WEBVTT 00:00:07.319 --> 00:00:14.799 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:17.359 ax1200i so this is an improvement over 00:00:14.799 --> 00:00:21.560 the original ax 800 and there's did I say ax 800 cuz what I really meant to 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:26.119 say was ax1200 and there's a few things that they've done differently so first 00:00:23.080 --> 00:00:27.760 let's go over the Box itself digital ATX 00:00:26.119 --> 00:00:30.599 power supply so meaning they're using digitally controlled power for tighter 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:34.840 regulation quiet efficient operation and there's 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:39.160 more to this than actually meets the eye it's fully modular just like the 00:00:36.239 --> 00:00:45.399 original ax1200 supports Corsair link yes quiet efficient operations so using 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:48.000 Corsair link you can actually not only 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:54.120 monitor the efficiency of the power supply you can also control things like 00:00:50.239 --> 00:00:57.719 fan profiles which has not yet been seen 00:00:54.120 --> 00:00:59.719 in uh well yeah ever I mean I think I've 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:04.799 seen power supplies that have a dial on the back where you can sort of adjust 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:06.680 the fan profile but this is more robust 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:11.159 um they've also added 80 plus Platinum certification as opposed to the 80 plus 00:01:08.479 --> 00:01:14.720 gold certification of the original 1200 here's some modular cables that we're 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:19.799 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 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:24.240 control Power for solid voltage regulation and outstanding performance upgraded internal components and digital 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:28.200 design for ad80 plus Platinum configuration this is a great picture uh 00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:32.759 fully modular cables for quick and EAS installation okay so this is more of the same in terms of what they have to say 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:37.000 for themselves so let's have a look at the back 80 plus Platinum basically 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:43.399 means 90 plus Because unless you're at see even at 100% load you're just under 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:45.040 that 90% Mark even on 115 volt input and 00:01:43.399 --> 00:01:49.079 if you're using 230 volt if you're in Europe or Asia or wherever else you'll 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:54.119 actually basically unless you're at like you know 5% system load you're never 00:01:52.600 --> 00:02:00.560 going to fall below 90 you know 91 92% efficiency which is 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:04.759 outstanding the fan doesn't even turn on until you reach 30% and I'm assuming 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:09.599 this is just the stock profile because if you're using Corsair link you will be 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:13.000 able to know how well your ax1200i is working at any given moment it lets you 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:17.840 quickly tweak its performance so server Inspire diagnostic tools monitor 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:23.440 real-time efficiency power usage configurable overcurrent protection 00:02:19.640 --> 00:02:26.640 points and fan profiles so overcurrent 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:29.120 protection has been a bit of a Hot Topic 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:33.160 because there's this constant back and forth debate 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:38.800 do you want a multi-rail power supply with overcurrent protection applied in a 00:02:35.480 --> 00:02:41.000 way that would you know prevent um 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:45.879 potential problems do you want a single rail power supply that can basically 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:49.760 have the flexibility to power whatever components you plug into it no matter 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:53.280 where you plug them in and Corsair is basically giving you the flexibility to 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:57.720 go okay look we're giving you a single Rail and we're giving you the ability to 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:01.040 actually control how the safety features are going to work to according to 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:06.840 whatever you're comfortable with you don't see this very often though it's uh 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.840 capable of providing 1, 00:03:22.959 --> 00:03:29.080 124.80 mm cooling fan rounds out the 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:34.439 list of features so now let's have a look at what's in the box so what 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:38.480 Corsair is so good at compared to 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:41.480 basically everyone else is products that 00:03:38.480 --> 00:03:43.400 work well together and look great 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:48.319 together if you go with h we actually did a PC at NCI the store where I work 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:55.280 uh we did a PC not that long ago that was all Corsair and ASUS premium branded 00:03:52.079 --> 00:03:57.879 parts and the end result was outstanding 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:02.400 because all the parts work really well together and look really good together 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:06.959 and the PC looked a lot more expensive than it actually was just due to the 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:12.319 part selection that we used so that's just you know cool thing to be aware of 00:04:10.079 --> 00:04:16.600 and this oh look at that there's your Corsair link connector so you plug in by 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:22.120 USB and then you've got uh of course their link adapter right there cool 00:04:19.400 --> 00:04:28.080 beans power cable nice thick one okay download the latest link 00:04:24.919 --> 00:04:30.960 dashboard software please visit there 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:36.960 cool modular cable take a look at those after uh zip ties as well as of course 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:38.680 their case badge some screws excellent 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:41.880 users manual not going to worry too much about that now let's have a look at the 00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:48.440 power supply itself so it comes in a nice velvety baggie and see again things 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:53.520 Corsair understands excellent quality foam you could pretty much you know what 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:58.280 it' be kind of funny to do this but um you could pretty much drop that off a 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:03.080 couple story building and I'm sure your power supply would survive to I mean 00:05:00.840 --> 00:05:06.720 don't do this you know please don't you know oh I bought a new cors areax 1200i 00:05:05.320 --> 00:05:11.199 today lonus and I'm going to throw it off my you know apartment complex 00:05:09.080 --> 00:05:17.880 because you said it would probably live be like no just no U so don't do it but 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:19.960 I suspect it would be fine because it's 00:05:17.880 --> 00:05:23.680 an extremely robust packing material they're using and that's important 00:05:21.919 --> 00:05:28.120 because when you order your new system the last thing you want to do is get 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:33.880 everything all unpacked and assembled and turn it on and doesn't work and 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:37.199 packaging plays a big role in that so there's our 140 mil fan they've actually 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:43.160 gone with quite a different aesthetic compared to the ax uh Noni Series so 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:49.160 they've got a bit of a glossy shininess to the sticker now as well as a bit of 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:51.319 uh texture and you know character to the 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:54.280 overall shape of the of the metal so they've gone with a bit of a different 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:58.600 fan Grill they still got the circular bars in there so you can't accidentally 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:02.600 get anything in there 140 mil fan still got you know kind of a neat kind of 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:06.639 looking thing here got your typical honeycomb Grill on the back with an 00:06:04.280 --> 00:06:13.680 onoff switch as well as your power in and then we find the modular interface 00:06:08.840 --> 00:06:16.680 so here we go oh cool okay so let's go 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:18.639 let's let's do cables first I suppose so 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:25.120 you got your 24 pin cable this pretty much stands to reason course they again 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:25.120 they're so good at this all black 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:32.160 cables beautiful actually give me a sec guys now these are the best quality 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:36.000 included cables I think I've yet encountered so there's a few things 00:06:33.880 --> 00:06:40.479 about them that are kind of special so one we're used to that is the black 00:06:37.919 --> 00:06:47.240 black wires so that's fantastic number two is this is the best sleeving that 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:50.280 I've ever seen included on a stock um on 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:53.000 a stock sleeved power supply also the 00:06:50.280 --> 00:06:56.879 wires themselves are very very flexible very bendy and just have that you know 00:06:55.080 --> 00:07:01.960 that well that quality feel about them it's not going to impact performance in 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:04.319 all likelihood but they look good they 00:07:01.960 --> 00:07:10.080 feel good and like I said the this is just like there's no gaps very dense 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:15.759 sleeving compared to what you see on lesser lesser power supply products so 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:17.759 included cables you've got two nice long 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:23.039 four plus 4 pin connectors so you can support up to a dual 8 Pin motherboard 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:28.919 without any difficulty whatsoever you've also got the flexibility of up to 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:31.160 eight uh selectable either 6 Plus tws or 00:07:28.919 --> 00:07:37.160 4 plus four so it comes with two four plus floors and six uh 6 plus 2 so that 00:07:35.479 --> 00:07:43.319 is PCI Express connector so you could do up to like an Uber motherboard with 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:46.000 three dual cable graphics cards without 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:49.639 any difficulty whatsoever however if you only needed uh let's say for example you 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:53.120 only needed one eight pin but there's an auxiliary six pen on your motherboard 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:56.560 and you could Source another cable you could actually use it for that so you 00:07:54.360 --> 00:08:02.360 can use them for whichever purpose you require you've got other included cables 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:05.159 as well so you've got uh four by SATA 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:10.240 cables Galore four of those and then you've got a bunch of Molex connectors 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.720 as well so three uh three Molex four 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:16.159 pins so you're only going to be able to plug in six of these but I think that 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:22.120 should still be plenty I mean that gives you up to 12 drives did I say 12 cuz 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:26.919 what I meant to say was 16 and then plus another you know 4X uh plus another four 00:08:24.919 --> 00:08:30.199 mole x's and then another so another 8 Mo X connectors if you can't power 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:35.560 everything in your system at that point then you're probably doing something wrong on the back you also find a couple 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:39.919 more things so one is a self test which is kind of cool to have included and oh 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:43.560 right sorry a couple more things uh Molex to floppies there's two just in 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:47.279 case you need them again very nice black sleeve or not black sleeve black wires 00:08:45.959 --> 00:08:51.519 and then there's this guy right here so that's the comp Port so l u whoops slick 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:56.880 an eye that could be short for anything uh 00:08:54.200 --> 00:09:00.360 slick and I uh deduced that there's probably some kind of a cable that plugs 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:04.600 into here but we couldn't figure out where it was and then we kind of went oh 00:09:02.800 --> 00:09:10.480 maybe it's in the cable bag so we dug through it and that is where you are 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:12.440 able to plug in this to here and then 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:21.760 the link to uh here and then that 00:09:18.160 --> 00:09:24.160 to go in there and that to USB and then 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:26.519 slick sort of was like well if this is going to be mounted inside your case 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:30.160 somewhere it should probably come with like double-sided tape on the back to 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:35.880 which I responded bam because there's double-sided tape 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.880 included in the little accessory 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:41.920 baggie of course's good at these kinds of things so the ax 1200i is right side 00:09:40.640 --> 00:09:48.000 up no matter which way you mount your power supply oh you can do it again oh 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:51.600 didn't work the cables are too Twisted um great looks great performance what 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:55.120 else is there to really say cors our link compatibility is going to be huge 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:58.880 for the tweaker and the gamer who really wants to monitor every last detail of 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:05.839 their system and I think that pretty much wraps this up so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:07.560 at the Corsair ax 1200i 80 plus Platinum 00:10:05.839 --> 00:10:12.240 power supply don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips for more unboxings 00:10:08.959 --> 00:10:12.240 reviews and other computer 00:10:27.920 --> 00:10:31.320 videos o 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:58.399 okay so uh I know I didn't throw it off a 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:02.480 building but I'm sort of hoping this will make my point 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:06.399 so even if your Courier like really abuses it bearing in mind that your box 00:11:04.920 --> 00:11:12.680 will be sealed and we probably should have taped it shut before we did this uh 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:15.399 because that caused the box to to open 00:11:12.680 --> 00:11:19.240 so there you go there's some uh some Crush damage on the corner there there's 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:23.519 some this is about as bad as you could expect it to arrive from your Courier 00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:29.320 and we're going to go ahead and investigate here so you can see that uh 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:32.920 there's enough foam padding here to 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:35.120 choke a horse or at least stop a fall 00:11:32.920 --> 00:11:39.760 from damaging your power supply and because it's a soft foam I I know I harp 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:43.000 on soft foam but because it's a soft foam there's also no damage to the foam 00:11:41.800 --> 00:11:49.480 which means we could actually throw it out of the car again and it would survive whereas with a hard foam once 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:55.360 it's broken the structural Integrity is dead and uh you don't get oh it's windy 00:11:53.760 --> 00:11:59.600 it's going to blow away all the paper and then I'll be a litterer okay so 00:11:57.040 --> 00:12:05.880 we're going to pull out the power supply and determine that it is indeed 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:09.160 unscathed within its protective 00:12:05.880 --> 00:12:12.160 packaging so good don't forget to 00:12:09.160 --> 00:12:12.160 subscribe