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click the link in the video description for more details now my theory is that
Corsair is calling this the 2013 edition because they weren't planning to make
any more power supplies because the world was going to end in 2012 so they
had to kind of scramble and figure out what they were going to do when 2013
rolled around and all of a sudden they had to release new products because
uh it did the world didn't end and in fact is still very much
here that's not actually what I think happened but it's pretty funny so anyway
this is the gamer series gs700 2013 edition Corsair's gamer
series is mostly differentiated from the other products by the fact that it is
more modding friendly so you can see that a lot of the messaging on the front
of it is actually to do with there you go you can get a nice shot of that blue
LED that's inside the fan there and you've also
got nice shots of the different colors that you can set for it as well so you
can easily illuminate the fan in red white or blue which should be perfect
for our for us customers uh UK customers
Canadian customers uh who else has a red
and white and or blue sort of flag those
of you who have red white blue or any combination thereof Flags feel free to
chime in in the comments and let us know know what you think of Corsair really
taking care of your sort of national pride that you have about your power
supply uh this particular one comes with a Corsair three-year guarantee so it
doesn't have that same premium warranty coverage that's something like an ax
series power supply does but it's more of like a more of a standard warranty
and let's go ahead and pop the top open so they're using an environmentally
friendly package there's your warranty guide as well as some important safety
information uh we've got an included power cable that feels reasonably beefy
it's always nice to have that you know that reassurance of quality oh this is
kind of cool if you're ever trying to put your plug through a wall which I've
done with these before then you'll appreciate that this is the first time
I've ever really seen one that's like a low profile power supply connector that
you're able to that doesn't have like a bulky square piece behind that okay
anyway no one really cares about that I'm sorry uh zip ties as well as screws
are included for mounting it in your case there's that environmentally
friendly carton that I was talking about before and let's go ahead and pull this
bad boy out so this is a non-modular Oopsy Daisy sorry about that bu just
like smacked the camera with the uh with the power supply packaging there so it's
a non-m modular power supply making it not really suitable for the most
aesthetically pleasing builds unless you use a case that has excellent Cable
Management options um conveniently many of course s's cases have excellent Cable
Management options so you don't have to worry too much about that that it also
means that you're going to have to have this sort of rats nness to deal with and
tuck away somewhere but like I said as long as your case has that then you
shouldn't worry about it too much in terms of included connectors you've got
a 24 pin connector here you've
got what the devil is
this oh okay this is the back of a SATA connector I'll find that at some point
here and then I'll get that uh get that fixed the cable sleeving on this
particular unit isn't really anything that special it's more of a value
oriented power supply so there's a single 4 plus4 or8 pin connector so you
won't be plugging any sort of you know dual socket motherboards into it but I
don't think you were expecting to do that if you're buying a gamer series power supply you've got two PCI Express
6 plus two pin connectors so these guys right here are able to be plugged into
either a six pin or an8 pin on a graphics card making this power supply
natively compatible with pretty much a single graphicss card configuration in
terms of SATA connectors you've got two harnesses Each of which has four
connectors on it they're nice and closely spaced together this is something that I actually really like to
see so many power supply manufacturers will have them spaced kind of like one
here and one here and then you've got all this extra cable that you don't
really know what to do with because generally speaking in most cases um your
drives are either really far apart where you've got a 5 and a/4 in drive and then
like a 3 and 1/2 in drive somewhere else entirely or they're really close
together so it's nice to see that um that little piece that fell off goes on
the back of one of these connectors
somewhere or doesn't maybe it's just an extra one that like snuck into the box
see I thought it was uh I thought it was one of these that goes on the back here
you can see it is one of those but it looks like it's just a random extra one
it's a bonus but wait there's more Corsair added extra value with this
extra connector that doesn't do anything um just random I guess so two three pin
m plus floppy harnesses and relatively
short cables on these ones but generally speaking I don't find myself routing
Molex connectors very far away from the power supply anymore anyway so here we
find that single 140 mm cooling fan here
on the bottom that has aha that three-way illumination switch right
there we're going to turn this on so we'll be back in just a moment so for those of you who don't know this is how
to jump or a power supply you take the green pin connect it to any of the black
pins flip the switch
and she's on so that's the Blue version now I wish Corsair included the other
colors that you can actually that's yeah that's odd to
me that they that they don't include that huh because you can see right here
that they've clearly planned much like their Dominator platinums with the
changeable light bar module for you to be able to change that color there so
maybe there's like a kit or something I don't know but anyway let's go ahead and
press that lighting button on the back so it's right there oh yeah
white red off that's nice it's nice to
have the off option so blue white red and off just like that now you can see
the fans's not spinning it's nice to see Corsair include those kinds of Premium
features even in their more value oriented options such as the having the
fan not spin up unless the power supply is under some kind of a significant load
now it also uses again so sort of more premium features that you wouldn't
necessarily expect on a value power supply it has a single 12volt rail so
that's capable of providing up to 696 Watts which is almost the entire um
Power delivery that the entire power supply is capable of it is also rated at
temperatures of up to 40° and I don't think I ever even
mentioned the 80 plus certification so this power supply is da da da da 80 plus
bronze certified which is about what you'd expect again with sort of a value
oriented but still good quality power supply that you would buy these days so
why did I bother getting my hands on this power supply because usually I take
a look sort of at the high-end glamour products on this particular channel the
reason is that we'll be doing a build guide and when I was shopping around for
a power supply that would be appropriate for sort of a uh if you're going to go
sort of good better best for like a better class machine this one really fit
the bill it has the connectors I need it has the power output that I need it has
good looks it has that customizability and it's from Corsair so I inherently
figure it couldn't be that bad don't
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couldn't be that bad about their product but hey it's not a bad thing