Silverstone Strider Plus 1000W 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 Strider Plus 1,000 watt.
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This is an 80 plus silver power supply with 100% modular cables, 85 to 88%
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efficiency. Class leading single 12vt rail. Really? Oh, okay. Oh, right. Well,
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yeah. You know, if you have a single 12volt rail, then you'll always be a class leading single 12vt rail because
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check that out. It can deliver up to 960 watts on the 12volt rail. Oh, look at
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that. They rated it for peak power as well. So, it's,00 watts peak, which
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means that if you're monitoring the power of your system and you see those little like those little spikes, it can
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handle that. No big deal. Okay, that's good. Japanese main capacitor, silent
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running 135 mm fan, PCIe 8 and six pin
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connectors, active PFC, 24-hour continuous power output with 40C
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operating temperature. That's good. You know, a lot of consumer grade components
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actually are not rated for 24-hour a day operation. I don't know if you guys knew
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that. Things like hard drives, for example. Uh even things like TVs. Did
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you know that if the TV manufacturer
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finds out that you're using your TV in a commercial environment or in a 24/7
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operation environment, your warranties would I think the exception is
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Toshiba? I I believe so. Don't quote me on that one, but there's there's one guy
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there's one company that allows their consumer grade TVs to be used as digital
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signage and then all the other ones void your warranty immediately when they find
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out that it's um like just the address that they go to service it at. If they
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go to a restaurant or something, then your warranty is void. All right, so
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here's the check this out. This is a 1000 watt power supply in basically just
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a a standard a standard length. So that's 135mm fan and they haven't added
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any extra length. So you should be able to install this in say for example, not
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that we have anything crazy planned around this, but in say for example
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something like an SG uh 09, which is
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Silverstone's sweet microATX case that I
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unboxed very recently that uh we are planning well okay I'll give it away. We
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are planning to do a buildin with this power supply. So there's your 13. Great.
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Okay, so there's your 80 plus silver badge as well as all your general specs,
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safety certifications, all that good stuff. If it's made by Silverstone, it's
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probably fine. It's probably safe. You can use it in your country. It's all good. There's that licensed patent thing
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for the modular connectors that ultra patented like a billion years ago.
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There's your back of the power supply. Oh, no power on and off. That's
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interesting, which is just fine on the SG9 since uh the power supply ends up on
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the inside of the case. Anyway, one other cool thing that we're going to be doing with the SJ9 is we're going to be
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showcasing the short cable kit. So, you can see that the Strider 1000 Plus comes
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with a bajillion connectors, which any 1000 watt power supply should because if
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you're buying a 1000 watt power supply, it should be because you have a bajillion things to connect to it. So,
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we've got 24 pin. There you go. 20 + 4
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sleeving. Okay. I wouldn't mind see Oh, okay. It does go up a little bit
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further. It looks like it just got loose a little bit there. There you go. Slide that up. There you are. Uh then we've
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got two 8 pin connectors. Here we go. So we've got a 4
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plus4 and another 4 plus4. This is handy because it gives you a lot of
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flexibility. A lot of them have a fused 8 pin and then a 4 plus4. So I don't
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mind this approach. Um some server motherboards have sort of weird uh ATX
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and EPS connector configurations. This I
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like. So, this is something that I've seen from Silverstone before where they
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have two 6 plus2s and then you can disconnect these or not use them or
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whatever else. And then they have two 8 plus 6 or 8 plus so 6 plus two and
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a six. So, if you have two video cards that each take two connectors, then you
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can go ahead and you can run one wire to each, you can plug these in. If you have
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additional auxiliary plugs that you need to plug into, then you can use these
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individual ones. Some motherboards now, for example, have auxiliary six pins.
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So, uh, I mean, something like a Coolit Borius took an auxiliary six pin. So, so
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that's pretty neat. Uh, so you can connect up or you can just run the whole
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thing up to your video cards and you connect up to dual 8 pin plus a six pin.
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No big deal. Then we've got four harnesses for our general auxiliary con
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or general molex connectors and SATA connectors. So, each of these harnesses
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has three SATA connectors. wouldn't have minded seeing four, but they're quite
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long, so you'll be able to reach like look at that. It's like an entire Linus
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ARM length and then all the way down to a Linus rib cage from there. So, quite
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long. And then next, you've got two
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identical harnesses that each have three four pin Molexes and a floppy. Look at
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that. If you extend the floppy all the way, you've got like all the way down to
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a a Linus belt level from the Linus ARM
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length that it was previously at. So, fully modular. You can remove all of
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these cables and replace them with short cables if you have a case that is super
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small and super coup, which is exactly what we're going to be doing. Uh, part
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of the reason that this is so flexible is because of the size of the power
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supply itself. Um, longer power supplies
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don't always fit in small form factor builds, so use as many cables or as few
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as you want. It's small. Ah, included accessories. So, we have four cable
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management velcro straps. We have four
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black screws for plugging in or for screwing into the back of your case.
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Four thumb screws for using those instead if you'd like. So you can use
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whichever screws you want. Four, look at that. They like the number four. Four
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zip ties for cable management as well. And a nice thick power cable. And
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finally, a manual. And this power
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supply. All right. They're so good at manuals. Look at this. They actually
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like put in pictures. They document everything. Their cases particularly
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have excellent manuals. All kinds of really good little tips and tricks and
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all that good stuff. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Silverstone Strider Plus 1000
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