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Packaging:
The front of the box features a race car, which ties in nicely with the whole BoosterX name. The background is printed with a matte finish while the text is printed to be reflective. The whole effect makes the text stand out nicely and is a job well done by their graphic arts department.
Inside of the package, you can see a nice foam insulating layer to protect the power supply from shock. The cables come organized with rubber bands to reduce clutter.
The side of the box includes a nice diagram of how a system using the BoosterX 5 would be plugged in.
A Closer Look:
The front features two 40mm intake fans for cooling the power supply. While not completely silent, the noise the fans generate won't really be noticeable above the rest of your computer, unless your build is targeted towards silence. The large X on the front features a back light LED that can be changed between 7 different colors by pushing it in. The colors include green, red, yellow, blue, teal, purple and white. We chose red because it matches the case we put it in. The LED can also be turned off completely by cycling through the sequence.
While this power supply is technically a modular power supply (no unnecessary wires), the whole modularity is lost by the fact that all of the cables are on the same adapter and must be plugged in at all times to make it function.
The unit itself is powered by a fairly standard power cord (looks about the same as the original Xbox). It also take a 4-pin molex connection from the computer's main power supply to let the unit know when to turn on/off. The cord that the power supply uses only has 2 prongs, which means no dedicated ground wire. For this reason, this power supply should not be plugged directly into the wall. Computers in general should always be plugged into a surge protector of some kind.