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today we're going to be having a look at antics uber espouse supply ever this is the high current Pro 1200 watt it is an SLI ready yeah duh SLI ready 80 plus gold certified 1200 watt power supplies so the first thing we're going to do is start ripping open the packaging and then we're going to show you the packaging then we're going to take off the box and then we're going to show you the product itself actually I lied today we're going to open the box right away because I'm actually really excited to see this thing this is from everything that I've seen pretty much the king of power supplies right now alright the first thing we're going to find inside is the HCP 1200 product overview most of the information here appears to be already on the outside of the box so you can decide whether you want to read the documentation inside the box or the documentation outside the box now and next packaging I have to admit felt a little flimsy to me initially but now I can see why they're doing that the reason that it felt that way is because they've actually tacked it using environmentally-friendly cardboard so they've gone with two double walled layers of cardboard on all sides of the power supply it fits together like a little puzzle so if we go ahead and pull the whole thing out you can see that's how it goes together and so realistically it's gonna provide adequate protection versus something like foam but it's also a lot less damaging to the environment because it doesn't take so long to break down in a landfill or wherever else it happens to be it's also completely recyclable so it shouldn't end up in a landfill I guess that's an equally valid point alright first thing let's do accessories we've got the power cable which as you can see is thick this thing is huge I'm just going to try and find three yes 14 AWG but it is a normal power cable so it doesn't use that special connector that we saw on the Quattro 1200 OC alright we've got four black screws for mounting in your case I like those little touches black screws just have slightly better fit and finish overall when you're doing a really nice bill Bend silver ones especially if you're using a black case which most of the high-end ones these days are all right in here we have some modular cables I don't know if I mentioned already but this power supply does have cable management or modular cables all right so why don't we show the mullets no let's show the power supply first and then we'll show the modular cables I did want to cover some of the stuff that an Tek has to say for themselves on the box here so I'm just gonna put the box back together and show you guys this side first all right so it has Universal input that means there's no little switch all right it has eight six plus two pin connectors so that means up to four high end graphics cards it's multi-core ready high current output 30 amps times eight so it has eight 12-volt rails that are rated at 30 amps for their over current protection mind you I've seen this power supply tested providing up to 40 amps on one rail so it looks like they've built in a fair bit of wiggle room for any kind of improvements to hardware that make it draw more power on one rail like I say for example even higher in graphics cards that are coming alright alright 12 April okay that's what I said and then we've also got 2 8 pin power connectors so that means that we're certified for EPS 12 volt 2.9 to one of them is a 4 + 4 and the other one is a straight 8 pin so you can run motherboards like the EVGA SR 2 we've got industrial grade protection 80 millimeter PWM fan don't be afraid of the 80 millimeter fan antec actually specifically calls out on the other side of their box the way that they have the profile set up for this fan is such that up until you hit about 50 to 60 percent load it's gonna stay at like pretty much negligible 500 to a thousand rpm that is not going to be audible and by the time you're ramping up to the point where I mean remember 50% to 60% load on this power supply is 600 to 800 watt we're talking like major major power draw so by the time you're actually pulling a thousand watts of the power supply and it starts to get there's probably something out than your rig that's making noise - it's rated for continuous power like every single anti power supply on the market not peak power although I have seen I have actually seen firsthand experiences with this power supply at pulling eight are providing 1,800 watts of power so never mind continuous power 1200 watt it can provide a lot more than that active power factor correction okay we've got Japanese branded capacitors we've got the oh yeah EU P 2010 certification so that's pretty cool - eight pin CPU I already talked about that hybrid cable management talked about that and DC to DC architecture which is mostly interesting to PSU geeks but what it basically means is that the power for the five volt and 3.3 volt rails actually comes from the 12 volt rail just being adaptive rather than having dedicated circuitry for those it's it's it is a good approach there's a reason they put it on the side of the box so let's see the power supply itself it actually kind of reminds me of some of their other high-end products so the Antec logo is similar to the one you find on like the 1200 gaming case all right I don't know whether it's gonna be visible in your case depending on how you mount it yeah probably actually so you'll either see it this way or if you mount it the other way around in your case you're gonna see all of those fancy specs so actually I want the cameraman to come have a look you can see all 12 volt rails are here they are all rated at a maximum of 30 amps and a minimum of 0 amps you can see that the 12 volt rails combined are capable of 1188 watts or 99 amps and then they've actually broken out the 5 volt 3.3 bull and the other sort of less important rails into a separate little chart here we've also got the 80 plus gold certification here as well as a couple different languages for all the information that we find alright let's move around to the side so you can see an tech has severally made it so that no matter how you mount this power supply in your case whether it's this way or oh no ok well it looks like an tech really intends for you to mount it this way because it's going to be right side up for your sticker you're gonna be able to see this and you're gonna hide the sticker with all of the little random infor on it on the bottom so that's probably going to be optimal here at the back we find a okay so that's an 80 millimeter sin sanyo dinky fan sanyo dinky fans are renowned for being the highest quality especially when you're under bolting they're not gonna get any ticking or buzzing noises that are going to be bothersome so I'd expect this power supply to be very very quiet up until the point where the fun really starts ramping up we've got a power switch as well as our power cable input here and then around to the other side we've got a grill at the front you can actually kind of see inside I'm gonna try and get you guys some more light to see in there but this power supply uses a dual PCB design so there's actually a PCB on the top of the unit as well as a PCB on the bottom of the unit that gives them a lot more room to do soldering rather than having one PCB at the bottom and it also allows them to effectively lay out the components internally so there's very little air resistance for the 80ml fan so an tech philosophy is that with an efficient internal layout you don't need to really pump the RPMs up on the fan in order to draw a lot of airflow through and cool the components you can actually see clear through to thee to my fingers on the other side can you see that to the camera yeah you can so that's why even though it's spinning at a low rpm it's able to effectively move air through the unit so let's have a look at the pre-attached cables and then we will go ahead and take a look at those modular cables as well these are a bit of a challenge for me but I'll figure it out yeah there we go okay sorry so the first bundle is going to have our 20+4 pin that is a 24-pin connector okay you can see it's actually sleeved pretty nicely okay an ant X leaving hasn't been my favorite sometimes in the past but because I mean especially on the Quattro 1200 they had those those capacitors here so they had like kind of weird lumps on all the cables so this is quite a bit better alright next we've got the eight pin as well as the four plus four pin so that they're dual 8-pin or single a plinth pins plus for kids all right and then we've got another bundle here so it has quite a lot of pre attached cables and I hear people criticizing that sometimes however I'm going to give you guys a bit of a different philosophy on what I think of lots of pre-attached cables on a 1200 watt power supply because I think it's just fine because if you have a 1200 watt power supply and you're not running at least a 24 pin a single 8 pin and then oh man this is taking me forever to remove I'm sorry guys and then a couple of high end graphics cards so for 6 plus 2 pins then you probably don't need a 1200 watt power supply because if you're not running 2 graphics cards there's pretty much no justification for it whatsoever so in this other bundle we're gonna find a 6 plus 2 pin another 6 plus 2 pin once again these are fully sleeved even be in between lengths ok and then we have another 6 plus 2 pin as well as a 6 plus 2 pin I also want to take a second and show you guys how ntek labels those 8 12-volt rails so you can see that the 12 volt rail is clearly labeled on the side of the connector for these PCIe alright so we've got actually up to 30 amps according to the rated specification for the power supply / graphics card because every 6 + 2 pin harness okay each two are actually on their own 12 volt rail and that also goes for the modular connectors which I'll show you in a minute so the other pre-attached cables once again I don't mind this because it's only three molex odds are you need at least a couple molex for any kind of build that you're doing and then three SATA cables so after that we've got modular cables and I'm gonna show you actually something that I really like about this power supply in just a moment so the first one you got here we go so you can see this one's actually not labeled in terms of the 12 volt rail oh yeah I can look look look even the 24 pin as well as the 8 pin and the 4 + 4 pin also have labels and each CPU connector has its own 12 volt rail as well alright here we go so these are not labeled however they are labeled on the power supply themselves so 12 volt 7 12 volt 8 all right so those are where you're going to be able to plug in up to an additional 4 PCIe 6 + 2 pin connectors so that is to say you can have 4 GTX 580 s running off of this power supply with no sweat whatsoever pretty crazy all right so here we go we've got a connector here SATA here we got SATA here all right let's have a look at what we got included so let's say you're doing a fairly modern build you're not running a ton of molex devices you have up to 3 more modular connectors so you can plug in another three of these SATA cables which each have three so that is up to 12 SATA devices so you can run you know a blu-ray drive DVD drive and then like a 10 drive raid array or something directly off the power supply with 0 adapters if you so desire if you don't need so much SATA you've also got to Molech modular cables so ntek is giving you the option to install whatever it is that you need one of them is 3 molex and the other one is 3 wool X and one floppy connector so if you actually still need one of these yes they have provided one on one of the modular cables now here's a really cool thing let's say you've only got two graphics cards but you need all 12 SATA connectors and you need all nine 9 molex connectors well here's a neat one you can take these ones out and then you can go ahead and plug a molex one into here look at that BAM that's simple so that also gives you the ability to run peripherals off another 12 volt rail because the way the power supply is set up by default okay I'm gonna try and find you a molex yeah okay these ones aren't labeled and these aren't labeled but all of the peripheral connectors so the ones that are pre attached theta and molex as well as all three of the HDD labeled modular connectors are running off 12 volt for now remember that's 30 amps that's a lot for water cooling pumps fans hard drives basic stuff you'd have to have a lot of stuff in order to trip that 30-amp OCP however I actually recently did a build with 24 hard drives and I found when I initially booted it up this was with a Quattro 1200 watt when I initially booted it up I was getting an error in the system was shutting down and what I was able to do with that one was I had to adapt and use a different twelve volt rail to power some of the hard drives so if you are powering like 24 hard drives and then some other stuff sorry about that we reached maximum video length which means I better finish this up pretty quick so I had to use an adapter with that one it suffice to say I would have been able to just take a cable and plug it into the PCIe connector on this one and that would have taken care of it for me by putting some of the hard drives on a separate 12 volt rail so that when they all spin up at the same time and draw a bunch of juice it doesn't trigger the OSAP so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the an Tek high current pro 1200 watt continuous power 80 plus gold all that good stuff don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other awesome content