Conclusion

With the HCP-850 Antec released a true high-end product. At least at a first glance. There is a costly AC filtering stage, an extremely high end fan, and the massive use of Nippon Chemi-Con and Rubycon capacitors. These are things which stand for highest quality and its hard to find other PC PSU's which are built according to similar standards. Furthermore this PSU is very reliable even if you plan it for long term usage. On the other hand there is the fact, that the 12V Mosfets could have been equipped with a more powerful cooling solution. Those Mosfets are only cooled indirectly via the case. Additionally the heatsinks are relatively small. Due to the fact that there is no clean airflow because of the messy design, Antec had to use a very strong fan for cooling. Therefore this PSU is relatively noisy under high loads.

The HCP-850 is a good PSU which does fulfil all its promises. But still, we recommend the Antec HCP-1000 Platinum (same OEM) instead. The latter has one of the nicest and cleanest designs we have seen so far in a retail PSU. Antec/Delta improved massively. Therefore we rate the Antec HCP-850 only with 3.5 Stars.

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Page 1 - Introduction

Page 2 - Preview

Page 3 - Delivery / Specs

Page 4 - A Look Inside

Page 5 - Input/Output Power and Efficiency

Page 6 - Result Analysis and Discussion

Page 7 - Conclusion

Author: JAVASCRIPT l.muehle@ocaholic.ch