Gadgetory

welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that I personally feel pretty strongly about if you guys have been watching me for any length of time you probably are aware already that I'm a bit of a silence freak when it comes to computers and very few things get my motor running to the same extent that fanless power supplies do so this one right here is from Rosewell which is a brand you've probably never seen me feature on this channel before but there's a first time for everything and this is the silent night 500 watt 80 + platinum fanless power supply so the idea is that you could actually power a gaming grade machine with even something like a GTX 680 35 70 K a couple SSDs off a power supply that actually doesn't need a fan to run it comes with a five-year warranty it has modular cables it uses him let's go ahead and flip over onto the back a single strong 12 volt rail that is capable of providing almost the entire 500 watts of output so this is pretty common to see on very high efficiency power supplies like 80 plus platinum because most of the time they are using a 12 volt to 5 volt and 3.3 volt converter a DC to DC converter in order to achieve those other rails so that's why the 12 volt rail is capable of the entire output of it so comprehensive protections with your overcurrent over-voltage Oh under over power under voltage sure took a protection all that good stuff and me remember guys Rosewall doesn't actually manufacture the power supply it's more to do with them finding an OEM that's able to achieve all of the safety ratings and design requirements and then they are bringing it to market so multi-gpu support with 4 x PCIe 6 + 2 pin connectors this is something that I have never seen on a silent power supply normally you're lucky if they include 2 PCIe connectors so inside here we find a user's manual which basically says all the stuff that's on the packaging already nice closed cell foam so you don't have to worry about it getting damaged and shipping look at that they include both thumb screws and regular screws for mounting it into your case depending on what it's compatible with is very helpful some zip ties as well as a standard power a bit thin power cord but honestly it's a 500 watt power supply so I don't think it's an issue then we have Z power supply itself whoo this has a really nice finish on it I'm I'm actually super super stoked on that check this out that is right up there with the Strider gold Evo I believe it's called from Silverstone with that sort of textured black finish not only does it make it look outstanding but it also is much more durable than a than a flatter finish so what they've done is in order to make keep it from just being shiny they've textured it but it's a glossy paint so glossy paints are inherently more durable than flat paints because they have more resin and less of whatever the other things in paint are but what that means is it will be it'll be more scratch resistant while also just looking awesome so there you go you've got lots of ventilation now fanless power supplies are intended to be installed one way and one way one way only so right here you've got ventilation holes Oliver on the outside and then here you've got what is a heatsink so presumably the internal components are connected to that somehow I actually can't see how they've done it yes there we go so there you have heat sinks coming up from the bottom up to the heatsink on the top and then it also acts as a passive exhaust so you can see that so some of the air is going to be just passively wafted up through the top of the power supply and that'll be in taked to take it in along the sides now in terms of pre-attached connectors we've got a fairly basic complement so this is what I would normally call a semi modular power supply where it has your basic stuff that you'll probably need 99% of the time pre-attached so there's your 24 pin connector there's your 4 plus 4 and then there are 2 6 plus 2's so that'll power one graphics card and then the rest of it is all done with modular cables so they include a nice little ROS will pack that has everything else you'll need they're not expecting you to hook up a bajillion things to this so they only include I would have liked to see two SATA harnesses and oh no this is a mixed one ok that's not so bad oh okay that's kind of clever okay so they've got a three molex and one floppy connector one they have a two SATA and two molex connector one so this would be really useful if you have a case that has like a basement like something like a TJ oh seven where you want to have sort of a couple drives down there maybe a water cooling pump or whatever else so you're gonna have a mixture of what's connected to it and then finally a quad SATA harness that you can run to your drive cage or wherever else that you're actually gonna plug in a bunch of drives and last but not least you've got another dual six plus two pin connector so that will take up all four of the modular interface connections on the back of the power supply giving you the total potential to install six SATA devices six molex devices and four PCI Express six plus two connectors so that's up to two high-performance video cards with that said I wouldn't go and start throwing dual GTX 16 diesel at this thing okay use your common sense it's a 500 watt power supply so make sure that a so what I really say is like two mid-range cards in SLI or a single high-end card and make sure that whatever case you're using with it actually has some space above the power supply because passively cooled doesn't mean it doesn't need cooling it just means that it is able to as long as it has some airflow around it it is able to be cool enough without its own dedicated fan thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the silent Nate 500 from Roseville don't forget to subscribe to latest tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos