 Today we're going to be having a look at Antec's Uberist power 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 supply. 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 know, you can decide whether you want to read the documentation inside the box or the documentation outside the box. Now Antec's 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 packed 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 going to 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, yeah it's 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 it 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 build than silver ones especially if you're using a black case which most of the high end ones these days are. Alright 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. So why don't we show the, yeah let's, 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 Antec has to say for themselves on the box here so I'm just going to put the box back together and show you guys this side first. So it has universal input that means there's no little switch. Alright it has eight 6 plus 2 pin connectors so that means up to four high end graphics cards. It's multi-core ready. High current output 30 amps times 8 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 say for example even higher end graphics cards that are coming. Alright oh right 12 8 volt, okay that's what I said. And then we've also got two 8 pin power connectors so that means that we're certified for EPS 12 volt 2.92. One of them is a 4 plus 4 and the other one is a straight 8 pin so you can run motherboards like the VGA SR2. 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 going to stay at pretty much negligible 500 to 1000 RPM. That is not going to be audible and by the time you're ramping up to the point where I mean remember 50 percent to 60 percent load on this power supply is 600 to 800 watts. We're talking like major major power draw so by the time you're actually pulling 1000 watts out of the power supply and it starts to get loud there's probably something else in your rig that's making noise too. It's rated for continuous power like every single Antec power supply on the market not peak power although I have seen, I have actually seen first hand experiences with this power supply pulling 8 or providing 1800 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 EUP 2010 certification so that's pretty cool, 2 8 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 5 volt and 3.3 volt rails actually comes from the 12 volt rail just being adapted rather than having dedicated circuitry for those. 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. Alright I don't know whether it's going to 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 going to 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 volt 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 Antec has cleverly made it so that no matter how you mount this power supply in your case whether it's this way or oh no. Okay well it looks like Antec really intends for you to mount it this way because it's going to be right side up for your sticker you're going to be able to see this and you're going to hide the sticker with all of the little random information on it on the bottom. So that's probably going to be optimal. Here at the back we find a, oh okay so that's an 80mm Sanyo Denki fan. Sanyo Denki fans are renowned for being the highest quality especially when you're under bolting they're not going to 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 fan 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 going to 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 80mm fan. So Antec's philosophy is that with an efficient internal layout you don't need to really pump the RPM's up on the fan in order to draw a lot of airflow through and cool the components. You can actually see clear through to my fingers on the other side. Can you see that through 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 plus 4 pin that is a 24 pin connector. You can see it's actually sleeved pretty nicely. Antec's sleeving hasn't been my favorite sometimes in the past but because I mean especially on the Quattro 1200 they had 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 8 pin as well as the 4 plus 4 pin so that's either dual 8 pin or single 8 pin plus 4 pin. Alright 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 4 6 plus 2 pins then you probably don't need a 1200 watt power supply because if you're not running two graphics cards there's pretty much no justification for it whatsoever. So in this other bundle we're going to find a 6 plus 2 pin, another 6 plus 2 pin, once again these are fully sleeved even the in between lengths. 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 Antec 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. So we've got actually up to 30 amps according to the rated specification for the power supply per graphics card because every 6 plus 2 pin harness, each 2 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 3 mole X odds are you need at least a couple mole X for any kind of build that you're doing and then 3 SATA cables. So after that we've got modular cables and I'm going to show you actually something that I really like about this power supply in just a moment. So the first one we got, here we go. So you can see this one's actually not labeled in terms of the 12 volt rail. You know what I should check, oh yeah yeah look look look even the 24 pin as well as the 8 pin and the 4 plus 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, alright so those are where you're going to be able to plug in up to an additional 4 PCIe 6 plus 2 pin connectors. So that is to say you can have 4 GTX 580s running off of this power supply with no sweat whatsoever. Pretty crazy. Alright, so here we go. We've got a SATA connector here, we've got a SATA here, we've got SATA here. Alright, let's have a look at what we've 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 3 of these SATA cables which each have 3 so that is up to 12 SATA devices. So you could run you know a Blu-ray drive, DVD drive and then like a 10 drive Rateray or something directly off the power supply with zero adapters. If you so desire. If you don't need so much SATA, you've also got 2 Molex modular cables. So Antec 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 Molex 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 2 graphics cards but you need all 12 SATA connectors and you need all 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 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 going to 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 SATA and Molex as well as all 3 of the HDD labeled modular connectors are running off 12 volt 4. 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 hooked up 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. The system was shutting down and what I was able to do with that one was I had to adapt and use a different 12 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 anyway I had to use an adapter with that one. 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 OCP. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Antec 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.