Wtf is this?

beejjacobs · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:37

Rroff said:
Never seen that before is this some kinda joke or a poorly refurbished PSU?

Quite. Of all the pictures I could find none of them have this (not that I could find many pictures). It got a near perfect review from jonnyguru, so it's not like its a cheap PSU (at least, it wasn't to start with).

Where did it come from?

COYS · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:38

Same, been checking out reviews and not seen this. Could it be a fake?

stueng · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:40

beejjacobs said:
Quite. Of all the pictures I could find none of them have this (not that I could find many pictures). It got a near perfect review from jonnyguru, so it's not like its a cheap PSU (at least, it wasn't to start with).

Where did it come from?

rainforest shop

I think we will contact OCZ and find out if its real

thanks for the replies guys

stueng · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:41

sorry just to add to the above comment.. it was sold directly not from one of their market people

richb93 · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:41

Could have been added to smooth out voltages perhaps?

beejjacobs · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:45

richb93 said:
Could have been added to smooth out voltages perhaps?

Yeah I don't see it doing any real harm, just odd.

COYS · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:46

Done a bit of googling and it looks like its for electrical noise filtering. Found a recent thread on another forum where someone mentions this on a OCZ PSU.

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=6390.0

Philtor · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:50

That is clearly a flux capacitor! Thought you would have known that?

Subliminal Aura · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:51

philtorrens said:
That is clearly a flux capacitor! Thought you would have known that?

w1n0r !!!

andy_mk3 · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:52

That looks like a right afterthought, I'd be returning that myself.

Surveyor · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:54

stueng said:
rainforest shop

I think we will contact OCZ and find out if its real

thanks for the replies guys

Yes it's real.

I have an OCZ PSU and it has them.

They're also on the PCI-E power cables.

stueng · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:56

andy_mk3 said:
That looks like a right afterthought, I'd be returning that myself.

We have removed the original sleeving that came on the cables... the PSU itself has not been opened or modified in any way. Do you think they would accept a return with some of the cables modified?

Surveyor · 23 Jan 2012 at 00:07

stueng said:
We have removed the original sleeving that came on the cables... the PSU itself has not been opened or modified in any way. Do you think they would accept a return with some of the cables modified?

Unfortunately not.

Surveyor · 23 Jan 2012 at 02:31

These might be an option:

Pre-Braided Cables

setter · 23 Jan 2012 at 02:36

+1 for some pre braided cables, they really help to set a system off. I went from this.

To this with a few pre braided cables.

stueng · 23 Jan 2012 at 09:04

Surveyor said:
These might be an option:

Pre-Braided Cables

so pre-braided cables can plug directly into the PSU's modular connectors? when I asked a guy at yoyotech about this he said the pre-braided cables can be used as extensions but cannot replace the originals?

stulid · 23 Jan 2012 at 09:07

stueng said:
when I asked a guy at yoyotech about this he said the pre-braided cables can be used as extensions but cannot replace the originals?

That sounds correct, you plug the extensions onto the PSU cables, instead of into the unit directly.

stueng · 23 Jan 2012 at 09:08

stulid said:
That sounds correct, you plug the extensions onto the PSU cables, instead of into the unit directly.

OK, thats not good enough unfortunately they need to be braided right to the PSU as the PSU will be on display... I think we will ask Jungleshop if we can return even though we messed up a cable

panyan · 23 Jan 2012 at 09:55

stueng said:
OK, thats not good enough unfortunately they need to be braided right to the PSU as the PSU will be on display... I think we will ask Jungleshop if we can return even though we messed up a cable

if you use the extensions, those smoothing capacitors are still doing their job and smoothing the current for you

if you replace that cable with a pre-braided one, then you obviously dont get the benefit of those capacitors

just something to bear in mind if you are thinking of replacing them

mmj_uk · 23 Jan 2012 at 10:24

I'd take it back and get a proper brand, my experience with OCZ power supplies is not very positive and those capacitors on on the ATX connector look cowboyish tbh, it's as if they built a turd but instead of redesigning it they just lobbed some caps on the end.