today i have a brand new product in a brand new product line from antec this
is their high current gamer series and i have the 620 watt power supply i
actually don't even have all the details about the other products in this line
but let's say it's going to be like a huge refresh and this high current
series is going to be really big moving forward so this particular unit as you
might have already guessed is a 620 watt unit it features 80 plus bronze
certification which is pretty good for our mainstream power supply and then
over here we will find a bunch of other bullet points about this unit so it is
rated in continuous power like all ntec power supplies that means your 620 watt
is not peak it's not under ideal low
temperature conditions that's your continuous power that it can provide it
has six slash eight so that is six plus two pin pci express graphics card
capability industrial grade protections that's your ocps and other protection to
make sure that it doesn't short out it doesn't uh burn anything out if it's
drawing too much power somehow so here we go here we go here we go over current
protection over voltage protection ShortCircuit protection as well as over power
protection all japanese brand capacitors you've got a 130 millimeter dual ball
bearing fan so that's for better reliability and let's start to get this thing open
this is something i've actually like i really like it's it encourages me
about the future we've got uh eco-friendly packaging and this is
actually really smart it's not just a matter of we took like some
cardboard and like put it around it this is smart so they've actually got
interlocking pieces of cardboard and you can see that this is dual
dual wall cardboard so this stuff is stiff i mean
you know what this is a sample i actually have to give back and text
visiting but i'm just going to break it anyway look at that that's the kind of
impact it takes to break this piece and you can see even on the other side i
didn't make it all the way through if i want to break through two of them
okay so i've broken the top one i didn't even make it to the second one not to
mention you've got your outer carton box so that's that's how strong it is and
it's 100 recyclable which is pretty cool we've got a power cord
and then we have the power supply unit oh no we got screws and then we have the
power supply unit itself and look they followed everything look at that there's a little spot in the back for the switch
so it doesn't get any pressure on it during shipping so that's how the whole
thing goes together very smart i love that
sorry i know you know you open enough boxes and you start to kind of gush
about smart packaging i know it's pathetic okay here we go
so this is the high current 620 watt comes in a
nice little bag which uh according to antec all of the packaging is recyclable
so i'm assuming the bag can be recycled somehow as well i believe it appears to
be one of those like like sort of quality paper bags i don't think it's actually got any plastic in it
just try and get this undone so let's have a look at the connectors first why
don't we i think i usually do connectors last but we're going to mix things up a
little bit so we got our 24 pin power connector which is fully sleeved all the
way into the housing okay so that is a 20 plus four so you can remove those
four pins if you're running a very old motherboard
or a mini itx board for that matter we've got a four plus four pin CPU power
connector we don't have two of those remember this is still a mainstream product so it's for
so while it may be targeted at gamers it's not necessarily targeted at gamers
who are using a evga sr2 motherboard with dual xeons and quad graphics cards
so you shouldn't be running a 620 watt power supply anyway
if that's the case we've got two pci express six plus two
pins so depending how the pci express standards go on upcoming graphics cards
you can support dual six pin a six plus eight or even dual eight pin pci express
let's have a look here at what we've got in terms of peripheral expansion so
let's look at molex first we've got two individual wires
so these each feature three molex connectors and then the
other one features one lone floppy connector just in case you do still need
a floppy drive for some reason and then we have six SATA connectors and those
are on two separates so what you can do is you can run this one up to your
optical drives you can run the other one down to your hard drives and ssds and
call it a day paint finish on it is quite nice it's not glossy so it's not
going to be a total fingerprint magnet you can clearly see that here and the
overall look of the power supply is pretty nice actually there we go so we
got some antec branding on the side nice little sticker we've got an antec stamp
on the side of it as well just talks a little bit about what it is 620 watt
continuous power that's actually kind of a nice looking fan that's one two three it's a nine
bladed fan i can't see any really anything really about it
there's nothing on the hub but uh you know sometimes you can tell just looking
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
continuous power since 1986 so the company's about as old as i am and here
we go specs so those are on the top of the unit we
can provide up to 48 amps on the single 12 volt rail so you can see there is
only one 12 volt rail here and it doesn't really say a whole lot else
about it here aha there we go maximum 12 volt load is 576 watts so you can
provide the majority but not quite all of the power from this psu on the 12
volt rail let's go around and have a look at i think we saw the front so
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
and that pretty much does it thank you for
checking out my unboxing oh one more thing ah i forgot to show
this side of the box okay so this is the high current gamer
series and they're talking a little bit about what it takes to make that fan
ramp up so here's a little graph of how much load there is on the power supply
versus how much RPM you know how i always talk about how you should use a
power supply that's going to provide you know 50 to 60 percent load to your
system under load so that means with this power supply if your system draws
under load about 350 watts to 375 watts
from the wall this fan is never going to ramp up it's going to be super silent and you're
going to be really happy as soon as you get up to you know 75 percent or so load
well then you're going to start seeing a thousand to 1 300 rpms it might get a
little bit loud but it can handle it it's fully capable of it so that's a
pretty good little graph to refer to that was all