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this is something that won't happen very often this is a live unboxing video so

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if you want to sweep around and see the crowd gathered today you know let's hear

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some cheers and stuff live unboxing video so we go back

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to where you were I don't know why you're over there okay so we're here at the NVIDIA 3D Vision surround demo and

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I'm going to be unboxing something that I've been meaning to unbox for a while

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this is something I first laid eyes on at CES 2011 it is the ocz ZX Series of

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power supplies and more specifically I have the 1250 wat power supply here with

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me today so what's special about this well what I think is special about it is

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that it is one of the most new and interesting power supply lines that's

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come out of ocz in a good number of years they've really refreshed their

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overall image and their overall feature set this is a fully modular power supply

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it features 80 plus gold efficiency

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which means that it's pretty much 90% efficiency although for whatever reason

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uh the 80 plus organization feels that it would wreck their branding to call

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something 90 plus so they don't see the need to call anything that so it's 80

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plus gold we're going to stick with that technical specifications are right here

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you can see the length and width which will be fairly evident once I open the

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box you can also see which standards it comes equipped with it uses a 140 mm

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ball bearing cooling fan high efficiency which we've talked about already it has

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all of those um over voltage over current ShortCircuit protections that

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you would expect to find on any decent power supply and it features a 100,000

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hour meantime between failure rate let's go ahead and open this up and this is

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also something they've really changed they are using a completely different

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kind of packaging for their power supplies which I've never seen before but I will struggle with it and I will

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open it for you so we have a window where you can see the fan I have no idea

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why come on why is there a window here the Box doesn't have a window but that's

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okay because as long as it's a good product it can come in the most fail

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possible box and I won't care we find

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inside here probably modular cables as I mentioned it is a fully modular power

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supply so there's going to be a lot of modular cables this probably weighs

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about 2 lb so let's just dump that out

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there we are lots of colorcoded cables in there we're going to have to uh take

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those apart o look at this it comes with an 80 plus gold certificate so normally

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when I say that a power supply is 80 plus gold certified it doesn't actually

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come with a certificate but this one does so there you go all right we've

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also got a manual neat and then finally we've got

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some screws and cable ties and power

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cord oh yeah you can tell I've unboxed a

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power supply before so here's some ocz velcro cable ties big fan of these I

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still have some from my original Power Stream power supply they're the ones

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that I used to tie back the cables on my test bench comes with uh four thumb

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screws to mount the power supply in your case as well as a nice thick power cable

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that uses a standard interface some of the higher wattage units use that uh

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that funky one that you're not bound to have a spare handy if you need need one

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and you left it at work and you need the power supply to be functional at home

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and you don't have one and you can't run your test bench so yeah that's never

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happened to me before actually it has all right power supply itself so

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let's start with the power supply okay so as I mentioned before we've got a 140

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mm ball bearing fan doing the cooling on here you can tell it uses a fairly

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standard seven blade design I mean my expectation is it be fairly quiet and

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the reality is it's not going to have to work very hard because even a 12 50 W

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power supply when you're talking 80 plus gold certification is very efficient and

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is not going to kick out a whole ton of excess heat on the side you find what

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some people might find gudy but personally I think is quite tasteful a

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black gold and silver color scheme I love this a lot of the 80 plus gold

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units are doing this where they put a little bit of gold accenting on it I

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think it's great you also find it upside down on the other side there's a very

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good reason for that cuz when it's installed in your case it will be up

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right side up rather right side up regardless of which way you install it

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so those sides are both identical here you will find the general specifications

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you can see this is a single rail 12vt power supply so that is a 104 amp 12volt

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rail it's a good thing it has all of those industrial protections on it

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because if it didn't have overcurrent protection as well as ShortCircuit

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protection you could be frying some pretty serious Hardware that you have

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hooked up to a power supply of this testicular fortitude so here we go let's

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have a look at our first modular cable C here this is the ATX power cable I'm

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just going to go ahead and plug that in 24 pins although you can split away the

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last four pins if you're actually still powering a 20 pin motherboard with a

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1250 W power supply we've got a couple of extra capacitors here that are

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covered by um heat shrink tubing so those are presumably to do something to

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help it deliver better power I should certainly hope so um next let's have a

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look at what we got for PCIe so these are all color coded gray we have 1 2 3 4

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five is an odd number so there must be six we have six PCI Express eight pin

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connectors oh that's interesting no these are all six plus two so you can

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see the one end and I'm just going to unwrap one of them so you can see the

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general length we have dedicated plugs for all of these so you can plug in as

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many as you see fit here is about the length of the cable is approximately 09

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of a Linus ARM so there's your 6 plus 2

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there's your interface that's all pretty straightforward let's see what we've got

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for SATA cables so this harness has has

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four three SATA cables on it you can see that it uses these slim peripheral slid

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SL SATA connectors right there I'm going to show you the length of that one as

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well before we wrap this unboxing up

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actually you never wrap an unboxing up you more unbox it so anyway there that's

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the length of that what else have we got so total SATA cables included there's

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another three there's another three and I'm expecting to find probably one more

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of those there's another three so you can hook up a total of 12 SATA drives

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natively to this power supply without any adapters finally we have three Molex

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three Molex and then a three MOX with a floppy connector at the end just in case

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you actually still own something that uses a floppy power connector going to

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show you the length of that one so this is well over a Linus ARM it's a Linus

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ARM and armpit and then half of a torso finally last but not least we have

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our eight pin and probably a 4 plus4 pin

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there it is an eight pin and a 4 plus 4 pin EPS connector these look a little on

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the short side uh you can see they're actually this is neat they're clearly

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labeled PSU and CPU so you know which end goes where you may need an extension

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cable to get this up to the Top If you have a bottom mounted power supply and

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you have a case that doesn't have a very direct route to the top of your

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motherboard so bear that in mind extension cables are cheap you can get

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the NZXT individually sleeved ones for just a couple bucks so that's probably a

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solution I'd recommend thank you for checking out my unboxing today of the 80

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plus certified including certificate ocz

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zx1 1250 power supply don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips more

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