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so today I'm going to be having a look at a pretty cool product this is an ocz

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Z series power supply so I actually did their 1,000 watt a little while ago but

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there's a couple key differences this is their 850 wat non-modular power supply

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so you don't get the benefits of a modular interface but you still do get

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all of the benefits of the ocz series so you got 80 plus gold you got a 5year

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warranty SLI support all that good stuff

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let's have a quick look at the basic specs so you can see we're running a

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single 12vt rail featuring 7 1 amps of power output and that single 12vt rail

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is capable of outputting all 850 Watts

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that this power supply can provide so no matter what you are powering off this

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power supply even if you're doing like all graphics cards and all stuff that's

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really heavy 12vt rail stuff it can do

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it no matter what as long as you're not exceeding 850 watts of course okay so

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the reason I'm so interested in this power supply is I'm actually going to be doing a a full episode of ncx tech tips

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so like not just unboxings and like Blog videos so ncixcom is the uh is the

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YouTube account for that and over the next it's probably going to take a

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couple weeks to put it together but I'm going to be taking a high-end system and

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I'm going to be running it on an 80 plus gold power supply specifically this one

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and pitting that against a non 80 plus gold power supply so I'm just going to

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find like an older High wattage power supply and see for enthusiasts who are

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running high-end systems that are pulling you know 500 plus Watts from the

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wall what is the benefit real world in terms

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of your power bill of running an 80 plus gold power supply unit so without

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further Ado let's get to actually unboxing this thing so in here we'll

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find a little a little sleeve that covers up all the cables makes your

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packaging very tidy that's very nice okay so we pull that out and then we've

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got a little ocz series manual showing you how to install it giving you some

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basic specs and it's in about 350 different languages awesome I'll only be

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needing English though thank you then we've got a little phone

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all right and then we get down to the power supply itself now I'm not a huge

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fan of big capacity power supplies that

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are not modular but oh hold on a minute

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how's this supposed to work looked like oh no those are all attached I thought I

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thought those cables weren't attached I was going to be like oh here I am saying it's not modular but it is but it is

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it's not modular okay so then we've got an AC power cord a nice thick one nice

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and beefy looking okay in here we will find uh some velcro ties okay for

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managing your cables that's very nice of easy to provide and then four thumb

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screws for securing the power supply to the back of your case and that is pretty

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much it in terms of accessories so let's get the box put away here let's get it

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out of the little uh protective sleeve that keeps the Finish pristine in

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shipping which is great because this power supply has a terrific brushed

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looking Metal finish I hope you can see that can you see that in the camera

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awesome okay so there's your gold ocz technology sticker Zed series 80 plus

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gold they got all their branding present of course okay on the top you find your

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basic specs which again outlines that 71 amps on the 12vt rail which is a very

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key feature of this particular unit on this side you'll find yet another

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sticker and then on the back you see the traditional honeycombed uh back plate

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that you'll see on most ocz power supplies and on off switch and then the

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power plug now in terms of cables like I said I I don't like to see high-end

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power supplies that are non-modular it's not my favorite thing in the world but

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if you save a few bucks great and another factor to consider consider is

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that if you're running a system that's really highend enough to pull 850 WS

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from the wall you're probably using most of these cables anyway so the benefit of

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a modular interface at that point is kind of debatable all right so let's see

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what we got in terms of connectors here so I'm just going to separate these

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based on which ones have orange cables in them and which ones do not because

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those ones probably have SATA attached to them so wow uh can you kind of look

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up and have a look here okay so there are four SATA plugs on each of these

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three SATA cables can you see all that

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okay so we have 12 SATA connections just like that all right then we have two

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more cables coming out of the power supply that feature three MOX

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connections on one of them all right we got three there and then we have three

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more as well as one floppy connection should you still require a floppy drive

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in this day and age and then we have a

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reasonably long 24 pin connector it doesn't break break away with the four

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pins in case you need to power a 20 pin board but realistically you're buying an

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850 W power supply and you're powering 20 pin board I mean come on it doesn't

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make any sense anyway so then in terms of PCI oh no let's not do PCI Express

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yet okay first let's do the Dual 8 Pin connectors that's

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really nice to see because if you're running a board like the classified

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which actually accepts two8 pin connectors for CPU power then you will

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have them okay and then we have support for four 6 plus2 pin PCI Express

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connectors so if you're running any potential two card configuration so

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you're looking at even like dual 59 70s you will have enough cables to run it if

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you're looking at a tri card configuration then you better make sure

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that each card only has one plug on it otherwise you will not have enough so

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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ocz Z series gold power supply oh

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I didn't even look at the fan that looks like a 135 mil fan it's got lots of

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blades good static pressure etc etc you got your ocz logo that looks very nice

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okay and as I mentioned before I'm going to be doing like a quick look at what OC

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um at what 0 plus gold efficiency actually means in terms of real world

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power bill and so you should definitely check that out when it comes out later

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on down the line thank you for checking out my unboxing