WEBVTT 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:15.560 welcome to my unboxing of a product that I'm actually very excited about few 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:19.359 things sort of excite me about power 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:22.039 supplies however there are pretty much 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:27.760 all of those things included with this particular unit this is the high current 00:00:24.279 --> 00:00:30.240 Pro Platinum power supply from antech 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:34.719 and why don't I just do a quick bullet Point list of all of the things that 00:00:32.680 --> 00:00:39.239 like really excite me about this packaging or packaging this product 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:45.320 number one is the packaging I love awesome packaging I unbox a lot of stuff 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:47.520 and this is very shiny love it number 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:52.559 two is the don't worry you won't get caught in there it's okay number two is 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:56.840 the seven-year antec warranty antec has never done a seven-year warranty before 00:00:54.879 --> 00:01:00.480 but they're pulling out all the stops on this one they're basically saying this 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:04.720 will not fil and that is also very exciting to me 00:01:02.879 --> 00:01:10.439 number three thing that is very exciting to me is that ante has done a lot of 00:01:07.119 --> 00:01:12.439 work to improve their Aesthetics and I'm 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:18.600 a big aesthetic guy when it comes to power supplies without compromising on 00:01:15.759 --> 00:01:21.600 any of the safety features that they believe are so important to have in 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:26.799 their products and I don't say they believe because I don't also believe so 00:01:24.759 --> 00:01:31.640 but uh I think you guys catch where I'm going with this so check this out ugly 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:35.880 24 pin power power connectors are a definite pet peeve of mine and antec has 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:40.920 found a way around it that if I could ever find the 24 pin power connector in 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:47.320 here aha that they believe will help so check 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:49.640 this out normally an antech power supply 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:55.680 will look like a big old mess of brightly colored wires but they found a 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:58.680 compromise so for safety reasons antech 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:01.520 believes that they should continue 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:05.240 having colors color codes on the wires and I actually don't disagree with them 00:02:03.479 --> 00:02:09.000 it reduces the chance of anything being miswired at a factory it reduces the 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:12.239 chance of accidentally miswiring something yourself if you're sleeving 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:17.560 your power supply or whatever else you want to do and yeah I mean that right 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:22.120 there it reduces the chance of Errors so what they've done is they've put stripes 00:02:20.519 --> 00:02:25.840 of the appropriate colors on the appropriate cables you see that so 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:31.560 there's a stripe so what that means is that when you install this in your system all of a sudden it looks far more 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:35.200 stealthy compared to the brightly colored cables that we've seen before in 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:39.920 the past so we see the same thing there you go half and half on the 00:02:37.959 --> 00:02:44.400 CPU power connector and look at this nice touch they've even oriented it so 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:48.959 that in most motherboards when it comes over this way most of the colored wires 00:02:47.519 --> 00:02:54.360 will be hidden because they're on the inside even if it goes this way very 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:57.440 nice nice touch antech good that you guys thought of that okay so that was my 00:02:56.200 --> 00:03:02.760 quick bullet point but I guess we'll have to like kind of back up here and uh 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:06.480 and start doing the actual proper proper unboxing so here there we 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:16.720 go back to the outside of the box so yes beautiful 00:03:13.640 --> 00:03:19.319 box 94% Max efficiency means that 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:23.519 compared to a non 80 plus power supply you could see up to 25% savings although 00:03:21.959 --> 00:03:26.640 if we're talking compared to like an 80 plus gold power supply it's a much 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.400 smaller number just so you guys are aware antech power supplies are all 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:34.920 rated for continuous power that means you could literally run it at 1,000 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:40.040 Watts day in day out for 7 years and anch says it will not fail full Cable 00:03:37.959 --> 00:03:44.599 Management yes this is a fully modular power supply which is a first for antech 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:49.599 as well over here they actually calculate compared to a non 80 plus 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:54.560 compared to an 80 plus compared to a high efficiency 80 plus how much money 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:58.920 can actually be saved on a yearly basis in dollars as well as in Euros compared 00:03:57.079 --> 00:04:03.159 to blah blah blah so they have a formula here so you can actually check that out 00:04:01.480 --> 00:04:06.920 here I'll I'll hold it still so you guys can see it really well and do the math 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:11.040 for yourself see how much an efficient power supply could save for you okay 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:16.120 continuous power guaranteed 1,000 Watts 80 plus Platinum up to 94% efficient 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:20.919 save money power and money uh 16 pin socket yeah we'll talk more about that 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:24.160 later the 28 pin motherboard socket 135 00:04:20.919 --> 00:04:27.240 mm fan High current rails 100% 12vt okay 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:29.320 yep yep multi PCIe 6 PCI circuit Shield 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:33.479 you know what we'll cover all this later uh oh yeah yeah this this little chart 00:04:30.840 --> 00:04:38.600 some guys like to see that so yes 12 uh four 12vt rails all of them rated for a 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:42.639 maximum of 40 amps so what that means is that antech is combining The Best of 00:04:40.280 --> 00:04:47.720 Both Worlds by including all of the appropriate safety protections and I 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:50.560 mean all of them antech is big into 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:54.360 certifications as well as doing things by the book when it comes to power 00:04:52.280 --> 00:04:59.199 supplies and I say this because I actually believe it they really do they 00:04:56.080 --> 00:05:01.520 never skip out on something um so they 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:05.840 combine that with so the safety of multiple rails with the appropriate 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:09.440 protections with the convenience of having high current rails which means 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:14.720 you can kind of hook things up willy-nilly and you are very very 00:05:11.880 --> 00:05:18.759 unlikely unless you some I mean you you pretty yeah you pretty much couldn't 00:05:16.919 --> 00:05:22.039 trip the overcurrent protection on a given rail by hooking it up to a normal 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:26.319 PC system if you hook it up to some kind of load tester or something that's a 00:05:23.960 --> 00:05:31.919 different story and that's kind of um yeah that's kind of on your own sort of 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:36.120 hands if something goes wrong at that point in time so included accessories 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:40.680 we've got an included power cable which is a beefy power 00:05:37.919 --> 00:05:44.520 cable we have a little product overview sheet that comes with it okay we've got 00:05:43.039 --> 00:05:48.160 a bunch of modular cables but we'll get into those more later we've got haha 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:53.440 they've included black screws nice touch as well as a couple little ante Cable 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:57.919 Management cords or cord I shouldn't say chords I should say uh Cable Management 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:02.039 uh ties okay 00:06:00.479 --> 00:06:06.720 just a sec let me just see if I missed you know what let's start looking at the power supply unit itself so on the back 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:10.639 we find sort of the industry standard honeycomb mesh you guys won't be able to 00:06:08.840 --> 00:06:16.080 see this but if you look inside the power supply they've actually completely 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:20.440 eliminated wires from their design so everything inside this power supply is 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:24.680 using solid links that means there's less soldering to be done so once again 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:29.280 there's less room for an efficiency and less ah sorry guys slick is sick and 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:33.280 less room for any kind of an error during the manufacturing process so that 00:06:31.479 --> 00:06:37.680 is there you can actually see a couple of the big solid links back there very 00:06:36.039 --> 00:06:41.400 cool so that's a ground I can actually see the label on it can you see that 00:06:39.039 --> 00:06:47.199 okay it's that silver one that's kind of like there okay okay as long as you guys 00:06:43.479 --> 00:06:48.919 can see it so we've got 135 mm u double 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:52.840 ball bearing fan so that's going to provide quiet cooling I already 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:58.240 mentioned the honeycomb onoff switch okay on the side aha antech has figured 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:03.720 out Aesthetics that looks sharp that looks 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:11.120 really good we are not looking at like racing stripe power supply thing going 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:12.720 on no we have a very very clean looking 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:15.680 side with just a bright one bright yellow accent I don't mind as long as we 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:21.479 don't have a bunch of bright yellow accents and the whole thing looks like a 00:07:17.599 --> 00:07:24.160 bumblebee no this looks really really 00:07:21.479 --> 00:07:28.680 good very sharp looking power supply okay we've got one label on here which 00:07:26.280 --> 00:07:31.639 actually outlines a bunch of the uh bunch of the safety stuff as well as 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:36.520 giving you the general specs of the power supply now let's get into the 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:40.759 fully modular interface so the fully modular interface has a number of things 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:44.599 about it that are actually very interesting let's start with the motherboard connection so the 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:51.520 motherboard connection goes a little something like this one here so that's 00:07:47.599 --> 00:07:54.080 your traditional 20 pain right there 00:07:51.520 --> 00:07:59.960 then we have an additional one of these now why would we have that you might ask 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:02.440 and the answer is because antec is anti 00:07:59.960 --> 00:08:06.560 ipating the possibility that there could be some kind of a motherboard socket 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:10.759 change and they want to make sure that their motherboard connector will be 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:14.720 compatible with it so they have built in the flexibility and the capacity to 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:19.440 change the motherboard connector to something that is higher than 24 pins 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:22.400 very cool so that modular connector is something you'd probably have to 00:08:20.479 --> 00:08:26.840 purchase but at least it would be available without upgrading your 00:08:24.159 --> 00:08:30.039 expensive 80 plus Platinum power supply if you wanted to upgrade some of your 00:08:28.159 --> 00:08:37.599 other components well what else we got going on here the next thing we have is 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.599 here we go I actually want to 00:08:37.640 --> 00:08:46.080 find oh this is kind of neat okay so PCI Express connectors here 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:53.200 we go antech has built in with their modular system 16 16 pin uh modular 00:08:50.959 --> 00:08:58.720 connectors so we've got two 6 Plus tws that run off an individual brick of 00:08:54.959 --> 00:09:02.720 these or check this out guys we can also 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:05.640 run indiv idual ones with these low 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:08.839 profile individual Banks of eight pin connectors with these low profile 00:09:07.640 --> 00:09:13.000 connectors that can actually be installed side by side without any 00:09:11.079 --> 00:09:16.640 difficulty so check this out we can go here and then we can take another one 00:09:15.079 --> 00:09:20.360 maybe we need so yeah so we need an eight pin and then maybe we have another 00:09:18.680 --> 00:09:26.079 graphics card running in our system for fiz X so we need some more some more uh 00:09:24.079 --> 00:09:31.839 six pin or eight pin connectors so we'll go ahead and oh no that's a okay well 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:33.839 whatever I use this one so this is a 4+4 00:09:31.839 --> 00:09:38.320 so we have now plugged our motherboard power connectors into each other it 00:09:35.839 --> 00:09:42.399 doesn't have the usual excess around the outsides so this gives us a ton of 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:48.079 flexibility in terms of which rails we want to use for which connectors so 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:50.680 we've got 12vt rail 1 12vt rail 2 12vt 00:09:48.079 --> 00:09:56.640 rail 3 4 very very very cool okay so Flex the 00:09:54.920 --> 00:10:00.760 most flexible modular interface pretty much possible even if they change the 00:09:58.560 --> 00:10:03.959 graphics card inter face all antech has to do is say okay you guys want to 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:07.720 upgrade to the latest graphics card we'll just release a slightly wider or 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:12.079 slightly more different configuration of these and you know you'll have somewhere 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:15.040 to plug it into very handy okay what else we have here on modular cables I 00:10:13.800 --> 00:10:22.680 guess I should just cover what we have included so this guy right here is a 00:10:18.680 --> 00:10:26.880 modular 3 SATA connector okay we have 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:26.880 how many of these one 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:35.839 two three of those okay then we have a couple with four pin 00:10:32.760 --> 00:10:37.519 peripheral connectors one that has a a 00:10:35.839 --> 00:10:44.480 floppy built onto the end and one that doesn't and then finally we have up to 00:10:40.680 --> 00:10:46.160 six PCI Express graphics card connectors 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:51.320 available with this power supply so each of these includes two 6 Plus 2s 2 6 Plus 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:56.920 2s and then the one that I installed already before with two six plus tws and 00:10:54.920 --> 00:11:01.399 how in the world have they done this hold on a minute oh they've included a 00:10:58.800 --> 00:11:08.440 few a cple different kinds of 6 plus2 so these are designed to go to One graphics 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:12.600 card interesting off a single cable and 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:15.079 then if you want to run two 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:17.959 separate for whatever reason they've get okay they've given you options they've 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:23.000 given you the option to either run it this way or have them run side by side 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:27.959 connected like this so they've included both kinds of cables there you go so I 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:32.040 hold on a second guys so two things I missed guys one is that it used is all 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:37.639 high performance Japanese caps that are capable of providing their full output 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:39.680 even under very high temperatures so 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:43.639 unrealistic well I guess I shouldn't say unrealistic I mean the inside of a 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.120 computer could reach you know 40° I guess if you live somewhere really hot 00:11:44.959 --> 00:11:51.200 and then the inside of your computer is hotter you know 40 to 50° so either way 00:11:48.959 --> 00:11:55.959 this will provide 1,000 wats of output and the other thing is that it is 00:11:52.920 --> 00:12:00.320 capable of delivering all 1,000 Watts 00:11:55.959 --> 00:12:02.600 from the 12vt rails so yes 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:07.600 no matter how graphics card heavy your system or other components that rely 00:12:05.040 --> 00:12:11.480 directly on the 12volt rail you will be able to power it with this power supply 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:16.079 without running out of juice so thank you for checking out my unboxing of what 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:20.320 I think is basically the cream of the cream anc's finest power supply to date 00:12:18.760 --> 00:12:24.440 don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for more unboxings reviews and 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:27.440 other computer videos