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I'm finally doing it you believe it or not I actually had the ax1000 the 850

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and the 750 all at the same time but it's taken me until now to unbox the AF

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ax ax750 sorry about that all right so

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this is the ax750 this is an 80 plus

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gold Professional Series power supply from Corsair it is a high performance

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power supply it's also a very silent very efficient power supply so I'm not

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going to waste too much time looking at the Box and whatnot cameraman seems to

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be doing that for me anyway and we're just going to open this guy right up

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because he is pretty similar to the ax850 and the ax1000 in many regards the

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key difference is well 100 or 250

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depending on which one you're comparing it against so how many watts of power it

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can output that is the key difference

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there we go finally all right so first thing yes 80 plus gold as I mentioned

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before it's also got a seven yes 7year

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warranty from Corsair which is just outstanding on a power supply I mean

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think about that in the year 2017 this power supply will still be

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covered by warranty that's like having a power supply you bought back in 2003

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that still has warranty today that's just amazing so so here is the power

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supply itself and I still got a couple more stickers to break here and we'll

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show you what it has attached to it in

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terms of cables there it is Corsair really does a

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terrific job of packaging so you've got your nice closed cell foam that stuff is

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durable no matter what you do to it like I couldn't I couldn't damage this power

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supply no matter how hard I heave on it it uses awesome packing material to make

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sure it's going to arrive at your house safe and sound even if you're getting it

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shipped and I said ax1000 I'm so sorry I meant ax1

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1200 that is a 1200 wat power supply so the difference is actually

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450 not uh not not 250 okay so here we

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go we have a power cable next we have some zip ties as well as a powered by

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Corsair sticker we have four black thumb screws little nice touches that's what

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Corsair is all about little nice touches black black it's going to match your

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case is going to match your power supply because if you bought them from Corsair

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they're probably black all right we've got our modular cables here so why don't

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we go through those really quick first actually and then we'll do the power

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supply itself so the first ones we find are here the next ones we find are here

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and then there's some more so this is a fully modular power supply which means

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we've got this cable is for the 750 ax

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and the 850 ax only that is your 2 24 pin power cable you will pretty much

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need to attach that no matter what kind of a system You're Building pretty much

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all right this I'm going to tuck away for just a moment okay here we have a 4

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plus 4 pin so that means we can either plug in single four or we can plug in

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both for8 pin power so that one you're pretty much going to need to attach as

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well next we have a another 4 plus4 pin

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okay so you can actually plug this into certain EVGA boards as well as some

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other some ASUS motherboards we'll actually use dual eight pin connectors

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so we have full support for that next in terms of PCI Express we have have two

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modular PCI Express cables and you can see these are optimized for high-end

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graphics cards which means you got two cables coming off of each individual

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plug on the power supply that means that if you're running high in graphics cards

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you're pretty much running two PCI E cables to each graphics card so it saves

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you some wiring okay so you've got support for up to two high-end graphics

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cards off of this power supply next in terms of

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SATA we have one two so there's just oh

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okay we've got a few different options here so we've got two dual SATA and then

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we have two quad SATA cables so you can

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decide you know hey you know you want to run a dual one up to your Optical drives

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you want to run a quad one down to your hard drives where you're running a RAID

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10 cool you got lots of options that's the whole point of modular power

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supplies which a lot of people seem to have or a lot of companies seem to have

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forgotten in their design process somewhere that's what Corsair does for

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you they give you options all right then

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we have two quad m X and then we've also got two Molex to Floppy adapters so that

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is your entire cable complement for the

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ax750 next let's pull the C the camera

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pull the uh power supply out of its nice little bag which you could keep your gym

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striping if you wanted to if you were in high school and you still had gym strip

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all right we have a 120 mm fan on the

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bottom of the power supply it looks like it's just built like that's probably a

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panow or a Pabst or Delta or something I actually don't know who makes that fan

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but it's a very very industrial looking fan you can really tell with some of

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them that they're built a little better than others on the side we've got The

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coair ax750 Branding here then we move

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around to the back we got another ax750 looks like it's intended to be installed

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this way up rather than the other way although it doesn't actually matter we

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have a power switch as well as our power input then a honeycomb Grill at the back

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which is pretty much industry standard then we have another Corsair branded

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side here I don't know which side I showed you before but they're both the same but here's a clever Touch look at

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this so if I install it this way in my case it's going to be right side up as a

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bottom mounted power supply and if I install it this way in my case at the

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top of the case if I have a top mounted power supply it's also going to be right

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side up how neat is that oh I didn't even mention this yet this is a single

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12vt rail power supply so you can provide up to 62 amps off that single

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12vt rail so you don't have to worry about when you're you know plugging one

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cable in here and one cable in there well how much stuff do I have running on

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each rail how much stuff do I not have running on other rails don't worry about

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that at all because it's all coming off the same 12vt rail this power supply is

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also capable of providing nearly its entire 750 watts that is 744 Watts off

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of that single 12vt rail outstanding last but not least here is the modular

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interface at the back of the power supply so you can plug in let's just do

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a quick uh rundown here so you can plug in your 24 pin and that's going to go

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here and here you can plug in your uh let me see where's the where are those 4

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plus four so where do those go the 4 plus 4S go

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here and then where else do they go I don't know actually do they go

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here huh can you only plug in one of those that can't be right I'll be back

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in a moment okay I get it yeah they actually

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have both have slightly different connectors on them so one of them plugs

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into this guy so this is a dedicated four pin connector and then the other

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one oops well you got to plug it in the right way the other one you have to make

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a choice so you can either plug in a 4 plus4 all right and you can use up one

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of these two slots here or you can plug in one of your dual PCI E connectors so

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what Corsair is basically saying is they don't want you powering like a crazy

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board that has dual 8 Pin connectors like you know a dual socket board off

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this motherboard in addition to two high-end graphics cards that's the the

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limitation that they're putting on you here which I think is um more than fair

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for the 750 W unit cuz you should probably be springing for like a 1200

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watt unit if you're doing something like that now in terms of other cables you

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can plug in up to five other things so that means you can either go with the

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two quad Molex and three satas or you can go with four or rather you can go

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with uh yeah four satas and then one quad Molex or whatever it is that you

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need so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Corsair

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ax750 that is an 80 plus gold highly

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efficient highly silent power supply and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech

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