this is the Corsair ax850 I've had a lot
of requests to have a look at the ax Series so this is the 850 wat version
from the ax series I'm actually going to check out the 750 as well as the 1200 so
we can talk a little about about what the differences are between these three
models but I haven't seen those ones yet so I won't be able to talk about any
differences today so this is a high performance ATX power supply why thank
you Corsair thank you for telling me that that is so incredibly helpful
what's high performance about it is this is the one one of the most efficient
power supplies on the market this is 80 plus gold okay so that means that it
achieves basically 80 plus gold is almost like 90 plus um because at about
a 50% load which realistically if you're running like a pretty high-end gaming
machine a couple GTX 460s a quad core
that's about what you're going to see you're going to run even at 120 volt AC
you're going to run at almost 90% efficiency okay so okay I exaggerated a
little bit it's not 90 plus but the way 80 plus is measured is that it has to
achieve at least I believe this one is 88 to 89% for 80 plus gold at uh very
low load very high load as well as at medium load so that's pretty cool all
right so here on the back they also talk a little bit about what connectors it
has they talk about the true modular cabling system so all cable cables are
detachable from the power supply now whereas Corsair's power supplies used to
have hardwired 24 pin as as well as I believe EPS pin EPS pin EPS
connectors incredible efficiency so yeah with 90% efficiency and they're talking
about 220 volt for the most part there uh which most people in North America
are not running so the course are Advantage with more than 15 years
experience okay and then the last thing we should probably also say before we
even open the box is it comes with a 7year warranty so Corsair's warranty
service is legendary and with a 7year
with 7 years of coverage from their warranty service you can pretty much
rest assured that if anything goes wrong
they will replace it for you they will get you taken care of and you will be a
happy Corsair customer I've actually personally ARM made something from
Corsair I don't remember what it was but I remember just they got back to me
really fast and uh yeah I think the best
RMA experiences are the ones that you don't really remember because that means
that something went right and nothing went wrong okay so industry leading
protection oh yeah they've got an eup logo on here as well so that's that new
uh that new green thing I don't remember exactly what the requirements are but
it's on there so it uses a different kind of box from Corsair's previous
power supplies you can see we've got a sleeve here and then we have their more
traditional box shape underneath which is sealed again look at that so I get to
unbox more things in this particular episode look at that break more seals I
do like breaking seals I'm not clubbing seals not all
Canadians are into that okay so here is our manual it is in
English France and that pretty much covers all
the ones that I sort of remotely even know how to say maybe a cameraman can
contribute this one for us RI ah there
we go all right next we have the power
cord and Corsair is using a nice quality
flexible power cord with uh let's see
maybe we can even say what the uh no
never mind anyway it's thick there enjoy
that knowledge all right next we have some cable ties as well as a Corsair
case badge we also find four black
screws so if you want to make sure that the back of your case has black screws
holding in the power supply instead of mismatch silver screws then use that and
that will be good okay let's have a look at the power supply itself and then
we'll look at the modular cables so it comes in a nice little baggie here which
you could use to store your gym strip if you're in high school and you still need
a little bag for your gym strip so you could carry it to school in your Corsair
bag and then you'd be the top of the town because realistically once you
unplug this power or once you open up this power supply you're pretty much
going to use it forever because it's pretty darn good okay wow it's actually
surprisingly small for an 850 W unit so they have a 120 mil fan and you can see
that even with only a 120 mil fan it's not a particularly long power supply I
was actually expecting for an 80 plus uh power supply that it would be a little
bit longer because with the well-built quality units unless they're using even
more well-built even higher quality uh components you tend to see them a little
bit bigger to make room for all of the extra uh extra junk inside so here if we
look inside you can see the heat sinks are actually quite small and that's a
product of this being um a very very efficient power supply you don't have a
whole lot of excess heat to get rid of when you're running with it running with
it I meant running it I didn't mean running
with it all right let's have a look at the modular cables that we have included
here so actually no let's finish looking at the power supply change my mind okay so
here we've got our 120 mm fan as I mentioned before we've got our kind of
pretty much industry standard honeycomb Grill on the back with an onoff switch
and a power plug then on the top oh yeah
this is a single rail power supply check that out 70 amps on the single 12vt rail
up to 840 Watts don't do that it doesn't Focus up to 840 WT on that single 12vt
Rail and then uh I think that's pretty
much the highlight of that label you can see there's a bit of a gold color scheme
to the power supply which goes along with its 80 plus gold rating and then
here is the modular interface so let's look at what we would potentially plug
into this okay so this this plug says
750 850 ax only so only plug it into
this so it goes wow 10 10 plugs that's
kind of interesting I wonder why they've gone and done that so it goes where I
don't know where it goes It goes here okay so it looks like we have two plugs
for either 4 plus4 or eight sorry about that my memory card filled up is which
happens a fair bit okay so you can plug in up to two uh 4 plus 4 or 8 Pin uh EPS
connectors so you can see that's what these two right here are for and then
wow there's so many cables in here I mean look at this this is like
ridiculous okay so I'll go through and I'll find everything that is relevant so
here we have this is two 6 plus2 pin PCIe so these ones plug in
here presumably somewhere here no here
no okay yeah okay so you can plug in two
6 plus 2 pin PCIe or you can plug in EPS
connectors here okay and then you can also plug in
6 Plus TW pin connectors
here no wow this is one of the more complicated modular interfaces I've seen
to be uh to be perfectly honest because
I don't actually see how to plug in oh I guess you I guess you can't I
guess you can can't plug in oh wait here we go oh I get it okay here so here we
are this is a 4 plus4 or 8 pin connector
and this one goes here so then then you can either plug in two 6 + 2's * 2 so up
to 4 6 plus2 pin PCIe connectors or you
can plug in two 6 plus2 PCIe connectors
and an additional 4 plus4 so if you have
a board like a rampage 3 Extreme that takes two 8 Pin CPU connectors then you
can plug those in but then you can only run one high powerered graphics card or
you can plug in only one and you can run two high powerered graphics cards yes we
figured it out excellent so then here's some Molex ones each of these has four
molexes on it and that's pretty much the whole top row of connectors here so this
is for Mox and SATA 1 2 3 4 five of those all right so let's uh go through
here and see how many of those we have so this is four SATA this one is four
SATA uh this one is uh oh yeah four pin
Molex to Floppy adapter because really most people don't use those anymore
here's two s and here is another Molex to Floppy just
in case you're running uh Crossfire radon 9700 pros and then we've got a
another dual SATA so you could potentially Run 4 + 4 is 8 so 12 SATA
connections off here and then like four Mo X's uh and then last but not least we
have the 24 pin connector which is broken up into two pieces so you
actually plug that in with one here at the bottom so that's with that last uh
last rank on the the bottom was four and then one here at the top and that is
your 24 pin connector thank you for checking out our very confusing unboxing
of the ax850 power supply from Corsair
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