SilverStone SX600G 600 Watt Power Supply
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,188 words · ~5 min read
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now we love talking about crazy high-end power supplies like that ax 1500i that
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we checked out a while back before throwing it off of a roof to allegedly
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test its packaging or something but with computers trending towards being smaller
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and more efficient all the time is the age of the massive 12200 plus watt power
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supply that's cooled by like immersing it in oil or something over by the way
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uh make sure you're subscribed because our oil cooled piece build blog is
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coming soon but um you can go now back to this what about building physically
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much smaller power supplies that leverage modern technology to deliver
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enough power for a high-end rig without overdoing it this is silverston SX 600g
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a 600 wat fully modular sfx power supply
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with 80 plus gold certified efficiency
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pretty sweet
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The Cooler Master nepton 240m features an exclusive pump design and their new
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silencio fans to provide impressive near silent performance click now to learn
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more so here's the unit it's sfx which
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means that it's designed for small compact cases like the Silverstone M7
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that I have in front of me here and it's got the same kind of specs that we' have
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expected to find in a high-end full sized ATX power supply only a a few
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short years ago except that it's
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absolutely tiny like it's hidden away in there we're talking 80 plus gold
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efficiency a fully modular interface with these sexy easier to Cable manage
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black cables a single 12volt rail capable of delivering a maximum of 50
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amps so the entire capacity of the power supply can be used to feed a graphics
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card an intelligent cooling fan curve with a silent mode where the 80 mimer
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fan doesn't even spin under 45 degrees
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celius and well is that not enough for you so
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because we lack the gear to do detailed full power supply reviews I thought why
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not just approach it from a different angle and give you guys some inspiration
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by building the most heavyduty power sucking machine that we can in an ITX
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case so we started with actually using one of silverstone's own CPU coolers
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here you can see that there's not going to be a whole lot of wasted space in
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this build with CPU memory built in S card and not a whole lot of room for
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much of anything else here um building in this system is very similar to the RV
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zo1 So silverstone's Raven 01 case
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because the internal chassis is the same so you pull up the drive cage and GPU
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bracket thing uh there's a PCI Express Riser so that you can install the
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graphics card you pull out the power supply Mount and it uses a pass through
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cable so that you plug it in at the back of the case just like normal but there's
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actually an internal AC power cable that plugs into the back of the power supply
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now this is a benefit of a modular power
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supply that a lot of people don't really think about when you're working on a
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tight build instead of having to have the cable come out of the power supply
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and then put in the motherboard and then try to plug the power supply into the
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board you can plug into the board first when you're in a situation where there's
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really not going to be a lot of room to access it later then you can leave those
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ends loose and plug plug them into the back of the power supply later on so
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it's pretty pretty tightly packed in here we can have a look at where the
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power supply gets its ventilation from the back side of the case here just like
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that you can actually put feet on the bottom so you can lay it down like this and it still won't suffocate and then
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exhaust is actually out these holes in
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the top right here we actually found that it stayed extremely cool even under
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the most intensive loads that we could throw at it using this system speaking
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of intensive loads we went with an r9290 from Gigabyte it's it's got a wind
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Forest cooler on it so we're basically torturing this system by putting one of
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the highest power consumption cards that we could and then overclocking it to
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1.144 gigahertz in order to do all of
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our testing but first here's just a bit of a look at the overall finished build
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how compact everything is there you can see the graphics cards pulling in nice
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fresh air from the outside the CPUs is pulling in fresh air from the outside
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power supplies pulling in fresh air from the outside and other than that
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everything else is just passive exhaust on this case so what's the conclusion
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here is there a conclusion well yeah there is because we went with a 4670k we
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overclocked the stuffing out of it considering the compactness of our CPU
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Cooler so we got that up to around 4.6 GHz we overclocked our GPU as high as we
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could go without artifacting we fired up Prime 95 small fft and Far Cry 3 and the
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most we could get sustained load was about 480 Watts from the wall which
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means that the actual power supply was even then only working at just over 2/3
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of its total capacity and wasn't getting
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very warm at all in fact we took our thermal probe and aimed at the inside of
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the power supply as best we could it's really hard to get at in there and the
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highest temperature reading we could get from there was around 29° C pretty darn Frosty and at idle
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that fan never even turned on so that was at about 100 Watts load very
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impressive and I'd love to hear your guys' comments under the video do you
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really think still a place in the world for power supplies that are like these,
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1500 watt monsters or do you think something like this makes more sense for
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your next gaming rig and going with something more compact I just want to
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