Sentey's power supply offerings consist of the "Extreme Rock" series, which
consist of semi-modular and non-modular units, the non-modular, 80 Plus certified
"Solid Power" series, and the 80 Plus Gold certified "Golden Steel" series.
This is not to be confused with the "Blue Steel" pose made famous by Zoolander.
Today, we're looking at the 850W version of the Gold Steel.
If we do a close up on the box, we can see some interesting bullet-points:
Flat Cables: Sentey uses the same kind of "flat" cables for the modular
cables that Ultra and Corsair use.
Full Protection: This means the PSU has the usual OPP, OVP, SCP, among
others.
Modular Power: This power supply is semi-modular.
100% Japanese Capacitors: Japanese capacitors tend to
be of better quality, are more consistent and last longer than their Taiwanese
and Chinese counterparts.
Universal AC Input: Because of this power supply's Active PFC circuitry,
it's capable of a full range of AC input voltages.
Silent Fan: Well... Silent tends to mean no noise and any fan will make
noise when it's turning. Perhaps they just mean "quiet" fan.
The 80 Plus Gold logo is also predominantly displayed on the front of the
box.
Sentey also offers a 7 year warranty on their product. This is one of the
longest warranties you'll see on a power supply, outside of Ultra's "lifetime
warranty", which requires product registration. Corsair, PC Power and Cooling
and a small handful of others also offer 7 year warranties. Most companies
only offer 3 or 5 years.
The back of the Golden Steel box shows us the connectors and how many
of each we get as well as a list of features in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The list of features here is pretty straight forward. All good information
with little to no marketing fluff.
Here we see that Sentey uses the same box for all four of the Golden Steel
power supplies. The number of connectors on the 850W and 1000W seem to be the
same. We get an additional CPU power connector over the 650W and 750W, two
more SATA power connectors, one more peripheral power connector and two more
PCIe power connectors. Below is our customary table with the number of connectors
as well as the cable lengths:
Sentey 850W
Type
of connector:
Quantity:
Fixed Cables
20+4-pin ATX connector (550mm)
1
4+4-pin ATX12V/EPS12V (600mm)
1
8-pin EPS12V (600mm)
1
PCIe (1 cables w/ 2 connectors) (550mm+150mm)
2
Modular Cables
PCIe (4 cables w/ 1 connector
each) (600mm)
4
SATA (2 cables w/ 4 connectors
each) (500mm+150mm+150mm+150mm)
8
SATA (1 cable with 2 connectors) (500mm+150mm)
2
5.25" Peripheral Power Connector (3 connectors at the end of above cable)
(+150mm+150mm+150mm)
3
5.25" Peripheral Power
Connector (1 cable w/ 4 connectors) (500mm+150mm+150mm+150mm)
4
3.5" Drive power adapter
(+150mm at the end of above cable)
1
Unit
Dimensions(L x W x H)
185mm x 86mm
x 150mm
Finally, on the side of the box, we have four DC output tables.
Again, Sentey
is using one box for all four models. You can click on the picture to see a
close up of all four DC output tables, but if you're only interested in the
specs of the 850W we're reviewing today, below is our customary DC output table:
Sentey 850W
+3.3V
+5V
+12V
-12V
+5VSB
24A
24A
70A
0.5A
3A
Max Power
120W
840W
6W
15W
850W
Finally, we get to open the box and behold our power supply:
Let's pull all of this stuff out of the box and see what we get...
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