Gadgetory

this is a very old product but it's actually a very cool product as well this is a silverstone power supply it's only a 450 watt power supply so how is this relevant line as well the reason it's relevant is this is their nightjar 450 watt zero decibel power supply this is a fanless power supply it produces zero noise it's an 80 plus power supply and it better be if it's not going to have a fan in it because the less efficiency the more waste heat output there is so if you have an efficient power supply you're far more likely to be able to build it without an active fan taking away heat it has single pci express 8-pin and dual pcie six pin support for high-end GPUs alright that's pretty cool 450 watts of continuous output with 500 watt peak although you better not use this outside of its spec for very long because I mean it is fanless it doesn't have a way to just sort of ramp up the fan to make up for any additional additional heat output there is nothing on the back of the box out here we go here's the overall ah well wow this thing is actually really heavy I'm actually I'm like having a hard time holding it up while I talk about it okay so this is a single 12 volt rail at 35 amps or 40 amp speak and that so that can provide up to four hundred and twenty watts of the total 450 watts that this power supply is rated for so I'm going to go ahead and put this down here I have never actually seen this power supply before although I've been curious about it and I've wanted to see it for a little while so we are having an a voyage of discovery today that's for sure so the first thing we'll find inside the box is the silverstone optima to do okay some kind of manual okay so this tells you a little bit about your power supply it tells you the physical characteristics and whatever that seems really pointless okay then we will find okay we'll find another document that is completely unlabeled ah this is the manual so this shows you how to install the power supply how to connect it to all of the relevant parts of your computer that's pretty useful actually thanks guys okay next we will find a little accessory box that has a power cable in it ok so there's wow that's actually a pretty nice pretty beefy thick power cable it's if I could just find it yeah I can't find what it's sweet poor but doesn't really matter and then next inside you will find more stuff oh you don't normally have a whole lot that comes with a power supply but it looks like they've gone the whole nine yards here and they have included some oh they've included some plastic zip ties as well as some screws for mounting it they've also included some ah some velcro tie straps for managing your tables okay that's pretty cool I'm not okay i have to confess I am completely stumped I have no idea what this is for it's some kind of bracket so okay so they've included both thumb screws and regular screws depending on how you want to mount it in your case maybe your case doesn't have room for thumb screws at the back maybe there's something blocking it so they've given you all the different options there which is very cool okay and then we're pretty much left with the power supply itself I suspect so that has a very unique looking finish to it let me just get this open here and I'll get the plastic off it I mean this is the kind of power supply that is perfect for a media built or for a small form factor built because the reality of it is most computers are not using more than 450 watts 400 watts of power even gaming machines and a big part of the reason that many users use overpowered power supplies for their systems is because they want to keep the noise down because an overpowered power supply isn't going to have the fan working as hard so it won't be as loud so I mean if you just go with a 450 watt power supply in the first place that doesn't have a fan well then win-win right I guess the one disadvantage is this power supply is quite expensive so why don't we have a look at the unit itself and then we'll move on to the cables and this thing is heavy okay so there we go see we've got pretty much another another outline of what we saw on the front so the rails on the side this thing is all about the about the vent relation holes so you can see this side of the power supply is completely honeycomb mesh the top is a thick aluminum heatsink that is also vented so you can actually see right down into the power supply but if you look at it from the side this whole structure is all heat sink okay so this is screwed on with a couple of screws here dive around to the other side of the power supply we have more honeycomb mesh at the back of the power supply we have more honeycomb mesh and then we have our power switch as well as our plug ok so then at the front of the power supply we have guess what more honeycomb mesh so this is all about as much passive airflow as possible and I want you to try and try and look inside there you see those huge heat sinks right here and right here that is what is going to be cooling this power supply so those appear to be connected to the top and this is going to be the majority of the cooling surface of the power supply so if you are using a unit like this or this one in particular you want to make sure that you're providing at least a little bit of air flow to it where it's doing most of its cooling you don't want to jam this in a little box with like zero fans because then you're just asking for trouble so in terms of connectors on this power supply we have a 20 + 4 pin power connector ok so that plugs into your motherboard that's terrific you would pretty much expect any power supply to have that in terms of PCI Express connectors we have oh wow they've given you a whole lot of options for PCI Express connectors this is oh no they haven't nevermind this is a 4 plus 4 pin power connector so that's for your CPU ok I'm just going to adjust this a little bit so that I can hold it more comfortably there you go so that can come apart if you're using just a four pin motherboard which the odds are pretty good you would be doing if you're using like a media oriented motherboard or a small form-factor motherboard then you have six plus two pin and another six pin so this I mean I really like these cables the ones that are like this because the reality of it is most people are using one GPU so if you have one GPU even if it has 26 pin connectors or an 8 + 6 pin connector you run just one wire to it perfect love that ok then in terms of say two connectors you've got a whole lot of them so imagine that imagine like a media oriented power supply needing lots of hard drives Wow go figure so there you go you got six SATA connections three on each one of these cables i want to give you sort of some some perspective for the length here so this is the power supply itself so these are quite long so pretty much whatever case you're using you're going to be able to reach your hard drives just fine and then you have a bunch more molex connectors so we have two more cables again here's your power supply here's the length of the cable is very long so one two three on each of those and then two floppy connectors at either end thank you for checking out my extremely heavy unboxing of the silverstone nightjar 450 watt power supply