Packaging and Bundle

The EECS is supplied in a sturdy cardboard box. The top part of the package can unfold and reveals some of the unit’s features, as well as a small window showing the fan. It is a strong package and will survive considerable abuse.

Inside the box you will find a bundle which consists of a manual, a few screws and several cable ties, however you will also find a great number of cables. There are five Molex and five SATA expansion cables with two connectors on each, four 8-pin PCIe cables, five extension cables and four (!) floppy connectors. The five Molex and five SATA cables all have a female connector at their end where you can connect another expansion or extension cable. Therefore you can make the cables as long as you like and with as many connectors as you like on each.

The Unit

The ECS7001 is a simple, black PSU. The black matte paint is well sprayed with no visible defects and it is also hard to scratch. It also resists fingerprint marks. There are only three native cables coming out of the rear of the unit; the 24-pin ATX connector, the 8/4-pin CPU 12V connector and a fan speed monitoring cable which you can connect to a motherboard header.

The ECS7001 is cooled by a 13.5cm fan placed at the bottom part of the unit. Both the fan and grill are all black. The fan is made by Young Lin Tech Co and it has a sleeve bearing. The rear part of the unit is entirely perforated for the air to escape towards the rear of the case. At the front part of the unit one can see the eight modular cable connectors, four for the PCIe devices and four for the rest of the peripherals. Unfortunately we also discovered that the 6-pin male connector which every peripheral cable is using can be inserted in the 8-pin PCIe connector, so caution is necessary when attaching the cables to the unit or you could easily damage several of your system’s components.

The interior of the ECS7001 is not overly crowded but it is a little bit messy. The heatsinks are adequate for a unit of this output and efficiency, but they could be better. NesteQ went with Teapo capacitors, all of which are industrial grade and rated for operation up to 105C.  The cables appear a bit too thin for a 700W unit even if the vertically placed PCB is responsible for providing power to all of the connectors. There is only one major transformer powering all of the lines.