this is something that won't happen very often this is a live unboxing video so
if you want to sweep around and see the crowd gathered today you know let's hear
some cheers and stuff live unboxing video so we go back
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
I'm going to be unboxing something that I've been meaning to unbox for a while
this is something I first laid eyes on at CES 2011 it is the ocz ZX Series of
power supplies and more specifically I have the 1250 wat power supply here with
me today so what's special about this well what I think is special about it is
that it is one of the most new and interesting power supply lines that's
come out of ocz in a good number of years they've really refreshed their
overall image and their overall feature set this is a fully modular power supply
it features 80 plus gold efficiency
which means that it's pretty much 90% efficiency although for whatever reason
uh the 80 plus organization feels that it would wreck their branding to call
something 90 plus so they don't see the need to call anything that so it's 80
plus gold we're going to stick with that technical specifications are right here
you can see the length and width which will be fairly evident once I open the
box you can also see which standards it comes equipped with it uses a 140 mm
ball bearing cooling fan high efficiency which we've talked about already it has
all of those um over voltage over current ShortCircuit protections that
you would expect to find on any decent power supply and it features a 100,000
hour meantime between failure rate let's go ahead and open this up and this is
also something they've really changed they are using a completely different
kind of packaging for their power supplies which I've never seen before but I will struggle with it and I will
open it for you so we have a window where you can see the fan I have no idea
why come on why is there a window here the Box doesn't have a window but that's
okay because as long as it's a good product it can come in the most fail
possible box and I won't care we find
inside here probably modular cables as I mentioned it is a fully modular power
supply so there's going to be a lot of modular cables this probably weighs
about 2 lb so let's just dump that out
there we are lots of colorcoded cables in there we're going to have to uh take
those apart o look at this it comes with an 80 plus gold certificate so normally
when I say that a power supply is 80 plus gold certified it doesn't actually
come with a certificate but this one does so there you go all right we've
also got a manual neat and then finally we've got
some screws and cable ties and power
cord oh yeah you can tell I've unboxed a
power supply before so here's some ocz velcro cable ties big fan of these I
still have some from my original Power Stream power supply they're the ones
that I used to tie back the cables on my test bench comes with uh four thumb
screws to mount the power supply in your case as well as a nice thick power cable
that uses a standard interface some of the higher wattage units use that uh
that funky one that you're not bound to have a spare handy if you need need one
and you left it at work and you need the power supply to be functional at home
and you don't have one and you can't run your test bench so yeah that's never
happened to me before actually it has all right power supply itself so
let's start with the power supply okay so as I mentioned before we've got a 140
mm ball bearing fan doing the cooling on here you can tell it uses a fairly
standard seven blade design I mean my expectation is it be fairly quiet and
the reality is it's not going to have to work very hard because even a 12 50 W
power supply when you're talking 80 plus gold certification is very efficient and
is not going to kick out a whole ton of excess heat on the side you find what
some people might find gudy but personally I think is quite tasteful a
black gold and silver color scheme I love this a lot of the 80 plus gold
units are doing this where they put a little bit of gold accenting on it I
think it's great you also find it upside down on the other side there's a very
good reason for that cuz when it's installed in your case it will be up
right side up rather right side up regardless of which way you install it
so those sides are both identical here you will find the general specifications
you can see this is a single rail 12vt power supply so that is a 104 amp 12volt
rail it's a good thing it has all of those industrial protections on it
because if it didn't have overcurrent protection as well as ShortCircuit
protection you could be frying some pretty serious Hardware that you have
hooked up to a power supply of this testicular fortitude so here we go let's
have a look at our first modular cable C here this is the ATX power cable I'm
just going to go ahead and plug that in 24 pins although you can split away the
last four pins if you're actually still powering a 20 pin motherboard with a
1250 W power supply we've got a couple of extra capacitors here that are
covered by um heat shrink tubing so those are presumably to do something to
help it deliver better power I should certainly hope so um next let's have a
look at what we got for PCIe so these are all color coded gray we have 1 2 3 4
five is an odd number so there must be six we have six PCI Express eight pin
connectors oh that's interesting no these are all six plus two so you can
see the one end and I'm just going to unwrap one of them so you can see the
general length we have dedicated plugs for all of these so you can plug in as
many as you see fit here is about the length of the cable is approximately 09
of a Linus ARM so there's your 6 plus 2
there's your interface that's all pretty straightforward let's see what we've got
for SATA cables so this harness has has
four three SATA cables on it you can see that it uses these slim peripheral slid
SL SATA connectors right there I'm going to show you the length of that one as
well before we wrap this unboxing up
actually you never wrap an unboxing up you more unbox it so anyway there that's
the length of that what else have we got so total SATA cables included there's
another three there's another three and I'm expecting to find probably one more
of those there's another three so you can hook up a total of 12 SATA drives
natively to this power supply without any adapters finally we have three Molex
three Molex and then a three MOX with a floppy connector at the end just in case
you actually still own something that uses a floppy power connector going to
show you the length of that one so this is well over a Linus ARM it's a Linus
ARM and armpit and then half of a torso finally last but not least we have
our eight pin and probably a 4 plus4 pin
there it is an eight pin and a 4 plus 4 pin EPS connector these look a little on
the short side uh you can see they're actually this is neat they're clearly
labeled PSU and CPU so you know which end goes where you may need an extension
cable to get this up to the Top If you have a bottom mounted power supply and
you have a case that doesn't have a very direct route to the top of your
motherboard so bear that in mind extension cables are cheap you can get
the NZXT individually sleeved ones for just a couple bucks so that's probably a
solution I'd recommend thank you for checking out my unboxing today of the 80
plus certified including certificate ocz
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