hey everyone it's colin how's it going i'm out at free geek twin cities again if you can't tell and they brought this to my attention at first glance it looks like one of those five and a quarter inch drive bay fans right i mean those were very popular i'm not sure people really use them so much anymore because i'm not sure how often people even use five and a quarter drive bays on their cases but you know a couple of air intakes in the front blows air from front to back helps with the cooling this one's brand new which is kind of a surprise but well it's not just a fan there's a little bit more going on here take a look at the back there's a peculiar selection of power connectors here and one of them is ac input if we take a look at the bottom of this well that'll explain quite a bit it's made by fsp it's called the booster xNUMBER_TOKEN this is a five and a quarter inch drive bay power supply now it's not meant to be the primary power supply for your computer by by no means it doesn't have the right outputs to start and well why would you do that well here's the thing this is meant to be a supplemental power supply for your machine it's rated for NUMBER_TOKEN watts and if we take a look at the accessory kit that came with it and i was surprised to see this thing had the box and the manual and everything the power output cable is modular this end goes into the back of the booster but it's all just pcie power connectors the whole point of this thing was specifically for if you upgraded your video card and the main psu in your system wasn't powerful enough they specifically call this thing out as being compatible both with sli and crossfire it dates back to about NUMBER_TOKEN or so so you know if you had a system and you swapped out the video card and you realized oh the video card draws more than what the system can deliver this i think was kind of the idea you can just pick up one of these and as long as you've got a spare drive bay in the front of your case well you can just swap this thing in how they route the power is obviously i mean this one stays all internal in the case and then they gave you a pci slot cover that's got an interesting figure eight socket on it so you just run this cable internally through the case plug it into the back of the power supply and then there was another figure eight cable to go into the wall i'm a little disappointed that they couldn't rig up some fancy way of piggybacking off of the connector on your main power supply do some sort of pass-through cable that would come through and then plug into here and then it would have a socket on it we could plug the main cable in so you only have one cable going into the computer and this this setup you've got to have two so a little imperfect but they kind of made up for it with some smart thinking if we look at the back again power input power output this is a four pin molex and the idea was you'd plug a spare connector off your main power supply into here the power supply wouldn't draw any power from your main psu but it would rather just use this to trigger this thing turning on
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