so today i'll be unboxing a pretty cool product this is the strider series 1500
watt power supply from silverstone and what makes this unique is the fact that
it is a 80 plus silver certified and b
it is one of the highest wattage power supplies available on the market
it is also a 100 modular design and i
will show you what that means in a moment but why don't i get the cameraman
to take a quick look at the actual specs for this unit so you can see it is an
eight rail power supply so that means it has
eight 12 volt rails each specked up to a
max of 25 amps each okay so it uses probably yeah 135
millimeter silent fan and they're saying that the noise level is as low as 19
decibels so that's incredibly silent and that is again one of the things they've
called out right on the front this is a low noise power supply now let's get
this thing open oh hey here we've got a summary of all the connectors on it too
so you have a 24 pin connector an eps eight pin connector uh which is
also a for a four plus four and then you have an eps eight pin just native
connector four floppy connectors that's a lot of those actually
four six pin pci express four six pin
six plus two pin pci express then you have 12 molex and 12 SATA so you can
connect pretty much whatever you could possibly want to this power supply as
many as wow i guess you could do four graphics cards depending on how
they've configured the uh the modular cable design which
we will have a look at in just a moment here if i can get the box open it seems
to be caught on something ah there we go okay
let's just caught on that okay power supply this power supply is capable of
drawing a very high amount of current and electricity be attentive to use only the
power cord included with the power supply and do not use an extension cable
or a power strip with this power supply 1500 watts is a lot of juice folks so
this is the dream psu for computer enthusiasts okay awesome and remember
too that if you're if you're powering your pc with 1500 watts you're actually
drawing more than that from the wall because even though it's 80 plus it should be
around 86 to 87 efficiency you're
actually drawing that extra few percent from the wall even though you're not
able to use it so this is power power supply
interesting okay so this is your manual it's available in a bunch of different
languages how to install a bunch of basic information on the power supply
itself including the pin outs for all the different connectors okay that's great let's take this foam out uh okay
you know let's do the rest of the accessories first so inside here what i
think we're going to find is a power cord and that is what we're going to
find but we're also going to find uh like a pouch to hold your extra modular
cables in okay so that's kind of nice and then here's like a super thick power
supply cable and it actually uses a non-standard configuration so this is
designed to be used only with this power supply and i think i've seen a couple
others before that are like that okay we got a couple adapters here so
this is uh six plus two PCIe and it
takes two six pins at the back okay so
it's an adapter i don't like to see adapters like this on a fully modular
power supply it seems kind of unnecessary we've got some velcro cable management
ties as well as some thumb screws as well as some regular zip ties for cable
management and then here we go this is a long power
supply wow this thing is absolutely ginormous
as if that's a word there you go so that is a 135 millimeter
fan and even so you've got large strips of unused area on either side of this
unit i mean this thing is huge so there's your general specs again
on the side as well as your cautioning blah blah blah okay got
a silverstone stamp on the top you've got a regular honeycomb grille with your
special power supply cord input on the side and then nothing over here now at
this side of the power supply we're going to find what is one of the coolest
features of this unit the 100 modular interface that it has so you can
plug in up to four per let me see i'm going to
make sure i'm right here before i say this up to four peripherals so this is
molex or SATA and then the bottom ones
are up to six one two three four yeah six pci
express connectors along the bottom and then you even the 24 pin atx connector
is modular on this power supply so that's very cool i mean there's no
reason you wouldn't have that plugged in oh i'm sorry okay no it is for pci
express and then these two on over here are the two 8-pin eps connectors sorry
sorry okay so why don't we have a look at which connector silverstone deems
necessary to include by default with this unit
here we go okay
so but yeah pci express we've got
oh okay so they're using actual actually like two pci express connectors per plug
at the back so by default it comes with
two six plus twos three four six plus
two connectors and then four additional six pin connectors so
eight pci express connectors just right out right out of the gate and then it
also includes those adapters to turn your other six pins into an additional
two six plus two pin so that's six
six plus two pin connectors that's ridiculous wow okay so there's your eps
and your atx four pin four plus four and then they've also included
yeah two molex and two SATA attached by default and then you've got the
additional ones here so you can switch to whichever cable configuration you
would like because it's a modular power supply thank you for checking out my unboxing and product overview of the
silverstone strider 1500 watt power supply