{"video_id":"S9mkvgHDHnE","title":"Corsair 1200AX 80 PLUS Gold Single Rail Gaming Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":479,"segments":[{"start_s":0.199,"end_s":6.48,"text":"today I am going to be unboxing the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.28,"end_s":8.88,"text":"granddaddy of all Corsair power supplies","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.48,"end_s":15.0,"text":"this is part of their new a series this is the Corsair ax","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.88,"end_s":18.96,"text":"1200 that means this is a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.0,"end_s":20.48,"text":"1.2 kilowatt power supply and in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.96,"end_s":27.679,"text":"addition to coming with a 7-year warranty it is 80 plus gold that means","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.0,"end_s":30.24,"text":"it's near 90% 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135 mil at the back you will find your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":439.4,"end_s":446.28,"text":"kind of pretty much standard honeycomb back with a on andof switch and a plugin","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":444.24,"end_s":450.319,"text":"uh it's nice to see that the ax200 doesn't use that non-standard plug that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":448.16,"end_s":454.12,"text":"many of the other high wattage ones do I realized there's a reason that they use","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":451.8,"end_s":457.879,"text":"it but uh I'm glad that Corsair did not see fit to equip this with one of those","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":456.36,"end_s":464.96,"text":"and that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Corsair","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":460.08,"end_s":467.039,"text":"Professional Series gold ax","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":464.96,"end_s":470.919,"text":"1200 Uber awesome","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":470.96,"end_s":479.919,"text":"powerful fully modular","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":474.479,"end_s":479.919,"text":"efficient and Silent power supply","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"today I am going to be unboxing the granddaddy of all Corsair power supplies this is part of their new a series this is the Corsair ax 1200 that means this is a 1.2 kilowatt power supply and in addition to coming with a 7-year warranty it is 80 plus gold that means it's near 90% efficiency in almost all scenarios T has okay Mission CR iCal stability unprecedented flexibility with a fully modular design and Industry leading protection okay so yeah we covered that already with the 7-year warranty on the back you can see Corsair gives you some informations about what kind of connectors come with it so you have 120 or 24 pin two EPS four pin and 8 Pin compatible so they're both uh four plus fours I believe six PCIe six pins and8 pin compatible so 6 Plus twos you can see they look like that 16 de SATA wow 12 four pin Molex and then two floppy adapters now you can't necessarily plug in all of those at the same time it is a fully modular power supply so it is designed for you to only use the cables you require here we can see noise so it actually the fan doesn't Okay the fan doesn't even begin to ramp up from its nominal speed until you hit a 600 wat load hilarious and then it doesn't actually go above about 25 DB until you hit hit 850 watts and after that it starts to uh it starts to really ramp up and then here's our efficiency So at around 600 watts that's where you see your highest efficiency over 90% even with 120 volt wall power incredible so obviously as you may or may not expect this is quite an expensive power I'm zoomed in there's the problem this is quite an expensive power supply so I'm going to go ahead and unbox it for your viewing pleasure uses the same packaging as the 750 and the 850 watt versions so that means that you've got an outer sleeve here that just comes right off so I'm going to go ahead and uh take a bit of a step back which doesn't help if I keep carrying the product with me so we just kind of open that up from the top there we go and then we have a plain brown box inside oh man that's heavy oh that is one heavy power supply it's like heavy man it's deep all right so there's a quantity of one in here here is the uh common manual for the 750 850 and 12200 here is a very beefy power cord next we have the baggie of modular cables which is very very full as you can see okay so we'll have a closer look at that after although we already covered which connectors there are so we're not going to look quite as closely at it as we did with the six with the 850 W rather four black screws for attaching the power supply to the case one Corsair case badge some cable ties and as you can see if you go further into the box you will find one cat excuse me sir come say hi say hi doesn't want to say hi look over here nope okay get down then all right next we find the power supply itself it is wrapped in a gym bag withd drawring okay hey there's something probably a part number for the gym bag if you ever need to replace it and then we're going to dump out the power supply itself and by dump out I mean remove carefully because this is uh the oh boy that's bad don't chew on that please go on go on thank you sorry I saw him out of the corner of my eye there and I kind of went wow we can't have that going on not on my watch all right there we go so this since this is pretty much the Beating Heart of your system you want to be very very gentle with it treat it like you would something that protects your entire computer and Powers it there treat it exactly like that all right so here we find a legend on the back of the power supply so here we go 24 pin ATX plugs in there here we have peripheral and SATA here we have 6 plus2 PCIe and 4+4 CPU so you can see you can do uh two 4 plus 4S so that means that you can run boards like uh classified boards Rampage Three extremes boards that require two eight pins well they don't require them but they can use them and then you can run up to three dual plug graphics cards whether they need a six pin or whether they need an eight pin so let's have a look at were provided in terms of modular peripheral and SATA cables so you can see the MOX ones include uh four connections per cable and then there's probably a couple that have only two just in case you don't want to use four so there's another four here we have okay here's one with four SATA here's one with only two SATA aha so they give you lots of options in terms of here's one with four SATA here's one with four SATA here's one with four Mox and then here's one with two SATA so you got just a ton of options here's the adapters I was talking about Molex to Floppy and then the rest of the ones in here are sleeved very nicely so these are all of the 6 plus2 pins as well as the 4 plus4 pins and the 24 pin connector why don't we pull the 24 pin out just have a look at that there you go there's our 24 pin very again very nice black sleeving I really like the way Corsair does their cables with the black wires black connectors black sleeving it just black goes well with anything so why not just make everything black okay on the side you see Corsair branding ax1200 there's a bit of a gold theme and that goes along with the 80 plus gold on the top you are going to notice one of the most remarkable things about this power supply if I zoom in on the label and let me see if I can uh just here right there 100.4 amps on a single 12vt rail that is serious business that is uh able of wow look at that capable of providing 1,248 wats on the 12vt rail alone I'm going to let you take that in for a little while yeah so now let's look at the rest of the power supply got some more Corsair branding on the other side got a what appears to be a I think it's a 135 mil fan although I could be wrong it could be 120 mil it's tough to eyeball these things when it's installed in a power supply because power supplies are not a standard size so you can't just kind of go based on uh you know how far it is from here you got to kind of eyeball it at the edges I'm pretty sure that's a 135 mil at the back you will find your kind of pretty much standard honeycomb back with a on andof switch and a plugin uh it's nice to see that the ax200 doesn't use that non-standard plug that many of the other high wattage ones do I realized there's a reason that they use it but uh I'm glad that Corsair did not see fit to equip this with one of those and that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Corsair Professional Series gold ax 1200 Uber awesome powerful fully modular efficient and Silent power supply"}