1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:07,640 this is the cougar SX series 850 W power 2 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:14,160 supply and if you want to find out more about this brand cougar you can go to 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:16,199 cougar.com now I recommend you type that 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:21,640 directly into your browser bar and do not type it into Google okay that is 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:26,599 cougar world.com this power supply is AMD game ready it is Crossfire certified 6 00:00:24,119 --> 00:00:32,000 as well as SLI certified it is an 80 plus silver Power Supply and does 7 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:35,559 feature a mod interface I mean one of the things I thought was really 8 00:00:33,399 --> 00:00:39,640 exceptional about this product is actually none of that because there's a 9 00:00:37,719 --> 00:00:44,039 million in one power supplies on the market but I really like the aesthetic 10 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:48,680 of it there aren't too many guys out there that are really shaking up the 11 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:52,160 look of power supplies so go ahead and get the camera on like more of a top 12 00:00:50,199 --> 00:00:56,760 down angle so that we can uh oh this is a nice package too 13 00:00:53,719 --> 00:00:58,199 actually so up here we find oh okay so 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:02,359 this is just to make sure that the top of the box is like a black color 15 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:06,119 so it looks kind of nice when you open it I guess potentially they could put 16 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:10,360 something in there if they wanted to in the future so here we are we have this 17 00:01:08,119 --> 00:01:16,880 compartmentalized little packaging system here that we're going to go ahead 18 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:20,360 and try to disassemble unbox if you 19 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:23,680 will okay so there we 20 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:26,439 are and there's some more modular cables 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:29,600 in there and here is the power supply itself so hopefully I'm going to be able 22 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:34,840 to put that back together all right here is a little uh presumably a quick start 23 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:38,920 guide introduction warning and safety notes uh protect the PSU against 24 00:01:36,759 --> 00:01:45,479 moisture some obvious stuff like that how to install it uh warranty is uh 5 25 00:01:42,479 --> 00:01:47,000 years and cougar is actually you can see 26 00:01:45,479 --> 00:01:50,759 the manufactur contact right here is compy case so compy case has been around 27 00:01:48,759 --> 00:01:55,240 a long time they've been making case and power supplies for a very long time so 28 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:00,119 it's not like cougar is a new company uh even though it is a new brand all right 29 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:04,640 then we've got some basic specs here for the whole series of SX so their entire 30 00:02:02,039 --> 00:02:08,319 SX series is 80 plus silver although they do have other series of power 31 00:02:06,119 --> 00:02:15,599 supplies as well including the GX which is 80 plus gold as well as I believe 32 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:17,000 it's shoot might be CX but yeah like I 33 00:02:15,599 --> 00:02:22,160 said you can check out more information on Cougar world so here's a little uh 34 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:25,840 cougar cable tie that holds together the uh power supply connectors that are 35 00:02:24,319 --> 00:02:28,879 hardwired that's actually pretty nice like they've got a few pretty nice 36 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:33,319 touches here I think this is pretty unique what they've done with the sleeving so you can see they're using a 37 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:37,640 reasonably good quality sleeving which you don't see enough these days you 38 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:41,519 can't actually see very easily the color of the cables underneath it you can see 39 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:46,280 it if you look for it but like I said it's hiding the cables somewhat whereas 40 00:02:44,239 --> 00:02:49,360 a lot of sleevings seem to be like stretched like I can't even really 41 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:53,000 demonstrate it with this one but it feels like it's stretched too thin and 42 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:57,680 you can see all of the individual wires under it so here's the 24 pin connector 43 00:02:55,159 --> 00:03:00,760 you can see it is a 20 + 4 it's quite long so even if you have a bottom mount 44 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,879 bottom mounted power supply you'll be able to reach up to the top let's have a 45 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:09,200 look at the rest of the hardwired connectors because this can sometimes 46 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:12,319 make or break a modular power supply in 47 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:16,159 my opinion so let me see Okay so we've 48 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:18,239 got two PCIe 6 plus2 pin so those pretty 49 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:21,799 much Essential for an 850 W power supply I'm going to go ahead and assume you're 50 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:26,200 running something that requires a couple PCIe connectors and then you have this 51 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:31,080 is probably too many cables to have hardwired for this but we have an eight 52 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,840 pin a 4 plus4 pin and then we have an 53 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:36,799 additional four pin for CPU so this gives you every possible combination 54 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:40,360 that you could need for up at the top left of your motherboard many 55 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:44,560 motherboards today actually do require more than one 8 pin connector for 56 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:48,159 example the Big Bang X power from MSI requires two 8 Pin connectors although 57 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:51,879 there are also motherboards that require an eight pin and a four pin mostly on 58 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:55,519 the server side so you'll be able to power whatever it is you need to 59 00:03:53,879 --> 00:04:00,200 regardless of all of that let's have a look at what else we 60 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:03,879 have for included modular cables as well as oh cool we have more of these uh more 61 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:07,599 of these cougar cable ties so these are just little velcro I really like these 62 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:13,079 actually you can see the whole front of the of the cable tie is made of the um 63 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:18,880 the hard side of the velcro the prickly side and then the entire back of it is 64 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:21,479 made of the soft side so it's all teeth 65 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:25,560 at the front and then it's all uh me kind at the back those are neat I 66 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,720 like them I've said that a couple times now 67 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:35,199 but I think you get the point all right all right let's see what we've got for modular connectors so back here we've 68 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:38,440 got oh this is nice so this is a multi-rail power supply actually we 69 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:43,880 should talk a little bit more about that we'll talk about the uh the rail layout 70 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:45,400 so this is a four rail power supply and 71 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:50,320 you can see that the labels are all clearly the labels the rails are all 72 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:56,919 clearly labeled so 12v 1 is powering the peripherals 12v 3 is powering as well as 73 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:59,960 12vt 4 is powering the PCIe as well as 74 00:04:56,919 --> 00:05:03,960 the extra eight pins 75 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:06,880 hold on pause for a second 12vt 4 and 3 76 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:10,919 are powering the PCI Express connectors so let's have a look at the modular 77 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:15,759 cables that are included finally and we've got a couple red ones so you can 78 00:05:13,039 --> 00:05:21,039 see these red ones are both 6 plus2 PCI E so that means by default this power 79 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,680 supply can power up to two high-end gpus 80 00:05:21,039 --> 00:05:26,600 which 850 wat should be more than adequate for and then we've got some 81 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:31,039 more peripheral connectors so wow this is kind of an interesting layout we've 82 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:36,520 got a single modular cable that has three SATA and two Molex then we have 83 00:05:34,039 --> 00:05:42,680 another modular cable that is three Molex so that is for purely Molex 84 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:45,160 drives or peripherals then we have 85 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:52,400 another one that is three SATA and one Molex and then finally we have one that 86 00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:54,000 is fora okay so that gives you quite the 87 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:59,880 combination that you can plug in and really that's what modular power supplies are all about 88 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:03,800 flexibility so let's talk more more about the unit itself you can see here 89 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:08,880 on the bottom it uses a pretty special fan so this is a hydrodynamic bearing 90 00:06:06,479 --> 00:06:14,360 140 mm fan and it uses a very different layout to the blades I'm not sure how 91 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:16,199 well you can see that but cougar claims 92 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:21,039 that with this blade design you're able to get more silent performance and a 93 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:24,800 longer lifespan with the blade design as well as the bearing design that goes 94 00:06:22,319 --> 00:06:28,960 into this fan so that's pretty cool you can see it's got silver accents here to 95 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:35,080 go with its 80 plus silver rating as well as a very very cool finish to the 96 00:06:32,039 --> 00:06:36,720 paint like this is uh this is a very 97 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:41,880 very neat finish you can see that it kind of uh Sparkles and shines but it is 98 00:06:39,319 --> 00:06:45,599 a purely black paint and all of that texture is actually right in the surface 99 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:49,120 of the paint so here we've got the cougar logo which is again silver 100 00:06:47,479 --> 00:06:53,280 because this is an 80 plus silver Power Supply and then we have a bit of an 101 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:56,400 orange accent so that really matches the cables that come out of it which are 102 00:06:54,680 --> 00:07:01,520 black white and orange okay here we have ah yeah this is 103 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:08,080 the information on was looking for so out of the 12vt Rails we can pull a 104 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:11,400 maximum of 828 Watts 12vt rail 1 2 3 and 105 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:14,319 four are capable of 22 22 24 and 24 amps 106 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:21,240 respectively that is maximum per rail so that means you can't actually pull 22 + 107 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:23,960 22 is 44 68 you can't actually pull like 108 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:27,599 100 amps out of this thing but it means that the overcurrent protection which 109 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:30,960 this unit does feature is not going to be triggered until you reach those 110 00:07:29,039 --> 00:07:34,919 numbers now let's just see if there's anything else we wanted to talk about oh 111 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:38,840 right yeah because it's able to pull so much from the 12vt rail or not because 112 00:07:37,479 --> 00:07:42,960 but what allows it to pull so much from the 12vt rail is the DC todc technology 113 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:47,599 so that keeps the voltage regulation good and it also means that very little 114 00:07:46,039 --> 00:07:54,800 of the internals of this power supply are actually dedicated to providing 3.3 115 00:07:50,319 --> 00:07:56,720 volt and 5vt power so what that means is 116 00:07:54,800 --> 00:08:01,280 you can pull a lot of the 12volt rail it's just a better design these days 117 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:04,159 actually pause for a second so there are a couple more points to make due to the 118 00:08:02,759 --> 00:08:10,639 design of the power supply it does feature very low Ripple it also has all 119 00:08:07,599 --> 00:08:14,919 Japanese solid capacitors and it's rated 120 00:08:10,639 --> 00:08:16,720 at its rated power for up to 50° C so 121 00:08:14,919 --> 00:08:21,759 unlike many power supplies on the market that are rated for an unrealistic 30° or 122 00:08:19,919 --> 00:08:27,960 even lower than that this one is actually rated to deliver its power when 123 00:08:24,919 --> 00:08:29,599 it's under a loaded scenario so thank 124 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:35,399 you for checking out this unboxing I think we talked about the back where we find a power switch as well as a power 125 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:38,959 plug and more of an orange finish to the unit and yeah I mean really I wanted to 126 00:08:37,479 --> 00:08:42,560 talk mostly about the aesthetic of this thing cuz it's so cool thanks for 127 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:46,600 checking out the unboxing don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips last 128 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:51,640 thing included that I did forget to mention during the unboxing of this 129 00:08:48,839 --> 00:08:56,519 product is that it does include a very very thick gauge power connector so you 130 00:08:53,600 --> 00:09:02,680 can see this is quality right there they are not expecting this to uh melt or 131 00:08:59,959 --> 00:09:07,360 otherwise deform it look at this thing what is this here I can actually tell 132 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:14,959 you yeah this is uh 14 14 gauge 133 00:09:10,079 --> 00:09:14,959 wire very beefy okay that was it