A Closer Look – Exterior
The top of the Antec HCG 620W has a custom fan grille and is dominated by that 135mm fan. You can also see an Antec badge at the centre.
The cable end houses all the modular connectors for the modular cables.
The left side has the Antec branding and model sticker.
The right side has this the other way up so its “the right way up” whichever way you choose to mount power supply.
The bottom has the sticker with power details on.
The rear uses hexagonal mesh, a standard kettle input with on/off switch and has an Antec logo.
With this being semi-modular it has only the motherboard 24 pin and CPU 8pin (4+4) attached.
In terms of modular cables we have two 6+2 pin connectors for a single card with dual PCIe connectors (such as a GTX 770) or two cards with a single PCIe connector (such as CFX HD 7790s). There is also a SATA cable string with three SATA connectors on.
You also get another three cables with 3 SATA, 3 Molex and 3 Molex & 1 FDD respectively.
It’s all the PSU 95% of people will ever need. Why cough up for a gold or platinum certified PSU? You’ll never be able to recoup the extra money spent on that PSU on your electricity bill.
While it is important to use a quality, efficient PSU, the bronze, silver,gold & platinum rating is more about marketing and the excuse to charge more. It all means very little to the end user but a lot of purchasers base their purchase on high wattage & colour certification alone.
I would’ve liked to have seen the main cap a 105 deg. rated Nippon Chemi-con instead of 85 but that makes little to no difference.