Yet another unboxing of something I’ve spent my own hard-earned money on. I’m very impressed with these things so far. They aren’t outstanding from a “loudness” point of view, but the stereo effect is excellent and very hard to lose even if you move around the room.

The reason for all the power supply unboxings lately is that I’m planning an episode of NCIX Tech Tips where basically I explain the benefits of non-modular vs modular power supplies. This one is to be my example of an excellent non-modular power supply.

This power supply is HUGE. I cannot overstate how large it is. There’s a new one coming soon that I’d also like to have a look at, but for now the 850W will do 🙂

This power supply has intrigued me since I first heard about it. It’s a 1500W fully modular unit with an 80+ Silver rating. Basically by the time you actually maxxed out a PC connected to this thing, you wouldn’t be able to plug your monitor and PC speakers into the same wall outlet!!

Today I’ll be unboxing a power supply first. This is the modular OCZ Z-Series Gold 1000W. It’s 80+ Gold Certified, and full of lots of other great features!

Today I’m unboxing the OCZ Vertex. I actually already have one of these that I’m very happy with (it’s a 120GB), but I bought it before I started doing unboxing videos, so I didn’t have one that was still sealed to unbox for you all. This 60GB is destined for my media PC when I move into my new house, but I’m jumping the gun a little bit on unwrapping it :p

I had to go to our Langley store and buy a hard drive today. One of the drives in my Windows Home Server died and needs to be replaced. I chose the WD Green because of its “green” power saving characteristics, but if you don’t want to read this blurb, you could always just watch the video to find that out 😛

Got this sample today and normally I wouldn’t have bothered to unbox a product that we don’t even carry at NCIX, but it seems like this product would go really well with the Sabertooth 55i motherboard that I unboxed the other night.

Contrary to all of the other information I was able to find (on official documents AND on the internet) you are NOT supposed to install Windows XP first, then request a downgrade from the product activation center. You are supposed to call Microsoft Customer Service at 1-800-936-5700 and request a downgrade BEFORE you install Windows XP.