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this is the Cougar SX series 850 watt power supply and if you want to find out more about this brand cougar you can go to cougar - WorldCom now I recommend you type that directly into your browser bar and do not type it into Google okay that is cougar WorldCom this power supply is a mvgame ready it is crossfire certified as well as sli certified it is an 80 plus silver power supply and does feature a modular interface I mean one of the things I thought was really exceptional about this product is actually none of that because there's a million-in-one power supplies on the market but I really like the aesthetic of it there aren't too many guys out there that are really shaking up the look of power supplies so go ahead and get the camera on like more of a top-down angle so that we can know oh this is a nice package it's actually so up here we find ok so this is just to make sure that the top of the box is like a black color so it looks kind of nice when you open it I guess potentially they could put something in there if they wanted to in the future so here we are we have this compartmentalized little packaging system here so we're gonna go ahead and try to disassemble unbox if you will ok there are some more modular cables and there and here is the power supply itself put that back together alright here is a little presumably a QuickStart guide introduction warning and safety notes protect the PSU against moisture some obvious stuff like that how to install it warranty is five years and cougar is actually you can see the manufacturer contact right here is Compu case so compy case has been around a long time they've been making case and power supplies for a very long time so it's not like cougar is a new company even though it has a new brand alright and we've got some basic specs here for the whole series of SX so their entire SX series is a B+ silver although they do have other series of power supplies as well including the GX which is 80 plus gold as well as it's shoot maybe CX but yeah like I said you can check out more information on Cougar world so here's a little cougar cable tie that holds together the power supply connectors that are hardwired that's actually pretty nice like they've got a few pretty nice touches here I think this is pretty unique what they've done with this leaving so you can see they're using a reasonably good quality sleeving which you don't see enough these days you can't actually see very easily the color of the cables underneath it you can see it if you look for it but like I said it's hiding the cables somewhat whereas a lot of sleeving seem to be like stretched like I can't even really demonstrate it with this one but it feels like it's stretched too thin and you can see all of the individual wires under it so here's the 24 pin connector you can see it is a 20 plus 4 it's quite long so even if you have a bottom bottom mounted power supply you'll be able to reach up to the top let's have a look at the rest of the hard wired connectors because this can sometimes make or break a modular power supply in my opinion so let me see ok so we've got 2 PCIe 6 plus 2 pin so those pretty much essential for an 850 watt power supply I'm going to go ahead and assume you're running something that requires a couple PCIe connectors and then you have this is probably too many cables to have hardwired for this but we have an 8 pin a 4 + 4 pin and then we have an additional 4 pin 4 CPU so this gives you every possible combination that you could need for up at the top left of your motherboard many motherboards today actually do require more than one eight pin connector for example the Big Bang X power from MSI requires two eight pin connectors although there are also motherboards that require an eight pin and a 4 pin mostly on the server side so you'll be able to power whatever it is you need to regardless of all of that let's have a look at what else we have for included modular cables as well as oku we have more of these more of these compare cable ties so these are just little developers I really like these actually you can see the whole front of thee of the cable tie is made of the the hard side of the velcro the prickly side and then the entire back of it is made of the soft side so it's all teeth at the front and then it's all any kind of perfec who's gonna eat I like them except that a couple times now but I think you get the point all right let's see what you bought for modular connectors so back here we've got oh this is nice so this is a multi rail power supply actually we should talk a little bit more about that and talk about the the rail layout so this is a four rail power supply and you can see that the labels are all clearly the labels the rails are all clearly labeled so 12 volt one is powering the peripherals 12 volt three is powering as well as 12 volt four is powering the PCIe as well as the extra eight pins plus for a second 12 volt four and three are powering the PCI Express connectors so let's have a look at the modular cables that are included finally and we've got a couple red ones so you can see these red ones are both six plus two PCIe so that means by default this power supply can power up to to high-end GPUs which 850-watt should be more than adequate for it and then we've got some more peripheral connectors so well this is kind of an interesting way we've got a single modular cable that has three SATA and two molex and we have another modular cable that is three molex so that is for purely molex drives peripherals then we have another one that is three SATA and one wall X and then finally we have one that is four SATA okay so that gives you a point the combination that you can plug in and really that's what modular power supplies are all about flexibility so let's talk more about the unit itself you can see here on the bottom it used as a pretty special fan so this is a hydrodynamic bearing 140 millimeter fan and it uses a very different layout to the blades I'm not sure how well you can see that but cougar claims that with this blade design you're able to get more silent performance and a longer lifespan with the blade design as well as the bearing design that goes into this fan so that's pretty cool you can see it's got silver accents here to go with its 80-plus silver rating as well as a very very cool finish to the paint like this is uh this is a very very neat finish you can see that it kind of sparkles and shines but it is a purely black paint and all of that texture is actually right in the surface of the paint so here we've got the Cougar logo which is again silver because this is an 80 plus silver power supply and then we have a bit of an orange accent so that really matches the cables that come out of it which are black white and orange okay here we have oh yeah this is the information I was looking for so out of the 12-volt rails we can pull a maximum of 828 watts 12 volt rail 1 2 3 & 4 are capable of 22 22 24 and 24 amps respectively that is maximum per rail so that means you can't actually pull 22 plus 22 is 44 68 you can't actually pull like a hundred amps out of this thing but it means that the over current protection which this unit does feature is not going to be triggered until you reach those numbers now let's just see if there's anything else we wanted to talk about oh right yeah because it's able to pull so much from the 12 volt rail or not because but what allows it to pull so much from the 12 volt rail is the DC to DC technology so that keeps the voltage regulation good and it also means that very little of the internals of this power supply are actually dedicated to providing 3.3 volt and 5 volt power so what that means is you can pull a lot other 12 volt rail it's just a better design these days actually Plus that for a second so there are a couple more points to make due to the design of the power supply it does feature very low ripple it also has all Japanese solid capacitors and it's rated at it's rated power for up to 50 degrees Celsius so unlike many power supplies on the market that are rated for an unrealistic 30 degrees or even lower than that this one is actually rated to deliver its power when it's under a loaded scenario so thank you for checking out this unboxing I don't think we talked about the back where we find a power switch as well as a power plug and more of an orange finish to the unit yeah I mean really I wanted to talk mostly about the aesthetic in this thing because it's so cool thanks for checking out the unboxing don't forget scribe to my detectives last thing included that I did forget to mention during the unboxing of this product is that it does include a very very thick gauge power connector so you can see this is quality right there they are not expecting this to melt or otherwise deform as this thing what is this here I can actually tell you yeah this is a 14 14 gauge wire very beefy okay that was it