today we'll be unboxing the silencer Mark III series of power supply I mean
I'm not going to I'm not going to do them all this is the 600 watt but it's
actually available in a number of different wattages this is sort of meant
to be an entry level um and based on the
fact that the ocz Technology Group is using the PC
power branding the positioning of this is that it is a value sort of low to
medium wattage I mean 600 watt I remember back when I got into computers
was like unheard of high but a low to medium wattage quality power supply it
has a 5-year warranty which is in line with what we'd expect from the PC power
and cooling brand here are the connectors that are included the non-
modular and the flat black modular cables but we'll look at those once we
open it up what else we got on here oh look at that true to form a PC power
power supply has a single 12vt rail so a
single strong 12vt rail means you don't have to worry about what you connect to
what cable meticulous eily designed with only premium components including 105°
capacitors so it should provide its entire rated output even at 50° ambient
temperatures which is uh pretty absurd that's a little bit on the high side for
what you'd expect uh 80 plus bronze efficiency means that while it's better
than the standard 80 plus it's not going to be as expensive as some of the 80
plus silver and 80 plus gold power supplies in this wattage range which
haven't been that popular just due to the price increase engineered for you
modular power cables yep pleas in mind
with the 5year warranty and Engineering experience dating back over 25 years
okay what else we got here technical specifications continued output rated
yeah okay large temperature controlled 120 mil dual double ball bearing fan
compant um all your usual uh protective
circuitry including over voltage over power over short
circuit um that's funny no over current
Ian maybe that's what they mean by overpower but maybe you know some of the
electrical engineers in the audience can uh post a comment and let me know what
they think does overpower mean overcurrent
protection all right modular cables
included not all of them are flat black you can see there are some braided
ones so our modular PCI Express connectors are braided and then the
modular peripheral connectors are not raded we've got an instruction manual
which presumably shows you how to plug the power supply into various things yes
it does okay we've got some included black zip
ties four included screws for mounting the power supply we've got the usual
close Cell nice high durability foam here and then we've got a great look to
this particular power supply that would actually make it go very well with one of the other things that I have here
that's behind me the Phantom 410 which I'll be unboxing soon so we have a white
and black finish that feels already incredibly durable so it's a bit of a
textured finish that is going to be
about as scratch proof as I think a power supply finish is going to get and
then you've got kind of silver accents so white black silver color scheme and
let's have a look at the included cables before we look too closely at the power
supply unit itself so let me just undo
this so we can check the lengths here all right so our 24 pin connector
is a non-m modular cable as uh as we expected and it is about one Linus ARM
in length just a little bit less okay and then we've got one in okay this is
interesting so this is a sort of a different mix of pre-connected cables
than what I've seen in the past so we have a single PCIe uh 6 plus two pin
included and this goes on yeah that side
right there so that's a six or an eight pin and then we have a single included 4
plus 4 so that's your eight pin EPS connector oh and that one is about yay
long so unless you have a tall case uh you're probably not going to have to get
an extension although if you do have a tall case you probably will have to get
an extension with this guy then we have aha okay so we have another included for
another 4 + 4 this is a modular one so
that would go there and then we have another 6+ 2 so you have up to 28 pins
and two PCI Express connectors with this
power supply and then I would have normally liked to see a few more modular
peripheral connectors but let's see what they've included here okay so we have uh three
Molex we have a three SATA and then we
have a three SATA and yeah like I said I
would normally like to see more peripheral connectors included in fact
in this case uh with this power supply they have included actually Four
peripheral connections on the power supply unit itself but only three
actual H cable harnesses to go on them
so you're left with one additional one I guess if you find another one that
happens to be compatible then you could use that um normally okay Power modular
power supplies to me the point of the modular power supply and why they
originally came out was Cable Management so that was one and then the second
generation of modular power supplies was more about options so that was back when
a lot of the standards were really changing sometimes we had Molex
connectors on the backs of video card sometimes we had PCI Express sometimes
we had a 20 pin sometimes we had a 24 pin connector on the motherboard uh
sometimes we had a four pin or an eight pin at the top sometimes you had IDE
drives using um your four pin standard Molex and sometimes you had SATA drives
using the SATA power connector so that was why modular power supplies were so
important because it gave you the option of which cables to install so I always
used to get a bit of a chuckle out of modular power supplies that only
included exactly as many cables as fit in the uh in the sockets on the power
supply itself because I was like oh well then you're not really having any options at all you're just plugging in
whatever you need so it sort of gets the one point where you get improved cable
management and better internal appearance but it misses the other point
which is giving you options in terms of what you want to install and I've never seen one that comes with fewer cables
than actual um sockets so it's possible
if if someone bought one of these already and it does normally come with
more cables this was a review unit so it's possible they made a mistake so let
post a comment and let us know but there you go there's my little spiel about
that so on the top of the unit we find the general specs again which we already
saw on the outside so it's up to 555 52
Watts on the 12vt rail total Power 600 watts continuous so um some power
supplies are not rated for continuous wattage this particular one is and it
better be any good quality power supply is rated for continuous wattage on the
side here you see the silencer MK3 branding on the bottom we've got a nice
little silencer MK3 badge with our 120 mil cooling
fan on the side we find also right side
up again I love seeing this because um
for the longest time uh some manufacturers were putting them right
side up and right side up which means that when you actually go and install it
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
then on the back we find what has become standard honeycomb mesh and onoff switch
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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