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yet another power supply unboxing it seems like I'm doing a lot of these lately but there's a good reason for it the reason is that power supplies are sort of one of the more interesting things that you can put in your computer I mean with the processor they all look the same whereas power supplies I mean they all have kind of a distinctive look to them they have a distinctive feature set so today I have the an Tek true power this is the true power new as opposed to the true power old because true power has been around forever as as a brand name for an Tek so what makes it new first of all is it is 80 plus bronze so that means it's slightly better than 80 plus a regular it's also sli ready and it has a little green energy-efficient leaf on it so that's very nice to see it has advanced hybrid cable management so that's an techs way of saying that the power supply is modular okay and it has a 120 millimeter pwm fan now let's go into the back double piece double layer PCB optimizes cooling efficiency allows for heavy-duty components advanced hybrid this bed or the other okay why don't we get this out of the box and we will have a look at all of the things that they are telling us about on the back so unlike the earth watt series of power supplies from an tech which is only modular at the very high end on the 750 watt the true power lineup is modular from the 550 all the way up to the 750 and the 750 blue now unlike their true power quattro lineup the true power new series uses a 120 millimeter fan whereas the Quattro actually uses an 80 millimeter fan still for design reasons that I'm not quite sure that I understand and here we go I got the Box open so this is what it looks like all packed inside in antix green packaging so you can see they're using like recycled paper as opposed to styrofoam or something else that's gonna destroy the earth faster than necessary alright so inside we will find a power cord okay just your standard PC power cord we will find a baggie of modular cables okay so we'll get to those after I guess we'll find what looks like an instruction manual or sometimes it's a product overview okay so it tells you all about your power supply what connectors it has on it it tells you in Spanish a bunch of languages that I can't even pronounce and oh in English excellent English is there thanks for that all right and then we have the power supply itself yeah that was Wow not a whole lot in terms oh yeah there we go we've got screws for screws so you can mount your power supply to your case awesome so we take off the little paper sleeve that holds on the little paper clamshell and there's like there's lots a while back and it came in a similar package to this and putting it back was like utterly hopeless I couldn't believe how difficult it was to put back and you most people when they're unboxing a power supply aren't really too worried about when they have to box it back up but oh there's a nightmare anyway the finish on the true power knew is so just kind of your standard matte black power supply finish it comes with a couple fingerprints on it I'm not sure how much I like that but the reality of it is when you buy a product somebody touched it at some point it was manufactured it was packaged these things are just a reality of the computer industry and pretty much any industry so on the side here we can find the basic specs it has a little blue sticker that's really nice and then it has did it did it three 12-volt rails at 22 22 and 25 amps maximum power output each and then here we go we can do a maximum of 54 amps combined on the three 12-volt rails so the total output power is 650 watts and that pretty much covers what we got on the side we've got all of our certifications I mean that's something an tech is very careful about they make sure that all of their safety stuff is in line and yeah at the back okay we don't have the honeycomb mesh that seems like everyone else uses it's more like a square mesh okay so that's a little bit different looking right there and then on the other side we find a little stamp tantek logo and that's pretty much all and then on the bottom we will find that 120 millimeter pwm fan kind of a stylish looking black sticker on it okay so you can see downwards into the power supply if you can see that I'm not really sure if you can see that at all now let's have a look at what connectors are included on the true power news so 50 watts so oh I hate these reusable zip ties if you've seen me complain about them before then you'll know that I complain about them you know that's something I do want to point out about this power supply that I don't really like is thus leaving you see how this is like a colored sleeve and besides that you can see like right through it as soon as you do anything with it it actually you know what this one's a better example there that is a black sleeve and that is very clearly full of black and yellow cables actually the BFGS series power supply unboxed recently even though it was a far more budget power supply and quite honestly not as good quality a unit it did have better sleeping on it okay so the first one we got antec always has reasonably long 24-pin power connectors because they were the ones who pioneered the whole power supply on the bottom thing with the p180 so the eight pin and the 24 pin they're always very careful about that so you got pretty good length 24 pin power connector then you have a couple of four pin and eight pin power connectors so once again same thing these are reasonably long so if you have your power supply mounted in the bottom you should be able to reach up to your to the top of the motherboard just fine with that eight pin and to the side and or edge of the motherboard just fine with that 24 pin and here we have to do oh I kind of like this I kind of like it when manufacturers do this this way because so many people are actually using two PCI Express connectors on one graphics card these days you can see an tech has gone ahead and just thrown the two PCIe connectors an eight pin and a six pin on one cable so it's as simple as plugging them in next to each other which is so often where you're going to find it and running away with it like that in fact if you do have two to two graphics cards you can put them as much as this far apart which looks like about four slots which is the most you're really going to see and you just have to run one cable up to your graphics card Bravo I like that okay the next thing we've got here is a one set of molex connectors okay so this one has three four pin molex connectors just like that and then it has one additional floppy connector and you can see the spacing sort of these are really long quite long you'll be able to reach whatever it is you need to reach with them then we've got three SATA connectors on one cable all right so two right angle ones and then one straight straight one and these again are quite long and then we get into the modular cables so the modular cables that are included will plug into either here we go it will plug into either these red modular plugs or they will plug into the black ones now the black ones are on 12 volt rail one and they are for hold on a second I made a mistake oh I made a mistake this is a four rail power supply I'm sorry they're rated at 22 22 25 and 25 sorry I just I saw this label here and I love it when they label things this way because you can see here if you're plugging into these two you're plugging into 12 volt rail one if you're plugging into this one it is 12 volt rail three and if you plug into this one is 12 volt rail four so they label that out for you that's really nice and either one of these can accept either a six pin or an eight pin PCI Express or it could also accept one of the hard drive plugs okay and these ones though are for hard drives only okay so if I can just get this notice right away about this is that there are more modular cables than there are modular connectors on the power supply itself and what you can tell is that antec unlike some manufacturers hasn't missed the point of a modular power supply the point is that it gives you options so you can see that with the with the two included three connectors SATA cables you could actually plug in nine hard drives to this power supply say you don't need any other molex connectors well there you go you just do that or say you have a bunch of legacy molex devices and you need to use those so here we've got three molex on that one we've got three molex on that one so you could plug in a potential of that's a lot yeah nine molex devices as well as a floppy device and then for the final connector we have here this is a red one and you've got another six pin or six plus two pin PCI Express gives you a ton of different options I'm not sure based on the package that's included with the 650 watt power supply why they bother to include two that are compatible with PCIe I mean maybe you can buy additional cables but even then you probably shouldn't be powering three GPUs on a 650 watt power supply either way thank you for checking out my unboxing of the an Tek TP 650