The face that launched a thousand mousepads tries its hand at the power game, with solid if uninspiring results.
Over the past decade the decidedly 1337 Fatal1ty moniker has ended up on all sorts of products from headphones to mousemats. Now the pro-Quaker has lent his name to a PSU. Just what a PSU has to do with pro gaming escapes us in the Atomic labs – we are far more interested in the fact that the PSU comes from OCZ.
According to the OCZ website, Jonathon ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendell spent time working with OCZ to create the perfect gamer PSU. This hasn’t exactly led to a revolution, with flattened cabling the most striking thing about this unit. And while flattened cabling is fantastic for threading through tight gaps behind motherboard trays, its major advantage is less interference with airflow inside your system.This PSU ships with captive ATX and ATX 12V power connectors, but everything else is modular. The PSU is SLI certified and comes with four PCI-E power connectors (although we don’t advise trying to run quad SLI off a 750W PSU). It also has six Molex, two floppy and six SATA connectors, all using a low profile cable design.
Besides these the Fatal1ty 750W is about what we’d expect from an 80 plus Bronze PSU. At load it delivers 12.2V on the 12V rail while staying nice and quiet thanks to the large fan on the base of the PSU. It is perfectly competent, falling well within what we would expect from a supply of this rating.
At around $160 this is a reasonably priced, decent performer. The flattened cables are a really nice touch for those who want to get serious about cable and airflow management, and the PSU itself lives up to its advertised specs. Add to that a five year warranty and this is a very tempting unit.
Issue: 137 | June, 2012