Friday, June 23rd 2017
SilverStone Intros the Strider Titanium Line of High-Wattage PSUs
SilverStone introduced its flagship Strider Titanium line of high-wattage power supplies for enthusiast-segment gaming PCs and record-seeking overclocking builds. The lineup consists of 1100W, 1300W, and 1500W variants, and boasts of 80 Plus Titanium-certified efficiency. The units offer full modular cabling, with enough juice and straws for Core X or Threadripper HEDT builds with 3-way or 4-way multi-GPU configs. All models feature two 8-pin EPS connectors, which each collapse into 4+4 pin ATX, so you can power Intel X299 or AMD X399-chipset motherboards with two EPS inputs.
Under the hood, the Strider Titanium features a single +12V rail design on all variants, active PFC, and most common electrical protection mechanisms. The units also feature a compact 180 mm length, compared to other brands which typically come in 220 mm lengths for this kind of wattage. All three variants come with eight 6+2-pin PCIe power connectors, up to sixteen SATA power, and six 4-pin Molex connectors. The units are cooled by a 135 mm fan, which stays completely off when the load is under 20%. The company didn't reveal pricing.
Under the hood, the Strider Titanium features a single +12V rail design on all variants, active PFC, and most common electrical protection mechanisms. The units also feature a compact 180 mm length, compared to other brands which typically come in 220 mm lengths for this kind of wattage. All three variants come with eight 6+2-pin PCIe power connectors, up to sixteen SATA power, and six 4-pin Molex connectors. The units are cooled by a 135 mm fan, which stays completely off when the load is under 20%. The company didn't reveal pricing.
20 Comments on SilverStone Intros the Strider Titanium Line of High-Wattage PSUs
Epyc is for servers...
A quality 650w psu is fine for amy single gpu and cpu overclocked on ambient.
Titanium efficiency requirements start at 10% load(at least 90% efficiency on 10% load; 110W for 1100W, 130W for 1300W and 150W for 1500W), so using such high capacity psus is not so stupid as it used to be on gold or platinum era.
But yeah I agree there's little reason to buy 1kW psu if you don't really needed and one could use the amount of that money something more useful PC part.
Of course, there are people that take things to the extreme and they should be able to spec their systems accordingly. Yet having three PSUs over 1kW from one manufacturer seems a little over the top. And we're talking only about the Strider series here, SilverStone may have more in their other series.
And SilverSone dont make any of the uints they sell its OEM´s like Enhance Electronics (most of them), FSP, CWT, Seasonic and Sirtec that makes them
The lower wattage Strider Titanium units where made by Enhance Electronics and again those where not all that good and was pretty mediocre
The main flaw of the low wattage Strider Titanium units is their piss poor ripple suppression with results of 90-105mv on the 12v rail at full load and as much as 60mv or more on the 5v rail at full load and thats outside of what is allowed under ATX specifications
You got a PSU with 90% efficiency its 720 watts used by the system, if you got 92% efficiency its 736 watts and so on
Also rember that things like the monitor should not be on the same outlet as the PC when you take reading from the UPS or kill a watt.
Also if I wasn't clear before, I have no problem with offering these PSUs, because there will always be an exotic build needing one. The only problem I see is having three specced so closely. And even then, it's not my problem :D