Antec's HCP 1300 Platinum PSU is Powerful
Antec's new HCP 1300 Platinum truly lives up to the word "power" in "power supply."
Antec has announced its highest-wattage power supply to date – the HCP 1300. This power supply is built to be the ultimate high-end gaming power supply, and comes with all the technologies we'd expect from such a unit.
For starters, the unit is 80 Plus Platinum certified. Efficiency levels tower as high as 94 percent. In addition, it has a silent 135 mm fan, as well as 'stealth-wires' for minimal wiring visibility.
12 V power is dealt with through four individual 12 V rails that can all operate at 100 percent capacity on a continuous basis. If more power is needed, the PSU has Antec's OC Link technology to allow two of these power supplies to operate together, doubling the effective power available to a single machine.
The HCP 1300 Platinum also comes with a fully modular cable design, and support for the upcoming 28-pin MBU connector for motherboards (to replace the 24-pin ATX connectors). Furthermore, it comes with wiring for a total of 10 PCIe power connectors, allowing for a heap of graphics cards to be installed.
Even the labeling on the unit itself is well planned, as Antec has clearly shown which of the pins on the 12 V modular plugs correspond to which rail, which if properly used will help you ensure that you won't overload a single rail, but rather spread out the load.
"Antec Power supplies have always been known for their high quality, functionality and reliability," says Jerome Francois, European Sales Director at Antec, Inc. "The Antec HCP-1300 Platinum PSUs are not only quieter and energy efficient, but also equipped to provide customers with enhanced flexibility and a complete modular cable design to ensure a rewarding, high-performance experience."
The unit should be arriving to shelves any day now, with street pricing hovering around the $300 mark.

Pretty much this ^^
Unless you're running some quad-dual GPU setup with lots of water cooling, there is little way for a modern computer to consume anywhere near 1KW.
Many reviews, including Toms, will show kill-a-watt power usage, and you will see 100watt TDP CPUs coupled with 250watt GPUs, and both overclocked, and the entire system will be pulling less than 300watts at the socket. And that's with synthetic benchmarks which bring out the worst of them both.
Most TDPs are worst case, where everything is taxed to 100%. It's hard to both run the GPU and Memory at 100% because one is normally stalled waiting on the other.
I know TDP is "thermal", but it seems to be closely related to actual power draw and seems to be the value listed.
You apparently have no idea of what is written in the power supply's manual. As any power conversion equipment, efficiency is low at lower loads. I never said it wouldn't comply with the standard, what I meant (and wrote, actually), is that the advertised 94% efficiency is very unlikely to be met under realistic usage. 90% is still great, but it is not what is advertised.
Also, as for the "powerful" bit, there's this thing called sarcasm you might want to take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
A bargain is NOT what you pay, it's what you get. A powerful, quality PSU represents a degree of peace of mind not to be overlooked.
Yes but they're stealth cables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajiN9aVOv4A
I love when i see someone using a 1000 watt power supply with an i5, an AIO cooler with a mid range GPU. It just screams n00b. Ironically, thee are the same people that always complain about the lack of airflow direction on case fans lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajiN9aVOv4A
I love when i see someone using a 1000 watt power supply with an i5, an AIO cooler with a mid range GPU. It just screams n00b. Ironically, thee are the same people that always complain about the lack of airflow direction on case fans lol.
Well, I'm that person and I doubt even you would call me a noob. FYI, I've been specifying power supplies as part of my design job for over 40 of my 67 years. My power supplies don't fail because I don't work them as hard as you (and other more knowledgeable people than I) do. You're entitled to your opinion but you should tell others that it's an opinion as I do. I don't really have the time or inclination to prove my point to people who disagree. After all, it's their money. Sorry if I ruffled any of your "elder" feathers.
I love when i see someone using a 1000 watt power supply with an i5, an AIO cooler with a mid range GPU. It just screams n00b. .
Yeah and you reign supreme.
The problem with these so call claims, most system only use X amount of wattage at most is, none of the systems is actually running only on that amount, they're mostly running on a PSU with much higher wattage.
Just like graphic card reviews, a GPU only draws about 150w of power, then why is the testbed running that GPU using a 1000w PSU, and not something lower like 430w.
Can't seem to find any info about this new 20+8 MBU connector. Newegg does have a pic of that connector, but the connectors on the PSU itself, none of them is a 20+8 pin. The MB is just 20-pins, while the rest is 5-pins,16-pins, and the OC Link is 2-pins.
This is one has a clear shot of that 20+8 MBU connector cable.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371065
Planning to change my Antec Quattro 850w PSU...
Replace with this Antec HCP Platinum because of this future 20+8 pin MBU connector or get a Corsair AX860i , so I can see the actual amount of wattage I'm currently using with their Corsair software.