today on my video blog I'll be unboxing the ever popular hx1000 now this is one
of Corsair's older models of power supplies but it's been such a staple for
a high-end power supply for a long time I thought what the hey lots of people
are going to look at this so we might as well unbox it so unlike their newer
units it has a 5year warranty which you can see on the front it's just regular
80 plus certified because back when this power supply came out we didn't have the
bronze silver gold ratings for power supplies although I believe it would
fall somewhere along the lines of where a 80 plus gold rating would be if it
were to be recertified today now let's get this open first of all let's have a
look at the rest of the box so the Box comes in multiple languages here let's
getting the plastic off actually let's have a quick look at the back where they
show you the amperage of all the
different rails so this has two 12vt
rails okay and they combine for a total of oh they're each on separate sort of
virtual rails on the power supply two separate sort of power supplies inside
here are each 500 wats and of those 12
volts 40 amps is dedicated to the 12vt rail on each there I finally got through
that okay so you can see we've got flat modular cables 140 mm fan truly
independent dual Transformer so that's what I was talking about two 500 watt
Transformers solid state 105° capacitors
and a DC todc converter okay that's great
so here we go let's get this thing open
so first of all we're going to find the user's manual which will contain information
excellent then we find the little case that Corsair uses with their modular
power supplies okay so this stores all of the
modular cables so why don't we go through and see what we've got here so
we've got one cable that's two SATA and then we have another cable that is also
to SATA okay and then we have how many
of these let's just track these down
here then we have four PCI Express 6
plus2 pin for of those then going a
little bit further we have okay let's get all the Molex ones out cuz then I
can get sort of a better idea of what I'm looking at here okay so we have two
dual MOX connectors so each of these have two MOX connectors and then we have
two quadruple MOX connectors that also
have a uh small four pin Floy connector
so two of those and then we've got finally we have a couple larger SATA
connectors so these each have four SATA connectors on them so you got two of
those and then last but not least just in case you have a motherboard such as
the x58 classified from EVGA that needs
two8 pin connectors you can plug this into one of your PCI Express modular
connectors and get dual EPS 8 Pin
connectors because and I'm about to get to the cables that are actually
directly attached to the power supply you have another EPS 8 pin connector
there so there you go so you can have up to two of those and then you'll also
find two more hardwired PCI Express 6 plus2 connectors cuz frankly if you're
buying a 1,000 W power supply and you're not using a high-end video card you need
to uh reexamine your priorities so it's a fairly thin 24 pin connector and it's
sleeved all the way up to the end and let's find out what other accessories we
got so here we have some zip ties of course case badge and four thumb screws
to put the power supply into the back of your case you got a nice beefy power
cable and let's finally get the unit
itself out of the box here take off the little oh it's taped down so that's not
going to be quite as easy as I thought there we go take that off so here is the
hx1000 so there you can see at the back we've got a fairly standard honeycomb
Grilla Arrangement there's your onoff switch there's your power plug and then
on the side you'll see it's an HX 1,000 WT duh so there's your branding there
then here is the 140 mm fan it's got a little uh plastic cover you can take
that off and the Corsair sticker here is actually quite shiny it looks really
cool if I could get this off in a reasonable amount of time yeah there we
go it's kind of shiny and then on the other side we will also find hx1000 wat
so this will be right side up whether it's a top mounted power supply or a
bottom mounted power supply as long as you're yeah that oh that's kind of smart
actually okay then here you're finding all of the specs okay and then on the
front of the unit itself here is all your modular connectors so you can
connect up to six of your Molex or SATA cables and then you can connect either
four more PCI Express for a total of six
or you can connect three more for a total of five and one EPS connector as
well so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Corsair HX 1000 watt