Antec Truepower Quattro 1200W Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,320 words · ~6 min read
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yet another power supply unboxing but this one actually has something really
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cool about it this is a feature that has been I I was a little skeptical about
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when I first heard of it the cameraman is zoomed in on the right thing this is
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power cache this is the first power supply we've seen this on the antech
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true power Quattro 1200 watt this is a high performance capacitor on some of
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the key connectors that delivers an extra power Reserve when where you need
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it when you need it most so basically what that means is if you start to draw
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a whole bunch of power from your 12volt rail all of a sudden that capacitor is
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going to act as a bit of a buffer and make sure that instead of having a
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little bit of a dip in the power you're actually just going to have solid
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constant power so let's talk a little bit about the basic specs of this unit
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before I get oh uh-oh I'm opening from the wrong side here that won't work at
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all will it okay so it's a 1200 watt unit like I mentioned before it is part
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of their true power Quattro series which also has an 850 and a 1,000 W power
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supply but neither of those features this interesting new feature
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okay and I'm just going to get up the spec table on this once we finally get
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it oh yeah there we go okay so as I have
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not mentioned yet this is an 80 plus silver design so that means that you're
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going to see efficiency I believe it's upwards of 85% no matter what uh don't
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quote me on that one though NVIDIA SLI ready so they've gone to the effort to
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have it certified although I guarantee this will will run pretty much whatever
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gpus you throw at it I don't think it's going to matter there's your basic specs
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here so they're telling you it's dual quad core ready it has a pwm controlled
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fan 6 12vt rails on this guy 11 SATA
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connectors uh we can get to all of that once we get inside oh yeah there we go
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there I finally found the oh they covered it with a sticker oh fail okay
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well hopefully it's on the inside of the unit okay let's get this open and let's
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have a look at what is included first of all you've got the product overview
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which shows you the power supply itself as well as which connectors are included
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thank you for that all right next you've got a huge beefy uh proprietary power
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cable this cable this is one of those special ones that's usually included on
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very high wattage power supplies then you have a whole bunch of modular cables
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we'll have a look at those in a minute really nice foam packing this is nice
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closed cell foam very very durable feeling all right then we get the true
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power Quattro 1200 watt it's oh man
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that's heavy wow okay oh hold on four black screws so you
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can attach it to your case excellent okay so let's put this open here like
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the rest of the Quattro series The Quattro 1200 does feature Racing Stripes
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which as everybody knows does make your computer go much faster okay see the
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racing stripes so it'll go way faster okay let's start at the back of the unit
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so it has an 80 mm fan and there's your there's your power input there's no
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power switch so if you actually want to completely power power it down you will have to pull the plug all right then on
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this side we've got a stamped antech logo as well as a couple little ventilation holes all right over at the
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front we've got a just a complete Grill so that's where most of your air intake
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is coming from we've got like a semi modular interface on this particular
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power supply so that means a lot of the cables are pre-attached but you do have
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some modular cables in case you don't want to completely clutter up your case
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oh here we'll find the specs so as we mentioned before there are six 12vt
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rails on this power supply each of which is rated for a whopping 38 amps wow okay
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and then so the 12vt rails combined Max load is 12200 Watts so you could
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actually completely load this power supply up to 1200 watts just on the 12vt
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rail it's a lot of 12s okay so then let's have a look at what connectors we
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have included on the Quattro
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1200 if I could get the zip or the twist tie off then I would be able to show you
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okay first of all we have a four pin power connector which has like a a
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pretty cool looking little boot on it that will make it I guess look nicer
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more than anything else okay cool next
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we have all right wow there's a lot of
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there's a lot of connectors on here this is going to actually take me like a just
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a brief moment to sort out here sorry about that and okay so we will discover
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that the 4 plus 4 pin connector or eight pin connector which it includes two of
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each has has this uh this capacitor feature on it so all of your CPU power
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is going to have that little buffer on it and you can use this with a
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motherboard that requires two8 PIN connectors okay so we got that out of
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the way next we
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have all right next wow these are these
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are great Okay so we've got two PCI Express connectors here each on one
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cable I actually really like this cuz so many high-end video cards these days use
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two connectors as it is so you can got you've got as much as an 8 plus six pin
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connector on each of these cables two of which are pre-attached to the
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motherboard or to the power supply so I guess they're assuming that if you're
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running a 1200 W power supply you better have at least two graphics cards in your
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system and they both do have the capacitor on it as well so that pretty
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oh yeah no we've actually got one preattached SATA cable which
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includes three connectors and then we have one pre-attached Molex cable that
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includes three connectors and one floppy connector all right in terms of modular
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cables we have uh a few more included
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here and actually oh wow almost every
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cable on this power supply does include their their capacitor feature I didn't
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actually realize that U no maybe it's
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not all of them okay so the modular Molex and SATA ones do not and the
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modular PCI Express ones do and then
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everything attached to the power supply itself except the 24 pin does not
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actually you know what I'm not going to bother undoing these okay you've got two more modular PCI Express cables okay
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Each of which is going to connect up to two PCI Express connectors all right one
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6 plus2 and one six pin and then you've got what appears to be H okay one two oh
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three more SATA okay excellent and then
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you have two more MOX cables that look
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just like the other on so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the antech
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Quattro 1200 100 watt power supply