now we love talking about crazy high-end power supplies like that ax 1500i that
we checked out a while back before throwing it off of a roof to allegedly
test its packaging or something but with computers trending towards being smaller
and more efficient all the time is the age of the massive 12200 plus watt power
supply that's cooled by like immersing it in oil or something over by the way
uh make sure you're subscribed because our oil cooled piece build blog is
coming soon but um you can go now back to this what about building physically
much smaller power supplies that leverage modern technology to deliver
enough power for a high-end rig without overdoing it this is silverston SX 600g
a 600 wat fully modular sfx power supply
with 80 plus gold certified efficiency
pretty sweet
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more so here's the unit it's sfx which
means that it's designed for small compact cases like the Silverstone M7
that I have in front of me here and it's got the same kind of specs that we' have
expected to find in a high-end full sized ATX power supply only a a few
short years ago except that it's
absolutely tiny like it's hidden away in there we're talking 80 plus gold
efficiency a fully modular interface with these sexy easier to Cable manage
black cables a single 12volt rail capable of delivering a maximum of 50
amps so the entire capacity of the power supply can be used to feed a graphics
card an intelligent cooling fan curve with a silent mode where the 80 mimer
fan doesn't even spin under 45 degrees
celius and well is that not enough for you so
because we lack the gear to do detailed full power supply reviews I thought why
not just approach it from a different angle and give you guys some inspiration
by building the most heavyduty power sucking machine that we can in an ITX
case so we started with actually using one of silverstone's own CPU coolers
here you can see that there's not going to be a whole lot of wasted space in
this build with CPU memory built in S card and not a whole lot of room for
much of anything else here um building in this system is very similar to the RV
zo1 So silverstone's Raven 01 case
because the internal chassis is the same so you pull up the drive cage and GPU
bracket thing uh there's a PCI Express Riser so that you can install the
graphics card you pull out the power supply Mount and it uses a pass through
cable so that you plug it in at the back of the case just like normal but there's
actually an internal AC power cable that plugs into the back of the power supply
now this is a benefit of a modular power
supply that a lot of people don't really think about when you're working on a
tight build instead of having to have the cable come out of the power supply
and then put in the motherboard and then try to plug the power supply into the
board you can plug into the board first when you're in a situation where there's
really not going to be a lot of room to access it later then you can leave those
ends loose and plug plug them into the back of the power supply later on so
it's pretty pretty tightly packed in here we can have a look at where the
power supply gets its ventilation from the back side of the case here just like
that you can actually put feet on the bottom so you can lay it down like this and it still won't suffocate and then
exhaust is actually out these holes in
the top right here we actually found that it stayed extremely cool even under
the most intensive loads that we could throw at it using this system speaking
of intensive loads we went with an r9290 from Gigabyte it's it's got a wind
Forest cooler on it so we're basically torturing this system by putting one of
the highest power consumption cards that we could and then overclocking it to
1.144 gigahertz in order to do all of
our testing but first here's just a bit of a look at the overall finished build
how compact everything is there you can see the graphics cards pulling in nice
fresh air from the outside the CPUs is pulling in fresh air from the outside
power supplies pulling in fresh air from the outside and other than that
everything else is just passive exhaust on this case so what's the conclusion
here is there a conclusion well yeah there is because we went with a 4670k we
overclocked the stuffing out of it considering the compactness of our CPU
Cooler so we got that up to around 4.6 GHz we overclocked our GPU as high as we
could go without artifacting we fired up Prime 95 small fft and Far Cry 3 and the
most we could get sustained load was about 480 Watts from the wall which
means that the actual power supply was even then only working at just over 2/3
of its total capacity and wasn't getting
very warm at all in fact we took our thermal probe and aimed at the inside of
the power supply as best we could it's really hard to get at in there and the
highest temperature reading we could get from there was around 29° C pretty darn Frosty and at idle
that fan never even turned on so that was at about 100 Watts load very
impressive and I'd love to hear your guys' comments under the video do you
really think still a place in the world for power supplies that are like these,
1500 watt monsters or do you think something like this makes more sense for
your next gaming rig and going with something more compact I just want to
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