Antec Truepower New 650W Modular Computer Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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yet another power supply unboxing it seems like I'm doing a lot of these
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lately but there's a good reason for it the reason is that power supplies are
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sort of one of the more interesting things that you can put in your computer
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I mean with a processor they like all look the same whereas power supplies I
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mean they all have kind of the distinctive look to them they have a distinctive feature set so today I have
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the antec true power this is the true power new as opposed to the true power
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old cuz true power has been around forever as a as a brand name for antech
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so what makes it new first of all is it is 80 plus bronze so that means it's
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slightly better than 80 plus regular it's also SLI ready and it has a little
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green energy efficient leaf on it so that's very nice to see it has advanced
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hybrid Cable Management so that's anc's way of saying that the power supply is
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modular okay and it has a 120 mm pwm fan
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now let's go on to the back double piece double layer PCB optimizes cooling
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efficiency and allows for heavy duty components Advanced hybrid this that or the other okay why don't we get this out
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of the box and we will have a look at all of the things that they are telling
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us about on the back so unlike the
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earthw series of power supplies from antech which is only modular at the very
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high end on the 750 watt the true power lineup is modular from the 550 all the
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way up to the 750 and the 750 blue now
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unlike their true power Quattro lineup the true power new series uses a 120 mm
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fan whereas the Quattro actually uses an 80 mm fan still for design Des reasons
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that I'm not quite sure that I understand and here we go I got the box
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open so this is what it looks like all packed inside in antec green packaging
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so you can see they're using like recycled paper as opposed to styrofoam
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or something else that's going to destroy the Earth faster than necessary
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all right so inside we will find a power cord okay just your standard PC power
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cord we will find a baggie of modular cables okay so we'll get to those after
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I guess we'll find what looks like an instruction manual or some kind of it's
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a product overview okay so it tells you all about your power supply what
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connectors it has on it it tells
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you um in Spanish a bunch of languages
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that I can't even pronounce and oh in
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English excellent English is there cool thanks for that all right and then we
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have the power supply itself yeah that
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was wow not a whole lot in terms of oh yeah there we go we've got screws four
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screws so you can mount your power supply your case awesome so we take off
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the little paper sleeve that holds on the little paper clam shell and there
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like there's I unboxed an earthw a while back and it came in a similar package to
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this and putting it back was like utterly hopeless I couldn't believe how
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difficult it was to put back I mean most people when they're unboxing a power
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supply aren't really too worried about when they have to box it back up but oh
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was a nightmare anyway the finish on the true power new is just kind of your
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standard black power supply finish it comes with a couple fingerprints on it
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I'm not sure how much I like that but the reality of it is when you buy a
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product somebody touched it at some point it was manufactured it was
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packaged these things are just a reality of the computer industry and pretty much
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any industry so on the side here we can find the basic specs it has a little
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blue sticker that's really nice and then it has three 12vt rails at 2222 and 25
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amps maximum power output each and then
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here we go we can do a maximum of 54 amps combined on the three 12vt rails so
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the total output power is 650 watts and
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that pretty much covers what we got on the side we got all of our
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certifications I mean that's something antech is very careful about they make
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sure that all of their safety stuff is in line and yeah at the back okay we
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don't have the the honeycomb mesh that seems like everyone else uses it's more
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like a square mesh okay so that's a little bit different looking right there
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and then on the other side we find a little stamp DCH logo and that's pretty
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much all and then on the bottom we will find that 120 mm pwm Fen kind of a
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stylish looking black sticker on it okay so you can see downwards into the power
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supply if you can see that I'm not really sure if you can see that at all
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now let's have a look at what connectors are included on the true power new 650
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wat so oh I hate these reusable zip ties
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if you've seen me complain about them before then you'll know that I complain
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about them um you know what something I do want to point out about this power
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supply that I don't really like is the sleeving you see how this is like a
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colored sleeve and besides that you can see like right through it as soon as you
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do anything with it it's actually you know what this one's a
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better example there that is a black sleeve and that is very clearly full of
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black and yellow cables actually The BFG GS series power supply I unboxed
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recently even though it was a far more budget power supply and quite honestly
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not as good quality a unit it did have better sleeving on it okay so the first
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one we got antec always has reasonably long 24 pin power connectors because
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they were the ones who pioneered the whole power supply on the bottom thing with the p180 so the8 pin and the 24 pin
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they're always very careful about that so you got pretty good length 24 pin
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power connector then you have a couple of uh four pin and eight pin power
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connectors so once again same thing these are reasonably long so if you have
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your power supply mounted in the bottom you should be able to reach up to your
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uh to the top of the motherboard just fine with that eight pin and to the side
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and or edge of the motherboard just fine with that 24 pin and here we
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have oh I kind of like this I kind of like it when manufacturers do this this
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way because so many people are actually
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using two PCI Express connectors on One graphics card these days you can see ANC
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has gone ahead and just thrown the two PCI E connectors an eight pin and a six
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pin on one cable so it's as simple as plugging them in next to each other
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which is so often where you're going to find it and running away with it like
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that in fact if you do have two two uh two graphics cards you can put them as
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much as this far part which looks like about four slots which is the most you're really going to see and you just
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have to run one cable up to your graphics card Bravo I like that okay
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next thing we've got here is a one set of Molex connectors okay so
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this one has three four pin Molex
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connectors just like that and then it has one additional floppy connector and
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you can see the spacing sort of these are really long quite long you'll be
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able to reach whatever it is you need to reach with them then we've got three
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SATA connectors on one cable all right so two right angle ones and then one
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straight straight one and these again are quite long and then we get into the
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modular cables so the modular cables that are included will plug into
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either here we go ah they will plug into
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either these red modular plugs or they will plug into the black ones now the
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black ones are on 12vt rail one and they are
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for hold on a second I made a mistake oh
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I made a mistake this is a four rail power supply I'm sorry they're rated at
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22 22 25 and
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25 sorry I just I saw this label here and I love it when they label things
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this way because you can see here if you're plugging into these two you're
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plugging into 12volt rail one if you're plugging into this one it's 12vt rail 3
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and if you plug into this one it's 12vt rail 4 so they label that out for you
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that's really nice and either one of these can accept either a six pin or an
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8 Pin PCI Express or it could also
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accept one of the hard drive plugs okay and these ones though are for hard
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drives only okay so if I can just get this this
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pack open then I would be able to show you what all the modular cables look
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like okay now something that we that we
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I notice right away about this is that there are more modular cables than there
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are modular connectors on the power supply itself and what you can tell is
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that ante unlike some manufacturers hasn't missed the point of a modular
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power supply the point is that it gives you options so you can see that with the
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uh with the two included three connector SATA cables you could actually plug in
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nine hard drives to this power supply say you don't need any other Molex
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connectors well there you go you just do that or say you have a bunch of Legacy
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Molex devices and you need to use those so here we've got three MOX on that one
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we've got three MOX on that one so you could plug in a potential of w that's a
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lot yeah nine Molex devices as well as a floppy device and then for the final
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connector we have here this is a red one and you've got another six pin or 6 plus
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2 pin PCI Express gives you a ton of different options I'm not sure based on
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the package that's included with the 650 W power supply why they've bothered to
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include two that are compatible with PCIe I mean maybe you can buy additional
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cables but even then you probably shouldn't be powering three gpus on a
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650 W power supply either way thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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antech TP 650