Silverstone SST-30NF power supply

Published: May 23, 2004

Author: Amber Lupala

Editor: Amber Lupala

Provider: Silverstone

Conclusion

Date 2004-05-23
Provider: Silverstone
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala

Silverstone SST-30NF power supply

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Six molex connectors are available for your use with this PSU. You also have two SATA connectors so if you have SATA drives you will still have 6 molex connectors available which is very good.

Testing was done on the following rig:

AMD XP 2600+
Leadtek K7NcR18D Nforce 2
512mb 3700 Corsair DDR
20 Gb Maxtor 7200 rpm harddrive
Artic Silver 3
Liteon 16x cd burner

We measured the output in a molex connector with a multimeter under idle use and under full load running Pcmark2002.

We can see after testing that the 12V rail is seriously to low but I dont think thius PSU is meant to be used with overclocked computers anyways. I know that this PSU can run a normal computer without any problems and I think people that want a quiet PSU should look into this one.

Conclusion:

This is the beginning to something quiet I think that fanless PSU�s will get better and better and Silverstone seem to have taken the first step to it. This product has some flaws yes as it does not perform very well on 12V which is very important to overclockers and even normal users to get a stable computer. I think though that the casing and the quality of the PSU is very high and it does not run as hot as I thought it would do. I would recommend this to users that don’t have the need to overclock and just want a quiet computer as this PSU does not make any noise. Overall we give this 4 out of 5 for a great and quiet PSU that holds up to it’s reputation of high quality.