Introduction

We would like to thank CaseKing.de for supplying the review sample.



NZXT is a fairly new company, since it was established in 2004 in the sunny Los Angeles, California. As they claim, and we have no reason not to believe them, they built their company upon gamers' dreams and their products put consumers first, as it should be of course. All NZXT products are designed and engineered in the U.S and manufactured overseas in China and Taiwan. The product line is spanning from gaming chassis, gaming input devices and PSUs. Currently NZXT has only one PSU series, Hale90, consisting of five Gold efficiency members.

In this review we are going to take a detailed look at the Hale90 750W. Besides Gold efficiency this PSU features a single +12V rail, a 140mm two ball-bearing fan that operates with minimal noise even at full load, a modular cable design, 100% Japanese capacitors and also utilizes the LLC resonant topology to achieve higher efficiency levels. It looks very promising but let’s move on with the review and see what our load tester has to say.

Specifications

NZXT states that even at full load and while the fan is working at max RPMs the PSU outputs only 20db noise. This is really silent! All the protections are present, even over current one, although the PSU features a single +12V rail and OPP would do the job just fine.


The unit features a single +12V rail and a fairly strong 5VSB rail, for an 750W PSU. Combined power for 5V and 3.3V is relatively small, at 120W, but a contemporary PC doesn't pull much juice from these rails, anyway.

Cables & Connectors, Power Distribution

All modular cables are flat, something that will help with cable management. Strangely enough NZXT chose to equip the unit with two 6+2 pin PCIe connectors and two 6 pin PCIe ones. We would prefer all to be 6+2 pin. The ATX connector along with the EPS and PCIe ones use thicker 16 AWG wires while peripheral and SATA ones use 18 AWG.

Since this PSU features a single +12V rail we do not have anything to comment about its power distribution.