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On February 7, 2014, ZCO Liquidating Corporation (the “Company”) completed the sale of certain assets of the Company and certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries (the “Power Supply Assets”), mainly consisting of its power supply and power management assets, to Firepower Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Firepower”). The sale was completed pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”), dated February 4, 2014, between the Company and Firepower and was subject to Sections 105 and 363 of Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, including a marketing process.

The Agreement provided for consideration to be paid by Firepower in the form of assumption of obligations and payment in cash to the Company of an aggregate of $850,000. The Company anticipates that the net proceeds from the sale of the Power Supply Assets will be used principally to pay the claims of the Company’s creditors. The Company does not expect that any assets will be available for distribution to stockholders.
 
Has anyone ever owned any OCZ power supply that didn't die?

Yep me.

I've have been using an OCZ 750Watt for 2 years and counting now. I have never had any problems with it. Frankly its probably the best PS I've ever owned.
 
I've got two of them, ModXtreme series, one is a year old and another is 3 years old. No problems.
 
Has anyone ever owned any OCZ power supply that didn't die?

GameXStream 700W. Lasted 5+ years no problems. I just replaced it with a one of those X650 Seasonic units that always seem to go on sale.

Same here. Also had a GameXstream 600W and a Seasonic X650 now. If I recall that was back when Fortron Source made them for OCZ. PC Power and Cooling was also solid back then before OCZ ruined them.
 
Has anyone ever owned any OCZ power supply that didn't die?

I built 3-4 computers with OCZ gameXstream modulars without any failure. i even bitcoin mined with a couple for over a year. A guy i work with, i think his 700watt finally died after a year of mining with two overclocked 5870s.
 
Sounds like we just got a bad to worst scenario ... lol, although admittedly, their PSU's were a hell of a lot better than their SSDs
 
i hope my modxtream doesn't die now. But at $30, the shipping charge to send it back would not be worth it.
 
Has anyone ever owned any OCZ power supply that didn't die?

I've had a couple over the years. They were pretty good to me. I don't know their status now because I handed them down inside of old PCs to family members. But they worked under me for over 5 years each no issue.
 
Crap is crap, a Fortron lasted me years, 3 OCZ's 520W, 600W GameX, and 750W GameX all died but never damaged, as did some "NZXT" 950W thing from NewEgg that took out my monitor's power supply when it exploded... but didn't hurt anything inside the PC.

Now on a Corsair 800W, but seriously there is NO QUALITY power supply available for enthusiasts. The situation is screaming out for an actual high quality power supply, even if it is at the $250-350 price point.

I designed power supplies for industrial computers and some of those are still working away on assembly lines at GM after 25+ YEARS of operation. For years in the 80's and early 90's PC Power and Cooling was run abuy serious engineers and made a high quality product. As was the PS's in actual IBM pc's. But in the last 15-20 years, Chinese crap everywhere.

A business opportunity? Would you pay for a real, high quality power supply, given it is the foundation the machine is built on? What's the point of super duper CPU's and GPU's if you can't count on the power supply.
 
Crap is crap, a Fortron lasted me years, 3 OCZ's 520W, 600W GameX, and 750W GameX all died....

All old school Topower built units from the early 00's. OCZ had several good units.

Also, "Delaware Companies" are common because of the taxes and the fact that ownership of said company, if not publicly traded, does not need to be disclosed (which is why we don't know anything about who's behind "Firepower Technology". Fact of the matter is, 60% of the Fortune 500 companies are Deleware companies despite being located elsewhere. So there's no "conspiracy" behind one Deleware company buying assets from another.
 
It seems as though Firepower was just incorporated this year in California, so no history on this "company."
 
Am I the only one with a positive OCZ experience? My OCZ ModXStream died once but ran pretty well for 2 years before that. Pretty nice for a cheapo PSU that I ended up getting replaced through warranty anyway. The 2nd unit is still running!
 
fwiw Antec HCP Platinum seem to be the most over built consumer power supply, but they cost.
 
A business opportunity? Would you pay for a real, high quality power supply, given it is the foundation the machine is built on? What's the point of super duper CPU's and GPU's if you can't count on the power supply.

Absolutely right. Everything in your system is a risk with a bad power supply. A real shame about PCP&C. I had a few of their supplies back in the day when they were really solid.

I have a number of Antec SG-850's, built by Delta, that have been running for 6 years without a problem. Some are now in servers, and have been going 24/7 for years.

I wish I could get another Delta built PSU, with the higher efficiency of modern designs.
 
GameXStream 700W. Lasted 5+ years no problems.

I had two. One dead, one probably alive but in an unused machine for a long time now.

Si they bought PC Power & Cooling and effectively just killed it.
 
but seriously there is NO QUALITY power supply available for enthusiasts. The situation is screaming out for an actual high quality power supply, even if it is at the $250-350 price point.

Dude seriously? Are you being serious right now? Often times you have to pay for top quality overbuilt units but they are around to be bought.
 
Dude seriously? Are you being serious right now? Often times you have to pay for top quality overbuilt units but they are around to be bought.

Yep. Problem is, people don't "expect" high end PSUs to be as expensive as they are. Also, people's standards for PSU performance is much higher than it used to be 5 years ago. The reviewers have been a lot tougher on the manufacturers than they used to be.
 
Am I the only one with a positive OCZ experience?

I hear you. I don't get why [H] is so over-the-top against anything OCZ. I don't get why Kyle is snarking on even this new company FirePower -- what have they done to anyone? I've used OCZ RAM since 2001 in most of my builds, and have never encountered a bad stick. (Cannot say the same for Mushkin or Corsair, though I can for G.Skill.) I'm running Vertex 4's since they came out in two PCs and never the slightest problem. I've got PCP&C PSUs from before and after the OCZ purchase (my old Turbo-Cool 510 is still cranking away in my little brother's PC, my current builds use Silencer 750 PSUs: PCP&C brand, manufactured by Seasonic, owned by OCZ.) I cannot speak to OCZ's level of customer support since I've never had occasion to use it.

I know many others have had a different experience than I have, and it would be foolish of me to assume that my experience was the same as everyone else's. (Right?)
 
I hear you. I don't get why [H] is so over-the-top against anything OCZ. I don't get why Kyle is snarking on even this new company FirePower -- what have they done to anyone? I've used OCZ RAM since 2001 in most of my builds, and have never encountered a bad stick. (Cannot say the same for Mushkin or Corsair, though I can for G.Skill.) I'm running Vertex 4's since they came out in two PCs and never the slightest problem. I've got PCP&C PSUs from before and after the OCZ purchase (my old Turbo-Cool 510 is still cranking away in my little brother's PC, my current builds use Silencer 750 PSUs: PCP&C brand, manufactured by Seasonic, owned by OCZ.) I cannot speak to OCZ's level of customer support since I've never had occasion to use it.

I know many others have had a different experience than I have, and it would be foolish of me to assume that my experience was the same as everyone else's. (Right?)

OK, first of all, read our OCZ experiences and reviews for OCZ here and PCP&C here. Now while I may be incorrect, I am going to suggest that we at HardOCP have a bit more experience with a wider breadth of OCZ/PCP&C models than you do.

Snarking? A little tounge in cheek because this FirePower company was founded....last month. And this is what FirePower says about itself, "FirePower Technology is a leading provider of high-performance power supplies to the high-performance computing market." Actually FirePower has done NOTHING. So to answer your question, it has done NOTHING TO NOBODY. :)

I am not making assumptions about anything. What I know is that the company has no track record doing anything. Surely we will find out more about this in the future. And please let me know exactly how we are "over-the-top against anything OCZ?"
 
Antec HCP Platinum are Delta with the latest technology, and possible "future" connectivity.

Firepower has to be funded somewhere, anyone able to trace background on CEO, CFO, Board or Directors, financing?
 
Does that mean Firepower will deal with OCZ power supplies warranty?

They claim that they are per blog post on other sites. I would imagine that it will be similar to Toshiba, in that it's only the high end brands that are covered. There still is little to no information about them though.
 
I own and continue to use the PCP&C 750W that [H] reviewed in 2007. Fantastic power supply, best I've ever used. Sad to see things go this way.
 
I still have a ModStream 450 that was running fine until I needed to swipe the motherboard used in said system.
 
I own and continue to use the PCP&C 750W that [H] reviewed in 2007. Fantastic power supply, best I've ever used. Sad to see things go this way.


Yep. Seasonic built and continues to build excellent power supplies.....maybe not quite to Delta standards, but darned close.
 
I was in the middle of trying to get a RMA on my Gamexstream 600W that is dying on me. OCZ tech support informed me they were in the middle of being bought out and told me to further my RMA request to [email protected]. I emailed them three days ago, still no reply....
 
i avoid ocz like plague. the saving ($$$) just cannot justify the headache and waste of time going to RMA's.
 
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