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so here it is folks arguably the best

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power supply in the world the ax 1500i

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from Corsair is winning recommendations and editors choice awards all over the

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place including the first ever perfect 10 out of 10 at my favorite power supply

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review site johnnyguru.com and the reason goes far

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beyond its 80 plus titanium efficiency

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but what's 80 plus titanium Linus i've never heard of that before let alone

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seen a product with that sticker on the box great question 80 plus certification

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showed up back when very little attention was being paid to the

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relatively low efficiency of power supplies at the time something that

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caused pcs to output more heat and consume more electricity it started out

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as a quick and dirty certification that promised a power supply would be at

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least 80 percent efficient at low medium and full load so 20 50 and 100

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since then even though the atx 2.2 specification only requires efficiency

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in the 65 to 70 range performance power

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supply makers have continued to strive for greater and greater efficiency 80

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plus titanium is currently the highest bar to strive for and requires

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efficiency of 90 92 94 and 90

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at loads of 10 20 50 and 100 respectively aside from the

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debatable importance of titanium versus platinum gold or silver efficiency from

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a power bill savings perspective though one amazing thing about this unit is

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that due to its efficiency it can actually deliver its entire capacity off

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of a normal 15 amp circuit so you don't have to get a fancy high current outlet

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installed in your house just to max out your power supply like what we've seen

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in the past efficiency isn't the only story when it comes to performance

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though some 80 plus power supplies are efficient but suffer from poor voltage

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regulation and excessive ripple which can cause instability and damage or even

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destroy your other components in the long term not an issue here though even

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though low ripple and strong voltage regulation are more difficult to achieve

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with higher capacity power supply units Corsair's use of a state-of-the-art dsp

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allows the ax1500i to dynamically manage its own performance to achieve a no

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compromises experience for its users and you also get to use Corsair link to

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monitor power in power out efficiency although i suppose they just derived

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that from the first two fan speed temperatures and even send yourself

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emails if any of those things go out of whack neither physically the first thing

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i noticed taking the unit out of this box is how large it is at 224

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millimeters long it's the biggest power supply that i've ever used and one of

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the biggest i've ever seen make sure if you're planning to buy one that there's

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room in your case for not only the unit but also the modular cables that need to

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stick out at the end of it the sides are unadorned save for the Corsair ax

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branding and on the top you won't find much of anything other than a simple

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sticker with a breakdown of how much of the unit's total capacity can be

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delivered on each of the main rails as well as the usual safety certifications

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of note here is that the entire 1500

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watt capacity can be delivered on the 12 volt rail set sail for graphics card

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city am i right the fan on the bottom is a custom 140 millimeter unit with a

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fluid dynamic bearing and a blade design that is optimized for maximum airflow at

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low noise levels i mean honestly though i don't know why anyone bothers putting

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this on their fan packaging anymore isn't that about like saying a car is

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optimized for maximum power with great fuel economy i mean who is optimizing

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their fans for minimum airflow at maximum noise levels

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anyway that's not the main selling point of the fan for me anyway i'm more

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interested in the fact that it doesn't even turn on

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until around 30 percent load so your power supply can be kicking out 400 plus

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watts of power and be running completely

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fanlessly silent neat at the back is a honeycomb grille a

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standby switch and that unusual larger c19 power cord socket and then finally

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on the opposite end we've got the modular interface with a whopping 19

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connectors with varying levels of usefulness the normal stuff is here 24

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pin connector six peripheral connectors that can be used to connect a total of

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24 SATA and molex devices with five quad

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data cables and three quad molex cables included in the box we've got two spots

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for eight pin CPU connectors and what wait a minute

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that's ten eight pin sockets that can be used to

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connect up to ten pci express eight pin

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connectors and two eps eight pin connectors at the same time more on that

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in a moment uh wrapping things up back here we've got a self-test button a usb

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port for Corsair link software monitoring and another monitoring port

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all right so back to those PCIe connectors Corsair includes a great

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variety of ribbon style flat black PCIe cables to accommodate almost any kind of

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configuration you've got four standard length single six plus twos two longer

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single six plus twos and then two double six plus twos which are fine for most

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cards that have two connectors to reduce cable clutter so you're just running one

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cable but don't try to use those ones on

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an r9 295 x2 you'll want to run two

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separate cables for that because it consumes so much power now

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i wouldn't have minded Corsair mixing things up a little bit in terms of the

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variety of the other included cables maybe a couple of dual satas or like a

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variation or two with tighter spacing between the connectors or something like

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that but this is a very minor complaint and overall the modular cables included

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give you a lot of flexibility in terms of cable management when building your

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pc no matter what kind of case you're using and they look absolutely fantastic

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with every single one of them not just the pci express ones but even the 24 pin

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being that flat ribbon style with all

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black wires very very nice now

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i'm going to break tradition a little bit here and do the conclusion of this

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video before the actual end so stay tuned to find out why but here it goes

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do you need this power supply no of

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course not whatever it can do there are other less

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expensive ways to do that's it that's all there is to it but

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do you want this power supply

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the fact that you're still watching this video would indicate that perhaps you do

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and not entirely without cause yes there

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are other ways to deliver 1500 watts of power to a pc but they lack the elegance

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sex appeal and sheer technological wow factor of this one so there you have it

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it's the best and it comes with a price tag to match but at least you get a 7

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year warranty this sweet cloth bag and

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a case badge that you can stick to your case with pride because you officially

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have a 224 millimeter epeen

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you can't even see what i'm doing but i think you guys know what it is but of

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course you didn't come to Linus tech tips to hear about my decades of

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experience as an electrical engineer and see a detailed teardown of the power

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supply nope we're going to be doing a packaging test as a follow-up to my ever

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popular test on the ax 1200i where i threw it out of a moving vehicle but

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this time we're upping the ante this is the aptly named 400 yard water balloon

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launcher from bam launcher picked this up on amazon and uh

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we are going to be flinging a power supply with it so i've got my lovely

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assistants luke and nick the power supply is in here we are going to show

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you the power supply when we're done with this but uh the point of this

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exercise is uh let's just we haven't tried this before

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so you'll have to just bear with us we're on the roof here

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are you guys good yeah

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oh that's unfortunate

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so it's not really designed for power supplies and more for water balloons but

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i think still think it performed admirably

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given the circumstances

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you can see that the uh folded over marketing flap didn't actually fare that

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well in the in the fall and the oh wow yeah the outer carton in

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general is just kind of coming apart here in fact the inner carton

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is having a little bit of trouble here as well but

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let's go ahead and so the point of this is

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you know what you're going to spend a bunch of money on a super you know

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high-end power supply you want to make sure that when it arrives you're actually going to be powering up your

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rig with it as opposed to dealing with shipping damage rma so

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you can see here the cables themselves

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immaculate

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the power supply in it's okay my cat chewed on it but other than

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that pristine soft foam

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totally not damaged capable of handling

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multiple falls and the power supply itself

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once again Corsair's packaging exceeds

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no loose parts my expectations in fact a lot of the internals of this power

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supply if you even check out in there are actually like glued in or siliconed

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in so i was i was pretty confident it was gonna survive but of course

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falling from this kind of a height or wherever it fell from eyes there's no

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guarantees all right guys so if you enjoyed that kind of goofing around then i've got

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there our first video firing actual

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water balloons with our launcher will be coming soon and we've got lots of great

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stuff lined up including an automatic gumball machine some sweet rubber band

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guns and much much more

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so be excited for that or or don't

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