Gadgetory

today I have a brand new product in a brand new product line from Antec this is their high current gamer series and I have the 620 watt power supply I actually don't even have all the details about the other products in this line but let's say it's going to be like a huge refresh and this high current series is going to be really big moving forward so this particular unit as you might have already guessed is a 620 watt unit it features 80 plus bronze certification which is pretty good for a mainstream power supply and then over here we will find a bunch of other bullet points about this unit so it is rated in continuous power like all ntek power supplies that means your 620 watt is not peak it's not under ideal low temperature conditions that's your continuous power that it can provide it has 6/8 so that is six plus two pin PCI Express graphics card capability industrial-grade protections that's your OCPs and other protection to make sure that it doesn't short out it doesn't burn anything out if it's drawing too much power somehow so here we go here we go here we go over current protection over voltage protection short-circuit protection as well as over power protection all Japanese brand capacitors you've got a 130 millimeter dual ball bearing fan so that's for better reliability and this is dirt to get this thing open this is something I've actually like I really like its it encourages me about the future but eco-friendly packaging and this is actually really smart it's not just a matter of we took like some cardboard and like put it around it this is smart so they've actually got interlocking pieces of cardboard you can see that this is dual dual wall cardboard so this stuff is stiff I mean you know what this is a sample I actually have to get back and effects visiting but I'm just gonna break it anyway look at that that's the kind of impact it takes to break this piece and you can see even on the other side I didn't make it all the way through if I want to break through two of them okay so I've broken the top one I didn't even make it to the second one not to mention you've got your outer carton box so that's that's how strong it is and it's 900 percent recyclable which is pretty cool we've got a power cord and then we have the power supply unit open up we got screwed and then we have the power supply unit itself and what they need they talk everything look at that there's a little spot in the back for the switch so it doesn't get any pressure on it during shipping so that's how the whole thing goes together very smart sorry I know you know you opened enough boxes and you start to kind of gush about smart packaging I know it's pathetic okay here we go so this is the high current 620 watt it comes in a nice little bag which according to an tech all of the packaging is recyclable so I'm assuming the bag can be recycled somehow as well believe it appears to be one of those like like sort of quality paper bags I don't think it's actually got any plastic in it just get this I'm done so let's have a look at the connectors first by the way I think I usually do connectors laughs but we're gonna mix things up a little bit so we got our 24 pin power connector which is fully sleeved all the way into the housing okay so that is a twenty plus four so you can remove those four pins if you're running a very old motherboard or mini ITX port for that matter we've got a four plus four pin CPU power connector we don't have two of those remember this is still a mainstream product so it's four so while it may be targeted at gamers it's not necessarily targeted at gamers who are using a EVGA sr2 motherboard with dual Zeon's and quad a graphics card so you shouldn't be running a 620 watt power supply anyway if that's the case we've got two PCI Express six plus two pins so depending how the PCI Express standards go and upcoming graphics card you can support do a six pin a six plus 8 or even dual eight pin PCI Express let's have a look here at what we've got in terms of peripheral expansion so let's look at all X first we've got two individual wires so these each feature three molex connectors and then the other one features one lone floppy connector in case you do still need a floppy drive for some reason and then we have six SATA connectors and those are on two separates so what you can do is you can run this one up to your optical drives you can run the other one down to your hard drives and SSDs and call it a day paint finish on quite nice it's not glossy so it's not gonna be a total fingerprint magnet you can clearly see that here and the overall look at the power supply is pretty nice actually there you go so you got some antec branding on the side a nice little sticker we've got an ant X stamp on the side of it as well just talks a little bit about what it is 620 watt continuous power it's actually kind of a nice looking fan that's one two three it's a nine bladed fan I can't see any really anything really about it there's nothing on the hub but you know sometimes you can tell just looking at a fan if it's really cheap like humans to see the blades are nice and thick all that stuff and intact design continuous power since 1986 so the company's about as long as I am and here we go specs so those are on the top of the unit we can provide up to 48 amps on the single 12 volt rail so you can see there is only one 12 volt rail here and it doesn't really say a whole lot else about it here aha there we go maximum 12 volt load is 576 watts you can provide the majority but not quite all of the power from this PSU on the 12 volt rail let's go and have a look we saw the front so let's just look at the back of the unit before we wrap this up we got a power switch as well as a plug for your power and that pretty much does it thank you for checking out my unboxing Oh show this side of the box okay so this is the high current gamer series and they're talking a little bit about what it takes to make that fan ramped up so here's a little graph of how much load there is on the power supply versus how much rpm you know I always talk about how you should use a power supply that's gonna provide you know 50% to 60% load to your system under load so that means with this power supply if your system draws under load above 350 Watts to 375 Watts from the wall this fan is never going to ramp up it's going to be super silent and you're gonna be really happy as soon as you get up to you know 75 percent or so load well then you're going to start seeing a thousand to thirteen hundred rpms it might get a little bit loud but it can handle it it's fully capable of it so that's a pretty good little graph to refer to that was all