OCZ Announces Fully Modular ZT Series Power Supplies
OCZ Announces Fully Modular ZT Series Power Supplies
Posted 10/19/2011 at 10:45am
| by Paul Lilly
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The power supply scene is inundated with options, both big and small, as well as wired and modular. Your choices dwindle drastically, however, if you're looking for a fully modular PSU where every single power cable is detachable, including the main 24-pin ATX cable. That's what OCZ's new ZT Series of power supplies bring to the cable, along with modest wattage ratings at pedestrian price points.
OCZ said it worked with the PC Power & Cooling design team -- who were folded into OCZ when it acquired PCP&P back in 2007 -- in developing the new ZT Series "to remain rock solid an stable even under intensive multitasking and gaming environments." Available in 550W, 650W, and 750W models, each ZT power supply is 80 Plus Bronze certified, meaning it features up to 85 percent efficiency under typical load environments. Each one also boasts a single +12V rail design, which has been a staple of PC Power & Cooling since the beginning.
Pricing has been set to $100 (550W), $110 (650W) and $120 (750W), with each model backed by a 5-year PowerSwap Warranty.
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livebriand
October 19, 2011 at 4:04pm
Why would you want a removable 24-pin connector? You're going to need that.
Peanut Fox
October 20, 2011 at 12:06am
One big area it helps is if you want to resleeve the cables. It makes it much easier to fully sleeve even the 24pin set.
Baer
October 19, 2011 at 6:55pm
The disadvantage is that it adds a tiny bit of resistance in the power path thus reducing the effeciency a tiny bit. Gold electroplating in the pins and high quality cables reduce this to an almost unmeasurable amount.
The plus is that if you take great care to do a clean build, hide all wires and cables, as I do, if you have to change out the PSU for any reason it becomes very easy to do, you do not have to cut hidden cable ties or remove some componnents to redo your clean build. It is an attention to detail thing.
You also can replace a bad cable in the highly unlikely need that it ever becomes necessary, without changing out the PSU or splicing in a replacement cable.
Baer
October 19, 2011 at 12:42pm
Tony, I had to replace my 1000 Wt PSU as it would not run my rig with two GTX 580's in SLI when running full 5760 X 1200. I went to the Corsair AX1200 which is fully modular, even the MOBO 24 pin connector. This PSU has handled everything I ask of it without a burp. I highly recommend it.
tony2tonez
October 19, 2011 at 11:47am
those are well and good for mid lvl rigs. Dont you need north of 1000w for most high end machines maybe even 1200 psu? My machince is not that high end anymore and I have 800W
I been looking for a fully detachable cables PSU but above 1000 psu. Most are partial. Nice idea but i think most people here need a little more juice.
thetechchild
October 19, 2011 at 9:10pm
800W is sufficient for the highest-end dual-GPU and hex/octo- core CPU, I believe. It's definitely enough for high-end single GPU and CPU. 900-1000W might be necessary for 2 GPUs, but upwards of 1000W is when you're talking about spending $2000+ for CPU, GPUs, RAM, mobo, water cooling, and lots of fans. 1000W, in my opinion, should be the max for a reasonably futureproof and affordable PC. Of course, the hardcore enthusiasts are free to have 1200, 1500 W PSUs and $5000 PCs, but that's really rare.
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