What you see here is the retail package. It comes in a big box. Very well packed and protected. There are some really thick foam blocks that keep the PSU sitting snugly in the box to prevent damage during transportation. I've also included a standard ATX PSU(OP750W) in the picture so you can compare the size. The ST1000 is only slightly bigger than the OP750. The ST1000 is compact, but still very heavy. It's listed as 3.0kg. Small cases will have no issues with this PSU. There's some good news here for friends of the planet. The black paint used on the PSU case is lead free paint and the PSU itself also RoHS compliant.
















Here is the top of the ST1000. It uses a single 135mm fan. Silverstone rates the fan noise as 22dBA minimum. From my trials, the fan can't be heard over the rig's system fans so it's nice n quiet. Though Silverstone has packed a very powerful PSU into a small, compact case, they've managed to keep the unit cool and quiet.



















Here's how it looks like on the bottom, rear and side of the PSU.















The power connector wire is now of the normal type. It's no longer the proprietary pin type like the OP1000. The wire is much thicker than normal PSUs though as can be seen in the picture above. It's good to know that the wire can handle everything we throw at it. I wouldn't trust the normal puny wires on a 1000W PSU.

Poast internal pics.

But i'm betting this is a full bridge forward PSU.

i'm sorry, but what do you mean full bridge forward PSU?

The ST1000 comes with a whole bunch of wires and they're modular as can be seen in the picture above. All necessary wires are already plugged into the PSU including 2x8 pin PCIe plugs. There's 2 more 6 pin PCIe plugs in the bag for those running 2x 8800GTX which requires 4x 6 pin PCIe plugs. The 2x 8 pin PCIe plugs are for ATi Crossfire. I removed the 2x 8 pin plugs and installed 4x 6 pin plugs as I will be testing with 8800GTX SLi.

The ST1000 comes with the following plugs:
1 x 24-pin motherboard connector (550mm)
2 x 8-pin EPS12V connector (550mm)
1 x 4-pin ATX12V connector (550mm)
2 x 8-pin PCI-E connector (550mm)
4 x 6-pin PCI-E connector (550mm)
2 x triple SATA connector (500mm +250mm + 250mm)
2 x triple 4-pin IDE & single floppy power connectors
(500mm + 250mm + 250mm + 150mm)

Take note that the ST1000 is fully sleeved now. The previous OP1000 and OP750 sleeves only go up to the 1st plug of the SATA and molex plugs. I put that down as a negative point in the OP1000 n OP750 reviews. Looks like Silverstone finally took our suggestions and have now implemented full sleeves on all wires. Big thumbs up to Silverstone for listening to the customer's needs.


















Here's the PSU with all the wires taken off. It comes with a nice bag for you to store all the unused wires.






















The PSU is very well built. It isn't as nice as the Olympia series though. It's also made in China as compared to the Olympias which are made in Silverstone's new robotic factory in Taiwan. The components and build quality is of a lower level. This is unavoidable due to the lower price point of the Strider series. However, the components used are good and more than enough for enthusiasts on a budget. Just look at the size of the heatsinks, capacitors and coils. Nice fat stuff for fat loads.
















Here's the specifications sheet taken from Silverstone's site.


















That's the test rig in the pictures above. Just to make sure I torture the PSU to the maximum I added in 6 more 120mm fans and 5 sticks of CCFL lights! Can you imagine any rig running with 8x120mm fans, 2x90mm fans, 5 sticks of lights? I doubt anyone would have all that in a rig. Heh.

Test rig's specifications:-

AMD X2 4200+ OC to 2.6ghz @ 1.6V
Arctic Cooling Freezer64 Pro HSF
Asus A8N32SLi Deluxe Motherboard
2x 8800GTX in SLI config. OC to 600/2000
2x1gb Team Xtreem Cronus OC to 520mhz @ 2.9V
150Gb Western Digital Raptor
250Gb Western Digital Caviar
Panasonic SATA DVD drive
8x 120mm fans
2x 90mm fans
5 tubes of CCFL lights


This post has been edited by ianho: Sep 2 2007, 03:12 AM

Wait ler. I'm still updating the full write up.

Nice products man~!~
Seem like you r silverstone fans lol...
I wish i can own a op1000 or st1000~!~

he's sponsored le, InterAsia gave him to review it...

@uncle
keep it going...
i'm curious if OP1000 vs ST1000

This post has been edited by sniper69: Sep 2 2007, 03:11 AM

What is this PSU price ?

omg, nice review there. 1000W.

Here's a screenshot of the rig on idle. Take note of the 3.3V, 5V, 12V and Vcore before I start stressing the rig.











Here's the screenshot of the rig under stress. Dual instances of Prime95 and lots of background stuff running. Look at the 3.3V, 5V,12V and Vcore again. Only very minor fluctuations.










The rig being tortured with dual instances of Prime95 while running 3D Mark06 with lots of background stuff still running! It still managed to get 6400+ marks. Some rigs can't even do 6400+ marks just running purely 3DM06 without any other stuff running. Anyway, that was just to stress it beyond normal usage scenarios so I can torture the PSU.














The LCD of the G15 keyboard showing the voltages and CPU, RAM load while running dual Prime95 n 3DM06.
Take a look at the Speedfan console and you can see the voltages were rock solid while doing all that. The voltages didn't drop at all. The 12V rail stayed at 11.97V, the 3.3V rail stayed at 3.2V n the 5V rail stayed at 5V. Even when they fluctuated, the fluctuations were extremely small. The fluctuations I noticed were only 0.01-0.07V for all 3 rails.





Conclusion
This is a very powerful, stable and compact PSU. I don't think we can ask for anything more from an affordably priced 1000 watt, 70A PSU. It's nice and quiet, rock solid stable and it doesn't get hot at the maximum load I could throw at it. I can safely say that this PSU will last a pretty long time as it's rock solid and doesn't get stressed at all. Also bear in mind I fully loaded up a highly overvolted n overclocked high spec system with a whole bunch of fans and lights. The ST1000 handled all the abuse I gave it and yet it wasn't anywhere near it's limits yet. The Silverstone Strider 1000W PSU get's a big thumbs up from me.

This post has been edited by ianho: Sep 2 2007, 04:04 AM

wuts the diff between OP1000 and ST1000??it seems that ST1000 shud be enuff to power a full enthusiast rig edi...

and wut more interesting is the appearance of pcie 8pin connector!!made it much future proof!!

2 x 8-pin PCI-E connector (550mm)
4 x 6-pin PCI-E connector (550mm)

Oh yea, fully SLI and Crossfire support.

OP1000 vs ST1000? i'd go for OP1000, why?

- stronger 3.3V Rail (OP1000 30A; ST1000 25A), 5V Rail (OP1000 40A; ST1000 30A) and 12V Rail (OP1000 80A; ST1000 70A) - again, a single rail is better

- the heavier the PSU, the better... OP1000 weighs 3.6kg, while ST1000 3.0kg

- OP1000's operating temperature @50°C, 10°C higher than ST1000

on top of that... OP offers non-modular, single rail PSU , about this ST1000, i didn't say it's not good, it's just my personal POV, that's all...

So what the market price for this 1000W Strider? Should be far more cheaper than OP... I guess maybe around RM800

OP1000's around RM1200 ~ RM1100 IIANM, while this... anywhere below than RM1000

duh... it's strider... OP650W already around RM600-RM700...

it's perfect for any AMD sc 939/940 wif 8800 SLi...
cuz i "think" Intel platform gonna consume more...

Most obvious reason is surely the Modular VS Non-Modular design here. Should be the main selling point between the ST1000 and OP1000.

In term of physical appearance, which is longer and bigger?Are they the same?

This post has been edited by akachester: Sep 2 2007, 12:00 PM

ok, OP650W @RM600~RM700, the ST1000 should be in sub-RM1000 price range because if not... then it's better get OP1000 or if favour the modular, a Decathlon

ianho...how did u managet to display voltage details at ur Logitech G15?

need to download sort of file to enable it huh??

it can either from Everest (currently on it) or SpeedFan (not yet tried)