WEBVTT 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:09.040 So today I'll be unboxing a product that's claim to fame is that it is the 00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:11.040 first 80 plus gold certified power 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:16.720 supply that is available on the market today. So this is the OCZ series 1000 W 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:21.199 modular power supply. And I guess we'll do a quick overview of the unit itself. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:26.800 So it's SLI ready. If it's a 1000 watt power supply it better be. It has a 00:00:23.279 --> 00:00:28.880 5year warranty. And this is okay as we 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:35.120 have the marketing stuff on the back. It is powerful, efficient obviously, and it 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:38.879 is a single rail design. So, a lot of people prefer a single rail design to a 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:43.160 multi-rail design for whatever their reasons are. But there you go. It is a 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:50.879 single rail design capable of a peak of,00 W, so 90 amps on that single 12vt 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:53.760 rail. So, let's get this thing opened up 00:00:50.879 --> 00:00:59.520 and have a look at the unit itself. So, it has a 135 mm fan. It has, as I 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:05.760 mentioned before, a modul. Okay, I've totally run out of stuff to talk about until we actually get this box open 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:10.000 here. So, why don't we just do that? We got like our shrink wrap. Okay, there we 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.600 go. That's a very shiny gold label. Oh, it's got your 80 plus gold label, 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:17.479 obviously. And what 80 plus means, actually, I should talk about that 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:24.240 really quickly, is that this? Yeah, 90% efficiency. So, 80 plus 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:27.439 gold is technically 90% efficiency. And 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:29.759 this unit itself is actually rated at 50 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:34.320 degrees centigrade. So a lot of power supplies are actually rated for their 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:38.320 efficiencies and their wattages at lower temperatures that are just kind of 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:42.240 unrealistic, but this one is not. So first we have our manual. It's a little 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:46.000 booklet right here. It's got your index, which is your specs, your installation 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:51.600 instruction, and your connectors overview. Okay, there we go. Then we 00:01:49.119 --> 00:01:55.200 have a little cardboard divider that separates our accessories from the unit 00:01:53.360 --> 00:02:00.240 itself. Very slick looking package here. So, let's get that out. Next, we have 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:02.560 some Velcro cable ties. Okay. Very nice. 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:07.200 We have a very, very thick uh three-prong standard power cable. Then, 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:11.520 we have a nice little Oh, this looks like what you would put your uh your 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:15.200 pens and pencils in for school, but uh this actually holds your modular cables. 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:21.080 So, why don't we have a look at the included modular cables here? 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:29.599 Okay, first of all, we have what is this? Okay, so this is four 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:31.599 6 plus2 pin uh PCI Express connectors. 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:36.160 So you can see 1 2 3 four ends go into the power supply and then the other four 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:40.480 ends are 6 plus2 connectors. These are kind of an ugly color, but it's in line 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:46.080 with the gold theme of this power supply. Next of all, we 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:50.000 have, if I could just figure out what these are supposed to be. Why don't I 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:55.840 just undo this coil here, we have only one Molex connector here. So, that is 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:00.800 six pins on the one side and then it branches into three Molex connectors and 00:02:58.239 --> 00:03:06.720 one floppy connector. Okay, so just one of those. Then next we 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:10.159 have lots and lots of SATA. So they're assuming that you're not going to have a 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:15.360 whole lot of Molex devices, but that you might have a fair number of SATA. So we 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:18.159 have one, two, three CA three modular 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:22.000 cables that will each accept three SATA hard drives. So that's up to nine SATA 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:26.560 hard drives. Just like that. And then for the hardwired cables that are 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:30.319 attached to the Oh, four thumb screws. There you go. For installing the power 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:34.879 supply for the hardwired cables that are attached to the unit itself, we have a 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:40.879 couple more 6 plus2 pin PCI Express connectors. So that means that you can 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:43.599 have up to eight PCI Express connectors. 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:49.760 Sorry, six PCI Express connectors. Again, 6 plus 2. Then we have an EPS 8 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:51.599 pin. Okay, so that's a 4 + 4. Then we 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:55.879 have still more SATA. So you can actually hook up nine SATA devices to 00:03:54.080 --> 00:04:00.720 this power supply without using any adapters and another 8 pin. So this will 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:05.519 work perfectly on a board that needs an 8 pin and a four pin or even two eight 00:04:02.959 --> 00:04:10.480 pins like an X58 classified. Last but not least, you have a native 24 pin 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:14.720 connector. So, this is not a 20 + 4 pin connector, it won't work on a 20 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:19.040 pin motherboard, but I mean, if you're actually using a 20 pin motherboard with 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:23.120 a 1000 watt power supply, you should uh probably be re-evaluating your system 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:28.400 there. So, this is a very nice finish. Actually, I really like this. It's a 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:32.720 very um you know, I don't know how to describe it better than this, but it's a 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:36.560 very heavyduty feeling casing and it feels very cold to the touch, which I 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:40.560 don't know, may or may not actually describe anything useful. So, here on 00:04:38.479 --> 00:04:44.880 the back, we have our onoff switch. You can see it accepts 100 to 240 volts at 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:48.639 50 to 60 Hz. There's where your three-prongong power plugs plugs in. On 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:54.240 the top of the unit itself, you can see we've got the specs. So, 25 and 25 amps 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:58.320 respectively on the 3.3 and 5V rails. And then, wow, that's kind of funny. The 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:01.840 packaging says 90 amps, but this says 83 amps. So, this is the sustained rating, 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.080 and I think they were saying 90 amps peak. So, there's all of your safety 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:09.440 ratings, all of that kind of stuff. On either side, you've got I think it's 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:14.639 kind of stylish looking. You've got like a shiny gold stripe with the Z series, 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:19.199 1000 W 80 plus gold logos all on it. And then on the top of the unit itself, 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:25.919 you've got your OCZ branded fan that is a 135 mil fan, so that's going to be 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:27.919 very quiet. Um, and last but not least, 00:05:25.919 --> 00:05:33.280 here we go. We have the modular interface. So, we can do up to four of 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:37.199 our SATA or Molex connectors. And then we can do, as I mentioned before, we 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:40.720 have another four PCI Express connectors for a total of six. Thank you for 00:05:39.039 --> 00:05:47.120 checking my unbox checking out my unboxing of the OCZ series Gold 1000 W 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:47.120 power supply.