WEBVTT 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:07.640 this is the cougar SX series 850 W power 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 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:16.199 cougar.com now I recommend you type that 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:21.640 directly into your browser bar and do not type it into Google okay that is 00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:26.599 cougar world.com this power supply is AMD game ready it is Crossfire certified 00:00:24.119 --> 00:00:32.000 as well as SLI certified it is an 80 plus silver Power Supply and does 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:35.559 feature a mod interface I mean one of the things I thought was really 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:39.640 exceptional about this product is actually none of that because there's a 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:44.039 million in one power supplies on the market but I really like the aesthetic 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:48.680 of it there aren't too many guys out there that are really shaking up the 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 00:00:50.199 --> 00:00:56.760 down angle so that we can uh oh this is a nice package too 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:58.199 actually so up here we find oh okay so 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 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:06.119 so it looks kind of nice when you open it I guess potentially they could put 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 00:01:08.119 --> 00:01:16.880 compartmentalized little packaging system here that we're going to go ahead 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:20.360 and try to disassemble unbox if you 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:23.680 will okay so there we 00:01:20.360 --> 00:01:26.439 are and there's some more modular cables 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 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:34.840 to put that back together all right here is a little uh presumably a quick start 00:01:32.360 --> 00:01:38.920 guide introduction warning and safety notes uh protect the PSU against 00:01:36.759 --> 00:01:45.479 moisture some obvious stuff like that how to install it uh warranty is uh 5 00:01:42.479 --> 00:01:47.000 years and cougar is actually you can see 00:01:45.479 --> 00:01:50.759 the manufactur contact right here is compy case so compy case has been around 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 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 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 00:02:02.039 --> 00:02:08.319 SX series is 80 plus silver although they do have other series of power 00:02:06.119 --> 00:02:15.599 supplies as well including the GX which is 80 plus gold as well as I believe 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:17.000 it's shoot might be CX but yeah like I 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:22.160 said you can check out more information on Cougar world so here's a little uh 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:25.840 cougar cable tie that holds together the uh power supply connectors that are 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:28.879 hardwired that's actually pretty nice like they've got a few pretty nice 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 00:02:31.720 --> 00:02:37.640 reasonably good quality sleeving which you don't see enough these days you 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:41.519 can't actually see very easily the color of the cables underneath it you can see 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 00:02:44.239 --> 00:02:49.360 a lot of sleevings seem to be like stretched like I can't even really 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:53.000 demonstrate it with this one but it feels like it's stretched too thin and 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 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 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 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:09.200 look at the rest of the hardwired connectors because this can sometimes 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:12.319 make or break a modular power supply in 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:16.159 my opinion so let me see Okay so we've 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:18.239 got two PCIe 6 plus2 pin so those pretty 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 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:26.200 running something that requires a couple PCIe connectors and then you have this 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:31.080 is probably too many cables to have hardwired for this but we have an eight 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:32.840 pin a 4 plus4 pin and then we have an 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:36.799 additional four pin for CPU so this gives you every possible combination 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:40.360 that you could need for up at the top left of your motherboard many 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:44.560 motherboards today actually do require more than one 8 pin connector for 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:48.159 example the Big Bang X power from MSI requires two 8 Pin connectors although 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.879 there are also motherboards that require an eight pin and a four pin mostly on 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:55.519 the server side so you'll be able to power whatever it is you need to 00:03:53.879 --> 00:04:00.200 regardless of all of that let's have a look at what else we 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 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:07.599 of these cougar cable ties so these are just little velcro I really like these 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 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 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:21.479 made of the soft side so it's all teeth 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 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:29.720 like them I've said that a couple times now 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 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:38.440 got oh this is nice so this is a multi-rail power supply actually we 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 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:45.400 so this is a four rail power supply and 00:04:43.880 --> 00:04:50.320 you can see that the labels are all clearly the labels the rails are all 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:56.919 clearly labeled so 12v 1 is powering the peripherals 12v 3 is powering as well as 00:04:53.400 --> 00:04:59.960 12vt 4 is powering the PCIe as well as 00:04:56.919 --> 00:05:03.960 the extra eight pins 00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:06.880 hold on pause for a second 12vt 4 and 3 00:05:03.960 --> 00:05:10.919 are powering the PCI Express connectors so let's have a look at the modular 00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:15.759 cables that are included finally and we've got a couple red ones so you can 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 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.680 supply can power up to two high-end gpus 00:05:21.039 --> 00:05:26.600 which 850 wat should be more than adequate for and then we've got some 00:05:24.840 --> 00:05:31.039 more peripheral connectors so wow this is kind of an interesting layout we've 00:05:28.440 --> 00:05:36.520 got a single modular cable that has three SATA and two Molex then we have 00:05:34.039 --> 00:05:42.680 another modular cable that is three Molex so that is for purely Molex 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:45.160 drives or peripherals then we have 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:52.400 another one that is three SATA and one Molex and then finally we have one that 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:54.000 is fora okay so that gives you quite the 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 00:05:57.520 --> 00:06:03.800 flexibility so let's talk more more about the unit itself you can see here 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:08.880 on the bottom it uses a pretty special fan so this is a hydrodynamic bearing 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 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:16.199 well you can see that but cougar claims 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:21.039 that with this blade design you're able to get more silent performance and a 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:24.800 longer lifespan with the blade design as well as the bearing design that goes 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 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 00:06:32.039 --> 00:06:36.720 paint like this is uh this is a very 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 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:45.599 a purely black paint and all of that texture is actually right in the surface 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:49.120 of the paint so here we've got the cougar logo which is again silver 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 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:56.400 orange accent so that really matches the cables that come out of it which are 00:06:54.680 --> 00:07:01.520 black white and orange okay here we have ah yeah this is 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:08.080 the information on was looking for so out of the 12vt Rails we can pull a 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:11.400 maximum of 828 Watts 12vt rail 1 2 3 and 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:14.319 four are capable of 22 22 24 and 24 amps 00:07:11.400 --> 00:07:21.240 respectively that is maximum per rail so that means you can't actually pull 22 + 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:23.960 22 is 44 68 you can't actually pull like 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:27.599 100 amps out of this thing but it means that the overcurrent protection which 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:30.960 this unit does feature is not going to be triggered until you reach those 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 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 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 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:47.599 so that keeps the voltage regulation good and it also means that very little 00:07:46.039 --> 00:07:54.800 of the internals of this power supply are actually dedicated to providing 3.3 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:56.720 volt and 5vt power so what that means is 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 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 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:10.639 design of the power supply it does feature very low Ripple it also has all 00:08:07.599 --> 00:08:14.919 Japanese solid capacitors and it's rated 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:16.720 at its rated power for up to 50° C so 00:08:14.919 --> 00:08:21.759 unlike many power supplies on the market that are rated for an unrealistic 30° or 00:08:19.919 --> 00:08:27.960 even lower than that this one is actually rated to deliver its power when 00:08:24.919 --> 00:08:29.599 it's under a loaded scenario so thank 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 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 00:08:37.479 --> 00:08:42.560 talk mostly about the aesthetic of this thing cuz it's so cool thanks for 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.600 checking out the unboxing don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips last 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:51.640 thing included that I did forget to mention during the unboxing of this 00:08:48.839 --> 00:08:56.519 product is that it does include a very very thick gauge power connector so you 00:08:53.600 --> 00:09:02.680 can see this is quality right there they are not expecting this to uh melt or 00:08:59.959 --> 00:09:07.360 otherwise deform it look at this thing what is this here I can actually tell 00:09:04.920 --> 00:09:14.959 you yeah this is uh 14 14 gauge 00:09:10.079 --> 00:09:14.959 wire very beefy okay that was it