Rosewill Silent Night 500W Passive Power Supply Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that I personally feel pretty
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strongly about if you guys have been watching me for any length of time you
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probably are aware already that I'm a bit of a silence freak when it comes to
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computers and very few things get my
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motor running to the same extent that uh fanless power supplies do so this one
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right here is from Rosewell which is a brand you've probably never seen me
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feature on this channel before but there's a first time for everything and
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this is the Silent Night 500 W 80 plus
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Platinum fanless power supply so the
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idea is that you could actually power a gaming grade machine with even something
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like a GTX 680 3570k a couple ssds off a
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power supply that actually doesn't need a fan to run it comes with a 5-year
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warranty it has modular cables it uses
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let's go ahead and flip over onto the back a single strong 12volt rail that is
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capable of providing almost the entire 500 of output so this is pretty common
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to see on very high efficiency power supplies like 80 plus Platinum because
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most of the time they are using a 12vt to 5vt and 3.3 volt converter a DC todc
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converter in order to achieve those other rails so that's why the 12vt rail
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is capable of the entire output of it so comprehensive protections with your
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overcurrent over voltage under overpower under voltage ShortCircuit protection
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all that good stuff I mean remember guys Rose doesn't actually manufacture the
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power supply it's more to do with them finding an oem that's able to achieve
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all of the safety ratings and design requirements and then they are bringing
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it to Market so multi-GPU support with
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four times PCIe 6 plus2 pin connectors
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this is something that I have never seen on a silent power supply normally you're
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lucky if they include two PCIe connectors so inside here we find a
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user's manual which basically says all the stuff that's on the packaging
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already nice uh closed cell foam so you
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don't have to worry about it getting damaged in shipping look at that they
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include both thumb screws and regular screws for mounting it into your case
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depending on what it's compatible with which is uh very helpful some zip ties
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as well as a standard power cord a little bit thin power cord but honestly
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it's a 500 W power supply so I don't think it's an issue then we have Z power
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supply itself ooh this has a really nice
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finish on it I am I actually super super stoked on
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that check this out that is right up there with the
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Strider gold Evo I believe it's called from Silverstone with that sort of
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textured black finish not only does it make it look outstanding but it also is
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much more durable than a uh than a flatter finish so what they've done is
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in order to keep it from just being shiny they've textured it but it's a
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glossy paint so glossy paints are inherently more durable than flat paints
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because they have more resin and less of whatever they other things in paint are
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um but what that means is it will be it'll be more scratch resistant while
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also just looking awesome so there you go uh you've got lots of ventilation Now
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fanless power supplies are intended to be installed one way and one way one way
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only so right here you've got ventilation holes all around the outside
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and then here you've got what is a heat sink so presumably internal components
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are connected to that somehow although I actually can't see how they've done it
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ah yes there we go so there you have heat snc coming up from the bottom up to
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the heat sink on the top and then it also acts as a passive exhaust so you
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can see that so some of the air is going to be just passively uh wafted up
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through the top of the power supply and that'll be intake taken in along the
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sides now in terms of pre-attached connectors we've got a fairly basic
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complement so this is what I would normally call a semi modular power supply where it has your basic stuff
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that you'll probably need 99% of the time pre-attached so there's your 2 four
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pin connector there's your 4 plus 4 and
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then there are two 6 Plus 2s so that'll
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power One graphics card and then the rest of it is all done with modular
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cables so they include a nice little Rose will pack that has everything else
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you'll need they're not expecting you to hook up a bajillion things to this so
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they only include I would have liked to see two SATA harnesses and oh no this is
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a mixed one okay that's not so bad oh okay that's kind of clever okay so
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they've got a three Molex and one floppy connector one they have a two SATA and
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two Molex connector one so this would be really useful if you have a case that
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has like a basement like something like a tj07 where you want to have sort of a
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couple drives down there maybe a water cooling pump or whatever else so you're going to have a mixture of what's
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connected to it and then finally a quad SATA harness that you can run to your
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drive cage or wherever else that you're actually going to plug in a bunch of drives and last but not least you've got
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another dual 6 plus2 pin connector so
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that will take up all four of the modular interface connections on the
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back of the power supply giving you the total potential to install six SATA
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devices six Molex devices and four PCI
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Express 6 plus2 connectors so that's up to two high performance video cards with
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that said I wouldn't go and start
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throwing dual GTX 690s at this thing
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okay use your common sense it's a 500 wat power supply
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so make sure that so what I'd really say is like two mid-range cards in SLI or a
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single high-end card and make sure that whatever case you're using with it
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actually has some space above the power supply because passively cooled doesn't
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mean it doesn't need cooling it just means that it is able to as long as it
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has some air flow around it it is able to be cool enough without its own
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dedicated fan thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Silent
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