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So today I'll be unboxing a product that's claim to fame is that it is the

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first 80 plus gold certified power

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supply that is available on the market today. So this is the OCZ series 1000 W

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modular power supply. And I guess we'll do a quick overview of the unit itself.

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So it's SLI ready. If it's a 1000 watt power supply it better be. It has a

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5year warranty. And this is okay as we

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have the marketing stuff on the back. It is powerful, efficient obviously, and it

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is a single rail design. So, a lot of people prefer a single rail design to a

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multi-rail design for whatever their reasons are. But there you go. It is a

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single rail design capable of a peak of,00 W, so 90 amps on that single 12vt

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rail. So, let's get this thing opened up

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and have a look at the unit itself. So, it has a 135 mm fan. It has, as I

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mentioned before, a modul. Okay, I've totally run out of stuff to talk about until we actually get this box open

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here. So, why don't we just do that? We got like our shrink wrap. Okay, there we

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go. That's a very shiny gold label. Oh, it's got your 80 plus gold label,

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obviously. And what 80 plus means, actually, I should talk about that

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really quickly, is that this? Yeah, 90% efficiency. So, 80 plus

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gold is technically 90% efficiency. And

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this unit itself is actually rated at 50

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degrees centigrade. So a lot of power supplies are actually rated for their

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efficiencies and their wattages at lower temperatures that are just kind of

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unrealistic, but this one is not. So first we have our manual. It's a little

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booklet right here. It's got your index, which is your specs, your installation

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instruction, and your connectors overview. Okay, there we go. Then we

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have a little cardboard divider that separates our accessories from the unit

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itself. Very slick looking package here. So, let's get that out. Next, we have

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some Velcro cable ties. Okay. Very nice.

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We have a very, very thick uh three-prong standard power cable. Then,

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we have a nice little Oh, this looks like what you would put your uh your

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pens and pencils in for school, but uh this actually holds your modular cables.

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So, why don't we have a look at the included modular cables here?

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Okay, first of all, we have what is this? Okay, so this is four

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6 plus2 pin uh PCI Express connectors.

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So you can see 1 2 3 four ends go into the power supply and then the other four

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ends are 6 plus2 connectors. These are kind of an ugly color, but it's in line

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with the gold theme of this power supply. Next of all, we

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have, if I could just figure out what these are supposed to be. Why don't I

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just undo this coil here, we have only one Molex connector here. So, that is

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six pins on the one side and then it branches into three Molex connectors and

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one floppy connector. Okay, so just one of those. Then next we

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have lots and lots of SATA. So they're assuming that you're not going to have a

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whole lot of Molex devices, but that you might have a fair number of SATA. So we

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have one, two, three CA three modular

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cables that will each accept three SATA hard drives. So that's up to nine SATA

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hard drives. Just like that. And then for the hardwired cables that are

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attached to the Oh, four thumb screws. There you go. For installing the power

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supply for the hardwired cables that are attached to the unit itself, we have a

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couple more 6 plus2 pin PCI Express connectors. So that means that you can

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have up to eight PCI Express connectors.

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Sorry, six PCI Express connectors. Again, 6 plus 2. Then we have an EPS 8

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pin. Okay, so that's a 4 + 4. Then we

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have still more SATA. So you can actually hook up nine SATA devices to

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this power supply without using any adapters and another 8 pin. So this will

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work perfectly on a board that needs an 8 pin and a four pin or even two eight

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pins like an X58 classified. Last but not least, you have a native 24 pin

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connector. So, this is not a 20 + 4 pin connector, it won't work on a 20

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pin motherboard, but I mean, if you're actually using a 20 pin motherboard with

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a 1000 watt power supply, you should uh probably be re-evaluating your system

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there. So, this is a very nice finish. Actually, I really like this. It's a

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very um you know, I don't know how to describe it better than this, but it's a

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very heavyduty feeling casing and it feels very cold to the touch, which I

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don't know, may or may not actually describe anything useful. So, here on

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the back, we have our onoff switch. You can see it accepts 100 to 240 volts at

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50 to 60 Hz. There's where your three-prongong power plugs plugs in. On

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the top of the unit itself, you can see we've got the specs. So, 25 and 25 amps

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respectively on the 3.3 and 5V rails. And then, wow, that's kind of funny. The

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packaging says 90 amps, but this says 83 amps. So, this is the sustained rating,

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and I think they were saying 90 amps peak. So, there's all of your safety

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ratings, all of that kind of stuff. On either side, you've got I think it's

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kind of stylish looking. You've got like a shiny gold stripe with the Z series,

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1000 W 80 plus gold logos all on it. And then on the top of the unit itself,

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you've got your OCZ branded fan that is a 135 mil fan, so that's going to be

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very quiet. Um, and last but not least,

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here we go. We have the modular interface. So, we can do up to four of

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our SATA or Molex connectors. And then we can do, as I mentioned before, we

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have another four PCI Express connectors for a total of six. Thank you for

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checking my unbox checking out my unboxing of the OCZ series Gold 1000 W

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power supply.