welcome to my unboxing of a very exciting product now this has sort of a
more value oriented price point compared to something like a ZX Series which is
80 plus gold and fully modular and like
lots of good stuff it's really good power supply but they're expensive so
this is the ZT series which has sort of
90% of what the ZX Series has but at a lower price point so it is a fully
modular power supply with a 5year warranty 80 plus bronze is still pretty
darn good on a yearly scale we're talking probably about6 to7 of
difference assuming you're running your computer at like full load like many
hours per day uh you can go back and check out on my ncixcom channel the
episode I did about 80 plus gold where I compared the cost of running a non- 80
plus power supply with an 80 plus gold power supply and I gave sort of a couple
different scenarios and yeah the cost is
not that big of a factor as long as it's a nice high quality
unit then you are going to be getting the performance you need out of your PSU
so Inside the Box we find a manual which
is actually surprisingly thick look at that okay so it talks a little bit about
80 plus efficiency level certification so 80 plus bronze is 82% at 20% 85% at
50% 82% at 100% okay and that's at 11 15 volt which
is what we use in North America so 80 plus gold is about 5% more efficient
across the board but as I said before
it's really not the end of the world however you know what this chart really
uh outlines one of the reasons I tell people not to over Buy on the power
supply because if you buy a 1500 watt power supply and you're using 300 watts
at idle which you're not because most computers use about 100 to 150 watts at
idle you're getting less than anything on this chart in terms of the efficiency
that your power supply is rated for you're not even in The Sweet Spot which
is about 50% so connector specifications
here we can look at the specifications I suppose Max output on the uh 12vt rail
is hold on Max
output uh okay hold on a second you know
what let's just look at the side of the power supply because that is a less complicated chart here's a bunch of
different languages which I do not care about but somebody does and that's why
they're there all right next we have the power supply itself and I haven't
forgotten about the cables we will go back and look at the cables later I just
wanted to see once we get the little baggie opened
up here hey it's got a 140 mm cooling fan oh it doesn't oh yeah there it is
okay so on the 12vt rail we can do up to 744 Watts so you can do almost the
entire output of this 750 watt continuous rated power supply on the 12
uh on the 12vt rail which means that no matter what you throw at it in terms of
graphics cards or where you plug them in because this is a single 12vt rail power
supply you will get the full output that it is rated for so I'm being a little
bit add today but I'm going to go ahead I'm going to put the power supply itself
back down and I'm going to go back to the Box because I just want to see if in
this unboxing I missed anything okay so
they've got ratings for the cable lengths which is good to know there's
that chart I was looking for continuous up rated at a demanding 45° C ambient
temperature wow so they're rating this power supply at a completely unrealistic
temperature and not unrealistic in a bad way unrealistic in a good way if this
delivers the performance they say it does at that temperature I guarantee you
it's performing better than they say at a a room temperature which is going to
be less like what about 20 23° cius s of
in that range single 12vt rail we already talked about that premium low
ESR 105° C electrolytic capacitors uh
compliant with ATX v2.2 okay large temperature and load control this is
cool so the fan on here most fans are
temperature controlled on power supplies this one is load controlled so what that
means is your fan is actually going to start spinning faster as soon as your
computer is drawing more juice from the power supply why is that important
because it means that your power supply will never heat up any higher than it
has to because it's already predicting
that there is more load on the components and they're going to heat up it is cooling them before they even need
to be cooled very neat all right next we have 80 plus bronze which we talked
about already and a bunch of sort of
safety stuff over voltage or over current over power and ShortCircuit to
protect your components 5year Power Swap warranty I remember when the power swap
warranty first launched that was with the ocz uh this was before the mod extrem
this was Power Stream yes with the Power Stream power supply
so that means that you do not have endless repair return for repair Loops
they just send you a new one no big deal
that is pretty much it I'm done with the Box okay now we're going to go back to
the cables so we've got a big gold fat
computer cable here so what is this
uh trying to find out how thick it is
why don't I just tell you guys it's thick and it's UL certified so it's
probably safe next we have some PCIe
cables EPS uh what's that yeah that's
EPS okay got other more different EPS got other more different PCIe I'm just
going to sort these into what they are and then we'll come back to them in a
minute okay so first thing we find is our 24 pin connector so these are
clearly labeled PSU and then like not
PSU ATX so that goes into your motherboard cable lengths I wouldn't
have any concerns with a premium power supply like this but I'm going go ahead and check it anyway there you go you got
a nice long 24 pin connect so even if it's a sorry about that guys we ran out
of memory so this will be uh adequate length for you whether you have your
bottom mounted power supply whether you want to go around the back of the motherboard tray and come up the front
whatever the case may be nice long 24 pin cable never hurts when you are
building a machine all right what else we got so uh PCI E cables here let's
have a look at the lengths of these PCI E cables tend to not need to be very
long because whether you have a bottom mounted power
supply or whether you have a top mounted power supply the distance is kind of the
same so I don't worry too much about that but there you go that is the
length in terms of Linus Heights it's about a zyo process to a top of the head
sort of length all right next we have
our 8 Pin EPS connectors of which there are two these look like they might be a
little bit short but let me have a look actually that's not bad okay that's
pretty good so that's actually longer than no it's about the same length yeah it's longer than the PCIe cable so you
should be able to reach in anything the tallest most ridiculous full tower case
you should be able to go around the back of the motherboard and plug into the top
of the motherboard okay next finally not
finally but also we have SATA so we have
a three SATA cable okay so that's a modular cable we have another three SATA
cable we have another three SATA cable
and that is it so since those are all the same I'm just going to take one of them and I'm going to show you guys the
size or the length rather okay so there you go they look a little
bit something like that all right and then we've only got a couple Molex ones
but that's fine so we've got two two three Molex cables and then we
have these are these are handy we've got one of those Molex to Floppy adapters
just in case you still have something in your system that uses floppy power we C
we have four zip ties for cable management four screws for attaching the
power supply to the case and now let's have a look at the unit itself it has a
very nice aesthetic to it it I mean I'm obviously that is subjective but I
personally really like it bold yellow here bold yellow here and then otherwise
dark blacks and gray scales looks really
really sharp there's the 140 mm fan you
can clearly see the internals of the power supply itself including the
modular interface which is very low profile actually it looks really good
and the solder points on the back are very clean interesting okay moving along
to the other side you can see ocz has thought of everything see look it's
right side up no matter which way you install your power supply so you can
either go this way and you can draw air in from the Top If you have a case that
doesn't have ventilation on the bottom or you can go this way and draw air up
from the bottom of your case if you do have the ventilation space on the back
we find a honeycomb mesh nice low restriction mesh an onoff switch as well
as the power input and finally let's check out the oh this is awesome okay
this is right here probably the killer feature other than the load controlled
fan 10 speed so check this out you can plug in you never see this with the 750
W models you can plug in all four of your PCIe and then you can plug in both
of your EPS connectors so you can power
even super high-end boards and dual graphics cards without any adapters
because the reality of it is 750 watts
is enough for most systems out there but
a lot of motherboard or a lot of power supply manufacturers give you one EPS
socket and four PCIe forcing you to
either use a single EPs and two graphics
cards like if you have a high-end motherboard that takes two EPS connectors or they make you put the
other EPS into one of the PCIe and you use up uh two EPS that way and then you
only have three PCI Express adapters left which means you can't do dual
graphics cards which if you're buying a motherboard that has two eight pins I'm
pretty sure that unless you have a server board you're probably going to want a couple graphics cards in there so
there you go that's pretty cool um next we also
have there we are uh five modular spots
for the SATA 1 two 3 SATA and two Molex so you can plug in all of the included
cables without any difficulty and finally we have the ATX connector here
which is pretty self-explanatory so thank you for checking out my unboxing
of the ZT series 750 W power supply
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