With the high power demands required by computer enthusiasts, both gamers and overclockers, the rush to meet those demands seems to be a never ending quest for those that manufacture power supplies. OCZ’s latest attempt at satisfying this segment of the market is their new ZX series of power supply units. Today we will be taking a quick test drive of the 1250 Watt version. We will take a few voltage readings, run a few benchmark programs and see how well it performs under an overclocked environment.
About OCZ
“OCZ Technology was founded by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts, and our commitment to that end-user group has not digressed. Entering the memory market in 2002, OCZ was built around the determination to manufacture the very best high-speed memory for overclockers. In this pursuit, OCZ became the first manufacturer to make dual channel optimized memory kits available to the public, which originally took advantage of NVIDIA’s Twinbank, or Dual DDR architecture, found in their nForce chipset. Over the last decade, we have maintained that thirst for innovation and performance leadership in multiple categories including power management and solid state storage.
Today, OCZ, a member of JEDEC, is a leader in the design and manufacture of SSDs for both the consumer and enterprise markets and continues to be a front-runner in the memory industry, offering high-performance DDR3 modules for the latest platforms. OCZ was the first to release DDR3 Intel Extreme Memory for the X38/48 Chipset, along with other high-compatibility and high-speed modules that were some of the fastest on the market. By breaking speed barriers and maintaining a reputation of quality, OCZ is a name enthusiasts have turned to time and time again for cutting-edge memory solutions.
In addition to memory, OCZ transformed the enthusiast and gaming power supply market, designing a high performance line of power supply units (PSUs) over the course of the last 5 years that achieved hundreds of accolades from top industry press. PSUs have become a significant hub of innovation and milestones for OCZ. Most notably, our new Z-Series was the first 80 Plus Gold certified PSU to hit the market.
In 2007, PC Power & Cooling was brought into the OCZ Technology Group, forming a well-rounded, highly innovative organization that placed the company at the forefront of enthusiast and industrial grade power management. PC Power has produced many pioneering products including the first CPU cooler, the first PC heat alarm, the first independently-regulated PC power supply, the first redundant power system, the first NVIDIA certified SLI supply, the first One Kilowatt computer power supply, and the first power supply with its own certified test report.”
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