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this video is brought to you by Coolermaster featuring the site and 240 millimeter all-in-one cpu water cooling system check it out at WWE master usa.com this unboxing is actually meant to be an unboxing of a couple of different things so number one is gonna be silver stones strider gold evolution power supply the golden standard for psu performance efficiency and quality is what they had to say for themselves about it it delivers a thousand watt sustained 1,100 watts peak and is basically just got all of the other good stuff about it that silverstone usually has so there's a quiet one hundred and thirty-five millimeter cooling fan this is a Strider series power supply so it is presumably fully modular although I actually am not a hundred percent sure and actually nah I'm kidding yeah it's a hundred percent modular okay there's some manuals inside there's some stuff inside here don't worry I'm getting to the second part of the unboxing very quickly here so we've got a power cable from do not eat there's that do not eat throw away do not eat thank you we've got closed cell foam which is of course very good for keeping your power supply safe look at this that's a nice touch that's a new thing so they've included a magnetic dust filter so that's a 140 millimeter dust filter you go ahead and pop that on your power supply or if you don't want to use it on your power supply you go ahead put it somewhere else it's up to you it's magnetic so it'll like stick to things that aren't your face no it doesn't stick to my face okay that's okay power supply you've got some cable management velcro zip ties as well as some regular zip ties some look at that two sets of mounting screws so they include four thumb screws and then four regular black screws for mounting the power supply to your case and the power supply itself which has actually just a gorgeous finish on it so it's got kind of uh it looks very similar to mountain mods is black wrinkle finish and you can tell right away with a paint finish is it going to be durable is it not gonna be durable this looks like one of the nicer this might be the nicest finish on a power supply I've ever seen check that out that looks absolutely gorgeous okay so FF 141 yeah magnetize fan filter included 24-hour fully continuous power output with a 40 degree centigrade operating temperature so that is extremely high if you're actually operating your computer in a 40 degree Celsius environment then I feel really really bad for you in addition to your computer so that means that in all likelihood this power supply can do more than a thousand watts sustained if you're in a reasonable room which is probably more like 20 degrees Celsius so about half of that it uses a single 12 volt rail to achieve its thousand watt output so that's 83 ms on that single 12 volt rail which means it can provide almost its entire thousand watt output on that single rail meaning it's probably using a voltage converter as opposed to having dedicated circuitry inside so it's actually going okay we're gonna take the AC voltage coming in at the back we're gonna convert it all to 12-volt DC and then we're going to convert that DC voltage to 5 volt and 3.3 volt which are the other rails on the power supply this actually ends up being more efficient than the more traditional approach of having dedicated circuitry for each one so it's a very very good way to do it and it also means that you're not going to be limited in terms of how many graphics cards or how many 12-volt heavy devices that you can plug into it CPUs for example also use 12 volt okay so that's pretty much it for that let's have a look at the cables included and then we're gonna move on to the most special part about this power supply unboxing which is that you don't have to use these cables so Silverstone has gorgeous power supplies they look fantastic but they're not always necessarily the ones that I would want to use for a showcase build because the cables included while they have decent sleeving on them I mean you actually can't see the color the cables underneath too much this is better than most of the Silverstone power supplies I've seen before often leave a little bit to be desired because these connectors you can see are using colored cables and they're there's a little bit of bare area and all that kind of stuff so I'm gonna show you the alternative cables that you can use that are the best cables I have ever seen so first of all harnesses so the first harness here is quadruple bull I rather triple molex with a floppy connector on the end of each one and it's about a hmm looks like about a Linus bellybutton to tip of Linus arm in terms of length all right the next one we have these are quad SATA harnesses and they are using sort of the the upside down configuration so that means you have to run it up to the top and then down to an optical drive due to the orientation of the connector itself this doesn't really bother me because generally speaking if I'm going down to hard drives I don't mind kind of going like this because they're not that far away and if I'm going down to an optical drive I'm usually cable managing up the back of the case but not everyone prefers that so I'm gonna go ahead and let you guys make a decision similar length on that guy 24-pin connector very short for the 24 pin connector which I do like to see because you don't need a long 24 pin connector you don't route them that far in all modern cases pretty much have a nice place to put them these PCI Express cables have capacitors built into them this can actually improve the performance but it's not the kind of thing again that I'd like to see on the best cable managed system ever so there's two six plus two connectors that have individual connectors on the ends and then there's two more that have a six plus two and an additional six pin and these are ideal for graphics cards that have two connectors so you only have to truly have to run one cable over to the whole thing and then you can plug in two connectors to the graphics card itself so it's a total of four six plus 2s and two six pin connectors and finally you've got two four plus four connectors for high-end motherboards that ask for two of them now I promised to show you guys the best sleeved cables that I have ever ever encountered ever and if I could figure out where my knife was then I would do that here we go so we're gonna cut it open that felt violent and there we have it so these are not these are better than MD PCX folks these are the best I've encountered they actually are using more of a cloth braiding on them as opposed to AAS so they're individually sleeved and they're using not plastic no plastic and it's yeah just oh absolutely beautiful I mean part of the point of sleeving is for look part of the point is for better air flow in the case individually sleeving the cables kind of kicks in the teeth but it's fashionable right now so people do it but the last point of sleeving cables is actually to make them more durable so if you were to accidentally slip with a screwdriver and hit something or with a knife or scissors or pretty much almost anything else you'd actually have a really hard time cutting these cables because they have an extremely durable sleeving or if you had like a cut out in those in a cpu tray or something or a cpu hole or something and it rubbed up against it for a long time if it was a just not covered in sleeving at all if you had two cables that wore out they could short on each other whereas this that will not happen so I have a 24-pin I've also got some other ones here so I've actually got a wide variety of these cables you can pick them up they're good for any okay for Silverstone power supplies only refer to website for details is what they have to say for themselves but they're available in a wide variety of different configurations and I think that pretty much wraps it up so okay yes the Strider 1,000 watt beautiful-looking power supply kind of ugly cables but you have the opportunity to put the nicest cables available on it alright guys so this is officially the most gorgeous looking power supply that I think anyone here in the studio has ever seen so we've got a number of different kinds of connectors here so this guy right here is an individually sleeved 6+2 the great thing about these individually sleeve cables is if you want to run just a six you don't have to put the two right next to it you can actually just tuck them away somewhere here I mean you can even cut them off if you really wanted to but I'd feel like like I'm destroying a work of art with this particular power supply this one right here is a six plus two plus a six so that way you could run one gorgeous sleeved cable to a video card that needs two connectors I'm just gonna put this down here so here's our 24 pin which also oh wait no it isn't that's 2 4 + fours there we go so those are for your CPU connectors oh looks so good so good like so Pro so much better than even like pro sleeved individually done power supplies because if you even look at where they're terminated there's no heat shrink on any a few of the connector so this one's special because there's two wires going into into that one so you can see that there's just there's nothing it's completely clean it's very very rare that you see someone put the time and attention into plastics leaving to get that right because you'll actually have to pre-plan the way the cable is gonna curve to have them all terminate like that see something like molex it's a little bit tougher to do that because of the way that the pins are done but with anything like here we go where are they yeah there we go so there's the four pins so the four plus fours where are the SATA ones SATA ones look very clean as well so there's no color to them whatsoever cuz I think they're using black wires inside but it's so hard to tell because this sleeving is so so opaque you just can't see through it at all so absolutely gorgeous I think these wires are a little bit no they're about the same length as the stock ones that were included so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos