As I said before, the flat, ribbon style modular cables are fantastic. Typically on most cases, if you decide to run the 24 pin motherboard cable around the back of the case, then you have taken up most of your routing room in one fell swoop. For the Hale82, this is never a problem. The flat cables hug the back of your motherboard plate so that they can be hidden in even the tightest of cases.
So with cables in place, it was time to power the on the PC. Immediately I noticed how quiet the fan was; so much so, I had to slow all of my case fans down in order to hear it. The silence of the 120 mm fan is not just during the idle times, but even under a full load the Hale82 quietly hums along. At this point, I could bore you with tons of technical data, facts, and figures, but instead let me just assure you that in my testing the NZXT Hale82 met all of the advertise specifications including the 80+ Bronze certification.
| Fully installed in an NZXT Vulcan case! |
Why Gamers <3 NZXT
So you’re playing your favorite MMO or fragging people left and right in Battlefield 3, when all of a sudden a capacitor fries and your PC comes screeching to a halt. Hopefully this never happens to you, but even the best made PSUs will fail in time. NZXT has not only backed the Hale82 with a 5 year warranty, but they have also added their <3 program to the deal. If your PSU fails and you have registered it with NZXT, then upon your completion of 3 easy steps you will receive your working Hale82 in 3 business days. Go one step further and provide your credit card number and NZXT will ship you a replacement power sup
ply the same day.
Verdict
The Hale82 is everything that a gamer could want in a power supply. The single 12v rail consistently and reliably delivers the power you need, while the construction makes it easy to install and easy to cable manage. Available in 650, 750, and 850 watt versions and significantly cheaper than the NZXT Hale90 PSUs, the Hale82 is the perfect product for NZXT to carve out an even bigger slice of the market.
