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we love talking about crazy high-end power supplies like that ax 1500 I that we checked out a while back before throwing it off of a roof to allegedly test its packaging or something but with computers trending towards being smaller and more efficient all the time is the age of the massive 1200 plus watt power supply that's cooled by like immersing it in oil or something over by the way make sure you're subscribed because our oil-cooled pc build blog is coming soon but um you can go now back to this what about building physically much smaller power supplies that leverage modern technology to deliver enough power for a high end rig without overdoing it this is Silverstone's SX 600 G a 600 watt fully modular SFX power supply with 80-plus gold certified efficiency pretty sweet the cooler master Neptune 240 M features an exclusive pump design and their new Silencio fans to provide impressive near silent performance click now to learn more so here's the unit it's s FX which means that it's designed for small compact cases like the Silverstone ml l7 that I have in front of me here and it's got the same kind of specs that we need expected to find in a high-end full-size ATX power supply only a few short years ago except that it's absolutely tiny hidden away in there we're talking 80 plus gold efficiency a fully modular interface with these sexy easier to cable manage black cables a single 12 volt rail capable of delivering a maximum of 50 amps so the entire capacity of the power supply can be used to feed a graphics card an intelligent cooling fan curve with a silent mode where the 80 millimeter fan doesn't even spin under 45 degrees Celsius and both of them is that not enough for you so because we lack the gear to do detailed full power supply reviews I thought why not just approach it from a different angle and give you guys some inspiration by building the most heavy-duty power sucking machine that we can in an ITX case so we started with actually using one of Silverstone's own CPU coolers here you can see that there's not going to be a whole lot of wasted space in this build with CPU memory built-in sound card and not all a whole lot of room for much of anything else here building them this system is very similar to the RV vo1 so Silverstone's raven oh one case because the internal chassis is the same she pulled the drive cage and GPU bracket thing there's a PCI Express riser so that you can install the graphics card you pull up the power supply and mount and it uses a pass-through cable so that you plug it in at the back of the case just like normal but there's actually an internal AC power cable that plugs into the back of the power supply now this is a benefit of a modular power supply that a lot of people don't really think about when you're working on a tight build instead of having to have the cable come out of the power supply and then put in the motherboard and then try to plug the power supply into the board you can plug into the board first when you're in a situation where there's really not going to be a lot of room to access it later then you can leave those ends loose and plug them into the back of the power supply later on so it's pretty pretty tightly packed in here we can have a look at where the power supply gets its ventilation from the backside of the case here just like that you can actually put feet on the bottom so you can lay it down like this and it still won't suffocate and then exhaust is actually out these holes in the top right here we actually found that it stayed extremely cool even under the most intensive loads that we could throw at it using this system speaking of intensive loads we went with an r9 290 from gigabyte it's got a wind forest cooler on it so we're basically torturing this system by putting one of the highest power consumption cards that we could and then overclocking it to one point one four four gigahertz in order to do all of our testing but first here is just a bit of a look at the overall finished build how compact everything is there you can see the graphics cards pulling in nice fresh air from the outside the CPUs pulling in fresh air from the outside power supplies pulling in fresh air from the outside and other than that everything else is just passive exhaust on this case so what's the conclusion here is there a conclusion well yeah there is because we went with a 40 60 70 K we overclocked the stuffing out of it considering the compactness of our CPU cooler so we got that up to around 4.6 gigahertz we overclocked our GPU as high as we could go without artifacting we fired up prime95 small FFT and far cry 3 and the most we could get sustained load was about 480 watts from the wall which means that the actual power supply was even then only working at just over 2/3 of its total capacity and wasn't getting very warm at all in fact we took our thermal probe and aimed at the inside of the power supply as best we could it's really hard to get at in there and the highest temperature reading we could get from there was around 29 degrees Celsius pretty darn frosty Anette idol that fan never even turned on so that was at about a hundred watts load very impressive and I'd love to hear your guys's comments under the video do you really think there's still a place in the world for power supplies that are like these 1500 watt monsters or do you think something like this makes more sense for your next gaming rig and going with something more compact I just want to hear your guys's thoughts like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment under the video letting me know the stuff I just asked before also check out the link in the video description you can give us a monthly contribution to help us make more videos for you buy a cool t-shirt like this one or change your Amazon of bookmark to one with our affiliate code so that whenever you buy power supplies or graphics cards or CPUs or whatever else we get a 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