Antec Earthwatts 650W 80+ Power Supply Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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965 words · ~4 min read
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so today on my video blog we're going to be featuring not one but two products
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first of all the video is going to be about the antec earthw 650 wat power
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supply but I'm also testing out a new camera so we're testing out the m1093 is
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Kodak camera it's got a high quality 720p video mode so uh you can see we
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actually started unboxing this before but my assistant today at home had
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noticed that you could see her pajamas
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in the reflection off the packaging so we had to restart so first of all let's
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get that shiny packaging off there so first thing we notice about the Earth
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wats is they're saying it is green it is Earth it is all about the efficiency so
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you got your 80 plus certification and the earthw series is actually one of the
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least expensive or most affordable I should say um 80 plus sort of certified
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power suppli so here we go uh here's all of your standard specifications so we
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got 3 12vt rails you've got active P
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power factor correction so that means it accepts any volage input it's an ATX
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power supply and it's for quiet Computing so that means ante is
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advertising this as a quiet power supply
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so let's get the Box open here let's show you how it's packaged in here so
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along with their Green Earth theme you can see that they're not using a foam
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package they're actually using like a brown recycled paper sort of package and
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H here we go let's get this out so first of all accessories you have got got a
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power cable so this is your standard computer power cable it's got the three
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prongs it's got the other three prongs there you go there's nothing really
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interesting about that you got your do not eat package please do not eat this
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next we have a piece of brown paper which we will take off so that's that's
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holding together the two sides of the
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paper clam shell that's holding in the power supply and then we have these two
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paper pieces here I better be able to put this back together cuz quite frankly
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I do not remember how that went so then we undo the plastic around the power
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supply itself and if I was able to do
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that I would definitely do it there we go and now we can finally extract the
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antech earthw 650 watt okay so the first thing you're
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going to notice about it is it has a nice big 120 mm fan it's a little bit
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smaller than the 140 mm fans that we're seeing on some other power supplies but
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you are going to get adequate ventilation from that for sure especially for an efficient unit like
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this so here you can see you got your normal honeycomb mesh on the back onof
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switch there's no 120 to 240 volt switch
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that is uh evidence of the active power
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factor correction of this power supply on the side you're going to see the
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basic specs here so you've got three 12vt rails rated at a maximum of 22 22
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and 25 amps that's going to be your most important spec you're going to find on
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the side and then on the other side we have an antech logo next thing I want to
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show you here is actually the connectors that are included with this power supply
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so first of all I'm going to need to get off this zip tie thing it's one of those
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reusable zip ties so if you wanted to use it as part of your cable management
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scheme you could actually do that which is kind of neat so first of all we've
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got how many what are what are these okay we have a 6 plus2 pin PCI Express
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connector so you can use that either for six pin PCI Express or 8 Pin then we
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have another six pin PCI Express
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connector and then so that's one eight pin and 16 pin and then we have a four
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pin ATX connector and an 8 Pin EPS
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connector so you're only going to use one of these two for your uh for your
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motherboard there that provides power to the CPU so now I'm going to take off
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this other connector here and I really wish that it was a little bit faster at
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taking these off cuz man is it ever taking me a long time there we go let's
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get the rest of our connectors going here so there is your Standard 24 pin
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ATX connector it's a it's not too long
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but it's not too short you're going to be able to use that in almost any bottom
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mounted power supply case which it makes sense because antec was one of the first
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to make that popular with the p180 and then for the rest of our cables here
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let's see what we got so we have two sets of sort of more Molex oriented
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cables so here you're going to find one two six Molex cable connectors and one
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floppy connector and then for the other two cables here we've got two more that
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each have three SATA connectors so four of them are right angle which looks like
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this and the other two are just straight connectors like that so thank you for
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checking out my video blog on the antech earthw 650 Watt