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so today I'll be unboxing a product that's claim to fame is that it is the first 80 plus gold certified power supply that is available on the market today so this is the ocz Zed series 1000 watt modular power supply and I guess we'll do a quick overview of the unit itself so it's sli ready if it's a thousand watt power supply it better be it has a five year warranty and this is ok as we have the marketing stuff on the back it is powerful efficient obviously and it is a single rail design so a lot of people prefer a single rail design to a multi rail design for whatever their reasons are but there you go it is a single rail design capable of a peak of 1100 watt so 90 amps on that single 12 volt rail so let's get this thing opened up and have a look at the unit itself so it has a one hundred thirty-five millimeter fan it has as I mentioned before modulo calf totally run out of stuff to talk about until we actually get this box open here so let me just do that we got like a shrink wrap okay there we go that it's a very shiny gold label oh it's got your 80 plus gold label obviously and what 80 plus means actually I should talk about that really quickly is that this yeah ninety percent efficiency so 80 plus gold is technically ninety percent efficiency and this unit itself is actually rated at 50 degrees centigrade so a lot of power supplies are actually rated for their efficiencies and their wattages at lower temperatures that are just kind of unrealistic but this one is not so first we have our manual it's a little booklet right here it's got your index which is your specs your installation instruction and your connectors overview okay there we go then we have a little cardboard divider that separates our accessories from the unit itself very slick looking package here so let's get that out next we have some velcro cable ties okay very nice we have a very very thick three prong standard power cable then we a nice little oh this looks like what you would put your your pens and pencils in for school but this actually holds your modular cables so why don't we have a look at the included modular cables here okay first of all we have what is this okay so this is for six plus two pin PCI Express connector so you can see 1 2 3 4 n's go into the power supply and then the other four ends are six plus two connectors these are kind of an ugly color but it's in line with the gold theme of this power supply next of all we have I could just figure out what these are supposed to be let me just undo this coil here we have only one molex connector here so that is six pins on the one side and then it branches into three molex connectors and one floppy connector okay so just one of those then next we have lots and lots of theta so they're assuming that you're not going to have a whole lot of molex devices but that you might have a fair number of SATA so we have one two three kate three modular cables that will each except three sigma hard drive so that's up to nine see two hard drives just like that and then for the hardwired cables that are attached to the Pope for thumb screws there you go for installing the power supply for the hardwired cables that are attached to the unit itself we have a couple more six plus two pin PCI Express connectors so that means that you can have up to eight PCI Express connectors sorry six PCI Express connectors again six plus two then we have an eps 8 pin okay so that's a 4 plus 4 then we have still more status so you can actually hook up nine SATA devices to this power supply without using any adapters and another 8 pin so this will work perfectly on a board that needs at a pin and a four pin or even 28 pins like an x 58 classified last but not least you have a native 24-pin connector so this is not a 20-plus 4-pin connector it won't work on a 20 pin motherboard but I mean if you're actually using a 20 pin motherboard with a thousand power supply you should probably be re-evaluating your system there so this is a very nice finish actually I really like this it's a very um you know I don't know how to describe it better than this but it's a very heavy duty feeling casing and it feels very cold to the touch which I don't know may or may not actually describe anything useful so here on the back we have our on-off switch you can see it accepts 100 to 240 volts at 50 to 60 Hertz thurs where your three prong power plugs plugs in on the top of the unit itself you can see we've got the specs so 25 and 25 amps respectively on the 3.3 and 5 volt rails and then wow that's kind of funny the packaging says 90 amps but this says 83 m so this is the sustained reading and I think they were saying 90 amps peak so there's all of your safety ratings all that kind of stuff on either side you've got I think it's kind of stylish-looking you've got like a shiny gold stripe with the Zed series thousand-watt 80 plus gold logos all on it and then on the top of the unit itself you've got your ocz branded fan that is a 135 mill fan so that's going to be very quiet and last but not least here we go we have the modular interface so we can do up to four of our SATA or molex connectors and then we can do as I mentioned before we have another four pci express connectors for a total of six thank you for checking my unblock checking out my unboxing of the OCC's edge series gold thousand watt power supply