Antec HCG 750W: Built for Gamers?
by Martin Kaffei on April 12, 2011 8:20 PM ESTInternal Components and Topology
Crack open the casing and we see why the housing is 18cm long. While the two main heatsinks are very thin, Antec has more than enough room to cool every single component on the very large PCB. As mentioned in the introduction, Antec uses Japanese capacitors. There are two Rubycon USG caps for PFC and some Nippon Chemi-Con caps for the secondary side. Even +5VSB has a Rubycon capacitor for filtering.
Moreover we can see many components behind the entrance, except there's no MOV to provide passive over voltage protection. Most coils are fixed by glue—a common method which is effective if you don't use too much, as that would be bad for cooling. For switching and rectifying, we can see many Infineon transistors and other known brands. Overall the build quality is as good as expected.
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sean.crees - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - link
I'm sorry, but if it's not 80+ Gold certified now a days, then it's not even an option. Maybe 5 years ago this would have been good, but now it's just meh. If your going to drop money on a quality PSU, you might as well get the gold standard.LeTiger - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - link
Agreed. If it's not Gold Cert, it's not going in my case.vol7ron - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - link
I guess we have different standards. I'm only buying 80+ Platinumiamezza - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - link
I'm only buy 100+ Unobtanium PSU'sThey are specified at over 100% efficiency - they actually put power back in to the grid.
Yuniverse - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - link
lol... love it ! :)Souka - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - link
If it's not at least %101 effecient then i'm not buying it...bigboxes - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - link
If the power company is not paying ME I'm not going to buy it.JMC2000 - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - link
Hopefully, there is a 1200W 100+ Unobtanium PSU, with around 120%-150% efficiency. That way, I can get max power, while only using ~7A @ 115V, and get paid by the electric co everytime I boot my Über 1337 PC :)PrinceGaz - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - link
110% efficiency PSU would not put any power back anywhere, rather the output power would be 110% of the input power from the mains. So if you drew 550W from a 110% "Unobtainium" PSU, it would still take 500W from the grid.As counter-intuitive as it seems, a PSU would actually need to have a negative efficiency figure in order to return power to the grid when drawing power from it (a -80% efficiency would mean that if you drew 500W from it, it would return 625W to the grid).
DarkKnight_Y2K - Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - link
LOL. That was a good one!