{"video_id":"7SdDL-A28Sg","title":"Corsair AX1200i Power Supply 80PLUS Platinum PSU Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":731,"segments":[{"start_s":7.319,"end_s":14.799,"text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.599,"end_s":17.359,"text":"ax1200i so this is an improvement over","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.799,"end_s":21.56,"text":"the original ax 800 and there's did I say ax 800 cuz what I really meant to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.96,"end_s":26.119,"text":"say was ax1200 and there's a few things that they've done differently so first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.08,"end_s":27.76,"text":"let's go over the Box itself digital ATX","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.119,"end_s":30.599,"text":"power supply so meaning they're using digitally controlled power for 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things that they've done differently so first let's go over the Box itself digital ATX power supply so meaning they're using digitally controlled power for tighter regulation quiet efficient operation and there's more to this than actually meets the eye it's fully modular just like the original ax1200 supports Corsair link yes quiet efficient operations so using Corsair link you can actually not only monitor the efficiency of the power supply you can also control things like fan profiles which has not yet been seen in uh well yeah ever I mean I think I've seen power supplies that have a dial on the back where you can sort of adjust the fan profile but this is more robust um they've also added 80 plus Platinum certification as opposed to the 80 plus gold certification of the original 1200 here's some modular cables that we're actually going to have a look at once we open it up so we're not going to worry too much about that okay digitally control Power for solid voltage regulation and outstanding performance upgraded internal components and digital design for ad80 plus Platinum configuration this is a great picture uh fully modular cables for quick and EAS installation okay so this is more of the same in terms of what they have to say for themselves so let's have a look at the back 80 plus Platinum basically means 90 plus Because unless you're at see even at 100% load you're just under that 90% Mark even on 115 volt input and if you're using 230 volt if you're in Europe or Asia or wherever else you'll actually basically unless you're at like you know 5% system load you're never going to fall below 90 you know 91 92% efficiency which is outstanding the fan doesn't even turn on until you reach 30% and I'm assuming this is just the stock profile because if you're using Corsair link you will be able to know how well your ax1200i is working at any given moment it lets you quickly tweak its performance so server Inspire diagnostic tools monitor real-time efficiency power usage configurable overcurrent protection points and fan profiles so overcurrent protection has been a bit of a Hot Topic because there's this constant back and forth debate do you want a multi-rail power supply with overcurrent protection applied in a way that would you know prevent um potential problems do you want a single rail power supply that can basically have the flexibility to power whatever components you plug into it no matter where you plug them in and Corsair is basically giving you the flexibility to go okay look we're giving you a single Rail and we're giving you the ability to actually control how the safety features are going to work to according to whatever you're comfortable with you don't see this very often though it's uh capable of providing 1, 124.80 mm cooling fan rounds out the list of features so now let's have a look at what's in the box so what Corsair is so good at compared to basically everyone else is products that work well together and look great together if you go with h we actually did a PC at NCI the store where I work uh we did a PC not that long ago that was all Corsair and ASUS premium branded parts and the end result was outstanding because all the parts work really well together and look really good together and the PC looked a lot more expensive than it actually was just due to the part selection that we used so that's just you know cool thing to be aware of and this oh look at that there's your Corsair link connector so you plug in by USB and then you've got uh of course their link adapter right there cool beans power cable nice thick one okay download the latest link dashboard software please visit there cool modular cable take a look at those after uh zip ties as well as of course their case badge some screws excellent users manual not going to worry too much about that now let's have a look at the power supply itself so it comes in a nice velvety baggie and see again things Corsair understands excellent quality foam you could pretty much you know what it' be kind of funny to do this but um you could pretty much drop that off a couple story building and I'm sure your power supply would survive to I mean don't do this you know please don't you know oh I bought a new cors areax 1200i today lonus and I'm going to throw it off my you know apartment complex because you said it would probably live be like no just no U so don't do it but I suspect it would be fine because it's an extremely robust packing material they're using and that's important because when you order your new system the last thing you want to do is get everything all unpacked and assembled and turn it on and doesn't work and packaging plays a big role in that so there's our 140 mil fan they've actually gone with quite a different aesthetic compared to the ax uh Noni Series so they've got a bit of a glossy shininess to the sticker now as well as a bit of uh texture and you know character to the overall shape of the of the metal so they've gone with a bit of a different fan Grill they still got the circular bars in there so you can't accidentally get anything in there 140 mil fan still got you know kind of a neat kind of looking thing here got your typical honeycomb Grill on the back with an onoff switch as well as your power in and then we find the modular interface so here we go oh cool okay so let's go let's let's do cables first I suppose so you got your 24 pin cable this pretty much stands to reason course they again they're so good at this all black cables beautiful actually give me a sec guys now these are the best quality included cables I think I've yet encountered so there's a few things about them that are kind of special so one we're used to that is the black black wires so that's fantastic number two is this is the best sleeving that I've ever seen included on a stock um on a stock sleeved power supply also the wires themselves are very very flexible very bendy and just have that you know that well that quality feel about them it's not going to impact performance in all likelihood but they look good they feel good and like I said the this is just like there's no gaps very dense sleeving compared to what you see on lesser lesser power supply products so included cables you've got two nice long four plus 4 pin connectors so you can support up to a dual 8 Pin motherboard without any difficulty whatsoever you've also got the flexibility of up to eight uh selectable either 6 Plus tws or 4 plus four so it comes with two four plus floors and six uh 6 plus 2 so that is PCI Express connector so you could do up to like an Uber motherboard with three dual cable graphics cards without any difficulty whatsoever however if you only needed uh let's say for example you only needed one eight pin but there's an auxiliary six pen on your motherboard and you could Source another cable you could actually use it for that so you can use them for whichever purpose you require you've got other included cables as well so you've got uh four by SATA cables Galore four of those and then you've got a bunch of Molex connectors as well so three uh three Molex four pins so you're only going to be able to plug in six of these but I think that should still be plenty I mean that gives you up to 12 drives did I say 12 cuz what I meant to say was 16 and then plus another you know 4X uh plus another four mole x's and then another so another 8 Mo X connectors if you can't power everything in your system at that point then you're probably doing something wrong on the back you also find a couple more things so one is a self test which is kind of cool to have included and oh right sorry a couple more things uh Molex to floppies there's two just in case you need them again very nice black sleeve or not black sleeve black wires and then there's this guy right here so that's the comp Port so l u whoops slick an eye that could be short for anything uh slick and I uh deduced that there's probably some kind of a cable that plugs into here but we couldn't figure out where it was and then we kind of went oh maybe it's in the cable bag so we dug through it and that is where you are able to plug in this to here and then the link to uh here and then that to go in there and that to USB and then slick sort of was like well if this is going to be mounted inside your case somewhere it should probably come with like double-sided tape on the back to which I responded bam because there's double-sided tape included in the little accessory baggie of course's good at these kinds of things so the ax 1200i is right side up no matter which way you mount your power supply oh you can do it again oh didn't work the cables are too Twisted um great looks great performance what else is there to really say cors our link compatibility is going to be huge for the tweaker and the gamer who really wants to monitor every last detail of their system and I think that pretty much wraps this up so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Corsair ax 1200i 80 plus Platinum power supply don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos o okay so uh I know I didn't throw it off a building but I'm sort of hoping this will make my point so even if your Courier like really abuses it bearing in mind that your box will be sealed and we probably should have taped it shut before we did this uh because that caused the box to to open so there you go there's some uh some Crush damage on the corner there there's some this is about as bad as you could expect it to arrive from your Courier and we're going to go ahead and investigate here so you can see that uh there's enough foam padding here to choke a horse or at least stop a fall from damaging your power supply and because it's a soft foam I I know I harp on soft foam but because it's a soft foam there's also no damage to the foam which means we could actually throw it out of the car again and it would survive whereas with a hard foam once it's broken the structural Integrity is dead and uh you don't get oh it's windy it's going to blow away all the paper and then I'll be a litterer okay so we're going to pull out the power supply and determine that it is indeed unscathed within its protective packaging so good don't forget to subscribe"}