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today i have a brand new product in a brand new product line from antec this

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is their high current gamer series and i have the 620 watt power supply i

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actually don't even have all the details about the other products in this line

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but let's say it's going to be like a huge refresh and this high current

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series is going to be really big moving forward so this particular unit as you

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might have already guessed is a 620 watt unit it features 80 plus bronze

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certification which is pretty good for our mainstream power supply and then

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over here we will find a bunch of other bullet points about this unit so it is

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rated in continuous power like all ntec power supplies that means your 620 watt

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is not peak it's not under ideal low

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temperature conditions that's your continuous power that it can provide it

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has six slash eight so that is six plus two pin pci express graphics card

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capability industrial grade protections that's your ocps and other protection to

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make sure that it doesn't short out it doesn't uh burn anything out if it's

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drawing too much power somehow so here we go here we go here we go over current

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protection over voltage protection ShortCircuit protection as well as over power

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protection all japanese brand capacitors you've got a 130 millimeter dual ball

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bearing fan so that's for better reliability and let's start to get this thing open

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this is something i've actually like i really like it's it encourages me

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about the future we've got uh eco-friendly packaging and this is

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actually really smart it's not just a matter of we took like some

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cardboard and like put it around it this is smart so they've actually got

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interlocking pieces of cardboard and you can see that this is dual

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dual wall cardboard so this stuff is stiff i mean

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you know what this is a sample i actually have to give back and text

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visiting but i'm just going to break it anyway look at that that's the kind of

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impact it takes to break this piece and you can see even on the other side i

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didn't make it all the way through if i want to break through two of them

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okay so i've broken the top one i didn't even make it to the second one not to

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mention you've got your outer carton box so that's that's how strong it is and

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it's 100 recyclable which is pretty cool we've got a power cord

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and then we have the power supply unit oh no we got screws and then we have the

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power supply unit itself and look they followed everything look at that there's a little spot in the back for the switch

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so it doesn't get any pressure on it during shipping so that's how the whole

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thing goes together very smart i love that

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sorry i know you know you open enough boxes and you start to kind of gush

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about smart packaging i know it's pathetic okay here we go

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so this is the high current 620 watt comes in a

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nice little bag which uh according to antec all of the packaging is recyclable

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so i'm assuming the bag can be recycled somehow as well i believe it appears to

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be one of those like like sort of quality paper bags i don't think it's actually got any plastic in it

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just try and get this undone so let's have a look at the connectors first why

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don't we i think i usually do connectors last but we're going to mix things up a

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little bit so we got our 24 pin power connector which is fully sleeved all the

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way into the housing okay so that is a 20 plus four so you can remove those

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four pins if you're running a very old motherboard

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or a mini itx board for that matter we've got a four plus four pin CPU power

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connector we don't have two of those remember this is still a mainstream product so it's for

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so while it may be targeted at gamers it's not necessarily targeted at gamers

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who are using a evga sr2 motherboard with dual xeons and quad graphics cards

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so you shouldn't be running a 620 watt power supply anyway

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if that's the case we've got two pci express six plus two

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pins so depending how the pci express standards go on upcoming graphics cards

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you can support dual six pin a six plus eight or even dual eight pin pci express

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let's have a look here at what we've got in terms of peripheral expansion so

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let's look at molex first we've got two individual wires

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so these each feature three molex connectors and then the

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other one features one lone floppy connector just in case you do still need

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a floppy drive for some reason and then we have six SATA connectors and those

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are on two separates so what you can do is you can run this one up to your

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optical drives you can run the other one down to your hard drives and ssds and

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call it a day paint finish on it is quite nice it's not glossy so it's not

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going to be a total fingerprint magnet you can clearly see that here and the

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overall look of the power supply is pretty nice actually there we go so we

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got some antec branding on the side nice little sticker we've got an antec stamp

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on the side of it as well just talks a little bit about what it is 620 watt

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continuous power that's actually kind of a nice looking fan that's one two three it's a nine

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bladed fan i can't see any really anything really about it

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there's nothing on the hub but uh you know sometimes you can tell just looking

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at a fan if it's really cheap like you can just see the blades are nice and thick all that stuff and tech design

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continuous power since 1986 so the company's about as old as i am and here

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we go specs so those are on the top of the unit we

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can provide up to 48 amps on the single 12 volt rail so you can see there is

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only one 12 volt rail here and it doesn't really say a whole lot else

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about it here aha there we go maximum 12 volt load is 576 watts so you can

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provide the majority but not quite all of the power from this psu on the 12

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volt rail let's go around and have a look at i think we saw the front so

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let's just look at the back of the unit before we wrap this up we got a power switch as well as a plug for your power

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and that pretty much does it thank you for

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checking out my unboxing oh one more thing ah i forgot to show

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this side of the box okay so this is the high current gamer

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series and they're talking a little bit about what it takes to make that fan

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ramp up so here's a little graph of how much load there is on the power supply

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versus how much RPM you know how i always talk about how you should use a

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power supply that's going to provide you know 50 to 60 percent load to your

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system under load so that means with this power supply if your system draws

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under load about 350 watts to 375 watts

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from the wall this fan is never going to ramp up it's going to be super silent and you're

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going to be really happy as soon as you get up to you know 75 percent or so load

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well then you're going to start seeing a thousand to 1 300 rpms it might get a

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little bit loud but it can handle it it's fully capable of it so that's a

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pretty good little graph to refer to that was all