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so today I'll be unboxing a pretty cool product this is the Strider Series 1500 watt power supply from silverstone and what makes this unique is the fact that it is a 80 plus Silver certified and B it is one of the highest wattage power supplies available on the market it is also a 100% modular design and I will show you what that means in a moment but why don't I get the cameraman to take a quick look at the actual specs for this unit so you can see it is an 8 rail power supply so that means it has eight 12-volt rails each Specht up to a max of 25 amps each okay so it uses probably yeah 135 millimeters silent fan and they're saying that the noise level is as low as 19 decibels so that's incredibly silent and that is again one of the things they've called out right on the front this is a low noise power supply now let's get this thing open okay here we've got a summary of all the connectors on it too so you have a 24-pin connector an EPS 8 pin connector which is also a 4 plus 4 and then you have an EPS 8 pin just native connector for floppy connectors that's a lot of those actually for 6 pin PCI Express for 6 pin 6 plus 2 pin PCI Express then you have 12 molex and 12 SATA so lets you can connect pretty much whatever you could possibly want to this power supply as many as wow I guess you could do four graphics cards depending on how they've configured the modular cable design which we won't have a look at in just a woman here if I can get the Box open it seems to be ok power supply this power supply is capable of drawing a very high amount of current and electricity be attentive to use only the power cord included with the power supply and do not use an extension cable or a power strip with this power supply 1500 was is a lot of juice folks so this is the dream PSU for computer enthusiasts ok awesome and remember too that if your pull if you're powering your PC with 1500 watts you're actually more than that from the wall because even though it's 80 plus it should be around 80 86 to 87 percent efficiency you're actually drawing that extra few percent from the wall even though you're not able to use it so this is power power supply interesting okay so this is your manual it's available in a bunch of different languages how to install a bunch of basic information on the power supply itself including the pin outs for all the different connectors okay great let's take this foam out okay you know let's do the rest of the accessories first so inside here what I think we're going to find is a power cord and that is what we're going to find but we're also going to find like a pouch to hold your extra modular cables in okay and then here's like a super thick power supply cable and it actually uses a non-standard configuration so this is designed to be used only with this power supply and I think I've seen a couple others before that are like that okay we got a couple adapters here so this is six plus two PCIe and it takes two six pins at the back okay so it's an adapter I don't like to see adapters like this on a fully modular power supply it seems kind of unnecessary we've got some velcro cable management ties as well as some thumb screws as well as the regular zip ties for cable management and then here we go this is a long power supply Wow this thing is absolutely gianormous as if that's a word there you go so that is a 135 millimeter fan and even so you've got large strips of unused area on either side of this unit I mean this thing is huge so there's your general specs again on the side as well as I you're cautioning blah blah blah okay I've got a silver stone stamp on the top you've got a regular honeycomb grille with your special power supply cord input on the side and then nothing over here now at this side of the power supply we're gonna find what is one of the coolest features of this unit the 100% modular interface that it has so you can plug in up to for purpose let me see I'm gonna make sure I'm right here before I say this up to four peripherals so this is molex or SATA and then the bottom ones are up to six one two three four yeah six PCI Express connectors along the bottom and then you even the 24 pin ATX connector is modular on this power supply so that's very cool I mean there's no reason you wouldn't have that plugged in oh I'm sorry okay no it is for PCI Express and then these two on over here are the two eight pin EPS connectors sorry sorry okay so why don't we have a look at which connector silverstone deems necessary to include by default with this unit okay bye yeah PCI Express we've got oh okay so they're using actual actually like two PCI Express connectors per plug at the back so by default it comes with two 6 plus twos three four six plus two connectors and then four additional six pin connectors so eight PCI Express connectors just right out right out of the gate and then it also includes those adapters to turn your other six pins into an additional two six plus two pins so that's six six plus two pin connectors that's ridiculous Wow okay so there's your ApS and you're ATX four pin four plus four and then they've also included dudududududududu yeah two molex and two SATA attached by default and then you've got the additional ones here so you can switch to whichever cable configuration you would like cuz it's a modular power supply thank you for checking out my unboxing and product overview of the silverstone strider 1500 watt power supply