WEBVTT 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:15.320 welcome to my unboxing of the high current gamer M 620 watt from antek so 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:21.240 this is once again a bit of a departure from anex traditional style of um not 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:26.800 focusing as much on modular power supplies to the point where now they are 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:30.599 focusing more on modular power supplies I a huge advocate of modular power 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:36.160 supplies yes there are drawbacks such as for 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:39.760 example they are slightly less efficient due to the modular interfaces on the 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:44.879 inside although there have been advances there as well as due to the cable 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:48.640 connections that will slightly reduce the efficiency of the power supply 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:53.640 however I believe the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks so I yes I like 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:58.559 modular power supplies and I'm happy to see anch move in this Direction with 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:02.840 their psus this particular unit we're going to find a bunch of in stuff about 00:01:00.680 --> 00:01:07.640 it on the outside so one is that it uses a 135 mm dual ball bearing fan this is 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:12.080 another huge Improvement that anac has made over the last couple of generations 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:17.040 where they went from using 80 mil fans on their high-end power supplies to 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:19.240 using almost all 120 plus millim fans 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:24.759 thumbs up all an tech power supplies are rated for continuous power so not Peak 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:27.880 power not burst power not like you know 00:01:24.759 --> 00:01:29.759 fairy dust power continuous power High 00:01:27.880 --> 00:01:35.640 current Cable Management okay that much is is good and fairly evident Universal 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:41.479 input okay let's find if we can see anything High current output okay 12vt 00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:45.719 single rail very nice single 12vt rail okay ATX this Advanced hybrid Cable 00:01:43.720 --> 00:01:50.200 Management continuous power wow this is all stuff that we've already seen before 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:52.399 aha Japanese brand 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:56.880 capacitors it is 80 plus bronze certified which is also kind of nice as 00:01:54.520 --> 00:02:02.719 well so remember 80 plus bronze is a step above 80 plus and a step below 80 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:06.880 Plus silver so most sort of mid-range power supplies are 80 plus bronze these 00:02:04.600 --> 00:02:11.480 days and the advantage of 80 plus in general the higher you go in terms of 80 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:17.640 plus remember antec has products ranging all the way up to 80 plus Platinum with 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:20.599 their High current Pro whoops I dropped 00:02:17.640 --> 00:02:24.760 it high current Pro 1000 uh which has a max efficiency of 94% I mean you can 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:30.800 hardly call it 80 plus at that point it's more like you know almost 90 plus 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:34.760 um so you do have a wide of options this is just one of them with 80 plus bronze 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:39.360 so let's have a look at the unit itself on the side we see pretty much your sort 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:42.720 of standard like you know it's got a label it has an an teex stamp on it 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:47.120 actually this has a pretty high quality paint finish on it too that's 00:02:44.959 --> 00:02:50.239 nice it's one of those little things right where it has a bit of a texture to 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:56.440 it so it's not going to be easy to scratch which is really important because one of the first things that you 00:02:53.239 --> 00:02:58.800 can do to totally bork a power supply is 00:02:56.440 --> 00:03:01.760 go ahead and like install it this way and then realize that oh the cables 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:06.200 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 00:03:04.720 --> 00:03:09.680 scratches from putting it in the case so if you have a high quality paint finish 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:12.599 on the unit then you don't have to worry about that as much I mean you the flip 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:19.400 side of that is you could just be careful but you know not everyone's 00:03:15.040 --> 00:03:21.920 careful all the time so right label 135 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:26.799 mm dual ball bearing fan with a very aggressive very high pressure looking uh 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:31.599 blade design actually that looks just like beastly what kind of fan is there 00:03:28.720 --> 00:03:35.920 it's an Adda fan fascinating that thing looks beautiful 00:03:33.799 --> 00:03:41.040 okay antec design continuous power since 1986 antech is officially about as old 00:03:38.640 --> 00:03:45.480 as I am okay you can see on the other side how would you normally install this 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:49.080 so oh that's a shame okay so antech hasn't figured out the whole like label 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:52.840 going the other way thing unfortunately so if you were to install this in a 00:03:50.920 --> 00:03:56.200 bottom mounted system well even if in a top mounted system no matter what if you 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:59.239 were to install it this way this label would unfortunately be upside down I 00:03:57.799 --> 00:04:03.480 mean I guess you could peel it off and put it back on but you could also put it 00:04:01.040 --> 00:04:09.000 this way all right here we see the general General specs and stats so we 00:04:05.640 --> 00:04:10.720 have up to 48 amps on a single 12vt Rail 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:16.880 and it's 80 plus bronze this is all stuff that we have pretty much covered already the 12vt max load is 576 Watts 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:21.680 so that means this particular power supply design does have actual dedicated 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:26.919 circuitry for the 3.3 volt and 5.5 volt rails it is not just converting 12vt in 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:30.800 order to get those other voltage outputs now let's have a look at oh you 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:33.880 know what we didn't even cover the environmentally friendly packaging this 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:39.520 is one of those things that some people might not care about but personally I think antech is right to be making an 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:43.320 effort to do this kind of stuff so they have found a way to package almost all 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:48.360 of their power supplies these days in corrugated cardboard instead of using uh 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:51.880 Foams that don't biodegrade and will pretty much still be there when your 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:55.320 grandkids and your great grandkids are throwing away their 00:04:53.880 --> 00:05:00.000 styrofoam hopefully they have a better solution by then but uh yeah and this is 00:04:57.479 --> 00:05:03.960 also made of like a papery material so all of this stuff is relatively 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:08.360 environmentally friendly when you compare it to super heavy on the 00:05:06.520 --> 00:05:12.840 styrofoam and plastic packaging solutions from 00:05:10.440 --> 00:05:16.120 competitors so we don't have a ton of included cables I wouldn't have minded 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:21.319 seeing a few more of these but we've got one triple Molex cable and these are all 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:24.880 hey look at this this is using their um shoot what do they call it hold on I 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:29.800 have to cheat some kind of like stealth cable 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:34.600 something or something like that stealth wires yes all wires darkened for minimal 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:38.680 visibility so antec is all about they're very by the book like as a company these 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:43.319 guys are just like like by the book kind of rigid I mean not in a bad way but 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:47.639 what they basically were like is like uh oh well our competitors are doing cables 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:51.600 with all black wires well we don't believe in that because it's not safe 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:55.840 because there's a chance at the factory or when an end user is resaving the 00:05:53.280 --> 00:06:00.560 cable or whatever else for these wires to be mixed up now what antech solution 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:05.280 to that is is wires that are half colored and half black so check this out 00:06:03.280 --> 00:06:09.240 see yellow on the one side black on the other side so what that means is when 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:13.360 you wrap them in sleeving they look almost pure black because they're only 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:17.520 half colored compared to having full colored cables inside but antec 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:21.520 maintains that same standard of safety and consistency that they strive for so 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:25.960 it's one of it's it's interesting things like that where you know you see that 00:06:23.520 --> 00:06:30.599 that rigidity that unwillingness to to bend on something like a safety standard 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:33.599 but with the adaptability where they want to go okay but we need to address 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:37.120 this need in the market for our cables to look nicer so I think that's kind of 00:06:35.440 --> 00:06:40.560 cool it's kind of a neat story when you when you hear about it uh thermal 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:44.319 manager Advanced low voltage fan control for optimal heat and noise management up 00:06:42.039 --> 00:06:48.319 to 92.9% power available on the 12vt rail but also REM missing here stealth 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:52.000 wires and Tech quality threeyear limited warranty on all parts and labor as well 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:55.759 as full Suite of industrial grade protections you can actually I mean if 00:06:53.840 --> 00:06:58.720 you Google around enough you can find plenty of incidents of other brands of 00:06:57.400 --> 00:07:03.360 power supplies just like catastrophically failing um especially 00:07:01.479 --> 00:07:07.400 overcurrent protection is the big one all antech power supplies actually have 00:07:05.400 --> 00:07:11.120 overcurrent protection not all of their competitors even some of the bigger 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:15.800 names that you might not expect do have over current protection so moving on 00:07:13.599 --> 00:07:19.440 right we have one with three molex's one with three moxes and a floppy in case 00:07:17.919 --> 00:07:24.039 you still have something that uses that whether it's a card reader or whatever else we have a power cable that is 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:27.520 included nice flexible one seems to be reasonably high quality four 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:31.520 installation screws wouldn't mind if those were black but I guess it's not the end of the world 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:37.240 three SATA cables or three SATA connectors on one cable three SATA 00:07:36.080 --> 00:07:44.159 connectors on another more different cable and finally two PCIe 6 plus two 00:07:41.479 --> 00:07:48.520 pin cables so you can connect up to one high-end graphics card or two fairly 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:54.479 low-end graphics cards like sort of 7770 class we have a 24 pin cable it's 00:07:52.440 --> 00:07:59.280 actually a nice thin thin connector also using their stealth wire so you can see 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:00.680 that is so much less uh obtrusive than 00:07:59.280 --> 00:08:04.560 than like a more traditional you know what I should look around and I should 00:08:02.280 --> 00:08:08.080 see if I can find like a more traditional approach power 00:08:09.520 --> 00:08:14.560 supply it's like snapping he says this 00:08:12.599 --> 00:08:19.520 one ah yes so that's an ocz ZX Series power 00:08:17.599 --> 00:08:22.360 supply so you can see the wide variety of colors that are available in there 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:28.280 mind you they've done a pretty good job of sleeving it right to the end anyway 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:30.720 so okay let's go 00:08:28.280 --> 00:08:35.800 back and moving right along to the last one we have a nice long approximately 00:08:33.719 --> 00:08:40.440 let's see it's about one Linus ARM length uh 4 plus 4 pin so that's good 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:44.560 for your CPU power connector so this is a 620 W power supply you won't be 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:48.959 powering any high-end dual Graphics configurations and you won't be powering 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:53.680 any high-end dual CPU configurations so the one thing I wouldn't mind seeing 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:55.640 improved is maybe one more uh one more 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:59.000 SATA connector something along those lines that would be that would be kind 00:08:56.959 --> 00:09:04.760 of nice to see but other than that it's not the end of the world um this is cool 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:09.079 though check this out so in order to give you lots of options antech has 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:12.519 allowed you to either go for very few peripherals and four PCIe cables 00:09:11.079 --> 00:09:17.079 although you'd have to Source your own cables okay so check that out so we can 00:09:14.680 --> 00:09:20.399 put in our two PCI cables and then they've given you this sort of 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:24.200 modularity where you can go okay well hey what if I only have one graphics 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:29.079 card but I want to have like four peripheral connectors well what you can 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:32.800 do is you can plug them in here or you can plug them in here so they give you 00:09:31.079 --> 00:09:35.640 the option to use the connectors the modular the modular sockets for 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:38.920 whichever cables you want which is pretty neat on the back we find your 00:09:37.560 --> 00:09:42.800 traditional honeycomb as well as your onoff switch and your power input and I 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:47.800 think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the high current gamer M 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:51.560 from antech this is the 620 watt version although this is available in a couple 00:09:49.560 --> 00:09:54.160 of different wattage capacities don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips 00:09:52.959 --> 00:09:57.519 from unboxings reviews and other computer videos