so today on my video blog we're going to be unboxing the Corsair HX 650 wat
Professional Series power supply so compared to their older HX 620 this is
actually the replacement unit so let's start getting this thing open so besides
the extra 30 WTS the other main benefit
of this over the 620 watt version is actually that it comes with a longer
warranty so the 620 had a 5year warranty
and this one comes with a 7year warranty
Corsair's warranty service is excellent I've actually got uh an HX 620 of my own
although knock on wood I've never actually had to RMA it uh anyway so
inside we're going to find the users manual right on the top comes in a bunch
of different languages very very dry reading then inside we will find a
powered by Corsair sticker along with some black zip ties for managing your
cables we're going to find a power cord then if I could just hold on to
things that would work a lot better four black screws for mounting the power
supply in your case and then let's have a look at the modular cable package so
it comes in a little Corsair baggie that's uh sealed by Velcro so you can
store things in it and open it and close it as you please so here we go modular
cables it uses the same connector as the old HX 620 so you got your little five
pin there so we've got one uh two 3 SATA
cables then we have two 6 plus 2 pin PCI
Express cables that modular and then we have oh wow another two 6 plus2 PCI
Express that's uh a lot more than used to come on the hx620 and then we've only
got two Molex connectors so that's actually a good move I think on
Corsair's part the old one used to come with I believe four and it's kind of
unnecessary these days so here we're
going to find something quite quite strange indeed and we will find the
preattached cable so you've got a 24 pin
cable here so that's your 20 plus 4 pin it's actually detachable if you need to
attach to a 24 pin motherboard or a 20 pin sorry and then we have a 4 plus 4 so
that's an 8 Pin EPS connector now here
I'm actually a little bit confused here I have to confess as to what exactly
these cables are oh I see this is
brilliant so this is actually a Y adapter cable so you plug in one six pin
here just like that and then it actually
splits out into two 6 plus 2 pin so that
gives you a total of four 6 plus2 pin or
8 Pin PCI Express connectors that's pretty neat actually and then you can
plug in all of the modular cables for SATA and MOX that are included by just
plugging them all in here it's a very clean little interface let's have a look
at the unit itself so on the front of it here we've got a little shiny uh you
know this is made by Corsair don't pretend you made it if you're not
Corsair sticker then we have these labeling on the side this is actually
quite a small unit compared to many of the high-end power supplies that I've
seen in the past so on the back there's no 115 or 230 volt uh switch so that
means that it's got active power factor correction then on the other side we see
another label so if you install I noticed if you install this in the
corser obsidian case you can perfectly see their label so you can tell it was
designed with that in mind on the top top of the unit we'll find the spec so
you can see we've got 52 amps on the 12vt rail that's going to be one of your
most important specs so you can actually draw 624 watts of the 650 from the 12vt
rail so it's terrific to see that on the bottom we've got a 120 mil fan cooling
the unit and if it's anything like Corsair's other power supplies it'll be
extremely quiet so just as a quick size
comparison against just a typical Cheapo power supply you can see it's only a
little bit longer than your standard OEM power supply just it's about as long as
a warranty void if removed sticker is wide so thank you for checking out my
video blog on the Corsair HX 650 Wat