this is the cougar SX series 850 W power
supply and if you want to find out more about this brand cougar you can go to
cougar.com now I recommend you type that
directly into your browser bar and do not type it into Google okay that is
cougar world.com this power supply is AMD game ready it is Crossfire certified
as well as SLI certified it is an 80 plus silver Power Supply and does
feature a mod interface I mean one of the things I thought was really
exceptional about this product is actually none of that because there's a
million in one power supplies on the market but I really like the aesthetic
of it there aren't too many guys out there that are really shaking up the
look of power supplies so go ahead and get the camera on like more of a top
down angle so that we can uh oh this is a nice package too
actually so up here we find oh okay so
this is just to make sure that the top of the box is like a black color
so it looks kind of nice when you open it I guess potentially they could put
something in there if they wanted to in the future so here we are we have this
compartmentalized little packaging system here that we're going to go ahead
and try to disassemble unbox if you
will okay so there we
are and there's some more modular cables
in there and here is the power supply itself so hopefully I'm going to be able
to put that back together all right here is a little uh presumably a quick start
guide introduction warning and safety notes uh protect the PSU against
moisture some obvious stuff like that how to install it uh warranty is uh 5
years and cougar is actually you can see
the manufactur contact right here is compy case so compy case has been around
a long time they've been making case and power supplies for a very long time so
it's not like cougar is a new company uh even though it is a new brand all right
then we've got some basic specs here for the whole series of SX so their entire
SX series is 80 plus silver although they do have other series of power
supplies as well including the GX which is 80 plus gold as well as I believe
it's shoot might be CX but yeah like I
said you can check out more information on Cougar world so here's a little uh
cougar cable tie that holds together the uh power supply connectors that are
hardwired that's actually pretty nice like they've got a few pretty nice
touches here I think this is pretty unique what they've done with the sleeving so you can see they're using a
reasonably good quality sleeving which you don't see enough these days you
can't actually see very easily the color of the cables underneath it you can see
it if you look for it but like I said it's hiding the cables somewhat whereas
a lot of sleevings seem to be like stretched like I can't even really
demonstrate it with this one but it feels like it's stretched too thin and
you can see all of the individual wires under it so here's the 24 pin connector
you can see it is a 20 + 4 it's quite long so even if you have a bottom mount
bottom mounted power supply you'll be able to reach up to the top let's have a
look at the rest of the hardwired connectors because this can sometimes
make or break a modular power supply in
my opinion so let me see Okay so we've
got two PCIe 6 plus2 pin so those pretty
much Essential for an 850 W power supply I'm going to go ahead and assume you're
running something that requires a couple PCIe connectors and then you have this
is probably too many cables to have hardwired for this but we have an eight
pin a 4 plus4 pin and then we have an
additional four pin for CPU so this gives you every possible combination
that you could need for up at the top left of your motherboard many
motherboards today actually do require more than one 8 pin connector for
example the Big Bang X power from MSI requires two 8 Pin connectors although
there are also motherboards that require an eight pin and a four pin mostly on
the server side so you'll be able to power whatever it is you need to
regardless of all of that let's have a look at what else we
have for included modular cables as well as oh cool we have more of these uh more
of these cougar cable ties so these are just little velcro I really like these
actually you can see the whole front of the of the cable tie is made of the um
the hard side of the velcro the prickly side and then the entire back of it is
made of the soft side so it's all teeth
at the front and then it's all uh me kind at the back those are neat I
like them I've said that a couple times now
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
got oh this is nice so this is a multi-rail power supply actually we
should talk a little bit more about that we'll talk about the uh the rail layout
so this is a four rail power supply and
you can see that the labels are all clearly the labels the rails are all
clearly labeled so 12v 1 is powering the peripherals 12v 3 is powering as well as
12vt 4 is powering the PCIe as well as
the extra eight pins
hold on pause for a second 12vt 4 and 3
are powering the PCI Express connectors so let's have a look at the modular
cables that are included finally and we've got a couple red ones so you can
see these red ones are both 6 plus2 PCI E so that means by default this power
supply can power up to two high-end gpus
which 850 wat should be more than adequate for and then we've got some
more peripheral connectors so wow this is kind of an interesting layout we've
got a single modular cable that has three SATA and two Molex then we have
another modular cable that is three Molex so that is for purely Molex
drives or peripherals then we have
another one that is three SATA and one Molex and then finally we have one that
is fora okay so that gives you quite the
combination that you can plug in and really that's what modular power supplies are all about
flexibility so let's talk more more about the unit itself you can see here
on the bottom it uses a pretty special fan so this is a hydrodynamic bearing
140 mm fan and it uses a very different layout to the blades I'm not sure how
well you can see that but cougar claims
that with this blade design you're able to get more silent performance and a
longer lifespan with the blade design as well as the bearing design that goes
into this fan so that's pretty cool you can see it's got silver accents here to
go with its 80 plus silver rating as well as a very very cool finish to the
paint like this is uh this is a very
very neat finish you can see that it kind of uh Sparkles and shines but it is
a purely black paint and all of that texture is actually right in the surface
of the paint so here we've got the cougar logo which is again silver
because this is an 80 plus silver Power Supply and then we have a bit of an
orange accent so that really matches the cables that come out of it which are
black white and orange okay here we have ah yeah this is
the information on was looking for so out of the 12vt Rails we can pull a
maximum of 828 Watts 12vt rail 1 2 3 and
four are capable of 22 22 24 and 24 amps
respectively that is maximum per rail so that means you can't actually pull 22 +
22 is 44 68 you can't actually pull like
100 amps out of this thing but it means that the overcurrent protection which
this unit does feature is not going to be triggered until you reach those
numbers now let's just see if there's anything else we wanted to talk about oh
right yeah because it's able to pull so much from the 12vt rail or not because
but what allows it to pull so much from the 12vt rail is the DC todc technology
so that keeps the voltage regulation good and it also means that very little
of the internals of this power supply are actually dedicated to providing 3.3
volt and 5vt power so what that means is
you can pull a lot of the 12volt rail it's just a better design these days
actually pause for a second so there are a couple more points to make due to the
design of the power supply it does feature very low Ripple it also has all
Japanese solid capacitors and it's rated
at its rated power for up to 50° C so
unlike many power supplies on the market that are rated for an unrealistic 30° or
even lower than that this one is actually rated to deliver its power when
it's under a loaded scenario so thank
you for checking out this unboxing I think we talked about the back where we find a power switch as well as a power
plug and more of an orange finish to the unit and yeah I mean really I wanted to
talk mostly about the aesthetic of this thing cuz it's so cool thanks for
checking out the unboxing don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips last
thing included that I did forget to mention during the unboxing of this
product is that it does include a very very thick gauge power connector so you
can see this is quality right there they are not expecting this to uh melt or
otherwise deform it look at this thing what is this here I can actually tell
you yeah this is uh 14 14 gauge
wire very beefy okay that was it