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today we'll be unboxing the silencer Mark III series of power supply I mean

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I'm not going to I'm not going to do them all this is the 600 watt but it's

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actually available in a number of different wattages this is sort of meant

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to be an entry level um and based on the

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fact that the ocz Technology Group is using the PC

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power branding the positioning of this is that it is a value sort of low to

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medium wattage I mean 600 watt I remember back when I got into computers

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was like unheard of high but a low to medium wattage quality power supply it

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has a 5-year warranty which is in line with what we'd expect from the PC power

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and cooling brand here are the connectors that are included the non-

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modular and the flat black modular cables but we'll look at those once we

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open it up what else we got on here oh look at that true to form a PC power

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power supply has a single 12vt rail so a

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single strong 12vt rail means you don't have to worry about what you connect to

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what cable meticulous eily designed with only premium components including 105°

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capacitors so it should provide its entire rated output even at 50° ambient

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temperatures which is uh pretty absurd that's a little bit on the high side for

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what you'd expect uh 80 plus bronze efficiency means that while it's better

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than the standard 80 plus it's not going to be as expensive as some of the 80

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plus silver and 80 plus gold power supplies in this wattage range which

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haven't been that popular just due to the price increase engineered for you

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modular power cables yep pleas in mind

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with the 5year warranty and Engineering experience dating back over 25 years

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okay what else we got here technical specifications continued output rated

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yeah okay large temperature controlled 120 mil dual double ball bearing fan

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compant um all your usual uh protective

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circuitry including over voltage over power over short

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circuit um that's funny no over current

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Ian maybe that's what they mean by overpower but maybe you know some of the

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electrical engineers in the audience can uh post a comment and let me know what

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they think does overpower mean overcurrent

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protection all right modular cables

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included not all of them are flat black you can see there are some braided

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ones so our modular PCI Express connectors are braided and then the

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modular peripheral connectors are not raded we've got an instruction manual

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which presumably shows you how to plug the power supply into various things yes

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it does okay we've got some included black zip

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ties four included screws for mounting the power supply we've got the usual

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close Cell nice high durability foam here and then we've got a great look to

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this particular power supply that would actually make it go very well with one of the other things that I have here

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that's behind me the Phantom 410 which I'll be unboxing soon so we have a white

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and black finish that feels already incredibly durable so it's a bit of a

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textured finish that is going to be

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about as scratch proof as I think a power supply finish is going to get and

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then you've got kind of silver accents so white black silver color scheme and

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let's have a look at the included cables before we look too closely at the power

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supply unit itself so let me just undo

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this so we can check the lengths here all right so our 24 pin connector

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is a non-m modular cable as uh as we expected and it is about one Linus ARM

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in length just a little bit less okay and then we've got one in okay this is

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interesting so this is a sort of a different mix of pre-connected cables

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than what I've seen in the past so we have a single PCIe uh 6 plus two pin

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included and this goes on yeah that side

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right there so that's a six or an eight pin and then we have a single included 4

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plus 4 so that's your eight pin EPS connector oh and that one is about yay

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long so unless you have a tall case uh you're probably not going to have to get

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an extension although if you do have a tall case you probably will have to get

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an extension with this guy then we have aha okay so we have another included for

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another 4 + 4 this is a modular one so

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that would go there and then we have another 6+ 2 so you have up to 28 pins

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and two PCI Express connectors with this

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power supply and then I would have normally liked to see a few more modular

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peripheral connectors but let's see what they've included here okay so we have uh three

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Molex we have a three SATA and then we

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have a three SATA and yeah like I said I

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would normally like to see more peripheral connectors included in fact

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in this case uh with this power supply they have included actually Four

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peripheral connections on the power supply unit itself but only three

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actual H cable harnesses to go on them

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so you're left with one additional one I guess if you find another one that

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happens to be compatible then you could use that um normally okay Power modular

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power supplies to me the point of the modular power supply and why they

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originally came out was Cable Management so that was one and then the second

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generation of modular power supplies was more about options so that was back when

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a lot of the standards were really changing sometimes we had Molex

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connectors on the backs of video card sometimes we had PCI Express sometimes

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we had a 20 pin sometimes we had a 24 pin connector on the motherboard uh

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sometimes we had a four pin or an eight pin at the top sometimes you had IDE

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drives using um your four pin standard Molex and sometimes you had SATA drives

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using the SATA power connector so that was why modular power supplies were so

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important because it gave you the option of which cables to install so I always

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used to get a bit of a chuckle out of modular power supplies that only

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included exactly as many cables as fit in the uh in the sockets on the power

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supply itself because I was like oh well then you're not really having any options at all you're just plugging in

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whatever you need so it sort of gets the one point where you get improved cable

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management and better internal appearance but it misses the other point

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which is giving you options in terms of what you want to install and I've never seen one that comes with fewer cables

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than actual um sockets so it's possible

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if if someone bought one of these already and it does normally come with

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more cables this was a review unit so it's possible they made a mistake so let

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post a comment and let us know but there you go there's my little spiel about

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that so on the top of the unit we find the general specs again which we already

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saw on the outside so it's up to 555 52

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Watts on the 12vt rail total Power 600 watts continuous so um some power

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supplies are not rated for continuous wattage this particular one is and it

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better be any good quality power supply is rated for continuous wattage on the

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side here you see the silencer MK3 branding on the bottom we've got a nice

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little silencer MK3 badge with our 120 mil cooling

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fan on the side we find also right side

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up again I love seeing this because um

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for the longest time uh some manufacturers were putting them right

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side up and right side up which means that when you actually go and install it

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in the case it would be upside down if you wanted your fan side up which I usually prefer so there you have it and

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then on the back we find what has become standard honeycomb mesh and onoff switch

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and our power port I don't think I ever showed you but it does include a power cable as well so thank you for checking

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