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today I'll be doing an unboxing of a product that you probably won't see on a

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shelf anywhere any time soon so this is

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the antec Neo Echo

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450c it provides 450 WTS of continuous

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power remember all ntech power supplies are rated by continuous power not Peak

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power like some cheaper units um it is an 80 plus certified power supply and it

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comes in a very environmentally friendly looking box it's got flowers on it they

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do not include a power cord because by

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anex line of reasoning the power cord is just adding unnecessary cost and

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unnecessary waste to the product as most computer users probably have one lying

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around which is true in a lot of cases also if you don't have a power cord it's

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like a $2 Adder to buy one at NC anyway

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so uh it's not not a bad idea okay by reusing your existing cord you can

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reduce waste and help protect the environment okay what what else do we

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got on here so uh dual and quad core ready I should certainly hope so EPS

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12vt as well as ATX 12vt 2.3 okay active PFC single 12vt rail on

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this 450 W power supply five SATA connectors and Industrial grade

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protection so for things like overcurrent over voltage all of that

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kind of stuff here's our overall specs so the output is 450 wat we can actually

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output 408 watts of that on the 12vt rail so it is a 34 amp 12vt rail that

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it's important to know if you're looking at a video card and you want to find out

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if this power supply will be adequate for powering it and I think that's

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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

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what's the deal with the Neo Echo now I would normally call it a Neo Eco because

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to me that's what that's what that word

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means but everyone from an keeps calling

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it Neo EO to me so I'm like okay well I guess I better pronounce it their way

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all right inside be find first of all a product description get economical power

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today oh that's probably why it's Echo cuz it's economical not

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ecosystem or ecology so that's why it's a neoeco all right so the newo echo

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series anex high efficiency power supply solution 80 plus certification quiet

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double ball bearing 120 mm fan this is a really nice thing to see on an on a

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value power supply from antech because they've typically gone with the 80

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mil uh 80 mil cooling fan on their more

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value oriented product so that's really good uh this product overview will

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provide general information which this onboxing will also Pro provide general

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information so we're not going to worry too much about that right now an.com

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survey apparently you can win prizes for telling us what you think Neato okay uh

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we've got more environmentally friendly packaging so you can see it does not

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come with any foam inside it uses only

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this uh recyclable cardboard stuff we've got four screws for installing it into

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your case and a paper sleeve to prevent

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it from being scratched or anything bad like that from

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happening okay there's some of that

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uh packing material to protect it during

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Transit more packing material power

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supply itself all right so why don't we start

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with let's start with cables today so let's have a look at what the neoeco has

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in terms of cables

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oh These are nice long cables actually for a value unit look at

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this so here's our 24 pin connector okay

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it uses a detachable four pin although

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it's semi-attached by default although you can tear it off if you don't need it

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so that's that's my preferred way of doing this because it means that it is

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connected at all times and you don't have to worry about like oh do I have it

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aligned just right when I'm plugging it in but you can break it off if you so

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desire so that's kind of neat and it's a nice long cord so this should be just

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fine with for a bottom mounted power supply which is one of those concerns

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whenever you're not spending a fortune on a power supply and you want something

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that you're going to be sure is going to reach to the top of your case that's

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something to be aware of it has a four plus4 pin connector for the

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CPU we have a single PCIe connector so

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that means that you're not going to be running any high powered graphics cards

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off this particular unit so you're going to be limited to something like a GTX

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550 TI at the top end with a single PCIe

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power connector okay next we

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have one harness full of oh no wait hold

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on how does this work okay give me a sec no we

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have oh it uses the mix kind okay so we

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have one harness that is purely Molex so three Molex and one floppy and that's a

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nice long cable as well so you can see the height is approximately uh 1.3 Linus

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arms okay and then we have a mixed one

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which has two SATA and one Molex so that would be perfect to run up to maybe your

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optical drive Bays where maybe you got one SATA Optical and you've got an older

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IDE one and you want to use uh both of those connectors and then finally we

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have a piure SATA one which is also quite long although not quite as long as

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that pure Molex one and that has three more SATA connectors on it so total of

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four Mo x one floppy five SATA one 4 plus 41 6 pin PCIe and a 24 pin ATX

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connector now let's have a look at the unit itself this is a c model which

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means it does not have a modular interface all of the cables are

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permanently attached move around to the side it's got just a sort of a dark mid

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medium gray finish it is painted so that means that you don't have that ugly

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horrible unfinished look to it it would look at home pretty much anywhere you

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can see all the uh branding is going to look right side Side Up regardless of

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which way you install it in your case see like that uh you've got your general

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specs here again all of your safety and certifications and whatnot are all here

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as well on the bottom as mentioned before it does use a 120 mm fan and I

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anc's previous products or anything to go by it's probably a very high quality

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double ball bearing fan uh next here on the back we've got um typical antec

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looking ventilation they don't use a honeycomb style like a lot of the other

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guys do they use this more more Square style first time I saw this was on the

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neop power I believe so that's uh pretty

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much it for that so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the antech Neo Echo

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