so today I'm going to be unboxing a very special product from antech this is the
antech Quattro 1200 wat power supply but
there's something a little bit different and special about this one you see this
yellow stripe down the packaging that says overclocking version well the
reason it has that on it is that in
aside from all the other features it has just like the other Quattro 1200 which
means it's 80 plus silver and if I can find the logo yep there it is y runs
very quiet as you can see they've got their quiet Computing logo on there let
me see what else you know what why don't we run through everything else and then I'll save the surprise of why it's an
overclocking Edition for later so it has it is SLI certified and it better be at
12200 Watts it's designed to support three gpus and dual and quad core and
six core now that those are out so the packaging is a little bit outdated
computer industry moves so fast let's see what else do we have six 12vt rails
Advanced hybrid Cable Management which means it has modular cables and then it
also has industrial grade protection circuitry to prevent damage resulting
from short circuits or over voltages okay and then what else do we
have here you know it's funny that they don't actually list one of the key
features of this particular unit which is the power cache feature you can see
it's actually covered by the by the overclocking label power cache so
that is is basically capacitors in line
with the power supply cables themselves that will compensate for any little dips
and voltage from the from the power supply and you're basically drawing
power that's stored in the capacitor rather than while you wait for the power
supply to catch up and get back up to the right
voltage now I should probably I should probably mention at
this time that this isn't going to be just a regular unboxing this is also
going to be a giveaway we are going to give away the 1200 watt antech Quattro
power supply and there's a special requirement we are
not going to give away this power supply which will be unboxed at the time of
giving it away until lonus Tech tips my
channel here reaches 10,000 subscribers
so tell your friends to subscribe and once they do we're going to do a random
draw for the antech Quattro 1200 watt OC
Edition so here it is the power cache a high performance capacitor delivers an
extra power Reserve where you need it when you need it most all right let's
get this box open if I can figure out
how to get the Box open and we'll have a look at the power supply itself things
like the finish the cables that are attached to it although I can tell you
right now the cables attached to it are going to be well Lots okay the first
thing we find is an antech product overview where they show you the power
supply and the cables attached to it in a bunch of different
languages next we have a thick this is
let's see if I can find it quickly enough here to do this on
camera uh okay it's rated
for 300 volts 14 AWG power connector
using the uh the non-standard computer power supply connector so this baby is
designed to draw a lot of power modular
cables why don't we have a look at those in a minute after we've gone through the
uh the Perma cables the the pre-attached ones okay do we have anything else okay
do not eat this this is also in there
don't eat it it's not a snack all right and then we've also got some screws
don't eat those either black screws little touches like that I really
appreciate you know when you're building a system with a 1200 W power supply I'm
going to go out on a limb and I'm going to say you might care what it looks like
about the little touches so antech includes some black screws so that when
you see the back of your case you're not going to see little silver screws and
then a black finish on your power supply which is just just awful just awful okay
so here's the power supply itself we've got a red go faster set of racing
stripes on here with our 1,200 uh markings which means that it can go up
to 1200 mph with these Racing Stripes
next we've got some vents on the side as well as a stamped I'm going to get that
box out of the way stamped antech logo on there uh looks like a serial number
there we are hopefully you can read that next we go around to the front where we
have some grills so we got your standard honeycomb grills as well as your modular
connector interface then we have all of our standard attached connectors now
while I would sometimes criticize a power supply manufacturer for putting so
many cables pre-attached on a modular power supply I mean it's a 1,200 wat
power supply if you're not connecting a few things to it then I mean you you
better re-evaluate your build okay then we we' got the uh label here so
hopefully you can read all of those specs there I'm not sure if you're going to be able to in HD don't forget to
change to HD if you can't read them then we've got the little overclocking
sticker there so let's get to what makes this overclocking we've got our standard
80m fan all the Quattro series use that at this time then we've got our power
plug our LED and two knobs so these
knobs are actually adjustable knobs so
you can adjust the 12v rail to be up to
12.6 or as low as 11.8 Vol so for some
particularly extreme overclockers who want to just have that much more control
over the output of their power supply that's a very cool option it also gives
you the option to control the fan speed so from minimum to maximum here I
actually didn't know what this knob did until I opened it so I'm glad I did this
unboxing all right next next let's have a look at the cables that are attached
here so I'm going to get the power supply sitting right there like a good
little power supply oh the knobs kind of make it hard to put down like that I
mean obviously that won't affect the product in regular use and it's only
really going to impact you if you unbox it when you when you get it but I mean
most people I don't think do that I think most people are not like me and
they actually just use their computer hardware okay well first thing we've got
is the 24 pin connector we got a nice long cable on here so you'll be able to
reach wherever you need to go and it also has a little um little booty on it
not like like booty but like boot boot
around it so that's to make it look a little bit nicer I guess when you're
bending it over to where it needs to go gets rid of some of the little
multicolored that goes on on the 24 pin
all right next we have oh this is hard to uh this is hard
to organize actually so many cables okay
next we we have PCI Express yes so these
will be perfect for fmy which was just
released yesterday so we have four PCI
Express connectors so you can see without actually attaching any modular
connectors we have four including the um
Power cache feature okay we have a six
plus two pin here and then attached
directly to it we have an additional six pen six pin so if you're running any GPU
such as a fery that requires an eight and a six pin right together you only
have to run one cable to each GPU so that means you could actually hook you
could hook up four fermes without
without actually um wow that's that's
wow ridiculous so uh yeah you've got a lot of expansion options right out of
the box with this power supply without even making any changes to it okay next
we have also featuring power cache a 4
plus4 or 8 Pin CPU connector then we have just an 8 Pin CPU
connector so you're going to be able to plug in most any board that requires
well tons of PCI Express connectors tons of8 pin connectors and then for the
pre-attached cables because you know you never know what someone even using a
1200 W power supply is going to be using for SATA devices I mean hey they might
just be using a high-end SSD and a Blu-Ray so we've only got three SATA
cables pre-attached we've got nice spacing on there I kind of like this uh
what they've done with the sleeving here I wish they were using a a sleeving
that's not so easy to see through but I like these plastic caps that they got on
them all right so why don't we have a look at the modular cables before we
wrap this up
okay here we are so next we have a couple more PCI
Express connector seriously you're going to be able to like single slot water
cool as many fmes as you you can put on that new EVGA uh what is it sr2 I think
it is super record 2 that that dual um dual GF Town 7 PCI Express lot
motherboard anyway so there that plugs into the two red spots on the back of
the power supply and you have another two 6 plus two and another two six pins
that's for a total of what is that 12
PCI Express connectors on here then we have some more expansion options in
terms of the Molex and SATA connectors so I've got two more modular cables for
Molex each of them sporting three Molex connectors and
these are nice and long too that's really good and then one of them
actually has a floppy connector just in case you still need one of those all
right and then for SATA they've seems to have given us a little bit more in terms
of SATA just because obviously it's a it's a newer standard so yeah you can
see we've got three SATA cables of varying length so they've given us one
that has just two SATA uh SATA connectors on it that's really
handy if you don't want to just randomly run extra cables if you've only got two
drives and then we have two that have three so you've got pretty much any
options that you would need covered by the modular cable so thank you for
checking out my unboxing and product overview on the Quattro 1200 W power
supply don't forget when I reach 10,000 subscribers you can have a chance to win
the Quattro 1200 wat power supply