 This is something that won't happen very often. This is a live unboxing video So if you want to sweep around and see the crowd gathered today, you know, let's hear some cheers and stuff Live unboxing video, so we'll go back to where you were. I don't know why you're over there Okay So we're here at the Nvidia 3d vision surround demo and I'm going to be unboxing something that I've been meaning to unbox for a While this is something I first laid eyes on at CES 2011 It's the OCZ ZX series of power supplies and more specifically I have the 1250 watt power supply here with me today. So what's special about this? Well, what I think is special about it is that it is one of the most new and interesting power supply lines That's come out of OCZ in a good number of years. They've really refreshed their overall image and their overall feature set This is a fully modular power supply. It features 80 plus gold efficiency Which means that it's pretty much 90% efficiency Although for whatever reason the 80 plus organization feels that it would wreck their branding to call something 90 plus So they don't see the need to call anything that so it's 80 plus gold We're gonna stick with that technical specifications are right here You can see the length and width which will be fairly evident once I open the box You can also see which standards it comes equipped with it uses a 140 millimeter ball bearing cooling fan high efficiency Which we've talked about already it has all of those Over voltage over current short-circuit protections that you would expect to find on any decent power supply and it features a 100,000 hour mean time between failure rate. Let's go ahead and open this up and This is also something they've really changed They are using a completely different kind of packaging for their power supplies, which I've never seen before But I will struggle with it and I will open it for you So we have a window where you can see the fan I have no idea why that come on why is there a window here the box doesn't have a window But that's okay because as long as it's a good product it can come in the most fail possible box And I won't care we find inside here probably modular cables as I mentioned it is a fully modular power supply So there's gonna be a lot of modular cables. It's probably weighs about two pounds, so let's just dump that out There we are lots of color-coded cables in there We're gonna have to take those apart look at this it comes with an 80 plus gold certificate So normally when I say that a power supply is 80 plus gold certified It doesn't actually come with a certificate, but this one does so there you go alright. We've also got a manual Neat and then finally we've got probably some screws and cable ties and power cord oh Yeah You can tell I've unboxed a power supply before so here's some OCC velcro cable ties big fan of these I still have some From my original power stream power supply they're the ones that I use to tie back the cables on my test bench Comes with four thumb screws to mount the power supply in your case as well as a nice thick power cable that uses a standard interface some of the higher wattage units use that that funky one that You're not bound to have a spare handy if you need one and you left it at work And you need the power supply to be functional at home, and you don't have one and you can't run your test bench, so Yeah, that's never happened to me before actually it has All right power supply itself, so let's start with the power supply, okay, so as I mentioned before we've got a 140 millimeter Ball bearing fan doing the cooling on here. You can tell it uses a fairly standard seven blade design I mean my expectation is it'd be fairly quiet and the reality is it's not going to have to work very hard because even a 1250 watt power supply when you're talking 80 plus gold certification is very efficient and is not going to kick out a whole ton of Excess heat on the side you find what some people might find gaudy But personally I think is quite tasteful a black gold and silver color scheme I love this a lot of the 80 plus gold units are doing this where they put a little bit of gold accenting on it I think it's great. You also find it upside down on the other side There's a very good reason for that because when it's installed in your case It will be up right side up rather right side up regardless of which way you install it so those sides are both identical Here you will find the general specifications. You can see this is a single rail 12 volt power supply So that is a 104 amp 12 volt rail It's a good thing it has all of those industrial protections on it because if it didn't have Overcurrent protection as well as short-circuit protection you could be frying some pretty serious hardware that you have hooked up to a power supply of this testicular fortitude So here we go. Let's have a look at our first modular cable here. This is the ATX power cable I'm just gonna go ahead and plug that in 24 pins although you can split away the last four pins if you're actually still powering a 20 pin motherboard with a 1250 watt power supply. We've got a couple of extra capacitors here that are covered by heat shrink tubing so those are Presumably to do something to help it deliver better power. I should certainly hope so Next let's have a look at what we got for PCIe So these are all color-coded gray we have one two three four five is an odd number so there must be six We have six PCI Express 8-pin connectors, oh that's interesting. No these are all six plus two so you can see the one end And I'm just gonna unwrap one of them so you can see the general length We have dedicated plugs for all of these so you can plug in as many as you see fit Here is about the length of the cable is approximately point nine of a Linus arm, so There's your six plus two. There's your interface. That's all pretty straightforward. Let's see what we've got for SATA cables so this harness has Four three SATA cables on it you can see that it uses these slim peripheral slash IDE Slash SATA connectors right there. I'm gonna show you the length of that one as well before we wrap this unboxing up Actually, you never wrap an unboxing up the more Unbox it so anyway there. That's the length of that. What else have we got so total SATA cables included There's another three. There's another three, and I'm expecting to find probably one more of those There's another three so you can hook up a total of 12 SATA drives natively to this power supply without any adapters Finally we have three mole X Three mole X and then a three mole X with a floppy connector at the end just in case you actually still own something That uses a floppy power connector. I'm gonna show you the length of that once. This is well over a Linus arm It's a Linus arm an armpit and then half of a torso Finally last but not least We have our 8-pin and probably a 4 plus 4 pin There it is an 8 pin and a 4 plus 4 pin EPS connector these look a little on the short side You can see they're actually this is neat. They're clearly labeled PSU and CPU so you know which end goes where You may need an extension cable to get this up to the top if you have a bottom mounted power supply And you have a case that doesn't have a very direct route to the top of your motherboard So bear that in mind extension cables are cheap you can get the NZXT individually sleeved ones for just a couple bucks So that's probably a solution. I'd recommend. Thank you for checking out my unboxing today the 80 plus certified including certificate OCC ZX 1250 power supply don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos Lightest pose