopefully you can afford this power supply, you can probably go buy some black zip ties. Some thumb screws, love to see these included with high end power supplies because not every case includes thumb screws for mounting the power supply so it's nice to see those little finishing touches. Dear valued customer, thank you for this and if you have any customer support issues please contact us here and finally small instruction manual in a variety of languages. Now let's have a look at some of the modular cables. So we've got a 6 plus 2, we have a 6 plus 2, we have a 6 plus 2 and finally just to shake things up a little bit we have a 6 plus 2. So that means you have a total of 6, 6 plus 2 pin power connectors which means you can install either 3 graphics cards, natively anyway, you can install 3 graphics cards that require 2 connectors or you can do 2 graphics cards that each require 3 connectors or I mean if you wanted you could have 6 graphics cards that each require 1 connector but I really can't think of an application for that. Some other boards though will want like an extra 6 pin PCIe for auxiliary power for example and let's have a look at how these connect. So they've got little rubber dust, silicone dust covers on them and then all you've got to do is line up the bump here with the bump on the inside, plug that bad boy in I think. Oh right, sorry, this is one of these. So some of them have 4 pins and some of them have 5 pins. So that'll go there and then you put this ring on here and it's plugged in. Very nice looking cables. So these ones are all black unlike the pre-attached cables which is all the more reason why I would have liked to see more modular cables on this one. Nice flat all black ribbon cables terminated with heat shrink and then again terminated on this side with just all completely black nice ribbon cable-ness. These are fantastic. The length is pretty good on all the cables on this power supply. This is one of the longest 24 pins I've seen in a while. It's almost exactly 1 Linus arm in length and the 8 pins for all their multitudeness are also quite long about 1 Linus arm in length. If anything that 24 pin could probably be a little bit shorter without hurting anybody's feelings. Now in terms of other modular cables, not quite the selection that I'm used to seeing on high end power supplies. So you've got a single 4 mole X cable. So let's go ahead and just grab this out of here so that you guys can have a look and we'll sort of judge the length and decide if it makes sense. So this is one of those 5 ones. So that'll go right there. Okay, screw that in. So that should be, I mean most systems don't require much in the way of 4 pin mole X these days and it's more than a Linus arm length so you should be able to reach whatever you need to. But if you do need more mole X connectors you will have to consider that about this power supply although you can use splitters. It does come with one single 4 pin mole X to floppy connector adapter. Again, nice black, looks very sleek. And then for SATA you've got a 4 port harness, a 4 port harness and another 4 port harness. You can hook up to 12 SATA drives up to the power supply natively and then you can run those cables up to 3 different places. Again these look quite long so in terms of cable management you will be able to reach pretty much wherever you go with any of the cables that come with this power supply. So this is again well over a Linus arm length in terms of overall length. I think that pretty much covers it. So the things to remember, 7 year warranty, 80 plus platinum, the fan doesn't turn on until you reach 600 watts and it is a 1200 watt single rail power supply. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look on Linus Tech Tips and don't forget to subscribe.