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this is the Corsair TX 650 wat power supply it is an 80 plus model with a

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5-year warranty it is also SLI ready and I'm going to get a little bit more into

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that in a minute I actually just did recently a uh a bit of a feature on a

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power supply that I would recommend for kind of a a basic configuration you know

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Onboard video or a a basic to mid-range

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video card but this is what I would consider more like a stepup model so

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when you're starting to look into getting like a gaming setup this is sort

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of where I would begin your Search is with something like a uh anything in

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about the 550 to 650 watt range is going to be pretty good as long as you're

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running a single card but uh you know what why don't I focus on the unboxing

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first cuz I'm getting a little bit distracted here okay so let's have a look at the basic features of the TX 650

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it is 80 plus okay that's pretty good it is here this is a big one for power

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supply uh quality is that many power

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supplies are actually rated at unrealistically low low temperatures and

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any power supply is going to operate more efficiently at a low temperature

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that goes for many many electronics this power supply is guaranteed to deliver

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its rated specs even at a reasonably high temperature that's a big one okay

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you got a dedicated single 12 volt rail so it doesn't matter what you plug into

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what connector you're never going to trigger your overcurrent protection and

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then we've got highquality Japanese capacitors and we have compatibility

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guaranteed with dual GPU configurations that goes into into the whole SLI ready

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thing I think that pretty much covers it for the basic specs and then we have the

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connectors included which is covered by a sticker very conveniently I'm going to

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go ahead and remove that sticker from the okay I'm not going to remove that

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sticker from the box why don't we just look at the connectors when we open it up make life easier for myself oh I went

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and opened it from the wrong side well that's not very good is

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it got my ruler knife today slice that

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open Okay so let's have a look at the TX 650 it comes with the same manual as the

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TX750 there's some good stuff in there I'm sure that if you buy one you'll read

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it next we have a power cord this is just your bog standard PC power cord

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yeah of course there includes some black zip ties so you can manage your cables

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without using ugly clear plastic zip ties and they have a little powered by

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Corsair sticker very nice they also include some black thumb screws goes

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along with the overall black finish of this unit use black thumb screws to

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attach it to your case instead of the uh standard silver ones all right let's

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have a look at the connectors included on this power supply and I do want to

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talk a little bit more about my whole power supply selection guide that I'm

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sort of working on here now I recommended the cic 400 watt for a basic

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power supply this like I said before is where I would start for more like a

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gaming or a more powerful system power supply so if you're configuring your

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system with something like a core i7 CPU or you're putting in a dedicated video

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card like a Radeon 5850 or higher you should be starting at around a 550 to a

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650 wat quality power supply you can see

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that as you step up into a more uh gaming oriented power supply you start

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to see a few key improvements over a

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more generic one so first of all you've got a black finish because many gaming

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cases have window these Windows these days and so it can be important for the

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aesthetic look of your system to have a black power supply rather than like a

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gray hunk of Unfinished metal sitting in the bottom that's one of the reasons

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that people tend to choose a more gaming oriented power supply next you got

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sleeve cable so instead of your Rainbow of colors

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coming out of the power supply and then running all over your case you've got

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nice black cables that will just kind of terminate in just a little bit of color

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it gives a much tidier look and it has the additional benefit of not blocking

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air flow as much because when you bundle the cables together it's easier for the

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air flow to get around it and not cause dust build up then if you have it all

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kind of running like this acting as a as a web to catch all that dust and ren

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stuff okay so we'll have a quick look at this power supply just in general you

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got your Corsair TX sticker on the side very sharp looking their power supplies

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always look good you've got your rated uh amperages on the top of the unit so

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you can see I talked a little bit in my cic one about how a strong 12volt rail

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is so important to a good quality power supply this 650 wat unit can provide 624

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Watts almost its entire output on the 12volt rail very cool very good to see

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next we've got a standard uh 120 mm fan

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you tend to see 120 mm fans in most of the gaming units because they do run

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quieter and the last thing you want when you you know fire up your gaming

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computer is to hear nothing but the sound of your PC rather than the actual

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sound of the games next you've got an onoff switch at the back a standard

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honeycomb Grill as well as a power plug

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in terms of connectors gaming power supplies you'll find all of the standard

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stuff so you're going to have your 4 plus4 or 8 Pin CPU connector you're

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going to have your 24 pin motherboard connector next you're going to find lots

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and lots of SATA cables so this power

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supply can actually accept up to eight hard drives natively with four SATA

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cable uh four SATA connectors on two dedicated cables so a gaming power

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supply a more high-end power supply is going to give you more expansion options

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for the future because you've just got more connectors next you've got a bunch

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of molexes uh usually you don't run into shortages on those these days and then

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this so our 400 wat unit only had a single PCI Express connector whereas

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this one has two 6 plus2 pin PCI Express

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connectors that means that you could either plug in two video cards that each

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accept one so you could plug in a couple of 57 70s or a couple of older

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generation ones or you can plug in one

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video card that takes an 8 pin and a six pin something like a 5970 so like a du

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dual GPU graphics card would run very comfortably off something like a TX 650

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or you could plug in two separate video cards that each take eight pin

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connectors so you've got a lot more options when you start to move up into a

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higher quality unit so basically what I would say is if

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you're configuring a gaming system and you're planning to maybe go SLI or

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Crossfire in the future with a couple of sort of mid-range gpus this is where I

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would start and then looking at sort of other units in that particular price

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range