so today I'm going to be having a look at a pretty cool product this is an ocz
Z series power supply so I actually did their 1,000 watt a little while ago but
there's a couple key differences this is their 850 wat non-modular power supply
so you don't get the benefits of a modular interface but you still do get
all of the benefits of the ocz series so you got 80 plus gold you got a 5year
warranty SLI support all that good stuff
let's have a quick look at the basic specs so you can see we're running a
single 12vt rail featuring 7 1 amps of power output and that single 12vt rail
is capable of outputting all 850 Watts
that this power supply can provide so no matter what you are powering off this
power supply even if you're doing like all graphics cards and all stuff that's
really heavy 12vt rail stuff it can do
it no matter what as long as you're not exceeding 850 watts of course okay so
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
so like not just unboxings and like Blog videos so ncixcom is the uh is the
YouTube account for that and over the next it's probably going to take a
couple weeks to put it together but I'm going to be taking a high-end system and
I'm going to be running it on an 80 plus gold power supply specifically this one
and pitting that against a non 80 plus gold power supply so I'm just going to
find like an older High wattage power supply and see for enthusiasts who are
running high-end systems that are pulling you know 500 plus Watts from the
wall what is the benefit real world in terms
of your power bill of running an 80 plus gold power supply unit so without
further Ado let's get to actually unboxing this thing so in here we'll
find a little a little sleeve that covers up all the cables makes your
packaging very tidy that's very nice okay so we pull that out and then we've
got a little ocz series manual showing you how to install it giving you some
basic specs and it's in about 350 different languages awesome I'll only be
needing English though thank you then we've got a little phone
all right and then we get down to the power supply itself now I'm not a huge
fan of big capacity power supplies that
are not modular but oh hold on a minute
how's this supposed to work looked like oh no those are all attached I thought I
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
it's not modular okay so then we've got an AC power cord a nice thick one nice
and beefy looking okay in here we will find uh some velcro ties okay for
managing your cables that's very nice of easy to provide and then four thumb
screws for securing the power supply to the back of your case and that is pretty
much it in terms of accessories so let's get the box put away here let's get it
out of the little uh protective sleeve that keeps the Finish pristine in
shipping which is great because this power supply has a terrific brushed
looking Metal finish I hope you can see that can you see that in the camera
awesome okay so there's your gold ocz technology sticker Zed series 80 plus
gold they got all their branding present of course okay on the top you find your
basic specs which again outlines that 71 amps on the 12vt rail which is a very
key feature of this particular unit on this side you'll find yet another
sticker and then on the back you see the traditional honeycombed uh back plate
that you'll see on most ocz power supplies and on off switch and then the
power plug now in terms of cables like I said I I don't like to see high-end
power supplies that are non-modular it's not my favorite thing in the world but
if you save a few bucks great and another factor to consider consider is
that if you're running a system that's really highend enough to pull 850 WS
from the wall you're probably using most of these cables anyway so the benefit of
a modular interface at that point is kind of debatable all right so let's see
what we got in terms of connectors here so I'm just going to separate these
based on which ones have orange cables in them and which ones do not because
those ones probably have SATA attached to them so wow uh can you kind of look
up and have a look here okay so there are four SATA plugs on each of these
three SATA cables can you see all that
okay so we have 12 SATA connections just like that all right then we have two
more cables coming out of the power supply that feature three MOX
connections on one of them all right we got three there and then we have three
more as well as one floppy connection should you still require a floppy drive
in this day and age and then we have a
reasonably long 24 pin connector it doesn't break break away with the four
pins in case you need to power a 20 pin board but realistically you're buying an
850 W power supply and you're powering 20 pin board I mean come on it doesn't
make any sense anyway so then in terms of PCI oh no let's not do PCI Express
yet okay first let's do the Dual 8 Pin connectors that's
really nice to see because if you're running a board like the classified
which actually accepts two8 pin connectors for CPU power then you will
have them okay and then we have support for four 6 plus2 pin PCI Express
connectors so if you're running any potential two card configuration so
you're looking at even like dual 59 70s you will have enough cables to run it if
you're looking at a tri card configuration then you better make sure
that each card only has one plug on it otherwise you will not have enough so
thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ocz Z series gold power supply oh
I didn't even look at the fan that looks like a 135 mil fan it's got lots of
blades good static pressure etc etc you got your ocz logo that looks very nice
okay and as I mentioned before I'm going to be doing like a quick look at what OC
um at what 0 plus gold efficiency actually means in terms of real world
power bill and so you should definitely check that out when it comes out later
on down the line thank you for checking out my unboxing