Silverstone Strider 1500W Fully Modular Power Supply First Look & Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,143 words · ~5 min read
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so today i'll be unboxing a pretty cool product this is the strider series 1500
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watt power supply from silverstone and what makes this unique is the fact that
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it is a 80 plus silver certified and b
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it is one of the highest wattage power supplies available on the market
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it is also a 100 modular design and i
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will show you what that means in a moment but why don't i get the cameraman
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to take a quick look at the actual specs for this unit so you can see it is an
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eight rail power supply so that means it has
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eight 12 volt rails each specked up to a
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max of 25 amps each okay so it uses probably yeah 135
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millimeter silent fan and they're saying that the noise level is as low as 19
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decibels so that's incredibly silent and that is again one of the things they've
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called out right on the front this is a low noise power supply now let's get
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this thing open oh hey here we've got a summary of all the connectors on it too
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so you have a 24 pin connector an eps eight pin connector uh which is
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also a for a four plus four and then you have an eps eight pin just native
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connector four floppy connectors that's a lot of those actually
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four six pin pci express four six pin
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six plus two pin pci express then you have 12 molex and 12 SATA so you can
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connect pretty much whatever you could possibly want to this power supply as
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many as wow i guess you could do four graphics cards depending on how
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they've configured the uh the modular cable design which
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we will have a look at in just a moment here if i can get the box open it seems
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to be caught on something ah there we go okay
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let's just caught on that okay power supply this power supply is capable of
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drawing a very high amount of current and electricity be attentive to use only the
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power cord included with the power supply and do not use an extension cable
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or a power strip with this power supply 1500 watts is a lot of juice folks so
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this is the dream psu for computer enthusiasts okay awesome and remember
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too that if you're if you're powering your pc with 1500 watts you're actually
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drawing more than that from the wall because even though it's 80 plus it should be
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around 86 to 87 efficiency you're
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actually drawing that extra few percent from the wall even though you're not
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able to use it so this is power power supply
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interesting okay so this is your manual it's available in a bunch of different
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languages how to install a bunch of basic information on the power supply
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itself including the pin outs for all the different connectors okay that's great let's take this foam out uh okay
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you know let's do the rest of the accessories first so inside here what i
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think we're going to find is a power cord and that is what we're going to
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find but we're also going to find uh like a pouch to hold your extra modular
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cables in okay so that's kind of nice and then here's like a super thick power
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supply cable and it actually uses a non-standard configuration so this is
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designed to be used only with this power supply and i think i've seen a couple
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others before that are like that okay we got a couple adapters here so
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this is uh six plus two PCIe and it
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takes two six pins at the back okay so
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it's an adapter i don't like to see adapters like this on a fully modular
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power supply it seems kind of unnecessary we've got some velcro cable management
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ties as well as some thumb screws as well as some regular zip ties for cable
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management and then here we go this is a long power
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supply wow this thing is absolutely ginormous
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as if that's a word there you go so that is a 135 millimeter
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fan and even so you've got large strips of unused area on either side of this
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unit i mean this thing is huge so there's your general specs again
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on the side as well as your cautioning blah blah blah okay got
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a silverstone stamp on the top you've got a regular honeycomb grille with your
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special power supply cord input on the side and then nothing over here now at
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this side of the power supply we're going to find what is one of the coolest
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features of this unit the 100 modular interface that it has so you can
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plug in up to four per let me see i'm going to
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make sure i'm right here before i say this up to four peripherals so this is
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molex or SATA and then the bottom ones
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are up to six one two three four yeah six pci
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express connectors along the bottom and then you even the 24 pin atx connector
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is modular on this power supply so that's very cool i mean there's no
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reason you wouldn't have that plugged in oh i'm sorry okay no it is for pci
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express and then these two on over here are the two 8-pin eps connectors sorry
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sorry okay so why don't we have a look at which connector silverstone deems
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necessary to include by default with this unit
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here we go okay
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so but yeah pci express we've got
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oh okay so they're using actual actually like two pci express connectors per plug
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at the back so by default it comes with
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two six plus twos three four six plus
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two connectors and then four additional six pin connectors so
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eight pci express connectors just right out right out of the gate and then it
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also includes those adapters to turn your other six pins into an additional
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two six plus two pin so that's six
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six plus two pin connectors that's ridiculous wow okay so there's your eps
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and your atx four pin four plus four and then they've also included
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yeah two molex and two SATA attached by default and then you've got the
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additional ones here so you can switch to whichever cable configuration you
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would like because it's a modular power supply thank you for checking out my unboxing and product overview of the
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silverstone strider 1500 watt power supply