{"video_id":"6x-PHefte_U","title":"Mushkin Joule 700W Modular Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:45Z","duration_s":502,"segments":[{"start_s":0.12,"end_s":9.32,"text":"so mushkin is getting back into the power supply game in a serious way so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.799,"end_s":12.04,"text":"this is the jewel 700 wat power supply","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.32,"end_s":18.0,"text":"and that is Jewel the unit of electricity rather than Jewel the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.879,"end_s":20.439,"text":"sparkly thing that goes on ladies and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.0,"end_s":25.24,"text":"some men okay so we have an 80 plus bronze rating on this particular power","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.199,"end_s":28.0,"text":"supply it is a 700 watt unit which 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unboxings","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":499.36,"end_s":503.4,"text":"reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so mushkin is getting back into the power supply game in a serious way so this is the jewel 700 wat power supply and that is Jewel the unit of electricity rather than Jewel the sparkly thing that goes on ladies and some men okay so we have an 80 plus bronze rating on this particular power supply it is a 700 watt unit which makes it I mean I remember when a 700 wat unit was like who needs that that's ridiculous 700 Watts who could possibly ever need 700 Watts well now 700 watts is basically like a a mid-range or sort of value performance range of wattage so that's what we're going to be looking at today let's have a look at what are the overall features and ratings and everything else that we might possibly care about so we've got a full range input with 99 uh 0.99 uh active power factor correction okay that's good dual 12vt rails okay we've got a high reliability thermal control nanotech bearing fan that's good fan can be the difference between a power supply that I would use and a power supply I wouldn't use regardless of how well it performs okay efficiency up to 86% let see cables connector support we'll have a look at that okay we've got over current protection over voltage protection under voltage protection short current ShortCircuit protection overpower protection and underload protection so it's got all of the electrical safeguards that would be potentially needed in a bad situation all right packaging is fairly simple on this particular power supply unit it's kind of a non nonsense approach so we've got just a you know graphical sleeve that goes over a plain black box and let's see how well packed the power supply is in here so H well you know it's probably okay I guess so what I would probably do is uh I would suggest that having a little bit of foam around the power supply wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea but it'll probably arrive okay I mean if you have any issues mushkin has legendary RMA support so I'm sure they'll get you taken care of right away so here's the power supply itself let's check the accessories first not a whole lot of accessories as I mentioned this is a value power supply so we've got a couple of black cable ties we have some silver screws and we've also got a standard computer power cable now when it comes to power supplies I'm a big fan of the kiss principle that is keep it simple stupid and uh the mushkin duel 700 watt definitely does that so we've got a plain black finish on it we've got a label that basically tells you the things you would potentially want to know about it so that is how many amps on the respective uh rails so you can see either of the 12vt Rails is capable of providing up to 26 amps okay and that is is for a total of let me see uh 12vt combined output is up to 51 amps so if you were to load up both of those that is the maximum that you can put on the 12vt rail on this power supply so let's go ahead flip this guy over and so yeah nothing on the other side just your plain black power supply here is the that nanotech fan that is apparently lubrication free so it uses some kind of Fancy Pants nanot technology in order to do that and they claim up to 120,000 hours meantime between failure for the fan so which means that um and this is an unusual thing it should actually Outlast the power supply which is rated at 100,000 hours meantime between failure so in terms of pre-connected cables this I like because it has only ones that you will absolutely need it's got a 24 pin preconnected and it's got an 8 Pin well that is a 4 plus 4 pin and they SL together unlike some of the uh the cheaper ones well I don't know if they're cheaper or more expensive but I definitely like the slide together design better so you see you can separate them like this but then you don't just clip them together you actually slide one connector into the side of the other so then you make your eight pin connector that way and it's much easier to keep them together when you're trying to reach somewhere and plug in your eight pin so everything else is modular so it has a nearly fully modular design so let's have a look at what we've got included in terms terms of modular cables looks like we've got one what is this EPS 12v two motherboard EPS 12vt y so we have an additional eight pin so if we wanted to plug that in we could plug that in and we would have oh that's interesting no ground connections there so I guess this is a since this is a secondary eight pin the assumption is that pretty much no motherboards will actually require hold on just a minute ah I get it okay no no no no no no no no no no okay because it looks like these these connectors are all standard so oh this is neat so you can actually plug this in wherever you want and what it's doing is it's just splitting there you can see there's an additional ground and an additional 12vt there it's just splitting them so that this end goes into the motherboard which is fully populated in this end because it's only got so many 12vs uh in the standard pin that we're using on all of these outputs then uh yeah so it just splits them okay so that's neat okay so you've got a an additional eight pin so you can plug in Fancy Pants motherboards like the classified or like the big bang X power from MSI that require multiple 8 Pin connectors well they don't require them but they can accept them uh to provide more power to the CPU slot okay we've got a couple PCI Express connectors okay so these two go in much the same same fashion wherever you please and they each have a single cable that terminates in an 8 pin and a six pin PCI Express power connector the eight pin is uses the same sliding design for the additional two pins so you can take those off or put them on as you see fit there we go so put those back together so you got two of those for up to 28 pin and 2 six pin or 4 six pin PCI power connectors all right next we have only one MOX cable so this one plugs into the end it's nice and long actually very very long and then it has four Molex and one floppy connector and they're all fairly nicely sleeved actually that's one of the things mushin's done well on this particular unit is they're not using a cheapo lowquality sleeving that's really easy to see through okay and then finally we've got some SATA cables so each of these has uh four SATA connectors on them and it looks like yes they are identical so up to eight SATA connectors can be attached to the juel 700 W power supply so things mushin's done well um are going to be the overall oh yeah I haven't looked at the back there you go so this is typical of a mushkin power supply instead of using that uh honeycomb shape that we typically see so often on other power supplies they've got their crosat shape okay we've got a power switch we've got an input and there is no uh voltage selection because it does accept any input voltage so they've got nice leaving on this thing you got lots and lots of modular cables you can plug any of the cables into any of these connectors which is really really nice um the cables aren't super long but so you might need an extension for your eight pin if you're running it in a bottom mounted case that's quite tall but the 24 pin is fine and all the other ones look good I wouldn't have minded seeing a couple more Molex connectors but you can always use adapters or use extension cables to get more of those and the reality of it is in my personal system I've only got a single thing connected via MOX so I guess it's not that big of a deal anymore SATA connectors are certainly more important so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the juel 700 wat power supply don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}