Zippy 700W impression and fan mod

[ben805]

Initially I was going to get the PCP&C 850W but I'm never a fan of split rails, after some research and hunting on the net I found only two PSU that matches my need, the Zippy/Emacs 700W PSU (PSL-6701P) and the Athena Power AP-P4ATX85FE EPS12V 850W, both of them are in the exact same price range and the 12v rail is very close, but I have never heard of the Athena Power, couldn't find any reviews anywhere, and not that it matter but one quick visit to their website had clearly steer me away from this brand. So my only option was the Zippy, after a 20min conversation and bunch of technical questions with Edward at Zippy's office in CA I felt very confident in getting this unit, and so I did from servercase.com.

Well, I received this thing yesterday and to my surprised it's pretty big and heavy comparing to the PCP&C 510 SLI, construction and quality is top notch, but I was warned that this unit is very loud so it was being jump start as soon as I took it out of the box, indeed...this stock fan reminds me of the dang 92mm Tornado!! After 10 hours of work at data center the last thing I need is to come home to some noisy machine again I could of slice the stock fan wire and hacked up the PSU case to install a pot or fan controller, but I still have some AMD stock hs/f laying around so I use the 80mm that came with my 170 Opteron instead, this fan has a thermistor so when the temperature reach about 106 F' it could spin up to 5000rpm @57cfm so it's an excellent choice for replacement. The 3pin connector from this fan fits pretty well onto the PSU's 2pin header, it's very secure and wont' come off unless I yanked violently.

This little fan pull lots of air and VERY quiet, I can't hear any fan noise even after couple hours of dual prime unless I place my ears directly on the PSU. All rails are rock solid with my 170 running at 3.10Ghz, I'll push it more once I received the Gskill HZ ram tomorrow, for now here's a couple pictures for your viewing pleasure

3pin connector in place, blue cable for temperature not used.



Stock fan vs. AMD fan(don't let the small size fool you!!)



AMD fan installed



Zippy 700W vs. PCP&C 510 SLI



wimpy mid tower or smaller case need not apply!! Even the Antec Full tower barely have enough space to fit this beast