{"video_id":"6X0Df2flweU","title":"NZXT Hale V2 1000W Power Supply Unboxing","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":388,"segments":[{"start_s":0.32,"end_s":9.32,"text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at the NZXT hail V2 series now as per the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.48,"end_s":14.0,"text":"V2 this isn't NZXT first kick at the can when it comes to a power supply but they","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.639,"end_s":19.4,"text":"are continuing with their original philosophy which was leading customer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.68,"end_s":22.92,"text":"support for their psus now it's hard to differentiate a power supply these days","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.039,"end_s":26.039,"text":"it's got a fan it's got a 24 pin connector it's got like power in and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.8,"end_s":30.359,"text":"it's probably got some 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quadruple Molex I'd say s is a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":372.44,"end_s":378.08,"text":"much more common connector now than Molex these days so I wouldn't have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":376.24,"end_s":382.199,"text":"minded seeing that changed around anyway if you're wondering about the weird","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":379.28,"end_s":385.36,"text":"setting it's rock solid see get it want a rock don't forget to subscribe F Tech","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":384.24,"end_s":389.36,"text":"tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at the NZXT hail V2 series now as per the V2 this isn't NZXT first kick at the can when it comes to a power supply but they are continuing with their original philosophy which was leading customer support for their psus now it's hard to differentiate a power supply these days it's got a fan it's got a 24 pin connector it's got like power in and it's probably got some kind of an 80 plus rating in this case it's 80 plus gold which is I think where that 9 comes from because it's basically 90% efficiency but check this out this is the less than three which is their little heart right here so it's two steps if there is a problem within the 5-year warranty period for your power supply they will not only pay to ship it back to you which is what most companies do but they will also pay for you to Simply schedule a pickup and ship it back to them on their dime so the idea is that an RMA shouldn't cost the customer anything even though that is not the industry standard and applies to US and Canada residents only apparently but there you go that's what they're going for here so it's fully modular Japanese capacitors a single 12vt rail 135 mm dual ball bearing fan and energy saving which of course any 80 plus gold power supply would tend to be NZXT does a great job of their packaging so they've got a nice soft foam here that gives you a nice little look at the power supply through that window in the top and then they've got a very stylish white bag that and of course the obligatory bag of throwa away do not eat silica gel that leaves us with pretty much the power supply itself so I'm going to go ahead and put the box down there I personally love white power supplies I think they look really stylish I think they look really good and I think as long as they have awesome innards then uh then that's all very good things so here on the top you've got that 135 mm dual ball bearing fan that we talked about before as well as a classy looking NZXT logo I'm going to try and get this sticker off really quick here see if I can make that happen there we go love it it's a simple stamped metal uh logo just kind of a black glossy finish over it looks really nice on this side you've got a hail 90 this is kind of a rubberized finish so this isn't metal so the metal is actually just the white part here which feels like a very durable paint finish it's got some texture to it so I'm not going to worry about accidentally scratching it that was my one complaint about the old ocz Power Stream 520 awesome power supply single strong 12volt rail back in the days when that wasn't that common but the finish on that thing was terrible you installed it in a system and then it just looked like butt um on the other side so you can see that they've got it such that you can install it either way and the text on the side will be correct see there you go you've got another rubber strip that looks equally good and then there's your modular interface so we're going to go ahead and pull out all of the cables and we'll be back in a moment so in terms of modular connectors there's actually a very wide variet iy so check this out these are all PCI Express here so six 6 plus2 connectors and this is actually quite nice to see so even on a lot of power supplies that have um flat cables for the Molex and SATA connectors you'll see um you'll see a sleeved connector for PCIe but instead NZXT has opted for flat ribbon cables even for PCI Express the length is also quite optimal so you're going to be able to manage the cables by behind your motherboard tray bring them out behind your video card and I mean it's so nice because most most video cards these days on the high performance side have at least two PCIe connectors on them so what's great about having these flat cables is that you can easily run them somewhere together see that without them actually taking up much additional bulk at all so then when they reach the destination it doesn't look untiy and gross it just looks very very clean so from an aesthetic standpoint I think these are this is one of the nicest implementations I've ever seen of that so kudos to NZXT for that you've also got a standard 4 plus4 and another standard 4 plus4 and dedicated connectors for these a lot of the time you see on modular power supplies they're going to give you the option to either install two 8 Pin CPU connectors or your full complemented PCI Express connectors but they have not done that you can plug in all of them as much as you want all the time the 24 pin connector is the only one that uses uh a braided sleeving on top of it as opposed to a flat connector I'd love to see someone Implement a flat 24 pin and then if I had to complain about the power supply which I guess I sort of am supposed to um I'd say not enough SATA so we've got um three quad SATA harnesses which is up to 12 connectors but I'd like to see more of a mixture so maybe a couple quad ones and a couple dual ones because you're not always going to be running them somewhere where you actually have to connect four devices and we really don't need this much Molex anymore so we've got a triple Molex with a floppy we've got a triple Molex with a floppy we've got a triple Mo or quadruple Molex and then we've got another quadruple Molex I'd say s is a much more common connector now than Molex these days so I wouldn't have minded seeing that changed around anyway if you're wondering about the weird setting it's rock solid see get it want a rock don't forget to subscribe F Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}