Power Up & Initial Operation

After all the hard work getting the Zalman into our system, it is time to power up the system. And no, no fancy LED's are used on the Zalman power supply. So those who are after a PSU with some extra effects for modding and tuning purposes should add their own LED's. Zalman's main focus of the ZM460-APS, as we already mentioned before is making sure the power unit runs noiseless.

So how does it look from the outside? After having installed the power supply into the Cooler Master case, the Zalman 460W fits very lovely with the grey/black color scheme of the case. The front and the side panels are back and the supporting frame of the case it aluminum grey. From the back view the honey comb ventilation frame just adds up to this 2 way color scheme.

The interior view of the case with the Zalman PSU is a less impressive, as no extra lights are used. So no fancy colorish looks and emission of light. But that shouldn't be the main aspect. The Zalman just fits excellent in the Cooler Master case and the designs do match each other quite well. Of course it would have given it that extra touch that I kind off miss, and I guess some case modders will agree with me.

Closing in on the inside view, reveals the big intake 120mm fan that will have the big job to make sure the hot air gets removed from within the computer case, through the power supply towards the outlet. Where most current PSU's are featuring two fans, the Zalman does it with only one and does it extremely quiet. I can only say I was impressed by the performance at almost noiseless operation. Good job Zalman!

That's it, we are ready to put this bad boy to some performance testing and see how it acts up. On top of that we will be carrying out some stress testing to find out how it handles the heat levels. But first we will check out the voltage levels of the power rails by having a look with the Everest software.