Antec TruePower QUATTRO 1000

VROOM!

It’s got racing stripes! And a single 8cm fan! And some modular cables! And very little else!

It took about five seconds for the 12 volt line to stabilise, but after that it was perfectly reliable. More interestingly, over the same period the five volt line sagged from 4.87 to a constant 4.69 – the lowest five volt average of any power supply.

The more useful result is the number of drives it managed to spin up. That number is 17, which makes the Antec quite mediocre. Amongst its single kilowatt peers, it’s on par with the Amacrox, and is beaten by the Corsair.
There are two eight pin PCI-e power cables hardwired into the PSU that can be used as six pin connectors. You get another two modular six pin connectors, so it will run every video card combination except triple SLI without needing to resort to molex adapters.

There’s nothing particularly special about it. We will say we’re thankful that Antec’s art director doesn’t appear to have made any sort of dodgy design statement intended to reflect what he or she thinks about what drives and what is inside of every geek.

Unlike some others we could mention. In Win. Oops, forgot to obscure that one by coughing.