Gadgetory

welcome to my unboxing of a very exciting product now this has sort of a more value oriented price point compared to something like a ZX series which is 80 plus gold and fully modular and like lots of good stuff it's really good power supply but they're expensive so this is the ZT series which has sort of 90% of what the ZX series has but at a lower price point so it is a fully modular power supply with a five-year warranty 80 plus bronze is still pretty darn good on a yearly scale we're talking probably about six to seven dollars of difference assuming you're running your computer at like full mode like many hours per day you can go back and check out on my NCIX comm channel the episode I did about 80 plus gold where I compared the cost of running a non 80 plus power supply with an 80 plus gold power supply and I gave sort of a couple different scenarios and yeah the cost is not that big of a factor as long as it's a nice high quality unit then you are going to be getting the performance you need out of your PSU so inside the box we find a manual which is actually surprisingly thick look at that okay so it talks a little bit about EU Plus efficiency level certification so 80 plus bronze is 82% at 20% 85 % at 50% 82% at 100% okay and that's at 115 volt which is what we use in North America so you 80 plus gold is about five percent more efficient across the board but as I said before it's really not the end of the world however you know what this chart really outlines one of the reasons I tell people not to over buy on the power supply because if you buy a 1500 watt power supply and you're using 300 watts at idle which you're not because most computers use about 100 to 150 watts at idle you're getting less than anything on this chart in terms of the efficiency that your power supply is rated for you're not even in the sweet spot which is about 50 percent so connector specifications here we can look at the specifications I suppose max output on the 12 volt rail is hold on that soap okay hold on a second you know what let's just look at the side of the power supply because it's a less complicated chart here's a bunch of different languages which I do not care about but somebody does and that's why they're there all right next we have the power supply itself and I haven't forgotten about the cables we will go back and look at the cables later I just wanted to see once we get the little baggie opened up here hey it's got a 140 millimeter cooling fan oh it doesn't oh yeah there's okay so on the 12 volt rail we can do up to 744 watts so you can do almost the entire output of this 750 watt continuous rated power supply on the 12 on the 12 volt rail which means that no matter what you throw at it in terms of graphics cards or where you plug them in because this is a single 12 volt rail power supply you will get the full output that it is rated for so I'm being a little bit a DD today but I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna put the power supply itself back down and I'm gonna go back to the box because I just want to see if in this unboxing I missed anything okay so they've got ratings for the cable lengths which is good to know there's not Turner was looking for continuous output radio demanding 45 degrees Celsius ambient temperature Wow so they're reading this power supply at a completely unrealistic temperature and not unrealistic in a bad way unrealistic in a good way if this delivers the performance they say it does at that temperature I guarantee you it's performing better than they say at a room temperature which is going to be less like what about 20 23 degrees Celsius sort of in that range single 12 volt rail we already talked about that premium loius are 105 degrees Celsius electrolytic capacitors compliant with HX v 2.2 okay large temperature and load control this is cool so the fan on here most fans are temperature controlled on power supplies this one is load controlled so what that means is your fan is actually going to start spinning faster as soon as your computer is drawing more juice from the power supply why is that important because it means that your power supply will never heat up any higher than it has to because it's already predicting that there is more load on components and they're going to heat up it is cooling them before they even need to be cooled very neat all right next we have 80 plus bronze which we talked about already and bunch of sort of safety stuff over voltage or over current over power and short-circuit to protect your components five-year power swap warranty remember when the power swap warranty first launched that was with the OCZ before the mod Xtreme this was power stream yes with the power stream power supply so that means that you do not have endless repair returned for repair loops they just send you a new one no big deal that is pretty much it with the box okay now we're gonna go back to the cables so we've got a big gold fat computer cable here so what is this trying to find out how thick it is why don't I just tell you guys it's thick and it's ul certified so probably safe next we have some PCIe cables EPS yeah that's EPS okay got other more different EPS cousin more different PCIe I'm just gonna sort these into what they are and then we'll come back to them in a minute okay so first thing we find is our 24-pin connector so these are clearly labeled PSU and then like not PSU ATX so that goes into your motherboard cable lengths I wouldn't have any concerns with a premium power supply like this but I'm go ahead and check it anyway there you go got a nice long 24-pin connector so even if it's a button sorry about that guys we ran out of memory so this will be adequate length for you whether you have your bottom mounted power supply whether you want to go around the back of the motherboard tray come with the front whatever the case may be nice long 24 pin cable never hurts when you are building a machine all right what else we got so PCIe cables here let's have a look at the lengths of these PCIe cables tend to not need to be very long because whether you have a bottom mounted power supply or whether you have a top mounted power supply the distance is kind of the same so I don't worry too much about that but there you go that is the length in terms of Lynas Heights it's about a xiphoid process to a top of the head sort of length all right next we have our eight-penny EPS connectors of which there are two these look like they might be a little bit short but let me have a look actually that's not bad okay that's pretty good so that's actually longer than it was about the same length yeah it's longer than the PCIe cable so you should be able to reach in anything but the tallest most ridiculous full tower case you should be able to go around the back of the motherboard and plug into the top of the motherboard okay next finally not finally but also we have SATA so we have a three SATA cable okay that's a modular cable we have another three SATA cable we have another three SATA cable and that is it so since those are all the same I'm just gonna take one of them and I'm going to show you guys the size or the length rather okay so there you go they look a little bit something like that all right and then we've only got a couple more X months but that's fine so we've got two to three molex cables and then we have these are these are handy we've got one of those molex to floppy adapters just in case you still have something in your system that uses floppy power we come we have four zip ties for cable management four screws for attaching the power supply to the case and now let's have a look at the unit itself it has a very nice aesthetic to it I mean I'm obviously that is subjective but I personally really like it bold yellow here bold yellow here and then otherwise dark blacks and grey scales looks really really sharp there's the 140 millimeter fan you can clearly see the internals of the power supply itself including the modular interface which is very low profile actually it looks really good and the solder points on the back are very clean interesting okay moving along to the other side you can see ocz has thought of everything see look it's right side up no matter which way you install your power supply so you can either go this way and you can draw air in from the top if you have a case that doesn't have ventilation on the bottom or you can go this way and draw air up from the bottom of your case if you do have the ventilation space on the back we find a honeycomb mesh nice low restriction mesh an on/off switch as well as the power input and finally let's check out the oh this is awesome okay this is right here probably the killer feature other than the load controlled fan speed so check this out you can plug in you never see this with the 750 watt models you can plug in all four of your PCIe and then you can plug in both of your IPS connectors so you can power even super high-end boards and dual graphics cards without any adapters because the reality of it is 750 watts is enough for most systems out there but a lot of motherboards are a lot of power supply manufacturers give you one EPS socket and four PCIe forcing you to either use single EPS and two graphics cards like if you have a high-end motherboard that takes two EPs connectors or they make you put the other EPS into one of the PCIe and you use up to beat the EPS that way and then you only have three PCI Express adapters left which means you can't do dual graphics cards which if you're buying a motherboard that has two eight pins I'm pretty sure that unless you have a server board you're probably going to want a couple graphics cards in there so there you go that's pretty cool next we also have here five modular spots for the SATA one two three SATA and to Molech so you can plug in all of the included cables without any difficulty and finally we have the ATX connector here which is pretty self-explanatory so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ZT series 750 watt power supply don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from Ron boxing's reviews and other computer videos