OCZ ProXstream 1000W review
Author: Vedran Dakic
Date: 14 Feb 2007

The "ink" wasn't dry enough on my last article about the GameXstream 850W and the ProXstream 1000W knocked on my door. Talking about shooting yourself in the foot. I was expecting this incredibly big, long, heavy PSU and - well - got pretty surprised by the fact that this PSU is actually - no bigger then the "usual" PSU's. It's actually smaller then a couple of OCZ's older PSUs (Powerstream, for example), but it's really heavy, which we mostly consider to be a good thing. Heavy usually means quality but - let's not take this for granted. Let's try to kill it instead!

Specs, cables, box

Taking a look at the specs tells us a story about this PSU. Of course, the most "dominant" thing here is "1000W". This is not the first PSU with this kind of power, but if nothing else, it's smaller and much more compact-designed. It's actually small enough to make it into SI's (Sistem Integrator's) computers. Now we'd like to see that, and soon, actually. For example, this thing fits into cases like Silverstone's La Scala with a LOT of space left all around it and the cables are long enough (even more then enough) to do everything and do it while being very tidy.

So, interesting parts of the specs:

- 1000W Configuration
- 3 year warranty
Technical specifications
- Internal 80mm fan
- +3.3V(28A), +5V(30A), +12V1(20A), +12V2(20A), +12V3(20A), +12V4(20A)
- 4 PCI-E power connectors
- 20+4 pin connectors (ATX), and additional 8-pin connectors for EPS systems
- Active PFC, Over Voltage/Current protection

Cables are really comfortable to use, not too stiff or too soft, just around the right "measure". There's actually eleven cables coming out of the PSU, seven of them being terminated with ATX/EPS/Molex connectors, and four of them being PCI-E power cables. PCI-E cables are easily recognizeable - they're colored red so you can't really make a mistake there. Alltogether, there are five HDD/optical type Molex connectors, five Serial ATA power connectors and two floppy connectors on this PSU. So, you won't get into trouble of not having enough connectors. You'll have plenty of them to meet your needs.