this is a very old product but it's actually a very cool product as well
this is a silverstone power supply it's only a 450 watt power supply so
uh how is this relevant Linus well the reason it's relevant is this is their
night jar 450 watt zero decibel power
supply this is a fanless power supply it produces zero noise it's an 80 plus
power supply and it better be if it's not going to have a fan in it because
the less efficiency the more waste heat output there is so if you have an
efficient power supply you're far more likely to be able to build it without an
active fan taking away heat it has single pci express 8 pin and dual PCIe 6
pin support for high-end gpus all right that's pretty cool 450 watts of
continuous output with 500 watt peak although you better not use this outside
of its spec for very long because i mean it is fanless it doesn't have a way to
just sort of ramp up the fan to make up for any additional additional heat
output there is nothing on the back of the box oh here we go here's the uh
overall wow this thing is actually really heavy
i'm actually i'm like having a hard time holding it up while i talk about it uh
okay so this is a single 12 volt rail at 35 amps or 40 amps peak and so that can
provide up to 420 watts of the total 450
watts that this power supply is rated for so i'm gonna go ahead and put this
down here i have never actually seen this power supply before although i've
been curious about it and i've wanted to see it for a little while so we are
having a voyage of discovery today that's for
sure so the first thing we'll find inside the box is the silverstone
optimum okay some kind of manual okay so this
tells you a little bit about your power supply it tells you the physical characteristics and whatever okay that
seems really pointless okay then we will find the okay we'll find
another document that is completely unlabeled aha this is the manual so this
shows you how to install the power supply how to connect it to all of the
relevant parts of your computer that's pretty useful actually thanks guys
okay next we will find a little accessory
box that has a power cable in it
okay so there's wow that's actually a pretty nice pretty beefy uh thick power
cable it's d if i could just find it yeah i can't
find what it's rated for but it doesn't really matter and then next inside we
will find more stuff oh you don't normally have a whole lot that comes
with a power supply but it looks like they've gone the whole nine yards here and they
have included some oh they've included some plastic
zip ties as well as some screws for mounting it they've also included some
some velcro tie straps for managing your cables okay that's pretty cool i'm not
okay i have to confess i am completely stumped i have no idea what this is for
it's some kind of bracket so okay so they've included both thumb
screws and regular screws depending on how you
want to mount it in your case maybe your case doesn't have room for thumb screws at the back maybe there's something
blocking it so they've given you all the different options there which is very
cool okay and then we're pretty much left with the
power supply itself i suspect so that
has a very unique looking finish to it let me just
get this open here and i'll get the plastic off it i mean this is the kind
of power supply that is perfect for a
media build or for a small form factor build because the reality of it is
most computers are not using more than
450 watts 400 watts of power even gaming
machines and a big part of the reason that many users use overpowered power
supplies for their systems is because they want to keep the noise down because
an overpowered power supply isn't going to have the fan working as hard so it
won't be as loud so i mean if you just go with a 450 watt power supply in the
first place that doesn't have a fan well then win win right i guess the one
disadvantage is this power supply is quite expensive so why don't we have a
look at the unit itself and then we'll move on to the cables man this thing is
heavy okay so there we go see we've got pretty much
another um another outline of what we
saw on the front so the rails on the side this thing is all about the about
the ventilation holes so you can see this side of the power supply is
completely honeycomb mesh the top is a
thick aluminum heatsink that is also
vented so you can actually see right down into the power supply but if you
look at it from the side this whole structure is all heatsink okay so this
is screwed on with a couple of screws here dab around to the other side of the
power supply we have more honeycomb mesh at the back of the power supply we have
more honeycomb mesh and then we have our power switch as well as our plug okay so
then at the front of the power supply we have guess what more honeycomb mesh so
this is all about as much passive airflow as possible and i want you to
try and try and look inside there you see those huge heat sinks right here and
right here that is what is going to be cooling this power supply so those
appear to be connected to the top and this is going to be the majority of the
cooling surface of the power supply so if you are using a unit like this or
this one in particular you want to make sure that you're providing at least a
little bit of airflow to it where it's doing most of its cooling you don't want to jam this in a little box with like
zero fans because then you're just asking for trouble so in terms of
connectors on this power supply we have a 20 plus four pin power connector okay
so that plugs into your motherboard that's terrific you would pretty much
expect any power supply to have that and in terms of pci express connectors we
have oh wow they've given you a whole lot of
options for pci express connectors this is oh no they haven't never mind this is
a four plus four pin power connector so that's for your CPU
okay i'm just going to adjust this a little bit so that i can hold it more comfortably there you go so that can
come apart if you're using just a four pin motherboard which the odds are
pretty good you would be doing if you're using like a media oriented motherboard or a small form factor motherboard then
you have a six plus two pin and another six pin so this i mean i i
really like these cables the ones that are like this because the reality of it is most people are using one GPU so if
you have one GPU even if it has two six pin connectors or an eight plus six pin
connector you run just one wire to it perfect love that okay then in terms of
SATA connectors you've got a whole lot of them so imagine that imagine like a
media oriented power supply needing lots of hard drives wow go figure so there
you go you got six data connections three on each one of these cables i'm
gonna give you sort of some some perspective for the length here so this
is the power supply itself so these are quite long so pretty much whatever case
you're using you're gonna be able to reach your hard drives just fine and then you have a bunch more molex
connectors so we have two more cables again here's your power supply here's
the length of the cables very long so one two three on each of those and then
two floppy connectors at either end thank you for checking out my extremely
heavy unboxing of the silverstone night jar 450 watt power supply