Corsair GS700 Gamer Series Power Supply Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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click the link in the video description for more details now my theory is that
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Corsair is calling this the 2013 edition because they weren't planning to make
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any more power supplies because the world was going to end in 2012 so they
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had to kind of scramble and figure out what they were going to do when 2013
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rolled around and all of a sudden they had to release new products because
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uh it did the world didn't end and in fact is still very much
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here that's not actually what I think happened but it's pretty funny so anyway
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this is the gamer series gs700 2013 edition Corsair's gamer
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series is mostly differentiated from the other products by the fact that it is
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more modding friendly so you can see that a lot of the messaging on the front
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of it is actually to do with there you go you can get a nice shot of that blue
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LED that's inside the fan there and you've also
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got nice shots of the different colors that you can set for it as well so you
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can easily illuminate the fan in red white or blue which should be perfect
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for our for us customers uh UK customers
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Canadian customers uh who else has a red
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and white and or blue sort of flag those
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of you who have red white blue or any combination thereof Flags feel free to
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chime in in the comments and let us know know what you think of Corsair really
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taking care of your sort of national pride that you have about your power
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supply uh this particular one comes with a Corsair three-year guarantee so it
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doesn't have that same premium warranty coverage that's something like an ax
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series power supply does but it's more of like a more of a standard warranty
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and let's go ahead and pop the top open so they're using an environmentally
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friendly package there's your warranty guide as well as some important safety
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information uh we've got an included power cable that feels reasonably beefy
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it's always nice to have that you know that reassurance of quality oh this is
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kind of cool if you're ever trying to put your plug through a wall which I've
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done with these before then you'll appreciate that this is the first time
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I've ever really seen one that's like a low profile power supply connector that
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you're able to that doesn't have like a bulky square piece behind that okay
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anyway no one really cares about that I'm sorry uh zip ties as well as screws
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are included for mounting it in your case there's that environmentally
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friendly carton that I was talking about before and let's go ahead and pull this
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bad boy out so this is a non-modular Oopsy Daisy sorry about that bu just
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like smacked the camera with the uh with the power supply packaging there so it's
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a non-m modular power supply making it not really suitable for the most
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aesthetically pleasing builds unless you use a case that has excellent Cable
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Management options um conveniently many of course s's cases have excellent Cable
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Management options so you don't have to worry too much about that that it also
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means that you're going to have to have this sort of rats nness to deal with and
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tuck away somewhere but like I said as long as your case has that then you
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shouldn't worry about it too much in terms of included connectors you've got
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a 24 pin connector here you've
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got what the devil is
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this oh okay this is the back of a SATA connector I'll find that at some point
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here and then I'll get that uh get that fixed the cable sleeving on this
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particular unit isn't really anything that special it's more of a value
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oriented power supply so there's a single 4 plus4 or8 pin connector so you
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won't be plugging any sort of you know dual socket motherboards into it but I
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don't think you were expecting to do that if you're buying a gamer series power supply you've got two PCI Express
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6 plus two pin connectors so these guys right here are able to be plugged into
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either a six pin or an8 pin on a graphics card making this power supply
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natively compatible with pretty much a single graphicss card configuration in
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terms of SATA connectors you've got two harnesses Each of which has four
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connectors on it they're nice and closely spaced together this is something that I actually really like to
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see so many power supply manufacturers will have them spaced kind of like one
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here and one here and then you've got all this extra cable that you don't
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really know what to do with because generally speaking in most cases um your
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drives are either really far apart where you've got a 5 and a/4 in drive and then
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like a 3 and 1/2 in drive somewhere else entirely or they're really close
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together so it's nice to see that um that little piece that fell off goes on
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the back of one of these connectors
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somewhere or doesn't maybe it's just an extra one that like snuck into the box
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see I thought it was uh I thought it was one of these that goes on the back here
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you can see it is one of those but it looks like it's just a random extra one
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it's a bonus but wait there's more Corsair added extra value with this
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extra connector that doesn't do anything um just random I guess so two three pin
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m plus floppy harnesses and relatively
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short cables on these ones but generally speaking I don't find myself routing
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Molex connectors very far away from the power supply anymore anyway so here we
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find that single 140 mm cooling fan here
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on the bottom that has aha that three-way illumination switch right
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there we're going to turn this on so we'll be back in just a moment so for those of you who don't know this is how
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to jump or a power supply you take the green pin connect it to any of the black
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pins flip the switch
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and she's on so that's the Blue version now I wish Corsair included the other
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colors that you can actually that's yeah that's odd to
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me that they that they don't include that huh because you can see right here
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that they've clearly planned much like their Dominator platinums with the
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changeable light bar module for you to be able to change that color there so
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maybe there's like a kit or something I don't know but anyway let's go ahead and
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press that lighting button on the back so it's right there oh yeah
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white red off that's nice it's nice to
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have the off option so blue white red and off just like that now you can see
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the fans's not spinning it's nice to see Corsair include those kinds of Premium
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features even in their more value oriented options such as the having the
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fan not spin up unless the power supply is under some kind of a significant load
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now it also uses again so sort of more premium features that you wouldn't
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necessarily expect on a value power supply it has a single 12volt rail so
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that's capable of providing up to 696 Watts which is almost the entire um
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Power delivery that the entire power supply is capable of it is also rated at
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temperatures of up to 40° and I don't think I ever even
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mentioned the 80 plus certification so this power supply is da da da da 80 plus
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bronze certified which is about what you'd expect again with sort of a value
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oriented but still good quality power supply that you would buy these days so
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why did I bother getting my hands on this power supply because usually I take
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a look sort of at the high-end glamour products on this particular channel the
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reason is that we'll be doing a build guide and when I was shopping around for
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a power supply that would be appropriate for sort of a uh if you're going to go
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sort of good better best for like a better class machine this one really fit
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the bill it has the connectors I need it has the power output that I need it has
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good looks it has that customizability and it's from Corsair so I inherently
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figure it couldn't be that bad don't
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computer videos and I'm sure Corsair are super thrilled with me saying it
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couldn't be that bad about their product but hey it's not a bad thing