Antec High Current Pro 1000W Platinum

[testman78]

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[AMDforME]

The Antec 1000w PSU looks like a good PSU but the Seasonic 1000w Platinum is ~$30. cheaper and as good or better based on Jonnyguru and other reviews. There seems to be an unusual ripple in the 3.3v circuit on the Antec 1000w PSU that affects the other rails... While it's not real bad, it is unusual.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php...tory3&reid=287

I didn't like seeing Newegg reviews of the Antec HCP 1000w Platinum being DOA and another failing after 1 month, however. Delta electonics is a reputable company capable of delivering a top notch PSU, so it's difficult to understand owner reviews with the above issues.

[dernettemann]

Nice rev.

[yojimbo197]

The Antec 1000w PSU looks like a good PSU but the Seasonic 1000w Platinum is ~$30. cheaper and as good or better based on Jonnyguru and other reviews. There seems to be an unusual ripple in the 3.3v circuit on the Antec 1000w PSU that affects the other rails... While it's not real bad, it is unusual.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php...tory3&reid=287

I didn't like seeing Newegg reviews of the Antec HCP 1000w Platinum being DOA and another failing after 1 month, however. Delta electonics is a reputable company capable of delivering a top notch PSU, so it's difficult to understand owner reviews with the above issues.

Having bought two PSU's from Newegg in the past 4 months, I can make an educated guess as to why people had problem with the Newegg Antec 1000's. Plainly put, Newegg does a ty job of packaging and protecting the PSU for subsequent shipping. Both times I've gotten PSU's from Newegg, the PSU box was put in the corner of the main box and then the packaging material stuffed on top.

[AMDforME]

Having bought two PSU's from Newegg in the past 4 months, I can make an educated guess as to why people had problem with the Newegg Antec 1000's. Plainly put, Newegg does a ty job of packaging and protecting the PSU for subsequent shipping. Both times I've gotten PSU's from Newegg, the PSU box was put in the corner of the main box and then the packaging material stuffed on top.

While I understand that Newgg uses $2/day employees... to pack many of their orders , that in itself should not cause a PSU to fail unless the actual PSU, not the outer or PSU box, was damaged. In other words just bounching the PSU around inside two boxes should not cause them to fail if they are properly made.

I don't know how Antec packages their PSUs but the ones that I have purchased over the past 15 years from PC Power and Cooling and Seasonic, have all been packaged properly in a box designed specifically for the PSU. No damage has ever occured via Shake & Break, i.e. UPS, nor were any of the PSUs DOA nor did any of them fail in over 6 years of 24/7 use. That's my reference point so that's why I find a DOA PSU to be of real concern, especially this Antec 1000w unit that looks to be a nice PSU.

[Barr3l Rid3r]

nice review, but wtf is this power consumptions graphics

Power Consumption




What it means? Loaded with what? it can vary a lot from systems to systems, PSUs don't dictate that, only it's efficiency...

Idle 200W? What u mean? if I brifge it and turn it on w/out anything attached, it will drain 200W of the wall? I really guess not ,100W AX in a small systems can even do 50W idle.

[AMDforME]

The graph is likely intended to show that the PSU has a lot of capacity even for a system that is GPU intensive and consuming a lot of power. In stress testing it's not unusual to see a desktop PC draw in excess of 500w so the 583w figure is not completely unreasonable considering the GPU isn't really being stressed in most stress testing other than GPU specific test.

As you say you can have very low idle power depending on the platform but I suspect the graph is intended to show that a 1000w PSU may be desirable for SLI/Crossfire set-ups or triples. Few people actually need a 1000w PSU so companies need to make a case to try and sell these expensive PSUs.

[testman78]

These are the components used:

Cpu:i7 870(oc@4.2 GHz -1.45v)
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus III Extreme
Hard Disk main: OCZ Vector (256GB)
Hard Disk second:HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 4tb
Gpu: Ati 6990
Desktop Resolution:2560 x 1440
Memory:2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3-1600 9-9-9-20
OS: Windows 7 x64


Load test done under Metro 2033.When we focus solely on gaming load, we see that the PSU draws 583W from the wall socket.