WEBVTT 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:05.640 this is the Corsair ax850 I've had a lot 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:09.800 of requests to have a look at the ax Series so this is the 850 wat version 00:00:08.200 --> 00:00:13.920 from the ax series I'm actually going to check out the 750 as well as the 1200 so 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:17.480 we can talk a little about about what the differences are between these three 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:21.439 models but I haven't seen those ones yet so I won't be able to talk about any 00:00:19.119 --> 00:00:24.920 differences today so this is a high performance ATX power supply why thank 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:29.400 you Corsair thank you for telling me that that is so incredibly helpful 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:34.600 what's high performance about it is this is the one one of the most efficient 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:39.800 power supplies on the market this is 80 plus gold okay so that means that it 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:46.399 achieves basically 80 plus gold is almost like 90 plus um because at about 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:51.039 a 50% load which realistically if you're running like a pretty high-end gaming 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:52.280 machine a couple GTX 460s a quad core 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:57.399 that's about what you're going to see you're going to run even at 120 volt AC 00:00:55.239 --> 00:01:01.359 you're going to run at almost 90% efficiency okay so okay I exaggerated a 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:05.920 little bit it's not 90 plus but the way 80 plus is measured is that it has to 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:12.920 achieve at least I believe this one is 88 to 89% for 80 plus gold at uh very 00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:16.840 low load very high load as well as at medium load so that's pretty cool all 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:21.000 right so here on the back they also talk a little bit about what connectors it 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:25.840 has they talk about the true modular cabling system so all cable cables are 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:30.479 detachable from the power supply now whereas Corsair's power supplies used to 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:36.360 have hardwired 24 pin as as well as I believe EPS pin EPS pin EPS 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:40.840 connectors incredible efficiency so yeah with 90% efficiency and they're talking 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:44.560 about 220 volt for the most part there uh which most people in North America 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.640 are not running so the course are Advantage with more than 15 years 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:52.880 experience okay and then the last thing we should probably also say before we 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:59.600 even open the box is it comes with a 7year warranty so Corsair's warranty 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:01.520 service is legendary and with a 7year 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:07.000 with 7 years of coverage from their warranty service you can pretty much 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:08.640 rest assured that if anything goes wrong 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:13.800 they will replace it for you they will get you taken care of and you will be a 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:17.480 happy Corsair customer I've actually personally ARM made something from 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:22.760 Corsair I don't remember what it was but I remember just they got back to me 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:24.680 really fast and uh yeah I think the best 00:02:22.760 --> 00:02:28.160 RMA experiences are the ones that you don't really remember because that means 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:32.760 that something went right and nothing went wrong okay so industry leading 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:36.720 protection oh yeah they've got an eup logo on here as well so that's that new 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:40.920 uh that new green thing I don't remember exactly what the requirements are but 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:44.000 it's on there so it uses a different kind of box from Corsair's previous 00:02:42.519 --> 00:02:49.239 power supplies you can see we've got a sleeve here and then we have their more 00:02:46.640 --> 00:02:54.040 traditional box shape underneath which is sealed again look at that so I get to 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:58.080 unbox more things in this particular episode look at that break more seals I 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:01.920 do like breaking seals I'm not clubbing seals not all 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:07.360 Canadians are into that okay so here is our manual it is in 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:11.159 English France and that pretty much covers all 00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:16.560 the ones that I sort of remotely even know how to say maybe a cameraman can 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:20.239 contribute this one for us RI ah there 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:23.239 we go all right next we have the power 00:03:20.239 --> 00:03:26.680 cord and Corsair is using a nice quality 00:03:23.239 --> 00:03:30.080 flexible power cord with uh let's see 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:33.080 maybe we can even say what the uh no 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:35.120 never mind anyway it's thick there enjoy 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:40.239 that knowledge all right next we have some cable ties as well as a Corsair 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:42.480 case badge we also find four black 00:03:40.239 --> 00:03:46.200 screws so if you want to make sure that the back of your case has black screws 00:03:44.200 --> 00:03:52.319 holding in the power supply instead of mismatch silver screws then use that and 00:03:49.519 --> 00:03:56.239 that will be good okay let's have a look at the power supply itself and then 00:03:54.360 --> 00:04:00.959 we'll look at the modular cables so it comes in a nice little baggie here which 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:04.439 you could use to store your gym strip if you're in high school and you still need 00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:08.400 a little bag for your gym strip so you could carry it to school in your Corsair 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:13.280 bag and then you'd be the top of the town because realistically once you 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:17.320 unplug this power or once you open up this power supply you're pretty much 00:04:14.519 --> 00:04:21.759 going to use it forever because it's pretty darn good okay wow it's actually 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:26.520 surprisingly small for an 850 W unit so they have a 120 mil fan and you can see 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:31.520 that even with only a 120 mil fan it's not a particularly long power supply I 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:34.840 was actually expecting for an 80 plus uh power supply that it would be a little 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:40.440 bit longer because with the well-built quality units unless they're using even 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:44.000 more well-built even higher quality uh components you tend to see them a little 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:48.560 bit bigger to make room for all of the extra uh extra junk inside so here if we 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:52.960 look inside you can see the heat sinks are actually quite small and that's a 00:04:50.440 --> 00:04:56.360 product of this being um a very very efficient power supply you don't have a 00:04:54.400 --> 00:05:01.120 whole lot of excess heat to get rid of when you're running with it running with 00:04:58.919 --> 00:05:04.360 it I meant running it I didn't mean running 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.880 with it all right let's have a look at the modular cables that we have included 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:12.280 here so actually no let's finish looking at the power supply change my mind okay so 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:16.160 here we've got our 120 mm fan as I mentioned before we've got our kind of 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:21.600 pretty much industry standard honeycomb Grill on the back with an onoff switch 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:23.800 and a power plug then on the top oh yeah 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:29.720 this is a single rail power supply check that out 70 amps on the single 12vt rail 00:05:26.880 --> 00:05:37.160 up to 840 Watts don't do that it doesn't Focus up to 840 WT on that single 12vt 00:05:34.039 --> 00:05:38.960 Rail and then uh I think that's pretty 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:41.840 much the highlight of that label you can see there's a bit of a gold color scheme 00:05:40.440 --> 00:05:46.160 to the power supply which goes along with its 80 plus gold rating and then 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:50.960 here is the modular interface so let's look at what we would potentially plug 00:05:47.840 --> 00:05:55.600 into this okay so this this plug says 00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:59.120 750 850 ax only so only plug it into 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:00.440 this so it goes wow 10 10 plugs that's 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:05.280 kind of interesting I wonder why they've gone and done that so it goes where I 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:09.479 don't know where it goes It goes here okay so it looks like we have two plugs 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:13.120 for either 4 plus4 or eight sorry about that my memory card filled up is which 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:18.720 happens a fair bit okay so you can plug in up to two uh 4 plus 4 or 8 Pin uh EPS 00:06:17.039 --> 00:06:23.120 connectors so you can see that's what these two right here are for and then 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:26.880 wow there's so many cables in here I mean look at this this is like 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:31.720 ridiculous okay so I'll go through and I'll find everything that is relevant so 00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:42.240 here we have this is two 6 plus2 pin PCIe so these ones plug in 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:42.240 here presumably somewhere here no here 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:50.680 no okay yeah okay so you can plug in two 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:52.000 6 plus 2 pin PCIe or you can plug in EPS 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:58.520 connectors here okay and then you can also plug in 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:03.520 6 Plus TW pin connectors 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:11.520 here no wow this is one of the more complicated modular interfaces I've seen 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:14.120 to be uh to be perfectly honest because 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:20.360 I don't actually see how to plug in oh I guess you I guess you can't I 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:27.360 guess you can can't plug in oh wait here we go oh I get it okay here so here we 00:07:24.280 --> 00:07:30.080 are this is a 4 plus4 or 8 pin connector 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:41.520 and this one goes here so then then you can either plug in two 6 + 2's * 2 so up 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:45.599 to 4 6 plus2 pin PCIe connectors or you 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:48.720 can plug in two 6 plus2 PCIe connectors 00:07:45.599 --> 00:07:50.759 and an additional 4 plus4 so if you have 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:55.400 a board like a rampage 3 Extreme that takes two 8 Pin CPU connectors then you 00:07:53.599 --> 00:08:00.199 can plug those in but then you can only run one high powerered graphics card or 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:05.240 you can plug in only one and you can run two high powerered graphics cards yes we 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:09.240 figured it out excellent so then here's some Molex ones each of these has four 00:08:07.039 --> 00:08:13.960 molexes on it and that's pretty much the whole top row of connectors here so this 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:19.639 is for Mox and SATA 1 2 3 4 five of those all right so let's uh go through 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:25.319 here and see how many of those we have so this is four SATA this one is four 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:27.319 SATA uh this one is uh oh yeah four pin 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:30.280 Molex to Floppy adapter because really most people don't use those anymore 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:35.159 here's two s and here is another Molex to Floppy just 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:41.839 in case you're running uh Crossfire radon 9700 pros and then we've got a 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:46.760 another dual SATA so you could potentially Run 4 + 4 is 8 so 12 SATA 00:08:44.880 --> 00:08:52.200 connections off here and then like four Mo X's uh and then last but not least we 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:56.399 have the 24 pin connector which is broken up into two pieces so you 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:00.839 actually plug that in with one here at the bottom so that's with that last uh 00:08:58.760 --> 00:09:05.959 last rank on the the bottom was four and then one here at the top and that is 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:12.320 your 24 pin connector thank you for checking out our very confusing unboxing 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:15.600 of the ax850 power supply from Corsair 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:15.600 don't forget to subscribe