1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:09,320 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the NZXT hail V2 series now as per the 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:14,000 V2 this isn't NZXT first kick at the can when it comes to a power supply but they 3 00:00:11,639 --> 00:00:19,400 are continuing with their original philosophy which was leading customer 4 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:22,920 support for their psus now it's hard to differentiate a power supply these days 5 00:00:21,039 --> 00:00:26,039 it's got a fan it's got a 24 pin connector it's got like power in and 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:30,359 it's probably got some kind of an 80 plus rating in this case it's 80 plus 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:35,079 gold which is I think where that 9 comes from because it's basically 90% 8 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:38,840 efficiency but check this out this is the less than three which is their 9 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:42,600 little heart right here so it's two steps if there is a problem within the 10 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:46,760 5-year warranty period for your power supply they will not only pay to ship it 11 00:00:45,239 --> 00:00:52,280 back to you which is what most companies do but they will also pay for you to 12 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:56,920 Simply schedule a pickup and ship it back to them on their dime so the idea 13 00:00:55,199 --> 00:01:00,440 is that an RMA shouldn't cost the customer anything even though that is 14 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,680 not the industry standard and applies to US and Canada residents 15 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:08,040 only apparently but there you go that's what they're going for here so it's 16 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:13,240 fully modular Japanese capacitors a single 12vt rail 135 mm dual ball 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,720 bearing fan and energy saving which of course any 80 plus gold power supply 18 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:21,040 would tend to be NZXT does a great job of their packaging so they've got a nice 19 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:28,560 soft foam here that gives you a nice little look at the power supply through that window in the top and then they've 20 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:31,920 got a very stylish white 21 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,920 bag that 22 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:38,680 and of course the obligatory bag of throwa away do not eat silica gel that 23 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:42,560 leaves us with pretty much the power supply itself so I'm going to go ahead 24 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:46,599 and put the box down there I personally love white power 25 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:50,879 supplies I think they look really stylish I think they look really good 26 00:02:48,879 --> 00:02:54,560 and I think as long as they have awesome innards then uh then that's all very 27 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,680 good things so here on the top you've got that 135 mm dual ball bearing fan 28 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:02,000 that we talked about before as well as a classy looking NZXT logo I'm going to 29 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:07,360 try and get this sticker off really quick here see if I can make that 30 00:03:04,519 --> 00:03:12,599 happen there we go love it it's a simple stamped metal uh logo just kind of a 31 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:17,599 black glossy finish over it looks really nice on this side you've got a hail 90 32 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:21,040 this is kind of a rubberized finish so this isn't metal so the metal is 33 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:24,120 actually just the white part here which feels like a very durable paint finish 34 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:30,680 it's got some texture to it so I'm not going to worry about accidentally scratching it that was my one complaint 35 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:32,640 about the old ocz Power Stream 520 36 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:36,360 awesome power supply single strong 12volt rail back in the days when that 37 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:39,200 wasn't that common but the finish on that thing was terrible you installed it 38 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:43,400 in a system and then it just looked like butt um on the other side so you can see 39 00:03:41,519 --> 00:03:47,360 that they've got it such that you can install it either way and the text on 40 00:03:45,319 --> 00:03:51,040 the side will be correct see there you go you've got another rubber strip that 41 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:54,640 looks equally good and then there's your modular interface so we're going to go 42 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:59,040 ahead and pull out all of the cables and we'll be back in a moment so in terms of 43 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:06,079 modular connectors there's actually a very wide variet iy so check this out 44 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:08,840 these are all PCI Express here so six 6 45 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:14,519 plus2 connectors and this is actually quite nice to see so even on a lot of 46 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:16,799 power supplies that have um flat cables 47 00:04:14,519 --> 00:04:23,639 for the Molex and SATA connectors you'll see um you'll see a sleeved connector 48 00:04:20,239 --> 00:04:26,160 for PCIe but instead NZXT has opted for 49 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:29,320 flat ribbon cables even for PCI Express the length is also quite optimal so 50 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:35,400 you're going to be able to manage the cables by behind your motherboard tray bring them out behind your video card 51 00:04:33,199 --> 00:04:40,080 and I mean it's so nice because most most video cards these days on the 52 00:04:37,919 --> 00:04:44,520 high performance side have at least two PCIe connectors on them so what's great 53 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:49,880 about having these flat cables is that you can easily run them somewhere 54 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:54,320 together see that without them actually taking up much additional bulk at all so 55 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:58,199 then when they reach the destination it doesn't look untiy and gross it just 56 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:01,280 looks very very clean so from an aesthetic standpoint I think these are 57 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:07,880 this is one of the nicest implementations I've ever seen of that so kudos to NZXT for that you've also 58 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:11,720 got a standard 4 plus4 and another standard 4 plus4 and dedicated 59 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:15,560 connectors for these a lot of the time you see on modular power supplies 60 00:05:13,639 --> 00:05:21,400 they're going to give you the option to either install two 8 Pin CPU connectors 61 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:25,360 or your full complemented PCI Express connectors but they have not done that 62 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:30,199 you can plug in all of them as much as you want all the time the 24 pin 63 00:05:27,319 --> 00:05:33,280 connector is the only one that uses uh a braided sleeving on top of it as opposed 64 00:05:32,039 --> 00:05:37,280 to a flat connector I'd love to see someone Implement a flat 24 pin and then 65 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:42,840 if I had to complain about the power supply which I guess I sort of am 66 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:46,400 supposed to um I'd say not enough SATA 67 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:48,800 so we've got um three quad SATA 68 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:52,800 harnesses which is up to 12 connectors but I'd like to see more of a mixture so 69 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:55,400 maybe a couple quad ones and a couple dual ones because you're not always 70 00:05:54,280 --> 00:06:01,639 going to be running them somewhere where you actually have to connect four devices and we really don't need this 71 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:04,360 much Molex anymore so we've got a triple 72 00:06:01,639 --> 00:06:10,160 Molex with a floppy we've got a triple Molex with a floppy we've got a triple 73 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,840 Mo or quadruple Molex and then we've got another quadruple Molex I'd say s is a 74 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:18,080 much more common connector now than Molex these days so I wouldn't have 75 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:22,199 minded seeing that changed around anyway if you're wondering about the weird 76 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:25,360 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