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usa.com this unboxing is actually meant to be an unboxing of a couple of
different things so number one is going to be silverstone's Strider gold
Evolution power supply the golden standard for PSU performance efficiency
and quality is what they have to say for themselves about it it delivers 1,000
watt sustained 1100 Watts Peak and has
basically just got all the other good stuff about it that Silverstone usually
has so there's a quiet 135 mm cooling fan this is a Strider series power
supply so it is presumably fully modular
although I actually am not 100% sure and
actually no I'm kidding yeah it's 100% modular um okay there's some manuals
inside there's some stuff inside here
um don't worry I'm getting to the second part of the unboxing very quickly here
so we've got a power cable from do not eat there's that do not eat throw away
do not eat thank you uh we've got closed
cell foam which is of course very good for keeping your power supply safe look
at this that's a nice touch that's a new thing so they've included a magnetic
dust filter so that's a 140 mm dust
filter you go ahead and pop that on your power supply or if you don't want to use
it on your power supply you go ahead put it somewhere else it's up to you it's magnetic so it'll like stick to things
that aren't your face no doesn't stick to my face okay that's
okay uh power supply you've got some cable management velcro zip ties as well
as some regular zip ties some oh look at
that two sets of mounting screws so they include four thumb screws and then four
regular black screws for mounting the power supply to your case
and the power supply itself which has AB
actually just a gorgeous finish on it so it's got kind of a it looks very similar
to Mountain mods's black sprinkle finish and you can tell right away with a paint
finish is it going to be durable is it not going to be durable this looks like one of the nicer this might be the
nicest finish on a power supply I've ever seen check that out that looks
absolutely gorgeous okay so uh FF 141 yeah
magnetized fan filter included 24-hour fully continuous power output with a 40°
Centigrade operating temperature so that is extremely high um if you're actually
operating your computer in a 40° C environment then I feel really really
really bad for you in addition to your computer so that means that in all
likelihood this power supply can do more than 1,000 watt sustained if you're in a
reasonable room which is probably more like 20° C so about half of that it uses
a single 12vt rail to achieve its th000 watt output so that's 83 amps on that
single 12vt rail which means it can provide almost its entire th000 watt
output on that single rail meaning it's probably using a voltage converter as
opposed to having dedicated circuitry inside so it's actually going okay we're
going to take the ac voltage coming in at the back we're going to convert it
all to 12vt DC and then we're going to convert that DC voltage to 5vt and 3.3
volt which are the other rails on the power supply this actually ends up being
more efficient than the more traditional approach of having dedicated circuitry
for each one so it's a very very good way to do it and it also means that
you're not going to be limited in terms of how many graphics cards or how many
12volt heavy devices that you can plug into it CPUs for example also use 12vt
uh okay so that's pretty much it for that let's have a look at the cables
included and then we're going to move on to the most special part about this
power supply unboxing which is that you don't have to use these cables so
Silverstone has gorgeous power supplies
they look fantastic but they're not always necessarily the ones that I would
want to use for a showcase build because the cables included while they have
decent sleeving on them I mean you actually can't see the color of the cables underneath too much this is
better than most of the Silverstone power supplies I've seen before
often leave a little bit to be desired because these connectors you can see are
using colored cables and there there's a little bit of bare area and all that
kind of stuff so I'm going to show you the alternative cables that you can use
that are the best cables I have ever seen uh so first of all harnesses so the
first harness here is quadruple Mo
rather triple Molex with a floppy connector on the end of each one and
it's about a hm looks like about a Linus
belly button to tip of Linus ARM in terms of of length all right the next
one we have these are quad SATA harnesses and they are using sort of the
uh the upside down configuration so that means you have to run it up to the top
and then down to an optical drive due to the orientation of the connector itself
um this doesn't really bother me because generally speaking if I'm going down to
hard drives I don't mind kind of going like this because they're not that far away and if I'm going down to an optical
drive I'm usually cable managing up the back of the case but not everyone
prefers that so I'm going to go ahead and let you guys make a decision similar
length on that guy 24 pin connector very
short for the 24 pin connector which I do like to see because you don't need a
long 24 pin connector you don't route them that far all modern cases pretty
much have a nice place to put them uh these PCI Express cables have capacitors
built into them this can actually uh improve the performance but it's not the
kind of thing again that I'd like to see on the best cable managed system ever so
there's two 6 plus2 connectors that have individual connectors on the ends and
then there's two more that have a 6 plus2 and an additional six pin and
these are ideal for graphics cards that have two connectors so you only actually
have to run one cable over to the whole thing and then you can plug in two
connectors to the graphics card itself so it's a total of four 6 Plus tws and
two six pin connectors and finally you've got two 4 plus4 connectors for
high-end motherboards that ask for two of them
now I promised to show you guys the best
sleeved CA that I have ever ever
encountered ever and if I could figure out where my knife was then I would do
that here we go so we're going to cut it open that felt
violent and there we have it so these
are not these are better than MD PCX folks these are the best I've
encountered they actually are using more of a cloth Braiding on them as opposed
to a so they're individually sleeved and they're using not plastic no plastic and
it's um yeah just oh absolutely
beautiful I mean part of the point of sleeving is for looks part of the point
is for better air flow in the case which individually sleeving the cables kind of
kicks in the teeth but it's fashionable right now so people do it um but the
last point of sleeving cables is actually to make them more durable so if
you were to accidentally slip with a screwdriver and hit something or with a
knife or scissors or pretty much almost anything else you'd actually have a
really hard time cutting these cables because they have an extremely durable
leing or if you had like a cut out in the in a CPU tray or some or a CPU hole
or something and it rubbed up against it for a long time if it was a just not
covered in sleeving at all if you had two cables that wore out they could
short on each other whereas this that will not happen so I have a 24 pin I've
also got uh some other ones here so I've
actually got a wide variety of these cables you can pick them up they're good
for any uh okay for Silverstone power supplies only refer to website for
details is what they have to say for themselves but but they're available in
a wide variety of different configurations and I think that pretty
much wraps it up so okay yes the Strider 1000 watt beautiful looking power supply
kind of ugly cables but you have the opportunity to put the nicest cables
available on it all right guys so this is officially the most gorgeous looking
power supply that uh I think anyone here
in the studio has ever seen so we've got
a number of different kinds of connectors here so this guy right here
is an individually sleeved 6 plus 2 the great thing about these individually
sleeved cables is if you want to run just a six you don't have to put the two
right next to it you can actually just tuck them away somewhere here I me you
could even cut them off if you really wanted to but I'd feel like like I'm
destroying a work of art with this uh particular power supply this one right
here is a 6 plus 2 plus a six so that
way you could run one gorgeous sleeved cable to a video card that needs two
connectors I'm just going to put this down here so here's our 24 pin which
also oh wait no it isn't that's two 4 plus 4S there we go so those are for
your CPU connectors oh looks so good so good like
So Pro so much better than even like Pro
sleeved individually done power supplies because if you even look at where
they're terminated there's no heat shrink on any but a few of the
connectors so this one's special because there's two wires going into into that
one so you can see that there's just there's nothing it's completely clean
it's very very rare that you see someone put the time and attention into plastic
sleeving to get that right because you'll actually have to pre-plan the way
the cable's going to curve to have them all terminate like that see something like Molex it's a little bit tougher to
do that because of the way that the pins are done but with anything like um here
we go where are they
uh yeah there we go so there's the four pins so the four plus fours where are
the SATA ones SATA ones look very clean as well so there's no color to them
whatsoever I think they're using black wires inside but it's so hard to tell
because this sleeving is so so opaque
you just can't see through it at all so absolutely gorgeous um I think these
wires are a little bit no they're about the same length as the stock ones that
were included so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking
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