 Oh yeah, way better. Modular power supplies are certainly nothing new, but Seasonic has put a bit of a different spin on it. This is the Seasonic Connect One Clean Solution. And unlike other modular power supplies, which have the PSU itself and then a bunch of connectors on it, this one, ah, comes out of the phone like that. Wait. What? This video checking out the Connect is brought to you guys by Seasonic. On the surface, everything looks normal. This is a 750 watt power supply. It's 80 plus gold certified, just like Seasonic's Prime GX. It's got their hybrid mode for the fan, so the fan will actually stop turning under low load. And it's got a 140 millimeter fan, but that's actually where things get interesting. That 140 millimeter fan is taking up the entire surface. Do you see, look how short this thing is? Also, how short this cable is. So just like older non-modular power supplies, the cable is hardwired into the unit, but that's all you've got. Not even a full 24 pin ATX power connector, and then whatever this is. You know, this looks just like the old 20 pin motherboard power connector, but if you plugged this into one of those boards, it would definitely kill it. Let's have a look at what else is in the box. So there's those funky magnets I found before. Ah, wow, those are super strong magnets. These gotta be rare earth magnets. Ah. Oh, and that's how they crack. And I did say this was a modular power supply. So here's our bag of modular cables. Nothing unusual about a bunch of modular cables in a modular power supply, except look at this. So here's our 24 pin power connector, but it's a little baby one, and it doesn't go in anywhere here. Ah, that is where this comes in. So what Seasonic has done here is they have included most of the usual things you would find in a power supply, except instead of doing the DC to DC conversion that is already industry standard, where your power supply will take the AC mains power and just convert it to 12 volt DC power, and then derive any other voltages, five volt, 3.3 volt from that. Now, older power supplies used to actually take mains power and convert it separately for each voltage, but this way ended up being more efficient and with cleaner output. So what they're doing then is they're doing basically that, but they're doing the 12 volt to other voltages conversion elsewhere. Basically, here's how it goes down. Your power supply goes in, this weirdo 20 pin goes into the bottom of the connect here, and then there's also this little doodad that goes in a little something like that. All down this side, we've got our motherboard power, a couple of PCI express for graphics and a handful of IDE or SATA plugs. And then over here, we've got these two plugs, which would go right up to your CPU power and then one more peripheral one. So basically the idea is you're taking that conversion and then you're running much smaller wires for a much cleaner look at the back of your case. That all sounds fine and good in theory, but is this even gonna fit in anything? We can do this, right Andy? Secure my LCD face. Yeah, I know, right? So, see Sonic has validated cases, but we're all about making things interesting. So instead, we grabbed Terran's old editing workstation that he's been having some trouble with and we're gonna try and cure the cable clutter on the back of a tempered glass case. This system was originally built about three years ago before the concept of RGB light daisy chaining had really been introduced. And back when power supplies still all had their cables plugged in at the bottom like cavemen. So let's see what we can do. There honestly might not be much we can do about the RGB wiring, but I'm gonna be curious to see how much cleaner, if at all, this looks without so much power supply wiring. So I'm gonna unplug everything from this side, feed it back through. 24 pin for the motherboard. Oh, you've gotta be kidding me. Did not think that one through. The four pin and the eight pin for the motherboard are covered by this AIO watercolor. Guess we're taking the whole thing apart. And of course these builds were the one time that we put all eight screws in a radiator. Out with the old power supply. And maybe a little bit of dusting is in order. We didn't specifically pick this case because it's listed as compatible. In fact, as far as I know it's not, but we did pick something that we thought would have a chance of being compatible. Because the cable comes out on this side, you can see obviously if we had to mount our power supply with the fan side up, it wouldn't be able to reach. And you could run into similar issues if you had a case with a top mounted power supply, for example. I really gotta wonder what this design costs them in added materials. Does it gain them back in shorter runs at lower voltages? Maybe the whole point really just is it's tidier looking. I'll be the judge of that. That is pretty clean. There's like nothing there. Of course we do still need to put this in here. So compatibility wise, it's about two centimeters thick. So as long as you have that much room on the back of your motherboard tray and enough uninterrupted space to mount it, you should be good to go. Now this one has a bit of a fold out lip around the back of the CPU cutout, but I still think we should be able to make it work. That's where our magnets come in. Little bit of feedback for the buys back at Seasonic, if these pads could be pre-applied. Don't take that long, but it would be a little bit faster to install. That is really tight, but we did manage to get it in there. So I'm gonna pop this off. Let's finish the install. You know what I'm kinda tempted to do? Let's just nibble this a little bit. Normally I wouldn't recommend this to install a power supply, but we gotta have our fun. Oh yeah, way better. Starting with the 24 pin, everything plugs in the way you would normally expect on a modular power supply. This bad boy is gonna go here. Okay, this one right here. And then this goes straight over to the other side. Now our CPU connectors go right here, and then over to the other side. Actually working exactly as intended so far. That's good. Plenty of time for this to go south later though. What else we got? So our RGB controller needs a SATA power. And then there's another LED thing down in the bottom that needs SATA power. And wow, that's about it, ain't it? This has actually been pretty painless. I'm already putting the AIO back in. Now we just need to deal with all these fan cables. Now that's not actually bad if we can get everything contained like that. I do like the magnetic mounting because it means if you need to route something under it, you just pick it up and then put it back down. That's pretty cool. There's one of our RGB connectors. Here's another RGB connector. So many RGB connectors. That's fine, I think. That's so much for two and a half inch drives. See ya, it was nice knowing ya. I'm just trying to get my cable tie back through the loop. Come on. See ya, just need the right tool for the job. That's me. Now for the big test. Does it close without mashing it shut? Awesome. Got it. Obviously I knew what we were getting into going into the video, but I'm still surprised at how much cleaner that looks. We did this whole thing start to finish in just about an hour, didn't we, Andy? That's not bad for a component swap like that and cable management. Even though we don't have the cover anymore, I actually think it looks cleaner without it. See, this cover used to be there, so it's actually kind of similar looking. Theoretically, that's plugged in. Damn it. Oh hey, it's got lighting too. Look at that. Not bad. Did somebody pre-configure this system for me so the lighting would match? Apparently this isn't RGB, so that is something to watch out for. However, if you happen to be super into the blue color scheme, that's gonna look pretty darn sharp, isn't it? Now, of course, the one remaining question is, but at what cost? Well, believe it or not, compared to other 750 watt modular power supplies, it's not outlandishly priced. So it kind of comes down to whether you want your modular interface on the back of your power supply the conventional way or whether you want it running up the back of your motherboard so that you can run off the cables wherever the heck you want. So thanks again to Seasonic for sponsoring today's video. If you guys are looking for another video to watch, they also sponsored the Compensator PC 2020. It's supposed to be 2019, but it took us until 2020 to build it. Anyway, we're gonna have that link below.