Power of the Storm

Opening up the package, the Storm was sat well protected in a lot of polystyrene, ensuring its safe delivery here. The retail box of the product was well designed, and all in English which is a refreshing change from boxes covered in every language under the sun.

The rear of the box gives extensive listing of the PSU’s features and capabilities. The most notable are the very high efficiency (min. 72% max. ~84%), the watt readout on the rear, and the modular design.

The PSU is packed with a cable for every purpose, providing connectors for all of your gaming hardware. The Storm 700w is Crossfire/SLi compatible and comes equipped with two PCI-e leads to power your graphics cards. There is:

1 x 20+4 Main power (Standard ATX)
1 x CPU Connector (4+4) pin
2 x 6 pin PCI-E VGA
8 x 4 pin Peripheral Power Connector
2 x Case Fan Connector
2 x 4 pin Floppy Drive Power Connector
1 x Case Fan Speed Monitor
4 x S-ATA

So basically something for everyone…

The PSU looks awesome. Simple as that. The rear of the unit is honeycombed meaning that the airflow is not impeded. Also on the back is the watt usage readout. This consists of a small red LED display that shows how much power is actually being drawn from the Storm in real-time. While this isn’t a necessity, it is damn cool. The unit itself is covered with a slightly glossy finish, rather than an ultra glossy unit which picks up fingerprints too easily.

The power supply is surprisingly small considering it pumps out 700w at peak. The Spire 600w is longer than your average PSU, and the Storm puts it to shame. This PSU would easily fit into an mATX case, which is slowly becoming more and more of an issue in the realms of media PCs.

The PSU is fully modular meaning that you can choose which cables to use. It also means that if one of the cables is faulty then you can easily get a replacement, although this isn’t likely to occur. The cables that Jeantech supply are fully braided and flexible, enabling a smooth install process and cleaner cable management. The cables are quite long, providing the length for the PSU to be used in a larger case.

The Storm 700w is cooled by a single quiet 120mm blue LED fan. This fan is temperature regulated meaning that your PC is will be as quiet as possible at all times. The temperature regulation goes further than just the PSU fan, as the unit has special fan connectors which are also temperature controlled. You simply use the molex plug from the PSU and that fan will be varied depending on the PSU temperature. Another extra with this unit is the anti-vibration rubber pad that can be stuck to the back of the product lowering the amount of vibration that the PSU could pass onto the case. This little feature goes to show how important quiet computing is to Jeantech.

The unit is also RoHS compliant meaning that when its time to dispose of the Storm the environment doesn’t suffer.