NZXT Hale V2 1000W Power Supply Unboxing
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the NZXT hail V2 series now as per the
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V2 this isn't NZXT first kick at the can when it comes to a power supply but they
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are continuing with their original philosophy which was leading customer
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support for their psus now it's hard to differentiate a power supply these days
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it's got a fan it's got a 24 pin connector it's got like power in and
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it's probably got some kind of an 80 plus rating in this case it's 80 plus
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gold which is I think where that 9 comes from because it's basically 90%
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efficiency but check this out this is the less than three which is their
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little heart right here so it's two steps if there is a problem within the
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5-year warranty period for your power supply they will not only pay to ship it
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back to you which is what most companies do but they will also pay for you to
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Simply schedule a pickup and ship it back to them on their dime so the idea
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is that an RMA shouldn't cost the customer anything even though that is
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not the industry standard and applies to US and Canada residents
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only apparently but there you go that's what they're going for here so it's
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fully modular Japanese capacitors a single 12vt rail 135 mm dual ball
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bearing fan and energy saving which of course any 80 plus gold power supply
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would tend to be NZXT does a great job of their packaging so they've got a nice
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soft foam here that gives you a nice little look at the power supply through that window in the top and then they've
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got a very stylish white
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bag that
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and of course the obligatory bag of throwa away do not eat silica gel that
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leaves us with pretty much the power supply itself so I'm going to go ahead
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and put the box down there I personally love white power
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supplies I think they look really stylish I think they look really good
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and I think as long as they have awesome innards then uh then that's all very
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good things so here on the top you've got that 135 mm dual ball bearing fan
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that we talked about before as well as a classy looking NZXT logo I'm going to
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try and get this sticker off really quick here see if I can make that
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happen there we go love it it's a simple stamped metal uh logo just kind of a
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black glossy finish over it looks really nice on this side you've got a hail 90
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this is kind of a rubberized finish so this isn't metal so the metal is
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actually just the white part here which feels like a very durable paint finish
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it's got some texture to it so I'm not going to worry about accidentally scratching it that was my one complaint
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about the old ocz Power Stream 520
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awesome power supply single strong 12volt rail back in the days when that
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wasn't that common but the finish on that thing was terrible you installed it
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in a system and then it just looked like butt um on the other side so you can see
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that they've got it such that you can install it either way and the text on
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the side will be correct see there you go you've got another rubber strip that
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looks equally good and then there's your modular interface so we're going to go
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ahead and pull out all of the cables and we'll be back in a moment so in terms of
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modular connectors there's actually a very wide variet iy so check this out
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these are all PCI Express here so six 6
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plus2 connectors and this is actually quite nice to see so even on a lot of
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power supplies that have um flat cables
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for the Molex and SATA connectors you'll see um you'll see a sleeved connector
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for PCIe but instead NZXT has opted for
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flat ribbon cables even for PCI Express the length is also quite optimal so
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you're going to be able to manage the cables by behind your motherboard tray bring them out behind your video card
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and I mean it's so nice because most most video cards these days on the
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high performance side have at least two PCIe connectors on them so what's great
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about having these flat cables is that you can easily run them somewhere
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together see that without them actually taking up much additional bulk at all so
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then when they reach the destination it doesn't look untiy and gross it just
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looks very very clean so from an aesthetic standpoint I think these are
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this is one of the nicest implementations I've ever seen of that so kudos to NZXT for that you've also
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got a standard 4 plus4 and another standard 4 plus4 and dedicated
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connectors for these a lot of the time you see on modular power supplies
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they're going to give you the option to either install two 8 Pin CPU connectors
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or your full complemented PCI Express connectors but they have not done that
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you can plug in all of them as much as you want all the time the 24 pin
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connector is the only one that uses uh a braided sleeving on top of it as opposed
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to a flat connector I'd love to see someone Implement a flat 24 pin and then
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if I had to complain about the power supply which I guess I sort of am
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supposed to um I'd say not enough SATA
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so we've got um three quad SATA
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harnesses which is up to 12 connectors but I'd like to see more of a mixture so
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maybe a couple quad ones and a couple dual ones because you're not always
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going to be running them somewhere where you actually have to connect four devices and we really don't need this
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much Molex anymore so we've got a triple
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Molex with a floppy we've got a triple Molex with a floppy we've got a triple
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Mo or quadruple Molex and then we've got another quadruple Molex I'd say s is a
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much more common connector now than Molex these days so I wouldn't have
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minded seeing that changed around anyway if you're wondering about the weird
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