Antec Basiq 430W

[shinji2k]

Newegg had these on sale for $35 shipped the other day so I grabbed a couple. I had to tear one open.

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/2204654/img/2204654.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/2204654)

http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/2204655/img/2204655.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/2204655)

http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/2204656/img/2204656.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/2204656)

http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/2204657/img/2204657.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/2204657)

If you haven't figured out who the OEM is yet, maybe this will help.

http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/2204658/img/2204658.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/2204658)

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/2204659/img/2204659.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/2204659)

http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/2204660/img/2204660.jpg (http://www.picturepush.com/public/2204660)

The 3.3V coil was ~1.5" above the PCB, glued to the heatsink.

As you can see it uses the CM6800 PWM/PFC controller. Bridge rectifier is a GBU8K. PFC has a BYC8-600 and a 20N60C3. Switching transistors are two K3568 in double forward. Secondary has two STPS30H100CT on the 12V, two STPS3045CT on the 5V and a STPS3045CT handling the 3.3V. Primary cap is an 85C Elite and secondary is a jumble of Rubycon, Nippon CC and Ltec.

[370forlife]

Glad they dropped FSP from the basiq now. Lower end delta's are much better, but are still just lower end deltas.

$35 shipped is cheap for a good 430W like that. Wish I could have caught that. I usually go the cheap route if I need a low wattage psu for a computer and get the solytech Rosewill 350W and do a recap with nichicon PW. They can actually do the 350W (theoretically, the first one I got I pulled the primary heatsink to change the switchers, only to find they are good for about 350W, as well as having a 30A, 45V part on the 5v, and a 30A, 45v part on the 12v and a 30A, 30v part on the 3.3v)

[sirvisegrip]

Nice pics,:)

Can you post another of the fan model label?

[shinji2k]

Nice pics,:)

Can you post another of the fan model label?
Here ya go.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll50/shinji2k/antec8.jpg

[Hondacity]

i like the pcb...its really clean :)

[Zero82z]

i like the pcb...its really clean :)
That's Delta for you.

[Makalu]

thanks for the pics...does it appear to be a single 12V rail design to you?

[Stefan Payne]

Looks a lot like my DPS-400AA-101 (Chieftec Label).
Should have some pics of it somewhere...

[Smirnoff]

XBitlabs did a review of that Chieftec a short time ago. Link (http://www.www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/chieftec-psu-roundup.html#sect3)

[Stefan Payne]

Hm, I'd like to read that review but I think they are down at the moment.

And I can't find the pictures I knew I've taken them *grr*
At least I got some but the soldering of the PCB isn't that interesting without the rest, I think...

[shinji2k]

thanks for the pics...does it appear to be a single 12V rail design to you?
It looks like there are two rails, but to be honest I'm not completely sure. There are some jumpers connecting the two rails but they each have their own trace going to the LM339 controller. Maybe not then, I don't know :o.

It does look pretty similar to Delta's usual low end build but there's no daughter board for the pwm/pfc controller. I don't know if they made any significant changes for Antec or just rearranged the PCB a bit.

[Makalu]

It looks like there are two rails, but to be honest I'm not completely sure. There are some jumpers connecting the two rails but they each have their own trace going to the LM339 controller. Maybe not then, I don't know :o.

It does look pretty similar to Delta's usual low end build but there's no daughter board for the pwm/pfc controller. I don't know if they made any significant changes for Antec or just rearranged the PCB a bit.

ok thanks...I'm not knowledgable enough to know if the LM339 controller handles just over voltage and short circuit monitoring or over current too but I'm guessing it does so it'd be dual rail with OCP and the only question left is what the limits actually are...thank ya very much :)

[TheLaw]

Wow...I did a good job reading. I originally asked what type of caps it used...Reading would have helped.

Sorry for the restoration of an old thread...

Elite on the primary. Yuck. The rest looks alright.

[shinji2k]

I haven't heard anything positive about Elite caps. They don't seem to hold up well in monitor PSUs and motherboards. I don't remember many issues with computer PSUs but then I don't think they are used very often. It's on the primary so it should hold up for a reasonable amount of time at least.

[Tator Tot]

I haven't heard anything positive about Elite caps. They don't seem to hold up well in monitor PSUs and motherboards. I don't remember many issues with computer PSUs but then I don't think they are used very often. It's on the primary so it should hold up for a reasonable amount of time at least.
Well considering most people buying this won't even load it to 430w the primary shouldn't fail fast.

Though it still would have been nicer to see at least a Samxon or something like other low end Delta's have.

It always seems odd to me that Delta uses mixed caps on the secondary on so many builds with NCC, Ltec, & Rubycon.

[MrWicked1968]

newegg is currently offering the 400w Neo Eco for the same price as the BP430

[Zap]

Wow, thread necro.

Newegg also has the Corsair 500CX for $35 and the Antec EarthWatts EA-430D for $30 (coupon codes, rebates, free shipping).

[rafal_iB_PL]

newegg is currently offering the 400w Neo Eco for the same price as the BP430

It's not like I would have a hard time picking up between those two. :P

Too bad there's none of those NeoEcos in EU.

[shovenose]

ive seen some good psus with fuhjyyu primary capacitors - not a big deal, because the primary caps dont get as tortured as the secondary capacitors.

but LTEC? WTF DELTA! ANTEC, HAVE YOU NOT LEARNED from the smartpower/truepower disaster!!!