welcome to my unboxing of a product that I'm actually very excited about few
things sort of excite me about power
supplies however there are pretty much
all of those things included with this particular unit this is the high current
Pro Platinum power supply from antech
and why don't I just do a quick bullet Point list of all of the things that
like really excite me about this packaging or packaging this product
number one is the packaging I love awesome packaging I unbox a lot of stuff
and this is very shiny love it number
two is the don't worry you won't get caught in there it's okay number two is
the seven-year antec warranty antec has never done a seven-year warranty before
but they're pulling out all the stops on this one they're basically saying this
will not fil and that is also very exciting to me
number three thing that is very exciting to me is that ante has done a lot of
work to improve their Aesthetics and I'm
a big aesthetic guy when it comes to power supplies without compromising on
any of the safety features that they believe are so important to have in
their products and I don't say they believe because I don't also believe so
but uh I think you guys catch where I'm going with this so check this out ugly
24 pin power power connectors are a definite pet peeve of mine and antec has
found a way around it that if I could ever find the 24 pin power connector in
here aha that they believe will help so check
this out normally an antech power supply
will look like a big old mess of brightly colored wires but they found a
compromise so for safety reasons antech
believes that they should continue
having colors color codes on the wires and I actually don't disagree with them
it reduces the chance of anything being miswired at a factory it reduces the
chance of accidentally miswiring something yourself if you're sleeving
your power supply or whatever else you want to do and yeah I mean that right
there it reduces the chance of Errors so what they've done is they've put stripes
of the appropriate colors on the appropriate cables you see that so
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
stealthy compared to the brightly colored cables that we've seen before in
the past so we see the same thing there you go half and half on the
CPU power connector and look at this nice touch they've even oriented it so
that in most motherboards when it comes over this way most of the colored wires
will be hidden because they're on the inside even if it goes this way very
nice nice touch antech good that you guys thought of that okay so that was my
quick bullet point but I guess we'll have to like kind of back up here and uh
and start doing the actual proper proper unboxing so here there we
go back to the outside of the box so yes beautiful
box 94% Max efficiency means that
compared to a non 80 plus power supply you could see up to 25% savings although
if we're talking compared to like an 80 plus gold power supply it's a much
smaller number just so you guys are aware antech power supplies are all
rated for continuous power that means you could literally run it at 1,000
Watts day in day out for 7 years and anch says it will not fail full Cable
Management yes this is a fully modular power supply which is a first for antech
as well over here they actually calculate compared to a non 80 plus
compared to an 80 plus compared to a high efficiency 80 plus how much money
can actually be saved on a yearly basis in dollars as well as in Euros compared
to blah blah blah so they have a formula here so you can actually check that out
here I'll I'll hold it still so you guys can see it really well and do the math
for yourself see how much an efficient power supply could save for you okay
continuous power guaranteed 1,000 Watts 80 plus Platinum up to 94% efficient
save money power and money uh 16 pin socket yeah we'll talk more about that
later the 28 pin motherboard socket 135
mm fan High current rails 100% 12vt okay
yep yep multi PCIe 6 PCI circuit Shield
you know what we'll cover all this later uh oh yeah yeah this this little chart
some guys like to see that so yes 12 uh four 12vt rails all of them rated for a
maximum of 40 amps so what that means is that antech is combining The Best of
Both Worlds by including all of the appropriate safety protections and I
mean all of them antech is big into
certifications as well as doing things by the book when it comes to power
supplies and I say this because I actually believe it they really do they
never skip out on something um so they
combine that with so the safety of multiple rails with the appropriate
protections with the convenience of having high current rails which means
you can kind of hook things up willy-nilly and you are very very
unlikely unless you some I mean you you pretty yeah you pretty much couldn't
trip the overcurrent protection on a given rail by hooking it up to a normal
PC system if you hook it up to some kind of load tester or something that's a
different story and that's kind of um yeah that's kind of on your own sort of
hands if something goes wrong at that point in time so included accessories
we've got an included power cable which is a beefy power
cable we have a little product overview sheet that comes with it okay we've got
a bunch of modular cables but we'll get into those more later we've got haha
they've included black screws nice touch as well as a couple little ante Cable
Management cords or cord I shouldn't say chords I should say uh Cable Management
uh ties okay
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
we find sort of the industry standard honeycomb mesh you guys won't be able to
see this but if you look inside the power supply they've actually completely
eliminated wires from their design so everything inside this power supply is
using solid links that means there's less soldering to be done so once again
there's less room for an efficiency and less ah sorry guys slick is sick and
less room for any kind of an error during the manufacturing process so that
is there you can actually see a couple of the big solid links back there very
cool so that's a ground I can actually see the label on it can you see that
okay it's that silver one that's kind of like there okay okay as long as you guys
can see it so we've got 135 mm u double
ball bearing fan so that's going to provide quiet cooling I already
mentioned the honeycomb onoff switch okay on the side aha antech has figured
out Aesthetics that looks sharp that looks
really good we are not looking at like racing stripe power supply thing going
on no we have a very very clean looking
side with just a bright one bright yellow accent I don't mind as long as we
don't have a bunch of bright yellow accents and the whole thing looks like a
bumblebee no this looks really really
good very sharp looking power supply okay we've got one label on here which
actually outlines a bunch of the uh bunch of the safety stuff as well as
giving you the general specs of the power supply now let's get into the
fully modular interface so the fully modular interface has a number of things
about it that are actually very interesting let's start with the motherboard connection so the
motherboard connection goes a little something like this one here so that's
your traditional 20 pain right there
then we have an additional one of these now why would we have that you might ask
and the answer is because antec is anti
ipating the possibility that there could be some kind of a motherboard socket
change and they want to make sure that their motherboard connector will be
compatible with it so they have built in the flexibility and the capacity to
change the motherboard connector to something that is higher than 24 pins
very cool so that modular connector is something you'd probably have to
purchase but at least it would be available without upgrading your
expensive 80 plus Platinum power supply if you wanted to upgrade some of your
other components well what else we got going on here the next thing we have is
here we go I actually want to
find oh this is kind of neat okay so PCI Express connectors here
we go antech has built in with their modular system 16 16 pin uh modular
connectors so we've got two 6 Plus tws that run off an individual brick of
these or check this out guys we can also
run indiv idual ones with these low
profile individual Banks of eight pin connectors with these low profile
connectors that can actually be installed side by side without any
difficulty so check this out we can go here and then we can take another one
maybe we need so yeah so we need an eight pin and then maybe we have another
graphics card running in our system for fiz X so we need some more some more uh
six pin or eight pin connectors so we'll go ahead and oh no that's a okay well
whatever I use this one so this is a 4+4
so we have now plugged our motherboard power connectors into each other it
doesn't have the usual excess around the outsides so this gives us a ton of
flexibility in terms of which rails we want to use for which connectors so
we've got 12vt rail 1 12vt rail 2 12vt
rail 3 4 very very very cool okay so Flex the
most flexible modular interface pretty much possible even if they change the
graphics card inter face all antech has to do is say okay you guys want to
upgrade to the latest graphics card we'll just release a slightly wider or
slightly more different configuration of these and you know you'll have somewhere
to plug it into very handy okay what else we have here on modular cables I
guess I should just cover what we have included so this guy right here is a
modular 3 SATA connector okay we have
how many of these one
two three of those okay then we have a couple with four pin
peripheral connectors one that has a a
floppy built onto the end and one that doesn't and then finally we have up to
six PCI Express graphics card connectors
available with this power supply so each of these includes two 6 Plus 2s 2 6 Plus
2s and then the one that I installed already before with two six plus tws and
how in the world have they done this hold on a minute oh they've included a
few a cple different kinds of 6 plus2 so these are designed to go to One graphics
card interesting off a single cable and
then if you want to run two
separate for whatever reason they've get okay they've given you options they've
given you the option to either run it this way or have them run side by side
connected like this so they've included both kinds of cables there you go so I
hold on a second guys so two things I missed guys one is that it used is all
high performance Japanese caps that are capable of providing their full output
even under very high temperatures so
unrealistic well I guess I shouldn't say unrealistic I mean the inside of a
computer could reach you know 40° I guess if you live somewhere really hot
and then the inside of your computer is hotter you know 40 to 50° so either way
this will provide 1,000 wats of output and the other thing is that it is
capable of delivering all 1,000 Watts
from the 12vt rails so yes
no matter how graphics card heavy your system or other components that rely
directly on the 12volt rail you will be able to power it with this power supply
without running out of juice so thank you for checking out my unboxing of what
I think is basically the cream of the cream anc's finest power supply to date
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