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