Bits and Box

The Olympia comes in the typically swish Silverstone packaging; it's black, it's debonair and it's designed to stand out through it's simplicity. The front has some short specifications and features the phrase "650w Continuous" in a bold red along with some mystical looking pillars just barely visible at the sides of the PSU. I imagine this is designed to convey that the Olympia will stand the test of time like the relics of the city it was named after.

The back of the box is surprisingly bare, however the sides feature multilingual specifications and some macro photographs of the PSU's features.

Along with the Olympia you get the typical mish mash of extra cables, a kettle lead and the obligatory safety manual.

One cable you receive had me a little confused for a minute. It was a 3 inch 8pin to 8pin connector. I couldn't figure out who would want to extend their PCIE 8pin power connector by only 3 inches. So after a little searching around online it turns out some people have been forcing their PCIE 8 pin headers into their server motherboards, causing all sorts of problems. To counter this, Silverstone have provided a protective extender that makes it impossible for you to do so, aren't they thoughtful?