Silverstone 450W 80+ Gold SFX Modular Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Silverstone sfx series 450 wat so
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this is the St 45 sf- G sfx power supply
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so this is a small power supply for cases such as the F3 mini I mean look
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how small it is it's adorable look at
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this thing it's like the cutest thing ever
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see slick came all the way over here to see it you're supposed to be working
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slick it's like half the size of a regular ATX power supply fully freaking
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modular by the way 80 plus Gold by the
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way this thing's awesome it's got a single 80 mm cooling fan back here which
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is fine because it's only 450 WTS and it's 80 plus gold and it's fully oh man
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this thing's so cool okay let's take out the uh take out the table
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comes with an sfx to ATX adapter just in
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case you wanted that for whatever reason although usually if I was buying an sfx
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power supply I would buy it to go with my sfx case uh let's have a look at what
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they've got on here in terms of specs so 80 plus gold is pretty close to 90 plus
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it's like 90% optimal so that's at about
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50% load and it lower goes at the lowest
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about 87% load so realistically you're going to get anywhere from around 88% to
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89% uh uh if efficiency out of it power
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single powerful single 12vt rail perfect for high-end component upgrades so yes
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you can run a real graphics card off this thing check that out one modular
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cable oh look at thesea look at this cable
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sleeving I think this is the high highest end cable sleeving I've seen
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pre-installed on a power supply this is outstanding you can hardly see the color
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at all this has yellow cables but you you like you can't see it at all even if
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you bend it back oh this thing's awesome okay moving right along
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um perfect for blah blah blah yes so right so there's a six pin and a 6 plus
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two pin so you can put a high-end graphics card on it 100% modular cable
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design for easy removal in a case with the cable routed and tied down this is
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incredibly important with those small and cramped cases instead of pulling all
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the cables out of everything to pull it out you can just go clip clip clip clip
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clip clip clip take it out you know maybe even okay heaven forbid you know
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knock on wood the power supply dies and you got to R it this is a lot easier
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than undoing it from everything especially in those tiny tiny cramped
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cases plus or minus 3% regulation and low Ripple and noise performance for
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high stability this is good these are all good things and where is our actual
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spec here so 37 amps on the 12vt rail almost the entire 450 wat output can be
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done on the 12vt rail this is optimal for high-end graphics card
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configurations operating temperatures 0 to 40c that's pretty aggressive okay
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that's good um and then right so let's have a look at the included stuff so you
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got a 20 plus 4 pin connector okay very
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very short cable I mean this is not meant to be installed in a Corsair 800d
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or or rather I should okay okay shouldn't be talking about core stair
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cases I'm looking at Silverstone power supply here so not for a Silverstone
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tj11 for example because it just would
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not reach okay this is meant for small
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cases uh next we've got a 4 plus 4 pin
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connector for the CPU this one's a little bit longer because the
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positioning of that connector can vary a fair amount on these uh on these small
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form factor cases it really depends like sometimes it'll be here or here or here
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or or wherever else you should be able to reach it just fine this is an
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adequately long cable for that purpose uh We've also got a harness with three
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SATA connectors and let's have a look at the length of that one I'm curious
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because I will be doing a build with this power supply soon in the F3 mini H
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yeah there you go that's pretty good so you've got you know there's a couple drives that are next to each other right
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there I like that short run distance between them and then this is like an
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auxiliary one like somewhere else and then finally you've got a harness with
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two mox's and one floppy connector in case you still have any four pins in
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your case standard power cable nothing to see here four black screws for
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installing in your case and the power supply itself so there's your
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Silverstone 80 plus gold gold colored
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branding over here this thing is awesome Silverstone stamped logo on the top
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Silverstone really is probably the most underappreciated brand of power supplies
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in North America I mean they have fantastic stuff like The Strider 1500
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watt was way ahead of its time with, 1500 watts 80 plus silver which at the
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time was a huge deal and uh fully modular like there's nothing else like
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it and it just seems people didn't get adequately excited about it I already
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showed the 80mm cooling fan the honeycomb mesh at the back for more
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Cooling and I think that pretty much covers it if you want 450 WTS of like
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power in your hand then this is probably the way to do it or yet you could
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