Antec Quattro 1200W OC Edition Adjustable Rails Power Supply Unboxing & Giveaway Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,992 words · ~9 min read
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so today I'm going to be unboxing a very special product from antech this is the
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antech Quattro 1200 wat power supply but
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there's something a little bit different and special about this one you see this
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yellow stripe down the packaging that says overclocking version well the
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reason it has that on it is that in
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aside from all the other features it has just like the other Quattro 1200 which
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means it's 80 plus silver and if I can find the logo yep there it is y runs
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very quiet as you can see they've got their quiet Computing logo on there let
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me see what else you know what why don't we run through everything else and then I'll save the surprise of why it's an
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overclocking Edition for later so it has it is SLI certified and it better be at
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12200 Watts it's designed to support three gpus and dual and quad core and
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six core now that those are out so the packaging is a little bit outdated
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computer industry moves so fast let's see what else do we have six 12vt rails
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Advanced hybrid Cable Management which means it has modular cables and then it
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also has industrial grade protection circuitry to prevent damage resulting
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from short circuits or over voltages okay and then what else do we
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have here you know it's funny that they don't actually list one of the key
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features of this particular unit which is the power cache feature you can see
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it's actually covered by the by the overclocking label power cache so
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that is is basically capacitors in line
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with the power supply cables themselves that will compensate for any little dips
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and voltage from the from the power supply and you're basically drawing
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power that's stored in the capacitor rather than while you wait for the power
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supply to catch up and get back up to the right
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voltage now I should probably I should probably mention at
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this time that this isn't going to be just a regular unboxing this is also
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going to be a giveaway we are going to give away the 1200 watt antech Quattro
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power supply and there's a special requirement we are
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not going to give away this power supply which will be unboxed at the time of
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giving it away until lonus Tech tips my
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channel here reaches 10,000 subscribers
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so tell your friends to subscribe and once they do we're going to do a random
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draw for the antech Quattro 1200 watt OC
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Edition so here it is the power cache a high performance capacitor delivers an
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extra power Reserve where you need it when you need it most all right let's
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get this box open if I can figure out
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how to get the Box open and we'll have a look at the power supply itself things
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like the finish the cables that are attached to it although I can tell you
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right now the cables attached to it are going to be well Lots okay the first
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thing we find is an antech product overview where they show you the power
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supply and the cables attached to it in a bunch of different
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languages next we have a thick this is
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let's see if I can find it quickly enough here to do this on
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camera uh okay it's rated
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for 300 volts 14 AWG power connector
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using the uh the non-standard computer power supply connector so this baby is
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designed to draw a lot of power modular
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cables why don't we have a look at those in a minute after we've gone through the
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uh the Perma cables the the pre-attached ones okay do we have anything else okay
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do not eat this this is also in there
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don't eat it it's not a snack all right and then we've also got some screws
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don't eat those either black screws little touches like that I really
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appreciate you know when you're building a system with a 1200 W power supply I'm
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going to go out on a limb and I'm going to say you might care what it looks like
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about the little touches so antech includes some black screws so that when
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you see the back of your case you're not going to see little silver screws and
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then a black finish on your power supply which is just just awful just awful okay
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so here's the power supply itself we've got a red go faster set of racing
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stripes on here with our 1,200 uh markings which means that it can go up
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to 1200 mph with these Racing Stripes
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next we've got some vents on the side as well as a stamped I'm going to get that
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box out of the way stamped antech logo on there uh looks like a serial number
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there we are hopefully you can read that next we go around to the front where we
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have some grills so we got your standard honeycomb grills as well as your modular
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connector interface then we have all of our standard attached connectors now
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while I would sometimes criticize a power supply manufacturer for putting so
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many cables pre-attached on a modular power supply I mean it's a 1,200 wat
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power supply if you're not connecting a few things to it then I mean you you
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better re-evaluate your build okay then we we' got the uh label here so
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hopefully you can read all of those specs there I'm not sure if you're going to be able to in HD don't forget to
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change to HD if you can't read them then we've got the little overclocking
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sticker there so let's get to what makes this overclocking we've got our standard
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80m fan all the Quattro series use that at this time then we've got our power
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plug our LED and two knobs so these
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knobs are actually adjustable knobs so
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you can adjust the 12v rail to be up to
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12.6 or as low as 11.8 Vol so for some
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particularly extreme overclockers who want to just have that much more control
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over the output of their power supply that's a very cool option it also gives
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you the option to control the fan speed so from minimum to maximum here I
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actually didn't know what this knob did until I opened it so I'm glad I did this
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unboxing all right next next let's have a look at the cables that are attached
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here so I'm going to get the power supply sitting right there like a good
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little power supply oh the knobs kind of make it hard to put down like that I
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mean obviously that won't affect the product in regular use and it's only
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really going to impact you if you unbox it when you when you get it but I mean
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most people I don't think do that I think most people are not like me and
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they actually just use their computer hardware okay well first thing we've got
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is the 24 pin connector we got a nice long cable on here so you'll be able to
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reach wherever you need to go and it also has a little um little booty on it
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not like like booty but like boot boot
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around it so that's to make it look a little bit nicer I guess when you're
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bending it over to where it needs to go gets rid of some of the little
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multicolored that goes on on the 24 pin
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all right next we have oh this is hard to uh this is hard
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to organize actually so many cables okay
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next we we have PCI Express yes so these
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will be perfect for fmy which was just
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released yesterday so we have four PCI
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Express connectors so you can see without actually attaching any modular
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connectors we have four including the um
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Power cache feature okay we have a six
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plus two pin here and then attached
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directly to it we have an additional six pen six pin so if you're running any GPU
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such as a fery that requires an eight and a six pin right together you only
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have to run one cable to each GPU so that means you could actually hook you
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could hook up four fermes without
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without actually um wow that's that's
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wow ridiculous so uh yeah you've got a lot of expansion options right out of
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the box with this power supply without even making any changes to it okay next
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we have also featuring power cache a 4
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plus4 or 8 Pin CPU connector then we have just an 8 Pin CPU
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connector so you're going to be able to plug in most any board that requires
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well tons of PCI Express connectors tons of8 pin connectors and then for the
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pre-attached cables because you know you never know what someone even using a
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1200 W power supply is going to be using for SATA devices I mean hey they might
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just be using a high-end SSD and a Blu-Ray so we've only got three SATA
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cables pre-attached we've got nice spacing on there I kind of like this uh
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what they've done with the sleeving here I wish they were using a a sleeving
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that's not so easy to see through but I like these plastic caps that they got on
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them all right so why don't we have a look at the modular cables before we
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wrap this up
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okay here we are so next we have a couple more PCI
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Express connector seriously you're going to be able to like single slot water
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cool as many fmes as you you can put on that new EVGA uh what is it sr2 I think
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it is super record 2 that that dual um dual GF Town 7 PCI Express lot
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motherboard anyway so there that plugs into the two red spots on the back of
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the power supply and you have another two 6 plus two and another two six pins
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that's for a total of what is that 12
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PCI Express connectors on here then we have some more expansion options in
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terms of the Molex and SATA connectors so I've got two more modular cables for
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Molex each of them sporting three Molex connectors and
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these are nice and long too that's really good and then one of them
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actually has a floppy connector just in case you still need one of those all
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right and then for SATA they've seems to have given us a little bit more in terms
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of SATA just because obviously it's a it's a newer standard so yeah you can
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see we've got three SATA cables of varying length so they've given us one
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that has just two SATA uh SATA connectors on it that's really
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handy if you don't want to just randomly run extra cables if you've only got two
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drives and then we have two that have three so you've got pretty much any
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options that you would need covered by the modular cable so thank you for
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checking out my unboxing and product overview on the Quattro 1200 W power
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the Quattro 1200 wat power supply