today I'll be doing an unboxing of a product that you probably won't see on a
shelf anywhere any time soon so this is
the antec Neo Echo
450c it provides 450 WTS of continuous
power remember all ntech power supplies are rated by continuous power not Peak
power like some cheaper units um it is an 80 plus certified power supply and it
comes in a very environmentally friendly 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
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