Mushkin Joule 700W Modular Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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so mushkin is getting back into the power supply game in a serious way so
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this is the jewel 700 wat power supply
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and that is Jewel the unit of electricity rather than Jewel the
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sparkly thing that goes on ladies and
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some men okay so we have an 80 plus bronze rating on this particular power
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supply it is a 700 watt unit which makes
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it I mean I remember when a 700 wat unit was like who needs that that's
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ridiculous 700 Watts who could possibly ever need 700 Watts well now 700 watts
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is basically like a a mid-range or sort of value performance range of wattage so
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that's what we're going to be looking at today let's have a look at what are the overall features and ratings and
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everything else that we might possibly care about so we've got a full range
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input with 99 uh
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0.99 uh active power factor correction
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okay that's good dual 12vt rails okay
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we've got a high reliability thermal control nanotech bearing fan that's good
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fan can be the difference between a power supply that I would use and a
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power supply I wouldn't use regardless of how well it performs okay efficiency
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up to 86% let see cables connector support
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we'll have a look at that okay we've got over current protection over voltage
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protection under voltage protection short current ShortCircuit protection
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overpower protection and underload protection so it's got all of the
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electrical safeguards that would be potentially needed in a bad
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situation all right packaging is fairly simple on this particular power supply
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unit it's kind of a non nonsense approach so we've got just a you know
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graphical sleeve that goes over a plain black box and let's see how well packed
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the power supply is in here so
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H well you know it's probably okay I
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guess so what I would probably do is uh I would suggest that having a little bit
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of foam around the power supply wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea but it'll
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probably arrive okay I mean if you have any issues mushkin has legendary RMA
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support so I'm sure they'll get you taken care of right away so here's the
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power supply itself let's check the accessories first not a whole lot of
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accessories as I mentioned this is a value power supply so we've got a couple
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of black cable ties we have some silver
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screws and we've also got a standard computer power cable now when it comes
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to power supplies I'm a big fan of the kiss principle that is keep it simple
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stupid and uh the mushkin duel 700 watt
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definitely does that so we've got a plain black finish on it we've got a
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label that basically tells you the things you would potentially want to know about it so that is how many amps
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on the respective uh rails so you can see either of the 12vt Rails is capable
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of providing up to 26 amps okay and that
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is is for a total of let me
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see uh 12vt combined output is up to 51
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amps so if you were to load up both of those that is the maximum that you can
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put on the 12vt rail on this power supply so let's go ahead flip this guy
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over and so yeah nothing on the other side just your plain black power supply
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here is the that nanotech fan that is apparently lubrication free so it uses
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some kind of Fancy Pants nanot technology in order to do that and they
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claim up to 120,000 hours meantime between failure
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for the fan so which means that um and this is an unusual thing it should
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actually Outlast the power supply which is rated at 100,000 hours meantime
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between failure so in terms of pre-connected cables this I like because
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it has only ones that you will absolutely need it's got a 24 pin
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preconnected and it's got an 8 Pin well that is a 4 plus 4 pin and they SL
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together unlike some of the uh the cheaper ones well I don't know if
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they're cheaper or more expensive but I definitely like the slide together
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design better so you see you can separate them like this but then you
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don't just clip them together you actually slide one connector into the
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side of the other so then you make your eight pin connector that way and it's
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much easier to keep them together when you're trying to reach somewhere and
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plug in your eight pin so everything else is modular so it has a nearly fully
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modular design so let's have a look at what we've got included in terms terms
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of modular cables looks like we've got one what is
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this EPS 12v two motherboard EPS 12vt y
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so we have an additional eight pin so if
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we wanted to plug that in we could plug that in and we would
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have oh that's interesting no ground connections there
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so I guess this is a since this is a secondary eight pin the assumption is
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that pretty much no motherboards will actually require hold on just a
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minute ah I get it okay no no no no no
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no no no no no okay because it looks
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like these these connectors are all standard so oh this is neat so you can
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actually plug this in wherever you want and what it's doing is it's just
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splitting there you can see there's an additional ground and an additional 12vt
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there it's just splitting them so that this end goes into the motherboard which
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is fully populated in this end because it's only got so many 12vs uh in the
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standard pin that we're using on all of these outputs then uh yeah so it just
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splits them okay so that's neat okay so you've got a an additional eight pin so
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you can plug in Fancy Pants motherboards like the classified or like the big bang
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X power from MSI that require multiple 8
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Pin connectors well they don't require them but they can accept them uh to
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provide more power to the CPU slot okay
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we've got a couple PCI Express connectors okay
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so these two go in much the same same fashion wherever you please and they
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each have a single cable that terminates in
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an 8 pin and a six pin PCI Express power
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connector the eight pin is uses the same sliding design for the additional two
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pins so you can take those off or put them on as you see fit there we go so
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put those back together so you got two of those for up to 28 pin and 2 six pin
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or 4 six pin PCI power connectors all
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right next we have only one MOX cable so
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this one plugs into the end it's nice and long actually very very long and
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then it has four Molex and one floppy connector and they're all fairly nicely
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sleeved actually that's one of the things mushin's done well on this
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particular unit is they're not using a cheapo lowquality sleeving that's really
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easy to see through okay and then finally we've got some SATA
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cables so each of these has uh four SATA
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connectors on them and it looks like yes
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they are identical so up to eight SATA
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connectors can be attached to the juel 700 W power
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supply so things mushin's done well um
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are going to be the overall oh yeah I haven't looked at the
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back there you go so this is typical of a mushkin power supply instead of using
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that uh honeycomb shape that we typically see so often on other power
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supplies they've got their crosat shape okay we've got a power switch we've got
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an input and there is no uh voltage
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selection because it does accept any input voltage so they've got nice
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leaving on this thing you got lots and lots of modular cables you can plug any
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of the cables into any of these connectors which is really really nice
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um the cables aren't super long but so
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you might need an extension for your eight pin if you're running it in a bottom mounted case that's quite tall
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but the 24 pin is fine and all the other ones look good I wouldn't have minded
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seeing a couple more Molex connectors but you can always use adapters or use
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extension cables to get more of those and the reality of it is in my personal
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system I've only got a single thing connected via MOX so I guess it's not
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that big of a deal anymore SATA connectors are certainly more important
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