So today I'll be unboxing a product that's claim to fame is that it is the
first 80 plus gold certified power
supply that is available on the market today. So this is the OCZ series 1000 W
modular power supply. And I guess we'll do a quick overview of the unit itself.
So it's SLI ready. If it's a 1000 watt power supply it better be. It has a
5year warranty. And this is okay as we
have the marketing stuff on the back. It is powerful, efficient obviously, and it
is a single rail design. So, a lot of people prefer a single rail design to a
multi-rail design for whatever their reasons are. But there you go. It is a
single rail design capable of a peak of,00 W, so 90 amps on that single 12vt
rail. So, let's get this thing opened up
and have a look at the unit itself. So, it has a 135 mm fan. It has, as I
mentioned before, a modul. Okay, I've totally run out of stuff to talk about until we actually get this box open
here. So, why don't we just do that? We got like our shrink wrap. Okay, there we
go. That's a very shiny gold label. Oh, it's got your 80 plus gold label,
obviously. And what 80 plus means, actually, I should talk about that
really quickly, is that this? Yeah, 90% efficiency. So, 80 plus
gold is technically 90% efficiency. And
this unit itself is actually rated at 50
degrees centigrade. So a lot of power supplies are actually rated for their
efficiencies and their wattages at lower temperatures that are just kind of
unrealistic, but this one is not. So first we have our manual. It's a little
booklet right here. It's got your index, which is your specs, your installation
instruction, and your connectors overview. Okay, there we go. Then we
have a little cardboard divider that separates our accessories from the unit
itself. Very slick looking package here. So, let's get that out. Next, we have
some Velcro cable ties. Okay. Very nice.
We have a very, very thick uh three-prong standard power cable. Then,
we have a nice little Oh, this looks like what you would put your uh your
pens and pencils in for school, but uh this actually holds your modular cables.
So, why don't we have a look at the included modular cables here?
Okay, first of all, we have what is this? Okay, so this is four
6 plus2 pin uh PCI Express connectors.
So you can see 1 2 3 four ends go into the power supply and then the other four
ends are 6 plus2 connectors. These are kind of an ugly color, but it's in line
with the gold theme of this power supply. Next of all, we
have, if I could just figure out what these are supposed to be. Why don't I
just undo this coil here, we have only one Molex connector here. So, that is
six pins on the one side and then it branches into three Molex connectors and
one floppy connector. Okay, so just one of those. Then next we
have lots and lots of SATA. So they're assuming that you're not going to have a
whole lot of Molex devices, but that you might have a fair number of SATA. So we
have one, two, three CA three modular
cables that will each accept three SATA hard drives. So that's up to nine SATA
hard drives. Just like that. And then for the hardwired cables that are
attached to the Oh, four thumb screws. There you go. For installing the power
supply for the hardwired cables that are attached to the unit itself, we have a
couple more 6 plus2 pin PCI Express connectors. So that means that you can
have up to eight PCI Express connectors.
Sorry, six PCI Express connectors. Again, 6 plus 2. Then we have an EPS 8
pin. Okay, so that's a 4 + 4. Then we
have still more SATA. So you can actually hook up nine SATA devices to
this power supply without using any adapters and another 8 pin. So this will
work perfectly on a board that needs an 8 pin and a four pin or even two eight
pins like an X58 classified. Last but not least, you have a native 24 pin
connector. So, this is not a 20 + 4 pin connector, it won't work on a 20
pin motherboard, but I mean, if you're actually using a 20 pin motherboard with
a 1000 watt power supply, you should uh probably be re-evaluating your system
there. So, this is a very nice finish. Actually, I really like this. It's a
very um you know, I don't know how to describe it better than this, but it's a
very heavyduty feeling casing and it feels very cold to the touch, which I
don't know, may or may not actually describe anything useful. So, here on
the back, we have our onoff switch. You can see it accepts 100 to 240 volts at
50 to 60 Hz. There's where your three-prongong power plugs plugs in. On
the top of the unit itself, you can see we've got the specs. So, 25 and 25 amps
respectively on the 3.3 and 5V rails. And then, wow, that's kind of funny. The
packaging says 90 amps, but this says 83 amps. So, this is the sustained rating,
and I think they were saying 90 amps peak. So, there's all of your safety
ratings, all of that kind of stuff. On either side, you've got I think it's
kind of stylish looking. You've got like a shiny gold stripe with the Z series,
1000 W 80 plus gold logos all on it. And then on the top of the unit itself,
you've got your OCZ branded fan that is a 135 mil fan, so that's going to be
very quiet. Um, and last but not least,
here we go. We have the modular interface. So, we can do up to four of
our SATA or Molex connectors. And then we can do, as I mentioned before, we
have another four PCI Express connectors for a total of six. Thank you for
checking my unbox checking out my unboxing of the OCZ series Gold 1000 W
power supply.