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
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