{"video_id":"7uP8BWNJ7v8","title":"Antec Neo Eco 450W Value Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":406,"segments":[{"start_s":0.48,"end_s":9.88,"text":"today I'll be doing an unboxing of a product that you probably won't see on a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.56,"end_s":12.96,"text":"shelf anywhere any time soon so this is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.88,"end_s":16.8,"text":"the antec Neo Echo","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.96,"end_s":18.88,"text":"450c it provides 450 WTS of continuous","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.8,"end_s":23.88,"text":"power remember all ntech power supplies are rated by continuous power not Peak","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.4,"end_s":28.92,"text":"power like some cheaper units um it is an 80 plus certified power supply and 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looking box it's got flowers on it they do not include a power cord because by anex line of reasoning the power cord is just adding unnecessary cost and unnecessary waste to the product as most computer users probably have one lying around which is true in a lot of cases also if you don't have a power cord it's like a $2 Adder to buy one at NC anyway so uh it's not not a bad idea okay by reusing your existing cord you can reduce waste and help protect the environment okay what what else do we got on here so uh dual and quad core ready I should certainly hope so EPS 12vt as well as ATX 12vt 2.3 okay active PFC single 12vt rail on this 450 W power supply five SATA connectors and Industrial grade protection so for things like overcurrent over voltage all of that kind of stuff here's our overall specs so the output is 450 wat we can actually output 408 watts of that on the 12vt rail so it is a 34 amp 12vt rail that it's important to know if you're looking at a video card and you want to find out if this power supply will be adequate for powering it and I think that's pretty much it for what I want to show you guys on the front here so why don't we start opening up this box and see what's the deal with the Neo Echo now I would normally call it a Neo Eco because to me that's what that's what that word means but everyone from an keeps calling it Neo EO to me so I'm like okay well I guess I better pronounce it their way all right inside be find first of all a product description get economical power today oh that's probably why it's Echo cuz it's economical not ecosystem or ecology so that's why it's a neoeco all right so the newo echo series anex high efficiency power supply solution 80 plus certification quiet double ball bearing 120 mm fan this is a really nice thing to see on an on a value power supply from antech because they've typically gone with the 80 mil uh 80 mil cooling fan on their more value oriented product so that's really good uh this product overview will provide general information which this onboxing will also Pro provide general information so we're not going to worry too much about that right now an.com survey apparently you can win prizes for telling us what you think Neato okay uh we've got more environmentally friendly packaging so you can see it does not come with any foam inside it uses only this uh recyclable cardboard stuff we've got four screws for installing it into your case and a paper sleeve to prevent it from being scratched or anything bad like that from happening okay there's some of that uh packing material to protect it during Transit more packing material power supply itself all right so why don't we start with let's start with cables today so let's have a look at what the neoeco has in terms of cables oh These are nice long cables actually for a value unit look at this so here's our 24 pin connector okay it uses a detachable four pin although it's semi-attached by default although you can tear it off if you don't need it so that's that's my preferred way of doing this because it means that it is connected at all times and you don't have to worry about like oh do I have it aligned just right when I'm plugging it in but you can break it off if you so desire so that's kind of neat and it's a nice long cord so this should be just fine with for a bottom mounted power supply which is one of those concerns whenever you're not spending a fortune on a power supply and you want something that you're going to be sure is going to reach to the top of your case that's something to be aware of it has a four plus4 pin connector for the CPU we have a single PCIe connector so that means that you're not going to be running any high powered graphics cards off this particular unit so you're going to be limited to something like a GTX 550 TI at the top end with a single PCIe power connector okay next we have one harness full of oh no wait hold on how does this work okay give me a sec no we have oh it uses the mix kind okay so we have one harness that is purely Molex so three Molex and one floppy and that's a nice long cable as well so you can see the height is approximately uh 1.3 Linus arms okay and then we have a mixed one which has two SATA and one Molex so that would be perfect to run up to maybe your optical drive Bays where maybe you got one SATA Optical and you've got an older IDE one and you want to use uh both of those connectors and then finally we have a piure SATA one which is also quite long although not quite as long as that pure Molex one and that has three more SATA connectors on it so total of four Mo x one floppy five SATA one 4 plus 41 6 pin PCIe and a 24 pin ATX connector now let's have a look at the unit itself this is a c model which means it does not have a modular interface all of the cables are permanently attached move around to the side it's got just a sort of a dark mid medium gray finish it is painted so that means that you don't have that ugly horrible unfinished look to it it would look at home pretty much anywhere you can see all the uh branding is going to look right side Side Up regardless of which way you install it in your case see like that uh you've got your general specs here again all of your safety and certifications and whatnot are all here as well on the bottom as mentioned before it does use a 120 mm fan and I anc's previous products or anything to go by it's probably a very high quality double ball bearing fan uh next here on the back we've got um typical antec looking ventilation they don't use a honeycomb style like a lot of the other guys do they use this more more Square style first time I saw this was on the neop power I believe so that's uh pretty much it for that so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the antech Neo Echo 450c don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips from more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}