Gadgetory

aha the OCZ mod extreme so this is a 700 watt power supply it's available in a couple different capacities used to be a 400 watt version even but there are 500 watt 600 watt and 700 watt versions this is one of the most popular power supplies out there right now so let's go through a quick quick rundown of this particular unit first of all it is powerful 700 watts excellent thank you then it is ultra efficient so this is an 80 plus certified power supply with 135 millimeter fan active PFC and an easy mod cable management system we'll have a close look at that when we open it up it includes a three-year ocz warranty which is legendary and it also has nvidia sli stamp of approval on it so that pretty much covers everything they tell us on the front of it first of all actually well there are a couple things on the back and I'll read those out while I'm ma while I'm breaking all the seals on this because it's quite well packed in here and I'm gonna have oh oh that explains that I'm using the using the blunt edge of my knife to to cut while I have my finger on the sharp edge that could have turned out very very badly but at least it would have been on video so it would have been very exciting okay the power consumption is less than or equal to one watt in off mode and in standby mode so that has some kind of a little green leaf next to that sticker so I guess that's relevant somehow and then there is also oh that's kind of cool so it's tested at ultra high temperatures 40 degrees centigrade versus a lot of other power supplies which are actually rated at unrealistically low temperatures so that they can inflate the rated wattages okay so that's a pretty good thing to know and then what else there was something else on the back but I wanted to to tell you a lot about before I go ahead and open this what did they have multi-gpu ready okay we already know that no that was pretty much it okay so let's get this thing open and let's get kind of angled down and zoomed in and I have no cameraman on this fine day that's okay so the first thing we will find is a user's manual which is an English Dutch Espanola phone say italiano Netherlands okay a bunch of stuff I really don't know how to pronounce anymore and that tells you just the basics installation and troubleshooting thank you alright then next we will find the power supply there's not a whole lot in here in terms of accessories I mean these are a very great value I can go ahead and I can say that so you can't really expect the whole nine yards in terms of accessories but here's the little box that holds all of the cables here is your power cable it's just a pretty wussy looking power cable but realistically it's all you'll need for a 700 watt power supply and a computer running off of it this I really like it comes with a little nice little mesh bag this looks kind of like a pencil bag it includes your modular cables and it also includes four screws for mounting the power supply thank you for that let's have a look at the power supply itself and then we'll have a look at the modular cables quite a nice looking unit actually right off the bat here so you've got your mod Xtreme label on the side here it's 700 Watts you got that that's that little green leaf sticker I was talking about before 80s here's all of your your testing stickers showing that it did pass all of its testing if yours doesn't have these maybe a flat ocz note on the back you'll find you're fairly standard honeycomb grille and then you've got a power switch as well as a power plug input here you will find the the rail breakdown for this unit so this is a dual 12 volt rail power supply and you've got 25 amps on each rail they are capable of providing 552 watts of the total 700 Watts that this power supply can provide there's your ad + logo as well as all of your safety certifications on the front you will find the modular interface as well as the cables that are included by default so these two look like they're gonna be four PCI Express while these two are black so these are red PCI Express these black ones look like they're going to be from molex and Stata so let's see what's actually included on this power supply OCC has gone with a fairly modular interface I've actually seen a lot of modular power supplies that include like they include like a 24 pin an 8 pin a couple PCI Express molex and SATA cables all hardwired to the power supply and then they have like two modular plugs on them I think that's just kind of ridiculous so here we go we've got a 24 pin power connector hardwired then also hardwired we have our 8 pin power and our 4 pin power so you'll either use this one or this one I I'm not a big fan of that just because then you're stuck with cables but you might not even be beat well you've pretty much won't be using unless you're powering like a EVGA board that requires both the 4 pin and an 8 pin so that's okay in terms of modular cables these don't look very long do they actually all of these cables are pretty short on this particular unit that's not that long at all I mean it should be fine as long as your power supplies mounted in the top of your case or as long as you don't have to go around a lot of obstacles to mount tor to get the cables up to your motherboard so why don't we get this kind of zoomed back out I went the wrong way hold on bear with me here sorry about that okay modular cables so here is your PCI Express 8 pin connector so plugs in or this is a 6 pin pardon me so this plugs into the power supply that's 8 pins but there are two empty ones see just like that so that's a 6 pin connector and then the other one actually makes use of all 8 pins and you can see that it has a 6 plus 2 pin connector on the other end all right then and the other modular cables are they don't give you many options with this one I like modular power supplies that include extra cables so they'll include like three molex and three SATA even though there's only four modular plugs so if you have a very hard drive heavy build or very other accessory heavy build you can kind of go one way or the other but it doesn't really defeat the purpose because it still allows you to just not plug in the cables that you don't need even if they're only including exactly what would be attached to the power supply anyway that was very long and very rambley but that's okay so we've got two molex cables each of which has two molex connectors on it and one floppy connector these are again fairly short but it should be fine like I said once again if you are using a fairly small case and you have a top mounted power supply so you can see it's got about that kind of length on it then the same length again we have two SATA cables and each of which has three SATA connectors so you can connect a total of six SATA power supply of SATA power supplies six SATA hard drives to this power supply without any kind of adapters or anything else thank you for checking out my unboxing of the OCZ mod extreme pro 700-watt modular power