welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that I personally feel pretty
strongly about if you guys have been watching me for any length of time you
probably are aware already that I'm a bit of a silence freak when it comes to
computers and very few things get my
motor running to the same extent that uh fanless power supplies do so this one
right here is from Rosewell which is a brand you've probably never seen me
feature on this channel before but there's a first time for everything and
this is the Silent Night 500 W 80 plus
Platinum fanless power supply so the
idea is that you could actually power a gaming grade machine with even something
like a GTX 680 3570k a couple ssds off a
power supply that actually doesn't need a fan to run it comes with a 5-year
warranty it has modular cables it uses
let's go ahead and flip over onto the back a single strong 12volt rail that is
capable of providing almost the entire 500 of output so this is pretty common
to see on very high efficiency power supplies like 80 plus Platinum because
most of the time they are using a 12vt to 5vt and 3.3 volt converter a DC todc
converter in order to achieve those other rails so that's why the 12vt rail
is capable of the entire output of it so comprehensive protections with your
overcurrent over voltage under overpower under voltage ShortCircuit protection
all that good stuff I mean remember guys Rose doesn't actually manufacture the
power supply it's more to do with them finding an oem that's able to achieve
all of the safety ratings and design requirements and then they are bringing
it to Market so multi-GPU support with
four times PCIe 6 plus2 pin connectors
this is something that I have never seen on a silent power supply normally you're
lucky if they include two PCIe connectors so inside here we find a
user's manual which basically says all the stuff that's on the packaging
already nice uh closed cell foam so you
don't have to worry about it getting damaged in shipping look at that they
include both thumb screws and regular screws for mounting it into your case
depending on what it's compatible with which is uh very helpful some zip ties
as well as a standard power cord a little bit thin power cord but honestly
it's a 500 W power supply so I don't think it's an issue then we have Z power
supply itself ooh this has a really nice
finish on it I am I actually super super stoked on
that check this out that is right up there with the
Strider gold Evo I believe it's called from Silverstone with that sort of
textured black finish not only does it make it look outstanding but it also is
much more durable than a uh than a flatter finish so what they've done is
in order to keep it from just being shiny they've textured it but it's a
glossy paint so glossy paints are inherently more durable than flat paints
because they have more resin and less of whatever they other things in paint are
um but what that means is it will be it'll be more scratch resistant while
also just looking awesome so there you go uh you've got lots of ventilation Now
fanless power supplies are intended to be installed one way and one way one way
only so right here you've got ventilation holes all around the outside
and then here you've got what is a heat sink so presumably internal components
are connected to that somehow although I actually can't see how they've done it
ah yes there we go so there you have heat snc coming up from the bottom up to
the heat sink on the top and then it also acts as a passive exhaust so you
can see that so some of the air is going to be just passively uh wafted up
through the top of the power supply and that'll be intake taken in along the
sides now in terms of pre-attached connectors we've got a fairly basic
complement so this is what I would normally call a semi modular power supply where it has your basic stuff
that you'll probably need 99% of the time pre-attached so there's your 2 four
pin connector there's your 4 plus 4 and
then there are two 6 Plus 2s so that'll
power One graphics card and then the rest of it is all done with modular
cables so they include a nice little Rose will pack that has everything else
you'll need they're not expecting you to hook up a bajillion things to this so
they only include I would have liked to see two SATA harnesses and oh no this is
a mixed one okay that's not so bad oh okay that's kind of clever okay so
they've got a three Molex and one floppy connector one they have a two SATA and
two Molex connector one so this would be really useful if you have a case that
has like a basement like something like a tj07 where you want to have sort of a
couple drives down there maybe a water cooling pump or whatever else so you're going to have a mixture of what's
connected to it and then finally a quad SATA harness that you can run to your
drive cage or wherever else that you're actually going to plug in a bunch of drives and last but not least you've got
another dual 6 plus2 pin connector so
that will take up all four of the modular interface connections on the
back of the power supply giving you the total potential to install six SATA
devices six Molex devices and four PCI
Express 6 plus2 connectors so that's up to two high performance video cards with
that said I wouldn't go and start
throwing dual GTX 690s at this thing
okay use your common sense it's a 500 wat power supply
so make sure that so what I'd really say is like two mid-range cards in SLI or a
single high-end card and make sure that whatever case you're using with it
actually has some space above the power supply because passively cooled doesn't
mean it doesn't need cooling it just means that it is able to as long as it
has some air flow around it it is able to be cool enough without its own
dedicated fan thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Silent
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