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SilverStone Strider Platinum ST55F-PT 550W PSU Review - SilverStone comes to us today with a Platinum rated PSU that is also billed as having a "Power Density (of) 305W per liter." While this is a bit odd, the messaging seems to be big power in a little footprint. Let's see how this "ultra silent" fully modular PSU stacks up when it comes to serving up big-time power under big-time pressure.
 
Nice review, I always used Silverstone PSU's and only had one problem and it was taken care of right away.Good product!
 
QuiteSufficient said:
Is this considered a true SFF unit, or just small by ATX standards?
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It's a small ATX. The fan on this PSU is a standard 120mm fan. Compared to that, Silverstone's SFX-L form factor is essentially the size of a 120mm fan, and this PSU is quite a bit bigger than a 120mm fan.
 
"After all of this, one thing we notice missing from the packaging is the length of the warranty for this unit. If you dig in the product documentation you can find a single line that says "All SilverStone power supplies come with a 3 year warranty" and this is also found on the warranty page. A few notes on this issue. It is still exceedingly annoying that the warranty lengths are so deeply buried when it comes to SilverStone power supplies. Second, as bad as that sounds, the warranty page on SilverStone's website is better than it used to be and they did at least print the warranty somewhere (even if it is buried). Third, a 3 year warranty on what should be a premium product and most definitely at least higher-end product is very short in our opinion. Come on SilverStone, step up the support as you are trailing a lot of your peers! And by peers we mean good quality brands, not those other brands where you would expect poor warranty support."

Somebody needs to relay this 3-year thing to Newegg. Virtually every SilverStone PSU they offer indicates that the warranty period is one (1) year. (Yeah, if one takes the time to visit the SS website and investigate, you'll find that the PSU warranties are three-to-five years, depending on model.) Wonder how many people have passed on a SilverStone based on taking Newegg's information as fact?
 
It's called power density. They could have given it to you in W/m^3
 
He's right in that square liters is nonsensical unless you're talking about a 4th dimension. Perhaps Kyle was deliberately trying to be nonsensical... hmm...
 
Paul_Johnson said:
m^3 is a measure of volume. You produce "x" amount of power from "y" volume of the unit.
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Yes, but the physical volume of the unit itself? The math, 305 watts x 1.8 liters = 549 watts, works. But it tells you absolutely nothing about the unit itself. As I said, nonsensical.
 
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DKS said:
Square liters don't exist. Liters are the basic unit of volume, so it would be liters. The dimensions of the power supply are 150mm x 86mm x 140mm or 1806 cc's. That's 1.8 liters. That converts to 1.9 US quarts. Which has nothing at all to do with the power supply except to sound "technical".
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Yeah....volume...of space that the PSU fits into.
 
Tsumi said:
He's right in that square liters is nonsensical unless you're talking about a 4th dimension. Perhaps Kyle was deliberately trying to be nonsensical... hmm...
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I was addressing what the advertisement was talking about as a couple of posters in this thread did not know what was being calculated. Kyle's post had a VTEC kicked in YO after it, that should have conveyed the message he was tongue in cheek making.

DKS said:
Yes, but the physical volume of the unit itself? The math, 305 watts x 1.8 liters = 549 watts, works. But it tells you absolutely nothing about the unit itself. As I said, nonsensical.
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It is not "nonsensical", you just don't understand what power density is and what is required to make ever larger power outputs from ever smaller volumes of space. While not as impressive as some of SilverStone's other units more power from smaller packages is something.
 
Nice to see Silverstone making steps in the area of size reduction without loss of capacity or quality of the output.
This is critical in getting the small form build beyond the niche market and into the average user's mind as a default design standard.


On a completely different note:

It's always a joy to read Paul's reviews.
Those of us who play grammar Nazis are pretty quick to point out mistakes in a review.
It's only fair to note that Paul is one of the few writers I've come across that combines solid technical content with proper grammar, punctuation, and the occasional turn of phrase that reflects a real talent for writing.

This is not to denigrate others, but most writers in this arena focus on the technical aspect and spend little time on the quality of their writing.
Thanks, Paul.
 
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