welcome to my unboxing of the high current gamer M 620 watt from antek so
this is once again a bit of a departure from anex traditional style of um not
focusing as much on modular power supplies to the point where now they are
focusing more on modular power supplies I a huge advocate of modular power
supplies yes there are drawbacks such as for
example they are slightly less efficient due to the modular interfaces on the
inside although there have been advances there as well as due to the cable
connections that will slightly reduce the efficiency of the power supply
however I believe the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks so I yes I like
modular power supplies and I'm happy to see anch move in this Direction with
their psus this particular unit we're going to find a bunch of in stuff about
it on the outside so one is that it uses a 135 mm dual ball bearing fan this is
another huge Improvement that anac has made over the last couple of generations
where they went from using 80 mil fans on their high-end power supplies to
using almost all 120 plus millim fans
thumbs up all an tech power supplies are rated for continuous power so not Peak
power not burst power not like you know
fairy dust power continuous power High
current Cable Management okay that much is is good and fairly evident Universal
input okay let's find if we can see anything High current output okay 12vt
single rail very nice single 12vt rail okay ATX this Advanced hybrid Cable
Management continuous power wow this is all stuff that we've already seen before
aha Japanese brand
capacitors it is 80 plus bronze certified which is also kind of nice as
well so remember 80 plus bronze is a step above 80 plus and a step below 80
Plus silver so most sort of mid-range power supplies are 80 plus bronze these
days and the advantage of 80 plus in general the higher you go in terms of 80
plus remember antec has products ranging all the way up to 80 plus Platinum with
their High current Pro whoops I dropped
it high current Pro 1000 uh which has a max efficiency of 94% I mean you can
hardly call it 80 plus at that point it's more like you know almost 90 plus
um so you do have a wide of options this is just one of them with 80 plus bronze
so let's have a look at the unit itself on the side we see pretty much your sort
of standard like you know it's got a label it has an an teex stamp on it
actually this has a pretty high quality paint finish on it too that's
nice it's one of those little things right where it has a bit of a texture to
it so it's not going to be easy to scratch which is really important because one of the first things that you
can do to totally bork a power supply is
go ahead and like install it this way and then realize that oh the cables
don't reach and then you flip it over install the other way only to realize that the top of it is all covered in
scratches from putting it in the case so if you have a high quality paint finish
on the unit then you don't have to worry about that as much I mean you the flip
side of that is you could just be careful but you know not everyone's
careful all the time so right label 135
mm dual ball bearing fan with a very aggressive very high pressure looking uh
blade design actually that looks just like beastly what kind of fan is there
it's an Adda fan fascinating that thing looks beautiful
okay antec design continuous power since 1986 antech is officially about as old
as I am okay you can see on the other side how would you normally install this
so oh that's a shame okay so antech hasn't figured out the whole like label
going the other way thing unfortunately so if you were to install this in a
bottom mounted system well even if in a top mounted system no matter what if you
were to install it this way this label would unfortunately be upside down I
mean I guess you could peel it off and put it back on but you could also put it
this way all right here we see the general General specs and stats so we
have up to 48 amps on a single 12vt Rail
and it's 80 plus bronze this is all stuff that we have pretty much covered already the 12vt max load is 576 Watts
so that means this particular power supply design does have actual dedicated
circuitry for the 3.3 volt and 5.5 volt rails it is not just converting 12vt in
order to get those other voltage outputs now let's have a look at oh you
know what we didn't even cover the environmentally friendly packaging this
is one of those things that some people might not care about but personally I think antech is right to be making an
effort to do this kind of stuff so they have found a way to package almost all
of their power supplies these days in corrugated cardboard instead of using uh
Foams that don't biodegrade and will pretty much still be there when your
grandkids and your great grandkids are throwing away their
styrofoam hopefully they have a better solution by then but uh yeah and this is
also made of like a papery material so all of this stuff is relatively
environmentally friendly when you compare it to super heavy on the
styrofoam and plastic packaging solutions from
competitors so we don't have a ton of included cables I wouldn't have minded
seeing a few more of these but we've got one triple Molex cable and these are all
hey look at this this is using their um shoot what do they call it hold on I
have to cheat some kind of like stealth cable
something or something like that stealth wires yes all wires darkened for minimal
visibility so antec is all about they're very by the book like as a company these
guys are just like like by the book kind of rigid I mean not in a bad way but
what they basically were like is like uh oh well our competitors are doing cables
with all black wires well we don't believe in that because it's not safe
because there's a chance at the factory or when an end user is resaving the
cable or whatever else for these wires to be mixed up now what antech solution
to that is is wires that are half colored and half black so check this out
see yellow on the one side black on the other side so what that means is when
you wrap them in sleeving they look almost pure black because they're only
half colored compared to having full colored cables inside but antec
maintains that same standard of safety and consistency that they strive for so
it's one of it's it's interesting things like that where you know you see that
that rigidity that unwillingness to to bend on something like a safety standard
but with the adaptability where they want to go okay but we need to address
this need in the market for our cables to look nicer so I think that's kind of
cool it's kind of a neat story when you when you hear about it uh thermal
manager Advanced low voltage fan control for optimal heat and noise management up
to 92.9% power available on the 12vt rail but also REM missing here stealth
wires and Tech quality threeyear limited warranty on all parts and labor as well
as full Suite of industrial grade protections you can actually I mean if
you Google around enough you can find plenty of incidents of other brands of
power supplies just like catastrophically failing um especially
overcurrent protection is the big one all antech power supplies actually have
overcurrent protection not all of their competitors even some of the bigger
names that you might not expect do have over current protection so moving on
right we have one with three molex's one with three moxes and a floppy in case
you still have something that uses that whether it's a card reader or whatever else we have a power cable that is
included nice flexible one seems to be reasonably high quality four
installation screws wouldn't mind if those were black but I guess it's not the end of the world
three SATA cables or three SATA connectors on one cable three SATA
connectors on another more different cable and finally two PCIe 6 plus two
pin cables so you can connect up to one high-end graphics card or two fairly
low-end graphics cards like sort of 7770 class we have a 24 pin cable it's
actually a nice thin thin connector also using their stealth wire so you can see
that is so much less uh obtrusive than
than like a more traditional you know what I should look around and I should
see if I can find like a more traditional approach power
supply it's like snapping he says this
one ah yes so that's an ocz ZX Series power
supply so you can see the wide variety of colors that are available in there
mind you they've done a pretty good job of sleeving it right to the end anyway
so okay let's go
back and moving right along to the last one we have a nice long approximately
let's see it's about one Linus ARM length uh 4 plus 4 pin so that's good
for your CPU power connector so this is a 620 W power supply you won't be
powering any high-end dual Graphics configurations and you won't be powering
any high-end dual CPU configurations so the one thing I wouldn't mind seeing
improved is maybe one more uh one more
SATA connector something along those lines that would be that would be kind
of nice to see but other than that it's not the end of the world um this is cool
though check this out so in order to give you lots of options antech has
allowed you to either go for very few peripherals and four PCIe cables
although you'd have to Source your own cables okay so check that out so we can
put in our two PCI cables and then they've given you this sort of
modularity where you can go okay well hey what if I only have one graphics
card but I want to have like four peripheral connectors well what you can
do is you can plug them in here or you can plug them in here so they give you
the option to use the connectors the modular the modular sockets for
whichever cables you want which is pretty neat on the back we find your
traditional honeycomb as well as your onoff switch and your power input and I
think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the high current gamer M
from antech this is the 620 watt version although this is available in a couple
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