Corsair HX650 Professional Modular Power Supply Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today on my video blog we're going to be unboxing the Corsair HX 650 wat
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Professional Series power supply so compared to their older HX 620 this is
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actually the replacement unit so let's start getting this thing open so besides
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the extra 30 WTS the other main benefit
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of this over the 620 watt version is actually that it comes with a longer
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warranty so the 620 had a 5year warranty
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and this one comes with a 7year warranty
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Corsair's warranty service is excellent I've actually got uh an HX 620 of my own
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although knock on wood I've never actually had to RMA it uh anyway so
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inside we're going to find the users manual right on the top comes in a bunch
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of different languages very very dry reading then inside we will find a
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powered by Corsair sticker along with some black zip ties for managing your
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cables we're going to find a power cord then if I could just hold on to
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things that would work a lot better four black screws for mounting the power
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supply in your case and then let's have a look at the modular cable package so
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it comes in a little Corsair baggie that's uh sealed by Velcro so you can
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store things in it and open it and close it as you please so here we go modular
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cables it uses the same connector as the old HX 620 so you got your little five
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pin there so we've got one uh two 3 SATA
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cables then we have two 6 plus 2 pin PCI
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Express cables that modular and then we have oh wow another two 6 plus2 PCI
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Express that's uh a lot more than used to come on the hx620 and then we've only
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got two Molex connectors so that's actually a good move I think on
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Corsair's part the old one used to come with I believe four and it's kind of
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unnecessary these days so here we're
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going to find something quite quite strange indeed and we will find the
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preattached cable so you've got a 24 pin
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cable here so that's your 20 plus 4 pin it's actually detachable if you need to
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attach to a 24 pin motherboard or a 20 pin sorry and then we have a 4 plus 4 so
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that's an 8 Pin EPS connector now here
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I'm actually a little bit confused here I have to confess as to what exactly
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these cables are oh I see this is
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brilliant so this is actually a Y adapter cable so you plug in one six pin
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here just like that and then it actually
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splits out into two 6 plus 2 pin so that
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gives you a total of four 6 plus2 pin or
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8 Pin PCI Express connectors that's pretty neat actually and then you can
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plug in all of the modular cables for SATA and MOX that are included by just
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plugging them all in here it's a very clean little interface let's have a look
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at the unit itself so on the front of it here we've got a little shiny uh you
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know this is made by Corsair don't pretend you made it if you're not
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Corsair sticker then we have these labeling on the side this is actually
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quite a small unit compared to many of the high-end power supplies that I've
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seen in the past so on the back there's no 115 or 230 volt uh switch so that
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means that it's got active power factor correction then on the other side we see
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another label so if you install I noticed if you install this in the
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corser obsidian case you can perfectly see their label so you can tell it was
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designed with that in mind on the top top of the unit we'll find the spec so
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you can see we've got 52 amps on the 12vt rail that's going to be one of your
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most important specs so you can actually draw 624 watts of the 650 from the 12vt
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rail so it's terrific to see that on the bottom we've got a 120 mil fan cooling
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the unit and if it's anything like Corsair's other power supplies it'll be
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extremely quiet so just as a quick size
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comparison against just a typical Cheapo power supply you can see it's only a
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little bit longer than your standard OEM power supply just it's about as long as
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a warranty void if removed sticker is wide so thank you for checking out my
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video blog on the Corsair HX 650 Wat