yet another power supply unboxing it seems like I'm doing a lot of these
lately but there's a good reason for it the reason is that power supplies are
sort of one of the more interesting things that you can put in your computer
I mean with a processor they like all look the same whereas power supplies I
mean they all have kind of the distinctive look to them they have a distinctive feature set so today I have
the antec true power this is the true power new as opposed to the true power
old cuz true power has been around forever as a as a brand name for antech
so what makes it new first of all is it is 80 plus bronze so that means it's
slightly better than 80 plus regular it's also SLI ready and it has a little
green energy efficient leaf on it so that's very nice to see it has advanced
hybrid Cable Management so that's anc's way of saying that the power supply is
modular okay and it has a 120 mm pwm fan
now let's go on to the back double piece double layer PCB optimizes cooling
efficiency and allows for heavy duty components Advanced hybrid this that or the other okay why don't we get this out
of the box and we will have a look at all of the things that they are telling
us about on the back so unlike the
earthw series of power supplies from antech which is only modular at the very
high end on the 750 watt the true power lineup is modular from the 550 all the
way up to the 750 and the 750 blue now
unlike their true power Quattro lineup the true power new series uses a 120 mm
fan whereas the Quattro actually uses an 80 mm fan still for design Des reasons
that I'm not quite sure that I understand and here we go I got the box
open so this is what it looks like all packed inside in antec green packaging
so you can see they're using like recycled paper as opposed to styrofoam
or something else that's going to destroy the Earth faster than necessary
all right so inside we will find a power cord okay just your standard PC power
cord we will find a baggie of modular cables okay so we'll get to those after
I guess we'll find what looks like an instruction manual or some kind of it's
a product overview okay so it tells you all about your power supply what
connectors it has on it it tells
you um in Spanish a bunch of languages
that I can't even pronounce and oh in
English excellent English is there cool thanks for that all right and then we
have the power supply itself yeah that
was wow not a whole lot in terms of oh yeah there we go we've got screws four
screws so you can mount your power supply your case awesome so we take off
the little paper sleeve that holds on the little paper clam shell and there
like there's I unboxed an earthw a while back and it came in a similar package to
this and putting it back was like utterly hopeless I couldn't believe how
difficult it was to put back I mean most people when they're unboxing a power
supply aren't really too worried about when they have to box it back up but oh
was a nightmare anyway the finish on the true power new is just kind of your
standard black power supply finish it comes with a couple fingerprints on it
I'm not sure how much I like that but the reality of it is when you buy a
product somebody touched it at some point it was manufactured it was
packaged these things are just a reality of the computer industry and pretty much
any industry so on the side here we can find the basic specs it has a little
blue sticker that's really nice and then it has three 12vt rails at 2222 and 25
amps maximum power output each and then
here we go we can do a maximum of 54 amps combined on the three 12vt rails so
the total output power is 650 watts and
that pretty much covers what we got on the side we got all of our
certifications I mean that's something antech is very careful about they make
sure that all of their safety stuff is in line and yeah at the back okay we
don't have the the honeycomb mesh that seems like everyone else uses it's more
like a square mesh okay so that's a little bit different looking right there
and then on the other side we find a little stamp DCH logo and that's pretty
much all and then on the bottom we will find that 120 mm pwm Fen kind of a
stylish looking black sticker on it okay so you can see downwards into the power
supply if you can see that I'm not really sure if you can see that at all
now let's have a look at what connectors are included on the true power new 650
wat so oh I hate these reusable zip ties
if you've seen me complain about them before then you'll know that I complain
about them um you know what something I do want to point out about this power
supply that I don't really like is the sleeving you see how this is like a
colored sleeve and besides that you can see like right through it as soon as you
do anything with it it's actually you know what this one's a
better example there that is a black sleeve and that is very clearly full of
black and yellow cables actually The BFG GS series power supply I unboxed
recently even though it was a far more budget power supply and quite honestly
not as good quality a unit it did have better sleeving on it okay so the first
one we got antec always has reasonably long 24 pin power connectors because
they were the ones who pioneered the whole power supply on the bottom thing with the p180 so the8 pin and the 24 pin
they're always very careful about that so you got pretty good length 24 pin
power connector then you have a couple of uh four pin and eight pin power
connectors so once again same thing these are reasonably long so if you have
your power supply mounted in the bottom you should be able to reach up to your
uh to the top of the motherboard just fine with that eight pin and to the side
and or edge of the motherboard just fine with that 24 pin and here we
have oh I kind of like this I kind of like it when manufacturers do this this
way because so many people are actually
using two PCI Express connectors on One graphics card these days you can see ANC
has gone ahead and just thrown the two PCI E connectors an eight pin and a six
pin on one cable so it's as simple as plugging them in next to each other
which is so often where you're going to find it and running away with it like
that in fact if you do have two two uh two graphics cards you can put them as
much as this far part which looks like about four slots which is the most you're really going to see and you just
have to run one cable up to your graphics card Bravo I like that okay
next thing we've got here is a one set of Molex connectors okay so
this one has three four pin Molex
connectors just like that and then it has one additional floppy connector and
you can see the spacing sort of these are really long quite long you'll be
able to reach whatever it is you need to reach with them then we've got three
SATA connectors on one cable all right so two right angle ones and then one
straight straight one and these again are quite long and then we get into the
modular cables so the modular cables that are included will plug into
either here we go ah they will plug into
either these red modular plugs or they will plug into the black ones now the
black ones are on 12vt rail one and they are
for hold on a second I made a mistake oh
I made a mistake this is a four rail power supply I'm sorry they're rated at
22 22 25 and
25 sorry I just I saw this label here and I love it when they label things
this way because you can see here if you're plugging into these two you're
plugging into 12volt rail one if you're plugging into this one it's 12vt rail 3
and if you plug into this one it's 12vt rail 4 so they label that out for you
that's really nice and either one of these can accept either a six pin or an
8 Pin PCI Express or it could also
accept one of the hard drive plugs okay and these ones though are for hard
drives only okay so if I can just get this this
pack open then I would be able to show you what all the modular cables look
like okay now something that we that we
I notice right away about this is that there are more modular cables than there
are modular connectors on the power supply itself and what you can tell is
that ante unlike some manufacturers hasn't missed the point of a modular
power supply the point is that it gives you options so you can see that with the
uh with the two included three connector SATA cables you could actually plug in
nine hard drives to this power supply say you don't need any other Molex
connectors well there you go you just do that or say you have a bunch of Legacy
Molex devices and you need to use those so here we've got three MOX on that one
we've got three MOX on that one so you could plug in a potential of w that's a
lot yeah nine Molex devices as well as a floppy device and then for the final
connector we have here this is a red one and you've got another six pin or 6 plus
2 pin PCI Express gives you a ton of different options I'm not sure based on
the package that's included with the 650 W power supply why they've bothered to
include two that are compatible with PCIe I mean maybe you can buy additional
cables but even then you probably shouldn't be powering three gpus on a
650 W power supply either way thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
antech TP 650