A Look Inside

The unit itself is well made, SilverStone used a matte black finish, which looks pretty. Apart from that there is an 80mm fan from ADDA, which is specified at 0.36A and 12V. Removing the top of this unit we see that Silverstone is using a platform from Enhance.

Input filtering right behind the AC receptable is being taken care of by one X and some Y capacitors and apart from that the fuse this unit is also located in this area. Transient filtering continues on the main PCB and following the traces we find the bridge rectifiers. The APFC has been attached to an aluminium profile, providing additional cooling. The main capacitor for the APFC is from Nippon Chemi Con and featurs 450V, 330uF at 105°C specs. In order to save space quite a few MOSFETs have been moved to the back of the unit, where they do not receive any additional cooling.

Having a closer look at the secondary side we find DC-DC conversion where 3.3V and 5V are being generated fom the 12V rail. This is actually another keypoint for a modern power supply. You can clearly see that there are lots of cables in this unit, which actually block the airflow in the power supply significantly. Apart from that there are caps from Su'scon, which is something we don't understand. This is a very small, high power unit and therefore all Japanes would have been the way regarding caps. We're not too confident that this unit will last too many years if under serious load over long term.

Something we really like is the soldering quality. We couldn't find any glitches.

Page 1 - Introduction

Page 2 - Preview

Page 3 - Delivery / Specs

Page 4 - A Look Inside

Page 5 - Result Analysis and Discussion

Page 6 - Conclusion