OCZ StealthXStream 500W Quiet Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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So today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the ocz stealth extreme 500
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W power supply so the biggest difference between the stealth extreme and the game
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Extreme line of power supplies for ocz
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is the fact that the stealth extremes do not have an LED fan they just have a
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black fan okay I don't think they actually run quieter but the game
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extremes run quite quiet anyway so I don't think it's going to be that big of
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a deal in terms of standout features on this particular unit we've got silent
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operation okay so they have power whisper technology blah blah blah runs
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quiet thank you very much then we have active PFC which is great Superior
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cooling Emi isolated casing and hassle-free warranty now the warranty is
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one of the biggest things for any ocz product because ocz really does take
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that whole hassle-free warranty things seriously before I worked at uh before I
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worked at NC when I was uh actually having to deal with them once as a
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customer I had I believe it was a Power Stream 520 Watt and the warranty replace
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for that was so easy that I was uh sold
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for for life in terms of how how good
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they are at dealing with any warranty claims so I had a bit of a problem with
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it I sent it into them they sent me back a game Extreme 700 watt so they did a
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really great job for me that was a few years back at this point anyway let's
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have a look at what we got inside here it's a pretty basic package actually in
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terms of power supplies but it's quite an inexpensive power supply so you
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expect that a little bit first of all you've got a little manual okay showing
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you how to install it giving you some idea of the pinouts of all the major
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connectors on the power supply unit itself protection okay safety trouble
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and some troubleshooting tips great then you've got an AC power cord okay that's
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terrific it's quite flexible actually feels kind of nice that's great okay and
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then getting down to oh yeah we got five screws oh that's terrific even if you
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lose one you will still have enough screws to plug the power supply into or
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to uh connect the power supply to your case all right so here we will find the
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power supply unit itself it's a fairly basic unit once again like I said before
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so it's not modular or anything like that and you don't find a huge number of
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connectors we've got the little do not eat bag don't eat it all right and then
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here we go so a pretty plain black housing on this unit if I could get the
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bubble wrap off that would be terrific okay so there we go we've got a pretty
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plain black housing it actually uses a
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two rail design for the 12vt rail which combined for 36 amps total so 18 amps on
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each 12vt Rail and you can see that together the two 12vt rails are good for
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481.121 or 240 switch which is quite typical iCal of a power supply of this
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type you got an onoff switch then you've got more black more black and a black
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fan which I didn't mentioned before Oh this is kind of an interesting sticker
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to keep warranty please do not remove so they don't want you taking the casing
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off it really you shouldn't be opening any power supply period because if
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you're opening a power supply you opening up a can of danger this is not
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meant to be used or serviceable on the inside and if you have any problems you
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should contact ocz for their legendary warranty support anyway now in terms of
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connectors there is not a whole lot to talk about so you've got your standard
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20 plus 4 pin or 24 pin ATX connector
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then you've got if I can find it a four
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pin connector okay so that's your like your P4 connector okay then you've got a
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single 6 plus2 pin PCI Express connector
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then you've got two Molex here you've got two more Molex and a floppy
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connector here and then only three SATA
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cables on this particular unit as I said fairly basic thank you for checking out
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my unboxing of the ocz stealth extreme 500 watt