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
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