Antec CP-850 CPX Modular Power Supply First Look & Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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So today we're going to be having a look at a pretty unique power supply now I'm
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not going to cover this in quite as much detail as I normally would because we've
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actually done a full Tech tips episode on it in the past which you can check
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out by clicking the little bubble okay so we're breaking the seal here this is
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the cp850 and what is unique about this
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particular power supply unit is that it is not an ATX standard power supply so
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this is a semi modular power supply and I say that because it's a modular power
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supply that actually has a lot of connectors hardwired to it so it comes
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with a power cord comes with a product overview uh manual thingy here there it
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tells you all your different connectors and all that good stuff okay then it
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comes with a baggie of modular cables so let's have a look at which modular
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cables we have included with this power supply there are quite a few actually
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okay we got another another tie here
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undo okay so we have a couple PCI
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Express s pins we we've got uh two
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different SATA connectors okay each with three SATA connectors on it and then we
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have a couple of Molex ones okay so those each have three MOX okay so those
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are our modular power supply cables then
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on the PSU itself okay I've got a little
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uh oh I hate these reusable zip tie
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things they're like impossible to take off in any sort of timely fashion okay
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there we go so attached to the power supply itself we have a couple more PCI
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Express so these are six plus two pin then we have three Molex and three SATA
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and then we also have a four pin an 8 Pin EPs and a 24 pin now let's have a
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look at the power supply itself because that is the interesting thing about the
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cp850 that it is a completely
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non-standard size power supply so I mean
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this thing is like huge in a way that
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even a large power supply is not huge I mean look at my hand on the back of this
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thing so you can actually see it's got two pcbs inside for two completely
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separately wired up power supply sort of segments and the reason for that is that
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that way antech is able to build down from the top and up from the bottom
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which gives much better cooling from the 120 mm fan that's on the other end of
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the unit now you can see why I call it semi modular here because you've got a
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lot of attached cables and then you've only got two more peripheral cables so
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you can do two more Molex two more SAA or one of each and then two more PCI
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Express connectors on the modular
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interface so it's not a whole lot of modularity now in terms of uh output it
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is an 850 W power supply and you've got four 12volt rails each capable of 22
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22 25 and 25 amps respectively so thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and product overview of the cp850 power
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supply and there are some screws too there