welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair
ax1200i so this is an improvement over
the original ax 800 and there's did I say ax 800 cuz what I really meant to
say was ax1200 and there's a few 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
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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
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