Antec High Current Pro 80PLUS Platinum Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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2,296 words · ~11 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of a product that I'm actually very excited about few
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things sort of excite me about power
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supplies however there are pretty much
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all of those things included with this particular unit this is the high current
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Pro Platinum power supply from antech
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and why don't I just do a quick bullet Point list of all of the things that
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like really excite me about this packaging or packaging this product
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number one is the packaging I love awesome packaging I unbox a lot of stuff
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and this is very shiny love it number
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two is the don't worry you won't get caught in there it's okay number two is
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the seven-year antec warranty antec has never done a seven-year warranty before
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but they're pulling out all the stops on this one they're basically saying this
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will not fil and that is also very exciting to me
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number three thing that is very exciting to me is that ante has done a lot of
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work to improve their Aesthetics and I'm
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a big aesthetic guy when it comes to power supplies without compromising on
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any of the safety features that they believe are so important to have in
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their products and I don't say they believe because I don't also believe so
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but uh I think you guys catch where I'm going with this so check this out ugly
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24 pin power power connectors are a definite pet peeve of mine and antec has
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found a way around it that if I could ever find the 24 pin power connector in
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here aha that they believe will help so check
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this out normally an antech power supply
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will look like a big old mess of brightly colored wires but they found a
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compromise so for safety reasons antech
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believes that they should continue
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having colors color codes on the wires and I actually don't disagree with them
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it reduces the chance of anything being miswired at a factory it reduces the
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chance of accidentally miswiring something yourself if you're sleeving
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your power supply or whatever else you want to do and yeah I mean that right
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there it reduces the chance of Errors so what they've done is they've put stripes
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of the appropriate colors on the appropriate cables you see that so
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there's a stripe so what that means is that when you install this in your system all of a sudden it looks far more
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stealthy compared to the brightly colored cables that we've seen before in
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the past so we see the same thing there you go half and half on the
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CPU power connector and look at this nice touch they've even oriented it so
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that in most motherboards when it comes over this way most of the colored wires
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will be hidden because they're on the inside even if it goes this way very
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nice nice touch antech good that you guys thought of that okay so that was my
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quick bullet point but I guess we'll have to like kind of back up here and uh
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and start doing the actual proper proper unboxing so here there we
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go back to the outside of the box so yes beautiful
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box 94% Max efficiency means that
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compared to a non 80 plus power supply you could see up to 25% savings although
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if we're talking compared to like an 80 plus gold power supply it's a much
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smaller number just so you guys are aware antech power supplies are all
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rated for continuous power that means you could literally run it at 1,000
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Watts day in day out for 7 years and anch says it will not fail full Cable
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Management yes this is a fully modular power supply which is a first for antech
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as well over here they actually calculate compared to a non 80 plus
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compared to an 80 plus compared to a high efficiency 80 plus how much money
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can actually be saved on a yearly basis in dollars as well as in Euros compared
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to blah blah blah so they have a formula here so you can actually check that out
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here I'll I'll hold it still so you guys can see it really well and do the math
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for yourself see how much an efficient power supply could save for you okay
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continuous power guaranteed 1,000 Watts 80 plus Platinum up to 94% efficient
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save money power and money uh 16 pin socket yeah we'll talk more about that
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later the 28 pin motherboard socket 135
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mm fan High current rails 100% 12vt okay
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yep yep multi PCIe 6 PCI circuit Shield
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you know what we'll cover all this later uh oh yeah yeah this this little chart
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some guys like to see that so yes 12 uh four 12vt rails all of them rated for a
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maximum of 40 amps so what that means is that antech is combining The Best of
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Both Worlds by including all of the appropriate safety protections and I
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mean all of them antech is big into
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certifications as well as doing things by the book when it comes to power
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supplies and I say this because I actually believe it they really do they
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never skip out on something um so they
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combine that with so the safety of multiple rails with the appropriate
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protections with the convenience of having high current rails which means
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you can kind of hook things up willy-nilly and you are very very
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unlikely unless you some I mean you you pretty yeah you pretty much couldn't
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trip the overcurrent protection on a given rail by hooking it up to a normal
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PC system if you hook it up to some kind of load tester or something that's a
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different story and that's kind of um yeah that's kind of on your own sort of
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hands if something goes wrong at that point in time so included accessories
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we've got an included power cable which is a beefy power
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cable we have a little product overview sheet that comes with it okay we've got
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a bunch of modular cables but we'll get into those more later we've got haha
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they've included black screws nice touch as well as a couple little ante Cable
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Management cords or cord I shouldn't say chords I should say uh Cable Management
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uh ties okay
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just a sec let me just see if I missed you know what let's start looking at the power supply unit itself so on the back
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we find sort of the industry standard honeycomb mesh you guys won't be able to
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see this but if you look inside the power supply they've actually completely
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eliminated wires from their design so everything inside this power supply is
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using solid links that means there's less soldering to be done so once again
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there's less room for an efficiency and less ah sorry guys slick is sick and
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less room for any kind of an error during the manufacturing process so that
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is there you can actually see a couple of the big solid links back there very
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cool so that's a ground I can actually see the label on it can you see that
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okay it's that silver one that's kind of like there okay okay as long as you guys
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can see it so we've got 135 mm u double
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ball bearing fan so that's going to provide quiet cooling I already
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mentioned the honeycomb onoff switch okay on the side aha antech has figured
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out Aesthetics that looks sharp that looks
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really good we are not looking at like racing stripe power supply thing going
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on no we have a very very clean looking
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side with just a bright one bright yellow accent I don't mind as long as we
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don't have a bunch of bright yellow accents and the whole thing looks like a
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bumblebee no this looks really really
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good very sharp looking power supply okay we've got one label on here which
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actually outlines a bunch of the uh bunch of the safety stuff as well as
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giving you the general specs of the power supply now let's get into the
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fully modular interface so the fully modular interface has a number of things
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about it that are actually very interesting let's start with the motherboard connection so the
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motherboard connection goes a little something like this one here so that's
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your traditional 20 pain right there
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then we have an additional one of these now why would we have that you might ask
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and the answer is because antec is anti
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ipating the possibility that there could be some kind of a motherboard socket
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change and they want to make sure that their motherboard connector will be
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compatible with it so they have built in the flexibility and the capacity to
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change the motherboard connector to something that is higher than 24 pins
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very cool so that modular connector is something you'd probably have to
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purchase but at least it would be available without upgrading your
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expensive 80 plus Platinum power supply if you wanted to upgrade some of your
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other components well what else we got going on here the next thing we have is
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here we go I actually want to
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find oh this is kind of neat okay so PCI Express connectors here
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we go antech has built in with their modular system 16 16 pin uh modular
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connectors so we've got two 6 Plus tws that run off an individual brick of
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these or check this out guys we can also
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run indiv idual ones with these low
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profile individual Banks of eight pin connectors with these low profile
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connectors that can actually be installed side by side without any
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difficulty so check this out we can go here and then we can take another one
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maybe we need so yeah so we need an eight pin and then maybe we have another
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graphics card running in our system for fiz X so we need some more some more uh
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six pin or eight pin connectors so we'll go ahead and oh no that's a okay well
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whatever I use this one so this is a 4+4
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so we have now plugged our motherboard power connectors into each other it
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doesn't have the usual excess around the outsides so this gives us a ton of
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flexibility in terms of which rails we want to use for which connectors so
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we've got 12vt rail 1 12vt rail 2 12vt
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rail 3 4 very very very cool okay so Flex the
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most flexible modular interface pretty much possible even if they change the
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graphics card inter face all antech has to do is say okay you guys want to
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upgrade to the latest graphics card we'll just release a slightly wider or
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slightly more different configuration of these and you know you'll have somewhere
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to plug it into very handy okay what else we have here on modular cables I
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guess I should just cover what we have included so this guy right here is a
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modular 3 SATA connector okay we have
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how many of these one
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two three of those okay then we have a couple with four pin
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peripheral connectors one that has a a
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floppy built onto the end and one that doesn't and then finally we have up to
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six PCI Express graphics card connectors
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available with this power supply so each of these includes two 6 Plus 2s 2 6 Plus
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2s and then the one that I installed already before with two six plus tws and
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how in the world have they done this hold on a minute oh they've included a
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few a cple different kinds of 6 plus2 so these are designed to go to One graphics
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card interesting off a single cable and
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then if you want to run two
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separate for whatever reason they've get okay they've given you options they've
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given you the option to either run it this way or have them run side by side
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connected like this so they've included both kinds of cables there you go so I
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hold on a second guys so two things I missed guys one is that it used is all
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high performance Japanese caps that are capable of providing their full output
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even under very high temperatures so
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unrealistic well I guess I shouldn't say unrealistic I mean the inside of a
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computer could reach you know 40° I guess if you live somewhere really hot
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and then the inside of your computer is hotter you know 40 to 50° so either way
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this will provide 1,000 wats of output and the other thing is that it is
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capable of delivering all 1,000 Watts
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from the 12vt rails so yes
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no matter how graphics card heavy your system or other components that rely
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directly on the 12volt rail you will be able to power it with this power supply
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without running out of juice so thank you for checking out my unboxing of what
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I think is basically the cream of the cream anc's finest power supply to date
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