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linkis in antech Suite they've got some
cases and some case fans and power supplies and my voice is totally totally
gone by now we're pretty far into the show I've done a lot of talking so we're
going to start with the fan so they've actually updated their fan Line This is
the true quiet Pro right here this one I've looked at before it's extremely
quiet truly and it's really nothing new
this is the true quiet LED 120 mm so
this guy right here has four LEDs looks kind of cool it's not quite as
sophisticated as the true quiet Pro so you can see it doesn't have that moving
outer frame so you don't have those larger blades but it is sort of a less
expensive option and as far as led fans go it's kind of hard to find high
quality ones and this would fill in that Gap this guy right here don't worry they
don't sound like that I got something caught in the blades this one right here
is the true quiet UFO so it comes in a variety of colors and what's cool about
them is that it's actually not a colored piece of plastic they are all clear
plastic but once you actually power them up they have colored LEDs that make them
glow the way that they do they have these extremely gorgeous silicon
isolating mounts here in the corner you can see how soft and supple and the
delicious those are you know kind of you okay this has gotten awkward we're going
to move along um next let's move over to
power supplies here I'll say nothing so you don't have to hold that
there so one of the show pieces here is the high current Pro 1300 Platinum now
they've got sort of a bunch of their other stuff High current Pro 1,000 Platinum which we've looked at which is
outstanding their High current gamer series High current Platinum Series but
this guy if you know anything about power supplies if you've ever read
review on Johnny Guru you'll know how impressive it is when I show you guys a
how clean the internals are you know you can't see any sort of mess no wires I
mean where are all the wires inside this thing right now check this out fully
modular power supply OC link which actually allows you to link up two of
these things for a total of 2.6 kilow of
power just for the lulls right in case you needed that I'm flip this over here
flip this over here hold on hold on it's not the impressive part yet bam check
that out when have you ever seen traces that
clean on the bottom of a power supply so an's whole thing about this guys is this
is state of the art manufacturing has all the features that you could possibly
want because of the 80 plus Platinum certification that means it's basically
up to 95% efficiency in places where they use 230 volt power and just yeah
awesome manufacturing on that one so let's move on to this guy p280 white
with a twist with window twist to be specific
so I've got a couple of looks like they put the demo back together wrong there's
two mismatched thumb screws you're going to end up with these ones with the plastic coating on the outside not the
other kind that I have here so what they've done with the black one is they
or with the white one rather is they've added a window they have kept the noise
isolating material the 270° opening door and they've left black on the case as an
accent so you still have the removable fan filter not a whole lot has changed
from the p280 just the color scheme has kind of that Stormtrooper look that
people seem to really really like and the side panel holy crap we finally have
an antech P something8 something serious
case with a side window I've been asking for this for
years years I've been asking for this and they've finally done it and to keep
in line with their philosophy of quiet Computing on the P2 PX 8X series of
cases uh they've gone with instead of just a regular window they've gone with
a clean look no rivets no no holes drilled so they're using a 3M Adhesive
to adhere the window to the side panel and they're actually this is all acrylic
so it goes the entire the entire length and width of the panel so what that
means is it adds some rigidity it adds an additional layer for sound dampening
and it just adds some sort of overall heft to the case that it otherwise
wouldn't have other than that we've got a bone stock p280 looks really sharp
with the white and black color scheme but it is time to move on to the next
thing so this one we're going to play a little game the game is called guess how
much this costs so in terms of features
this case over here is I'm going to move over this way this
case right here is the gx700 so in terms of the actual features
it's very similar to the M100 here which is a military green styled 1100
basically where they've changed the top fans to dual 120 so that it can
accommodate a radiator so this guy right here has a bunch of really cool stuff
going for it you got front USB 3 front USB 2 you got fan control with three
positions built in under like a sort of I don't know missile release sort of
system here it accommodates a top 240 mm
radiator these are kind of neat check this out so it's actually got little
Clips in the front that are not just for looks these will actually lock your
Optical Bay into place just by sliding it in here's something cool as well so
guys remember we're playing the the ho guess how much it cost game and I want
you to post what you think before I actually finish solid pieces of metal so
the front panel is actually metal not only on the 5 and 1/4 in Baye but also
this piece right here that attaches with four four thumb screws where you can
access the fan filter even this badge right here is metal and you can easily
pop it off and replace it with something else if you want let's go ahead and open
this case up so other than that it looks sort of pretty pretty standard I guess
seven expansion slots rear 120 mm fan
sorry let me get out of your way Diesel have a look at that I'm going to go ahead and pop this side panel off so you
got a rear fan mount it actually comes with three fans so two 140s in the top
and 120 in the back inside you find a
big CPU cutout you've got sort of the typical antech uh toolless sliders for
your drives so there's five of those included they mount either a 3 and 1
half or a 2 and2 inch Drive ATX compatibility sort of yeah about what
about what you'd expect for a gaming case so you know very meshy very cooling
um the price for this thing is
5950 think about that for a minute hold on let that process the price is 59.50
so antech is going after people who want uh a featur rich case and are willing to
compromise on things like how heavy it is and how much it costs antech has on
display in their Suite not just cases power supplies and all the stuff that we
know them for but also the antec mobile products lineup so we're going to start
with the pulse this is something that's quite new it comes in a wide variety of
different colors in fact what we have here in front of me isn't anywhere near
how many are available it's comes in at4 99 this is a Bluetooth 3.0 headset this
these are they are using leather for the top headband and one thing I'd like to
note is that in spite of the plastic design and construction up here they've
actually added more padding on the top headband than I'm typically used to
seeing and that coupled with the fact that it is extremely light makes it
comfortable even though I was actually I had to wait for my meeting for a little
while so I just put them on just for the lulls to see uh to see how long it to
see how long it would take before they'd get uncomfortable and I didn't actually have any issues with them whereas I
often even on my parot PHS I find them to be uncomfortable after about 15
minutes or so on the side you've got volume control as well as your pairing
button and you've got uh sorry what was
the size of the drivers in this
one yeah they're working on it okay so you've got a pass through using 3.5 mil
as well as a charging cable here so this is neat because when you're on an
airline and you can't use wireless you can use it with a 3.5 mil Jack and this
will give you about 6 hours of battery life so there's 's your button for
taking calls and this is pretty much what it looks like once you put it on I
think this is my color you know I'm a I'm an Autumn or you know whatever the
terminology is for that moving right along we've got the sp1 I've talked
about this before basically it's kind of like a jam box but more better um in
sort of yeah every possible way much better sound quality this right here has
no name and doesn't exist for all you
guys know here is the uh the pairing button on the back power in as well as a
3.5 mm in put and this thing is just
ridiculous I love it uh they've put much larger much higher quality drivers in
it's more of a proof of concept that the factory can produce this and anything
else and before we leave here I'm totally going to ask to leave with it
but I'm probably going to get shot down so love to have something like that this
is great for traveling with whereas this is the kind of thing that you could
actually legitimately put in your living room and use as just a a random sort of
Bluetooth speaker moving over here we've talked
about the iso we've talked about the DBS here I'll let's take this from you uh
this is the gain so this is kind of like the iso except that you're not tied to
the headphones that it comes with so this allows you to take any headphone or
headset and use it as a Bluetooth
headphone or headset very cool stuff so you got track skip volume up and down as
well as the ability to take calls and hang up calls it lasts for about 6 hours
on battery and it comes with free earbuds although the thing that I'm more
interested in inside this box is definitely this guy because it gives you the flexibility to to use the equipment
that you're more comfortable with versus having to deal with some kind of a
built-in solution so you have the earbuds you know you like you know you
prefer them then go ahead and stick with this next I'd like to move over into the
antech mobile products charging products so these are we've seen these before
everyone's seen these before but these ones are a little bit unique I mean anc's background is power supplies so
these have all of the industrial protections that they're typically accustomed to including with a computer
power supply you've got over voltage protection overheat protection over
current protection and unlike again so it comes down to that true power message
that they keep throwing at the power supplies it comes down
to actually delivering the say you know
the the amperage that they claim as well as the capacity that they claim with
these things so this guy right here is able to charge up to four devices
simultaneously and has 2 amps of output
so that means that you can actually charge your devices much faster diesel
in particular has a Galaxy Note 2 and he's found that the charging rates with
1 amp devices are absolutely anemic compared to what he's able to achieve
with a 2 Amp device so this guy right here is only two ports but is also
capable of two amps this guy right here is just a car charger so you know you
got all those protections that are included with it I mean another thing that antech brought up to us is they
have a a much more intelligent sort of design than we've seen with sort of the
the the Cheapo OEM ones for example it'll automatically turn off if you have
a cable plugged in but nothing actually plugged into the other end not all of
them do that it'll stop charging your device once it detects that it's
actually full so that puts less strain on your battery and reduces the risk of
any kind of an electrical problem because if a device is off then it's not
going to cause a problem so this is the power up 3000 so this is going to charge
your iPhone twice and this is the power up 6,000 which is going to charge your
iPhone four times and you can see for size actually I should probably be doing
an iPhone comparison if I'm going to bring up an iPhone while I talk about something that's a mobile prod and
iPhone related so it's about that big I think that pretty much wraps it up
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