WEBVTT 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:06.640 this video is brought to you by Cooler Master featuring The siden 240mm 00:00:04.600 --> 00:00:12.120 all-in-one CPU water cooling system check it out at www. coolermaster 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:16.600 usa.com this unboxing is actually meant to be an unboxing of a couple of 00:00:13.799 --> 00:00:20.840 different things so number one is going to be silverstone's Strider gold 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:24.359 Evolution power supply the golden standard for PSU performance efficiency 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:30.160 and quality is what they have to say for themselves about it it delivers 1,000 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:31.840 watt sustained 1100 Watts Peak and has 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:35.960 basically just got all the other good stuff about it that Silverstone usually 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:41.360 has so there's a quiet 135 mm cooling fan this is a Strider series power 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:44.360 supply so it is presumably fully modular 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:46.440 although I actually am not 100% sure and 00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:54.800 actually no I'm kidding yeah it's 100% modular um okay there's some manuals 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:57.039 inside there's some stuff inside here 00:00:54.800 --> 00:01:01.039 um don't worry I'm getting to the second part of the unboxing very quickly here 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:06.880 so we've got a power cable from do not eat there's that do not eat throw away 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:08.640 do not eat thank you uh we've got closed 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:13.280 cell foam which is of course very good for keeping your power supply safe look 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:19.880 at this that's a nice touch that's a new thing so they've included a magnetic 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:22.400 dust filter so that's a 140 mm dust 00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:25.159 filter you go ahead and pop that on your power supply or if you don't want to use 00:01:23.759 --> 00:01:31.439 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 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:35.680 that aren't your face no doesn't stick to my face okay that's 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:41.880 okay uh power supply you've got some cable management velcro zip ties as well 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:44.000 as some regular zip ties some oh look at 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:48.000 that two sets of mounting screws so they include four thumb screws and then four 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:53.600 regular black screws for mounting the power supply to your case 00:01:50.479 --> 00:01:56.079 and the power supply itself which has AB 00:01:53.600 --> 00:02:00.920 actually just a gorgeous finish on it so it's got kind of a it looks very similar 00:01:58.520 --> 00:02:04.200 to Mountain mods's black sprinkle finish and you can tell right away with a paint 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:09.280 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 00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:12.800 nicest finish on a power supply I've ever seen check that out that looks 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:18.519 absolutely gorgeous okay so uh FF 141 yeah 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:22.560 magnetized fan filter included 24-hour fully continuous power output with a 40° 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:27.640 Centigrade operating temperature so that is extremely high um if you're actually 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:31.840 operating your computer in a 40° C environment then I feel really really 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:35.519 really bad for you in addition to your computer so that means that in all 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:39.280 likelihood this power supply can do more than 1,000 watt sustained if you're in a 00:02:37.440 --> 00:02:44.720 reasonable room which is probably more like 20° C so about half of that it uses 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:49.200 a single 12vt rail to achieve its th000 watt output so that's 83 amps on that 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:53.280 single 12vt rail which means it can provide almost its entire th000 watt 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:58.360 output on that single rail meaning it's probably using a voltage converter as 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:02.599 opposed to having dedicated circuitry inside so it's actually going okay we're 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:06.159 going to take the ac voltage coming in at the back we're going to convert it 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:10.040 all to 12vt DC and then we're going to convert that DC voltage to 5vt and 3.3 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:14.519 volt which are the other rails on the power supply this actually ends up being 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:18.080 more efficient than the more traditional approach of having dedicated circuitry 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:20.920 for each one so it's a very very good way to do it and it also means that 00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:24.840 you're not going to be limited in terms of how many graphics cards or how many 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:29.920 12volt heavy devices that you can plug into it CPUs for example also use 12vt 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:33.280 uh okay so that's pretty much it for that let's have a look at the cables 00:03:31.239 --> 00:03:37.319 included and then we're going to move on to the most special part about this 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:42.439 power supply unboxing which is that you don't have to use these cables so 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:44.599 Silverstone has gorgeous power supplies 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:50.360 they look fantastic but they're not always necessarily the ones that I would 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:54.040 want to use for a showcase build because the cables included while they have 00:03:52.519 --> 00:03:58.599 decent sleeving on them I mean you actually can't see the color of the cables underneath too much this is 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:02.079 better than most of the Silverstone power supplies I've seen before 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:06.159 often leave a little bit to be desired because these connectors you can see are 00:04:03.959 --> 00:04:09.239 using colored cables and there there's a little bit of bare area and all that 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:14.159 kind of stuff so I'm going to show you the alternative cables that you can use 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:20.440 that are the best cables I have ever seen uh so first of all harnesses so the 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:22.440 first harness here is quadruple Mo 00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:27.160 rather triple Molex with a floppy connector on the end of each one and 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:29.320 it's about a hm looks like about a Linus 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:33.400 belly button to tip of Linus ARM in terms of of length all right the next 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:38.840 one we have these are quad SATA harnesses and they are using sort of the 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:42.639 uh the upside down configuration so that means you have to run it up to the top 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:46.759 and then down to an optical drive due to the orientation of the connector itself 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:50.240 um this doesn't really bother me because generally speaking if I'm going down to 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.320 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 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:57.160 drive I'm usually cable managing up the back of the case but not everyone 00:04:55.880 --> 00:05:02.120 prefers that so I'm going to go ahead and let you guys make a decision similar 00:04:59.080 --> 00:05:04.000 length on that guy 24 pin connector very 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:08.360 short for the 24 pin connector which I do like to see because you don't need a 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:12.880 long 24 pin connector you don't route them that far all modern cases pretty 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:18.280 much have a nice place to put them uh these PCI Express cables have capacitors 00:05:15.400 --> 00:05:22.520 built into them this can actually uh improve the performance but it's not the 00:05:21.039 --> 00:05:27.560 kind of thing again that I'd like to see on the best cable managed system ever so 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:31.319 there's two 6 plus2 connectors that have individual connectors on the ends and 00:05:29.400 --> 00:05:35.560 then there's two more that have a 6 plus2 and an additional six pin and 00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:39.759 these are ideal for graphics cards that have two connectors so you only actually 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:42.520 have to run one cable over to the whole thing and then you can plug in two 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:47.960 connectors to the graphics card itself so it's a total of four 6 Plus tws and 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:52.319 two six pin connectors and finally you've got two 4 plus4 connectors for 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:58.720 high-end motherboards that ask for two of them 00:05:54.600 --> 00:06:01.880 now I promised to show you guys the best 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:04.120 sleeved CA that I have ever ever 00:06:01.880 --> 00:06:08.720 encountered ever and if I could figure out where my knife was then I would do 00:06:05.880 --> 00:06:13.800 that here we go so we're going to cut it open that felt 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:16.479 violent and there we have it so these 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:21.120 are not these are better than MD PCX folks these are the best I've 00:06:18.919 --> 00:06:26.199 encountered they actually are using more of a cloth Braiding on them as opposed 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:32.160 to a so they're individually sleeved and they're using not plastic no plastic and 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:33.639 it's um yeah just oh absolutely 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:39.479 beautiful I mean part of the point of sleeving is for looks part of the point 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:43.080 is for better air flow in the case which individually sleeving the cables kind of 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:47.199 kicks in the teeth but it's fashionable right now so people do it um but the 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:50.680 last point of sleeving cables is actually to make them more durable so if 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:54.800 you were to accidentally slip with a screwdriver and hit something or with a 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:58.240 knife or scissors or pretty much almost anything else you'd actually have a 00:06:56.440 --> 00:07:01.759 really hard time cutting these cables because they have an extremely durable 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:05.759 leing or if you had like a cut out in the in a CPU tray or some or a CPU hole 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:10.240 or something and it rubbed up against it for a long time if it was a just not 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:13.400 covered in sleeving at all if you had two cables that wore out they could 00:07:11.479 --> 00:07:19.199 short on each other whereas this that will not happen so I have a 24 pin I've 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:20.479 also got uh some other ones here so I've 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:25.319 actually got a wide variety of these cables you can pick them up they're good 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:29.080 for any uh okay for Silverstone power supplies only refer to website for 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:32.599 details is what they have to say for themselves but but they're available in 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:36.759 a wide variety of different configurations and I think that pretty 00:07:34.440 --> 00:07:42.199 much wraps it up so okay yes the Strider 1000 watt beautiful looking power supply 00:07:39.840 --> 00:07:46.800 kind of ugly cables but you have the opportunity to put the nicest cables 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:52.520 available on it all right guys so this is officially the most gorgeous looking 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:56.440 power supply that uh I think anyone here 00:07:52.520 --> 00:07:57.759 in the studio has ever seen so we've got 00:07:56.440 --> 00:08:02.759 a number of different kinds of connectors here so this guy right here 00:08:00.039 --> 00:08:05.800 is an individually sleeved 6 plus 2 the great thing about these individually 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:09.280 sleeved cables is if you want to run just a six you don't have to put the two 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:12.120 right next to it you can actually just tuck them away somewhere here I me you 00:08:10.960 --> 00:08:16.280 could even cut them off if you really wanted to but I'd feel like like I'm 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:21.680 destroying a work of art with this uh particular power supply this one right 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:24.360 here is a 6 plus 2 plus a six so that 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:28.560 way you could run one gorgeous sleeved cable to a video card that needs two 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:34.120 connectors I'm just going to put this down here so here's our 24 pin which 00:08:31.960 --> 00:08:38.560 also oh wait no it isn't that's two 4 plus 4S there we go so those are for 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:45.920 your CPU connectors oh looks so good so good like 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:48.600 So Pro so much better than even like Pro 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:51.839 sleeved individually done power supplies because if you even look at where 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:55.560 they're terminated there's no heat shrink on any but a few of the 00:08:54.160 --> 00:08:59.440 connectors so this one's special because there's two wires going into into that 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:04.399 one so you can see that there's just there's nothing it's completely clean 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:08.200 it's very very rare that you see someone put the time and attention into plastic 00:09:06.560 --> 00:09:11.600 sleeving to get that right because you'll actually have to pre-plan the way 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:17.279 the cable's going to curve to have them all terminate like that see something like Molex it's a little bit tougher to 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:23.279 do that because of the way that the pins are done but with anything like um here 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:25.519 we go where are they 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:29.959 uh yeah there we go so there's the four pins so the four plus fours where are 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:34.680 the SATA ones SATA ones look very clean as well so there's no color to them 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:39.839 whatsoever I think they're using black wires inside but it's so hard to tell 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:42.600 because this sleeving is so so opaque 00:09:39.839 --> 00:09:46.680 you just can't see through it at all so absolutely gorgeous um I think these 00:09:44.920 --> 00:09:49.079 wires are a little bit no they're about the same length as the stock ones that 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:53.079 were included so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking 00:09:51.040 --> 00:09:55.880 out this unboxing and first look don't forget to subscribe Fus Tech tips for 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:59.240 more unboxings reviews and other computer videos