so I found another retro unboxing candidate in our warehouse I guess
nobody wanted it but this is the
original ultra xconnect power supply with customizable cabling technology so
what is now known as a modular power supply this is I guess for one way or
another it is the original one so it includes nine xconnect cables and dual
80mm fan cooling this is an old old
product so why don't we come around so this was back when a 500 wat power
supply was like a premium premium power supply these days like most OEM power
supplies are kind of getting up there 400 500 watts so supports Intel Pentium
4 and AMD CPUs meets ATX version
2.03 and to 1.2 specifications short
circuit protection in Rush current protection thermal overload cutoff
protection and what else do we have here FCC and UL approved oh ooh ooh UV ready
cables that's pretty cool you know what that's a feature we still haven't seen
since then so what do we have on the side so this tells us all the cables
that are included but that's okay we'll have a look at that when we get inside
the box you can see it has a single
12volt rail which was typical back in those days now we see Power Supplies
with as many as 6 12vt rails and that single 12volt rail is capable of
providing only 48 watts so these days
because most systems are so 12vt dependent you see that that most power
supplies are actually rated for at or near their entire wattage rating on the
12volt rail so You' typically see somewhere between 490 to 500 watts
available on the 12vt rail now get this this is a this is a marketing call out
70% typical efficiency wow these days
like I said it's going to be a lot I didn't say that yet but I'm going to say
it's a lot better than that 80 plus gold power supplies are now available on the
market which is basically 90 plus it's
like 88 or 89% um minimum efficiency so yeah it's
um things have changed a lot since this
power supply hit the market this is a brand new unit so uh we're getting the
dust off it here and opening this baby up all right so the first thing we find
inside is the what is this so it's a box
and it's full of the xconnect cable technology cables so we will see what we
have here here all right so we've got a little users manual which oh we better
register for our warranty register to win you think if I send this in I'll
actually still be able to win what do you win doesn't even say what you win oh
that's stupid on online with two eyes
nice okay um what do we got use only the
cables you need no one wanted cabl so basically everything that we already
know about uh modular cables so it shows you how to plug in cables okay that's
fine that's cool next we have a power connector so that's your standard
connector that we still use to this day all right next we've got five screws
just in case you lose one or it strips or whatever else so this is a fully
modular power supply which means everything including the 20 pin power
connector because it does not have a 24 pin connector is fully modular it's
fairly flexible it's got like a a UV Blue translucent uh rubberized finish on
it so so if you're plugging in an ancient motherboard you could use this
cable all right next we have um oh wow
do we even have that yeah yeah there we go so it's P4 ready which means that
you've got a Pentium 4 four pin connector okay so that means uh what
else do we have does it have like SATA oh it does okay so let me see exactly
how this works so it has only two SATA
oh oh it has this ancient auxiliary connector as well so that I haven't seen
in quite a few years so so it's actually got only Molex connectors on it but you
can adapt one of those Molex connectors
to two SATA connectors if you're running
like a premium SATA hard drive yeah all
right so why don't we get the power supply itself and you know I didn't realize just how old this product was
until I looked at the outside of the box and I saw that the NC Q number is one
two something something we're up to 5
something something something so this is actually like I mean how do you even quantify
that it's yeah it's it's one of the first I
guess 12,000 SKS ever created on nc.com okay so um here we go so you've
got little rubberized connectors that cover up the modular interface you know
keep dust out of there when you're not using your 24 pin connector or whatever
else it is that you're would or wouldn't be using there's your four pin so that's
pretty nice it's actually got a beautiful glossy black or glossy blue
finish on it so I'll do my obligatory finger shot here where you can see the
shininess that's going on you can see that the QC was passed the high pot was
passed and we've got another little spec sticker here that shows us the same
things that we saw on the side of the Box up on the top of the unit we've got
again a nice glossy blue finish that is actually reasonably scratch resistant
compared to what we see these days so it looks like paint technology hasn't uh
hasn't really improved for the most part okay then here we've got yet another
gloss blue finish here we've got an 80 mm fan you don't see too many Premium
Power Supplies with 80 mil fans and all of them have uh can accept both 115 and
230 volt inputs these days almost so that's an adjustable feature there you
got a big power switch and then your power in and then you've got an ultra
fan Grill over a what appears to be a 92mm fan or it might be another 80 mm
fan can't tell off the top of my head but there you have it that was my
unboxing of the ultra X connect modular
power supply