today we're going to be unboxing a power supply from Corsair's Builder series
which I have never had a look at in the past this is the CX 430 and by Builder
series what I'm assuming they mean is that it is ideal for building a system
around it okay so there it's a no no frills no gimmicks just straight this is
a decent power supply go ahead and use it to power a system that you need to
run for a long time sort of approach to things so let's see what Corsair has to
say for themselves on the back it is ideal for Home and Office use okay and
WorryFree compatibility for your home desktop for your upgrading all that good
stuff quick start guide Builder series with more than 15 years of building in
it's a single rail power supply which is pretty nice to see uh because at the 430
WT range you do send tend to start seeing uh dual rail power supplies now
while I'm not a huge fan of a single rail power supply all the way up until
like the the kilowatt ranges I do like to see single wat power supplies on the
low-end units and the reason for that is because a low-end unit with two split
12vt rails with a very low overall
rating on the 12 volts overall low
overall rating on overall yeah with a low overall rating on the 12vt rails as
soon as you split them you're going to run into trouble where if you have even
like a decent graphics card or you want to put like a high-end graphics card in
it even though the 400 30 wat would be enough to power it sometimes you might
run into trouble where one of the Rails is getting overloaded so that was a long
and drawn out way of saying I'm really glad to see it has a single 12v
rail in here we find some quick start guidish type stuff and that's pretty
much it and then yeah yeah this is pretty much No Frills although they do
include sleeve cables which is really nice to see on a value unit like this
we've got a power cord we've got some do not eat presumably some screws y we've
got screws and even some zip ties so four screws to fix to the case zip ties
as well as a powered by Corsair sticker in there so that's pretty nice and then
here we'll untether the cables and find out exactly what kind of connections we
have because if you're talking about a power supply that's just kind of for
your value Builder they're going to be concerned with things like well exactly
what can I hook up to this thing as you can see right away it's
quite small so even though it does have 120 mm fan it still it still even looks
kind of like like it looks even more huge than normal on this particular unit
because it's actually uh shorter than it is wide most power supplies are sort of
more Square so you can see right here the warranty is void if you remove this
sticker and open up the casing you should never open up a power supply unless you are a qualified professional
here we see some Corsair branding on the side the general specs of the PSU itself
are here so we've got 28 amps on the single 12vt rail it's it's capable of
providing 336 watts of the overall 430
Watts that this power supply can support now you see high-end systems or high-end
power supplies that really lean heavily towards the 12volt rail where they'll be
able to provide almost their entire power through the 12volt rail that kind
of thing is not really necessary on a low-end PSU like this because you're not
going to be running high-end graphics cards which are really the ones that
suck up a lot of 12vt juice so on the back we find a power switch as well as a
power plug you you can see inside some of the coils some of the heat sinks all
of that good stuff actually if I flip it over this way you'll be able to see
inside a lot better yeah that's way better okay so
let's have a look at what connectors we have on this guy first of all we have
your Standard 24 pin power connector we do have a breakaway four pin here so you
can plug it into a 20 pin board whether you're using an ITX board or an older
board cuz that's really what this is targeted at if you have an older system
you need to replace the power supply you want something good reliable you go with
something something like this here is a yes success we have a 4
plus 4 pin so that's an eight pin or a four pin power connector for the
motherboard and then we have a single PCI Express and this is kind of nice to
see look at that we've got a PCI Express 6 plus 2 so not only can you power a
single mid-range graphics card if they ever do change the standard to a single
8 Pin on on like mid-range graphics cards we're going to be ready for that
as well now in terms of of other connectors we've got aha so we have
three Molex four pins as well as one floppy connector and then on two
separate cables and this is smart because most of the time when you're building a new system you're going to
have your optical drive somewhere and then your hard drives like kind of
somewhere else so this allows you to plug in two Optical Drives together and
then two hard drives together which is really on like a 430 W powered system
going to be pretty much all you're going to see so thank you for checking out my
unboxing of the CX 430 don't forget to
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it this whole time I was trying to find the warranty for the thing because uh I
mean Corsair's big thing with their power supplies is they're super reliable
they have their legendary customer and Technical Support which I can personally
vouch for because I have used it anyway this particular unit unlike the high-end
units which carry five and even 7-year warranties has a 2year warranty so that
was just something I wanted to add