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today we're going to be having a look at NC's Uber EST power supply ever this is

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the high current Pro 1200 watt it is an

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SLI ready yeah duh SLI ready 80 plus

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gold certified 1200 wat power supply so

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the first thing we're going to do is start ripping open the packaging and

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then we're going to show you the packaging then we're going to take off

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the box and then we're going to show you the product itself actually I lied today

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we're going to open the box right away because I'm actually really excited to

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see this thing this is from everything that I've

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seen pretty much the king of power supplies right now all right the first

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thing we're going to find inside is the hcp 1200 product overview most of the

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information here appears to be already on the outside of the box so um you know

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you can decide whether you want to read the documentation inside the box or the

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documentation outside the box now anex packaging I have to admit felt a little

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flimsy to me initially but now I can see

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why they're doing that the reason that it felt that way is because they've

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actually packed it using environmentally friendly cardboard so they've gone with

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two double walled layers of cardboard on all sides of the power supply it fits

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together like a little puzzle so if we go ahead and pull the whole thing out

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you can see that's how it goes together and so realistically it's going to

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provide adequate protection ction versus something like foam but it's also a lot

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less damaging to the environment CU it doesn't take so long to break down in a

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landfill or wherever else it happens to be it's also completely recyclable so it

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shouldn't end up in a landfill I guess that's uh an equally valid point all

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right first thing let's do accessories we've got the power cable which as you

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can see is thick this thing is huge I'm

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just going to try and find uh the yes 14

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AWG but it is a normal Power cable so it

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doesn't use that special connector that we saw on the Quattro 1200 OC all right

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we've got four black screws for mounting it in your case I like those little

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touches black screws just have slightly

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better fit and finish overall when you're doing a really nice build than

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silver ones especially if you're using a black case which most of the high-end

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ones these days are all right in here we have some modular cables I don't know if

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I mentioned already but this power supply does have cable management or

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modular cables all right so why don't we show

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the yeah let's no let's show the power supply first and then we'll show the

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modular cables I did want to cover some of the stuff that ante has to say for

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themselves on the box here so I'm just going to put the box back together and

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show you guys this side first all right so it has Universal input that means

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there's no little switch all right it has eight 6 plus two pin connectors so

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that means up to four high-end graphics cards it's ult multicore ready High

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current output 30 amps time 8 so it has eight 12vt rails that are rated at 30

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amps for their overcurrent protection mind you I've seen this power supply

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tested providing up to 40 amps on one rail so it looks like they've built in a

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fair bit of wiggle room for any kind of uh improvements to Hardware that make it

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draw more power on one rail like say for example even higher-end graphics cards

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that are coming all right uh oh right 128 volt okay that's what I said and

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then we've also got two 8 Pin power connectors so that means that we're

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certified for EPS 12vt 2.92 one of them

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is a 4 plus4 and the other one is a straight 8 Pin so you can run

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motherboards like the VGA sr2 we've got industrial grade protection 880 mm pwm

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fan don't be afraid of the 80 mm fan antech actually specifically calls out

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on the other side of their box the way that they have the profile set up for

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this fan is such that up until you hit about 50 to 60% load it's going to stay

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at like pretty much NE negligible 500 to

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1,000 RPM that is not going to be Audible and by the time you're ramping

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up to the point where I mean remember 50% to 60% load on this power supply is

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600 to 800 watts we're we're talking

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like major major power draws so by the time you're actually pulling 1,000 Watts

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out of the power supply and it starts to get loud there's probably something else

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in your rig that's making noise too it's rated for continuous power like every

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single antec power supply on the market not Peak power although I have

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seen I have actually seen firsthand

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experiences with this power supply pulling eight or providing 1,800 watts

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of power so uh never mind continuous power 1200 watt it can provide a lot

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more than that active power factor correction okay we've got Japanese

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branded capacitors we've got the uh uh

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oh yeah eup 201010 certification so that's pretty cool 28 pin CPU I already

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talked about that hybrid Cable Management talked about that and DC to

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DC architecture which is mostly interesting to uh PSU Geeks but what it

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basically means is that the power for the 5vt and 3.3 volt rails actually

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comes from the 12volt rail just being

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adapted rather than having dedicated circuitry for those it's a it's it is a

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good approach there's a reason they put it on the side of the box so let's see

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the power supply itself it actually kind of reminds me of uh some of their other

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high-end products so the antech logo is similar to the one you find on like the

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1200 gaming case all right I don't know whether it's going to be visible in your

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case depending on how you mount it yeah probably actually so you'll either see

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it this way or if you mount it the other way around in your case you're going to

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see all of those fancy specs so actually I want the cameraman to come have a look

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you can see all 12vt rails are here they are all rated at a maximum of 30 amps

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and a minimum of 0 amps you can see that the 12vt rails combined are capable of

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1,188 Watts or 99 amps and then they've

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actually broken out the 5 Vol 3.3 volt and the other sort of less important

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rails into a separate little chart here

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we've also got the 80 plus gold certification here as well as a couple

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different languages for all the information that we find all right let's

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move around to the side so you can see antech has cleverly made it so that no

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matter how you mount this power supply in your case whether it's this way or oh

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no okay well it looks like antec really intends for you to mount it this way

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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

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sticker with all of the little random information on it on the bottom so

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that's probably going to be optimal here at the back we find a oh okay so that's

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an 80 mm San sanoi fan Sano Deni fans

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are renowned for being the highest quality especially when you're under

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bolting they're not going to get any ticking or buzzing noises that are going

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to be bothersome so I would expect this power supply to be very very quiet up

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until the point where the fan really starts ramping up we've got a power

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switch as well as our power cable input here and then around to the other side

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we've got a Grill at the front you can actually kind of see inside I'm going to

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try and get you guys some more light to see in there but this power supply uses

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a dual PCB design so there's actually a PCB on the top of the unit as well as a

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PCB on the bottom of the unit that gives them a lot more room to do soldering

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rather than having one PCB at the bottom and it also allows them to effectively

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lay out the components internally so there's very little air resistance for

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the 80 mil fan so anc's philosophy is that with an efficient internal layout

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you don't need to really pump the RPMs up on the fan in order to draw a lot of

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air flow through and cool the components you can actually see clear through to

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the to my fingers on the other side can you see that through the camera yeah you

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can so that's why even though it's spinning at a low RPM it's able to

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effectively move air through the unit so let's have a look at the pre-attached

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cables and then we will go ahead and take a look at those modular cables as

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well these are a bit of a challenge for me but I'll figure it

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out yeah there we go okay sorry so the

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first bundle is going to have our 20 plus four pin that is a 24 pin connector

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okay you can see it's actually sleeved um pretty nicely okay antech sleeving

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hasn't been my favorite sometimes in the past but uh cuz I mean especially on the

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Quattro 1200 they had those uh those capacitors here so they had like kind of

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weird uh lumps on all the cables so this is quite a bit better all right next

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we've got the eight pin as well as the 4

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plus 4 pin so that's either dual eight pin or single eight pin plus a four pin

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all right and then oh we've got another bundle here so it has quite a lot of

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pre-attached cables and I hear people criticizing that sometimes however I'm

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going to give you guys a bit of a different philosophy on what I think of

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lots of pre-attached cables on a 1200 W power supply because I think it's just

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fine because if you have a 1200 W power supply Fly and You're not running at

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least a 24 pin a single eight pin and

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then oh man this is taking me forever to remove I'm sorry guys and then a couple

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of high-end graphics cards so four 6 plus two pins then you probably don't

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need a 1200 W power supply because if you're not running two graphics cards

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there's pretty much no justification for it whatsoever so in this other bundle

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we're going to find a 6 plus2 pin another 6 plus2 pin once again these are

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fully sleeved even the in between lengths okay and then we have another 6

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plus2 pin as well as a 6 plus2 pin I also want to take a second and show you

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guys how ante labels those 8 12vt rails

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so you can see that the 12vt rail is clearly labeled on the side of the

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connector for these PCIe all right so we've got actually up to 30 amps

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according to the rated specification for the power supply per graphics card

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because every 6 plus2 pin harness okay

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so see each each two are actually on their own 12vt Rail and that also goes

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for the modular connectors which I'll show you in a minute so the other

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pre-attached cables once again I don't mind this because it's only uh three

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Molex odds are you need at least a couple MOX for any kind of build that

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you're doing and then three SATA cables so after that we've got modular cables

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and I'm going to show you actually something that I really like about this power supply in just a moment so the

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first one we got here we go so you can see this one's actually not labeled in

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terms of the 12vt rail you know what I should check oh yeah yeah look look look

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even the 24 pin as well as the uh 8 Pin

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and the 4 plus 4 pin also have labels and each CPU connector has its own

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12volt rail as well all right uh here we

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go so these are not labeled however they are labeled on the power supply

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themselves so 12v 7 12v 8 all right so

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those are where you're going to be able to plug in up to an additional four PCIe

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6 plus 2 pin connectors so that is to say you can have four GTX 580s running

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off of this power supply with no sweat

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whatsoever pretty crazy all right so

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here we go we've got a SATA connector

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here we've got a SATA here we got SATA

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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

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running a ton of Molex devices you have up to three more modular connectors so

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you can plug in another three of these SATA cables which each have three so

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that is up to 12 SATA devices so you could run you know Blu-ray Drive DVD

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drive and then like a 10 Drive rate array or something directly off the

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power supply with zero adapters if you so desired if you don't need so much

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SATA you've also got two MOX modular cables so ante is giving you the option

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to install whatever it is that you need one of them is three Molex and the other

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one is three Mox and one floppy connector so if you actually still need

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one of these yes they have provided one on one of the modular cables now here's

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a really cool thing let's say you've only got two graphics cards but you need

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all 12 SATA connectors and you need all n nine Molex connectors well here's a

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neat one you can take these ones out and then

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you can go ahead and plug a Molex one

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into here look at that bam that simple so that also gives you

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the ability to run peripherals off another 12volt rail because the way the

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power supply is set up by default okay I'm going to try and find you a mo X

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yeah okay these ones aren't labeled and these aren't labeled but all of the

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peripheral connectors so the ones that are pre-attached SATA and Molex as well

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as all three of the uh HDD labeled

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modular connectors are running off 12vt 4 now remember that's 30 amps that's a

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lot for water cooling pumps fans hard drives basic stuff you'd have to have a

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lot of stuff hooked up in order to trip that 30 amp OC GP however I actually

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recently did a build with 24 hard drives and I found when I initially booted it

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up this was with a Quattro 1200 watt when I initially booted it up I was

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getting an error the system was shutting down and what I was able to do with that

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one was I had to adapt and use a different 12volt rail to power some of

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the hard drives so if you are powering like 24 hard drives and then some other

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stuff sorry about that we reached maximum video length which means I

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better finish this up pretty quick so anyway I had to use an adap with that

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one suffice to say I would have been able to just take a cable and plug it

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into the PCIe connector on this one and that would have taken care of it for Me

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by putting some of the hard drives on a separate 12volt rail so that when they

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all spin up at the same time and draw a bunch of juice it doesn't trigger the

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ocp so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the antec high current Pro

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1200 watt continuous power 80 plus gold

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