yet another power supply unboxing but this one actually has something really
cool about it this is a feature that has been I I was a little skeptical about
when I first heard of it the cameraman is zoomed in on the right thing this is
power cache this is the first power supply we've seen this on the antech
true power Quattro 1200 watt this is a high performance capacitor on some of
the key connectors that delivers an extra power Reserve when where you need
it when you need it most so basically what that means is if you start to draw
a whole bunch of power from your 12volt rail all of a sudden that capacitor is
going to act as a bit of a buffer and make sure that instead of having a
little bit of a dip in the power you're actually just going to have solid
constant power so let's talk a little bit about the basic specs of this unit
before I get oh uh-oh I'm opening from the wrong side here that won't work at
all will it okay so it's a 1200 watt unit like I mentioned before it is part
of their true power Quattro series which also has an 850 and a 1,000 W power
supply but neither of those features this interesting new feature
okay and I'm just going to get up the spec table on this once we finally get
it oh yeah there we go okay so as I have
not mentioned yet this is an 80 plus silver design so that means that you're
going to see efficiency I believe it's upwards of 85% no matter what uh don't
quote me on that one though NVIDIA SLI ready so they've gone to the effort to
have it certified although I guarantee this will will run pretty much whatever
gpus you throw at it I don't think it's going to matter there's your basic specs
here so they're telling you it's dual quad core ready it has a pwm controlled
fan 6 12vt rails on this guy 11 SATA
connectors uh we can get to all of that once we get inside oh yeah there we go
there I finally found the oh they covered it with a sticker oh fail okay
well hopefully it's on the inside of the unit okay let's get this open and let's
have a look at what is included first of all you've got the product overview
which shows you the power supply itself as well as which connectors are included
thank you for that all right next you've got a huge beefy uh proprietary power
cable this cable this is one of those special ones that's usually included on
very high wattage power supplies then you have a whole bunch of modular cables
we'll have a look at those in a minute really nice foam packing this is nice
closed cell foam very very durable feeling all right then we get the true
power Quattro 1200 watt it's oh man
that's heavy wow okay oh hold on four black screws so you
can attach it to your case excellent okay so let's put this open here like
the rest of the Quattro series The Quattro 1200 does feature Racing Stripes
which as everybody knows does make your computer go much faster okay see the
racing stripes so it'll go way faster okay let's start at the back of the unit
so it has an 80 mm fan and there's your there's your power input there's no
power switch so if you actually want to completely power power it down you will have to pull the plug all right then on
this side we've got a stamped antech logo as well as a couple little ventilation holes all right over at the
front we've got a just a complete Grill so that's where most of your air intake
is coming from we've got like a semi modular interface on this particular
power supply so that means a lot of the cables are pre-attached but you do have
some modular cables in case you don't want to completely clutter up your case
oh here we'll find the specs so as we mentioned before there are six 12vt
rails on this power supply each of which is rated for a whopping 38 amps wow okay
and then so the 12vt rails combined Max load is 12200 Watts so you could
actually completely load this power supply up to 1200 watts just on the 12vt
rail it's a lot of 12s okay so then let's have a look at what connectors we
have included on the Quattro
1200 if I could get the zip or the twist tie off then I would be able to show you
okay first of all we have a four pin power connector which has like a a
pretty cool looking little boot on it that will make it I guess look nicer
more than anything else okay cool next
we have all right wow there's a lot of
there's a lot of connectors on here this is going to actually take me like a just
a brief moment to sort out here sorry about that and okay so we will discover
that the 4 plus 4 pin connector or eight pin connector which it includes two of
each has has this uh this capacitor feature on it so all of your CPU power
is going to have that little buffer on it and you can use this with a
motherboard that requires two8 PIN connectors okay so we got that out of
the way next we
have all right next wow these are these
are great Okay so we've got two PCI Express connectors here each on one
cable I actually really like this cuz so many high-end video cards these days use
two connectors as it is so you can got you've got as much as an 8 plus six pin
connector on each of these cables two of which are pre-attached to the
motherboard or to the power supply so I guess they're assuming that if you're
running a 1200 W power supply you better have at least two graphics cards in your
system and they both do have the capacitor on it as well so that pretty
oh yeah no we've actually got one preattached SATA cable which
includes three connectors and then we have one pre-attached Molex cable that
includes three connectors and one floppy connector all right in terms of modular
cables we have uh a few more included
here and actually oh wow almost every
cable on this power supply does include their their capacitor feature I didn't
actually realize that U no maybe it's
not all of them okay so the modular Molex and SATA ones do not and the
modular PCI Express ones do and then
everything attached to the power supply itself except the 24 pin does not
actually you know what I'm not going to bother undoing these okay you've got two more modular PCI Express cables okay
Each of which is going to connect up to two PCI Express connectors all right one
6 plus2 and one six pin and then you've got what appears to be H okay one two oh
three more SATA okay excellent and then
you have two more MOX cables that look
just like the other on so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the antech
Quattro 1200 100 watt power supply