today we're going to be having a look at NC's Uber EST power supply ever this is
the high current Pro 1200 watt it is an
SLI ready yeah duh SLI ready 80 plus
gold certified 1200 wat power supply so
the first thing we're going to do is start ripping open the packaging and
then we're going to show you the packaging then we're going to take off
the box and then we're going to show you the product itself actually I lied today
we're going to open the box right away because I'm actually really excited to
see this thing this is from everything that I've
seen pretty much the king of power supplies right now all right the first
thing we're going to find inside is the hcp 1200 product overview most of the
information here appears to be already on the outside of the box so um you know
you can decide whether you want to read the documentation inside the box or the
documentation outside the box now anex packaging I have to admit felt a little
flimsy to me initially but now I can see
why they're doing that the reason that it felt that way is because they've
actually packed it using environmentally friendly cardboard so they've gone with
two double walled layers of cardboard on all sides of the power supply it fits
together like a little puzzle so if we go ahead and pull the whole thing out
you can see that's how it goes together and so realistically it's going to
provide adequate protection ction versus something like foam but it's also a lot
less damaging to the environment CU it doesn't take so long to break down in a
landfill or wherever else it happens to be it's also completely recyclable so it
shouldn't end up in a landfill I guess that's uh an equally valid point all
right first thing let's do accessories we've got the power cable which as you
can see is thick this thing is huge I'm
just going to try and find uh the yes 14
AWG but it is a normal Power cable so it
doesn't use that special connector that we saw on the Quattro 1200 OC all right
we've got four black screws for mounting it in your case I like those little
touches black screws just have slightly
better fit and finish overall when you're doing a really nice build than
silver ones especially if you're using a black case which most of the high-end
ones these days are all right in here we have some modular cables I don't know if
I mentioned already but this power supply does have cable management or
modular cables all right so why don't we show
the yeah let's no let's show the power supply first and then we'll show the
modular cables I did want to cover some of the stuff that ante has to say for
themselves on the box here so I'm just going to put the box back together and
show you guys this side first all right so it has Universal input that means
there's no little switch all right it has eight 6 plus two pin connectors so
that means up to four high-end graphics cards it's ult multicore ready High
current output 30 amps time 8 so it has eight 12vt rails that are rated at 30
amps for their overcurrent protection mind you I've seen this power supply
tested providing up to 40 amps on one rail so it looks like they've built in a
fair bit of wiggle room for any kind of uh improvements to Hardware that make it
draw more power on one rail like say for example even higher-end graphics cards
that are coming all right uh oh right 128 volt okay that's what I said and
then we've also got two 8 Pin power connectors so that means that we're
certified for EPS 12vt 2.92 one of them
is a 4 plus4 and the other one is a straight 8 Pin so you can run
motherboards like the VGA sr2 we've got industrial grade protection 880 mm pwm
fan don't be afraid of the 80 mm fan antech actually specifically calls out
on the other side of their box the way that they have the profile set up for
this fan is such that up until you hit about 50 to 60% load it's going to stay
at like pretty much NE negligible 500 to
1,000 RPM that is not going to be Audible and by the time you're ramping
up to the point where I mean remember 50% to 60% load on this power supply is
600 to 800 watts we're we're talking
like major major power draws so by the time you're actually pulling 1,000 Watts
out of the power supply and it starts to get loud there's probably something else
in your rig that's making noise too it's rated for continuous power like every
single antec power supply on the market not Peak power although I have
seen I have actually seen firsthand
experiences with this power supply pulling eight or providing 1,800 watts
of power so uh never mind continuous power 1200 watt it can provide a lot
more than that active power factor correction okay we've got Japanese
branded capacitors we've got the uh uh
oh yeah eup 201010 certification so that's pretty cool 28 pin CPU I already
talked about that hybrid Cable Management talked about that and DC to
DC architecture which is mostly interesting to uh PSU Geeks but what it
basically means is that the power for the 5vt and 3.3 volt rails actually
comes from the 12volt rail just being
adapted rather than having dedicated circuitry for those it's a it's it is a
good approach there's a reason they put it on the side of the box so let's see
the power supply itself it actually kind of reminds me of uh some of their other
high-end products so the antech logo is similar to the one you find on like the
1200 gaming case all right I don't know whether it's going to be visible in your
case depending on how you mount it yeah probably actually so you'll either see
it this way or if you mount it the other way around in your case you're going to
see all of those fancy specs so actually I want the cameraman to come have a look
you can see all 12vt rails are here they are all rated at a maximum of 30 amps
and a minimum of 0 amps you can see that the 12vt rails combined are capable of
1,188 Watts or 99 amps and then they've
actually broken out the 5 Vol 3.3 volt and the other sort of less important
rails into a separate little chart here
we've also got the 80 plus gold certification here as well as a couple
different languages for all the information that we find all right let's
move around to the side so you can see antech has cleverly made it so that no
matter how you mount this power supply in your case whether it's this way or oh
no okay well it looks like antec really intends for you to mount it this way
because it's going to be right side up for your sticker you're going to be able to see this and you're going to hide the
sticker with all of the little random information on it on the bottom so
that's probably going to be optimal here at the back we find a oh okay so that's
an 80 mm San sanoi fan Sano Deni fans
are renowned for being the highest quality especially when you're under
bolting they're not going to get any ticking or buzzing noises that are going
to be bothersome so I would expect this power supply to be very very quiet up
until the point where the fan really starts ramping up we've got a power
switch as well as our power cable input here and then around to the other side
we've got a Grill at the front you can actually kind of see inside I'm going to
try and get you guys some more light to see in there but this power supply uses
a dual PCB design so there's actually a PCB on the top of the unit as well as a
PCB on the bottom of the unit that gives them a lot more room to do soldering
rather than having one PCB at the bottom and it also allows them to effectively
lay out the components internally so there's very little air resistance for
the 80 mil fan so anc's philosophy is that with an efficient internal layout
you don't need to really pump the RPMs up on the fan in order to draw a lot of
air flow through and cool the components you can actually see clear through to
the to my fingers on the other side can you see that through the camera yeah you
can so that's why even though it's spinning at a low RPM it's able to
effectively move air through the unit so let's have a look at the pre-attached
cables and then we will go ahead and take a look at those modular cables as
well these are a bit of a challenge for me but I'll figure it
out yeah there we go okay sorry so the
first bundle is going to have our 20 plus four pin that is a 24 pin connector
okay you can see it's actually sleeved um pretty nicely okay antech sleeving
hasn't been my favorite sometimes in the past but uh cuz I mean especially on the
Quattro 1200 they had those uh those capacitors here so they had like kind of
weird uh lumps on all the cables so this is quite a bit better all right next
we've got the eight pin as well as the 4
plus 4 pin so that's either dual eight pin or single eight pin plus a four pin
all right and then oh we've got another bundle here so it has quite a lot of
pre-attached cables and I hear people criticizing that sometimes however I'm
going to give you guys a bit of a different philosophy on what I think of
lots of pre-attached cables on a 1200 W power supply because I think it's just
fine because if you have a 1200 W power supply Fly and You're not running at
least a 24 pin a single eight pin and
then oh man this is taking me forever to remove I'm sorry guys and then a couple
of high-end graphics cards so four 6 plus two pins then you probably don't
need a 1200 W power supply because if you're not running two graphics cards
there's pretty much no justification for it whatsoever so in this other bundle
we're going to find a 6 plus2 pin another 6 plus2 pin once again these are
fully sleeved even the in between lengths okay and then we have another 6
plus2 pin as well as a 6 plus2 pin I also want to take a second and show you
guys how ante labels those 8 12vt rails
so you can see that the 12vt rail is clearly labeled on the side of the
connector for these PCIe all right so we've got actually up to 30 amps
according to the rated specification for the power supply per graphics card
because every 6 plus2 pin harness okay
so see each each two are actually on their own 12vt Rail and that also goes
for the modular connectors which I'll show you in a minute so the other
pre-attached cables once again I don't mind this because it's only uh three
Molex odds are you need at least a couple MOX for any kind of build that
you're doing and then three SATA cables so after that we've got modular cables
and I'm going to show you actually something that I really like about this power supply in just a moment so the
first one we got here we go so you can see this one's actually not labeled in
terms of the 12vt rail you know what I should check oh yeah yeah look look look
even the 24 pin as well as the uh 8 Pin
and the 4 plus 4 pin also have labels and each CPU connector has its own
12volt rail as well all right uh here we
go so these are not labeled however they are labeled on the power supply
themselves so 12v 7 12v 8 all right so
those are where you're going to be able to plug in up to an additional four PCIe
6 plus 2 pin connectors so that is to say you can have four GTX 580s running
off of this power supply with no sweat
whatsoever pretty crazy all right so
here we go we've got a SATA connector
here we've got a SATA here we got SATA
here all right let's have a look at what we got included so let's say you're doing a fairly modern build you're not
running a ton of Molex devices you have up to three more modular connectors so
you can plug in another three of these SATA cables which each have three so
that is up to 12 SATA devices so you could run you know Blu-ray Drive DVD
drive and then like a 10 Drive rate array or something directly off the
power supply with zero adapters if you so desired if you don't need so much
SATA you've also got two MOX modular cables so ante is giving you the option
to install whatever it is that you need one of them is three Molex and the other
one is three Mox and one floppy connector so if you actually still need
one of these yes they have provided one on one of the modular cables now here's
a really cool thing let's say you've only got two graphics cards but you need
all 12 SATA connectors and you need all n nine Molex connectors well here's a
neat one you can take these ones out and then
you can go ahead and plug a Molex one
into here look at that bam that simple so that also gives you
the ability to run peripherals off another 12volt rail because the way the
power supply is set up by default okay I'm going to try and find you a mo X
yeah okay these ones aren't labeled and these aren't labeled but all of the
peripheral connectors so the ones that are pre-attached SATA and Molex as well
as all three of the uh HDD labeled
modular connectors are running off 12vt 4 now remember that's 30 amps that's a
lot for water cooling pumps fans hard drives basic stuff you'd have to have a
lot of stuff hooked up in order to trip that 30 amp OC GP however I actually
recently did a build with 24 hard drives and I found when I initially booted it
up this was with a Quattro 1200 watt when I initially booted it up I was
getting an error the system was shutting down and what I was able to do with that
one was I had to adapt and use a different 12volt rail to power some of
the hard drives so if you are powering like 24 hard drives and then some other
stuff sorry about that we reached maximum video length which means I
better finish this up pretty quick so anyway I had to use an adap with that
one suffice to say I would have been able to just take a cable and plug it
into the PCIe connector on this one and that would have taken care of it for Me
by putting some of the hard drives on a separate 12volt rail so that when they
all spin up at the same time and draw a bunch of juice it doesn't trigger the
ocp so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the antec high current Pro
1200 watt continuous power 80 plus gold
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