Absolutely unnecessary

The Jeantech comes in a large and uninspiring box which lists the various features, rail outputs and that it supports AMD Athlon X2 and Intel Core 2 Duo. I’ve seen this unit for sale in PC World and putting these logos on the front is sure to inspire confidence in buyers with little knowledge of the power supply scene.

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Inside the box you get the power supply itself, all of the modular cables, a manual and power cable.

All of the cables that the Absolute commands are sleeved in a nice and thick Nylon braid which hides most of the coloured wires underneath and are held in place with the usual heat-shrink bands. While the unit is modular, the 20+4pin ATX lead and the EPS 8pin are hardwired to the unit which makes sense as you’ll always need these two for your system. It’s unfortunate that the EPS connector isn’t the 4+4pin type, as if you are using a board that needs only a 4pin connector you’ll have to use a modular cable and have the 8pin clogging up airflow.

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The 20+4pin cable is odd, as the 4pin part swings round as its physically connected to the plug by a thin piece of plastic. The picture shows it after I tried to plug it into a 20pin ATX socket, and the 4pin part broke off; still completely usable but it seems like a strange decision to have it connected in the first place.

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The modular cables all have coloured ends, with the PCI-e cables each having a bright green end, which matches the socket in which it should be connected. All of the other sockets and cables have blue ends, and you can’t connect a PCI-e cable to a blue port and vice versa. All of the blue tipped cables can fit in any of the blue sockets, which allows you to distribute the load onto the rails as you see fit. This is helped by the fact that each of the sockets are labeled as to which rail they are being fed by. The PCI-e cables have a rail each between two ports which relates to 12v1 and 12v2. The motherboard is supplied by 12v4 hence why there are only two 12v4 blue ports available, while the 12v3 rail is for all of your peripherals and drives.

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You get a vast array of cables to power your system. While there are only four PCI-e sockets, you get six PCI-e cables. The reason being, two of these six are the 8 pin PCI-e type, while the rest are the more widely used 6 pin. This allows the Absolute to power the latest graphics cards while retaining the ability to send juice to older GPU’s, all without the use of adaptors and hence keeping down cable bulk.

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You don’t get enough standard cables to fill all of the blue sockets on the rear of the PSU, allowing you to pick and choose which device gets which rail. There is an entire cable dedicated to a 4 pin plug which is used if your motherboard doesn’t allow the 8 pin EPS connector to fit. The other four cables are for SATA and molex devices; the SATA chains each have six plugs, and the molex chains each have three molex plugs along with a FDD plug.

The unit is cooled with the usual bottom mounted 120mm fan, and the not-so-usual rear 80mm slot filled with another blower. This configuration is rare on lower wattage units, but is necessary to keep the transformers inside nice and cool when they are pumping up to 1000W out the back. Neither of these fans are LED equipped and this suits the grey metal that the unit is fashioned from. There aren’t any flashy logos, or any embellishments that other units have, and other than the usual rail sticker on the side, nothing says Jeantech on the box. This could be because the unit is an OEM product that has been branded by Jeantech which is likely, or it could be that Jeantech are going for a nice simple design rather than an over-the-top gaming styled product.

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The rear of the unit has a fairly epic switch allowing you to turn the unit on/off as you see fit. Below this is the standard kettle lead socket with the 80mm fan grill by the side.

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