Lets take a look @ Corsair's AX 1200

I just got this not to long ago. Just found the time to unbox it now.

Figured I would snap some pics while I was at it and go over some thoughts.

In no way would I consider this a review, those can be best done by those qualified, johnny guru comes to mind and I believe he has a review on this particular unit so you can check that out for technical details.

I will however try to beat the snot out of it over this week in vantage with thuban + 2x 5970 and gulftown 3x gtx 480 .cfgs and take wattage draw readings via killawatt.

The box art is preety simple.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/1.jpg

A few key features Corsair has chose to print on the box.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/qdig-file...1200/med_2.jpg

Once you get through the outer package it's clear corsair tried to keep it simple and well packed.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/4.jpg

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/qdig-file...1200/med_5.jpg


As we see here Corsair is still using the felt bag they include with there high end PSU's, although a nice touch the bag is not necesary.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/qdig-file...1200/med_6.jpg

Shot of the unit out of the felt bag.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/qdig-file...1200/med_7.jpg

Close up of the power speccing.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/8%20revised.jpg

A few shots of the unit from various sides.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/9.jpg

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/10.jpg

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/11.jpg

A shot of all the cables that come with it.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/12.jpg

A comparison in size to some other 1200W units.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/13.jpg

Last a shot of it fully cabled based on what my needs are.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/14.jpg


I like the fact that it has a power switch, Almost forgot what one of those were.

Modular, well I would personally prefer hard wired 24pin, 4+4 CPU and PCI-E but I'm sure this will go over well with the case modding crowd.

I would have liked to have seen all cables sleeved seeing as they already did it with half of the cables provided.

All in all it's a nice unit and i can't wait to give it a spin this week to see what it can handle.

Waiting for tests! :up:

I wish someone would make a power supply with nice, tight sleeving that looks as pro as a custom job. Why oh why do all sleeve jobs look sloppy? :(

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Originally Posted by Baron_Davis

I wish someone would make a power supply with nice, tight sleeving that looks as pro as a custom job. Why oh why do all sleeve jobs look sloppy? :(

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Because a proper custom sleeve job takes time and effort, thus a LOT of money.

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Originally Posted by lkiller123

Because a proper custom sleeve job takes time and effort, thus a LOT of money.

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Yes, yes...I know. Next PC I'm building, I'm going FrozenCPU single braid sleeving. It's really expensive ($400), but it should be worth it.

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Originally Posted by Baron_Davis

Yes, yes...I know. Next PC I'm building, I'm going FrozenCPU single braid sleeving. It's really expensive ($400), but it should be worth it.

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I hope you are kidding

MDPC sleeving looks the same and costs way less

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Originally Posted by The Duke

MDPC sleeving looks the same and costs way less

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+1 :up:but it looks better

MDPC sleeve look much better you mean... :)

hmmm looks incredibly underwhelming :P
the box looks dead boring and cheap, and so does the psu and cable set...
looking forward to see whats under the hood :D

Awesome psu but i totally agree with you about the sleeving, if your gonna sleeve 60% of the cables atleast do the rest :)

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Originally Posted by The Duke

I hope you are kidding

MDPC sleeving looks the same and costs way less

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Yes, cause I have the skill and patience to sleeve an entire 1200W power supply...if you know of anybody/anyplace that can do it better and cheaper, please tell me.

Here's the link: http://www.frozencpu.com/products/10...The_Works.html

and the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6jfKzo-Dw

where is crysis gamer when you need him ....


*paging crysis gamer to the check out counter*


EDIT: also just watched the video .. whats up with the tons of extra heat shrink wrapping on them ... looks awful!

Found his site: http://psychosleeve.com/

Yeah looks nice, and custom sleeving is $2.50 a wire. So how much would that be for this power supply?

already sent mine back through RMA. Made a horrible high frequency pitch squealing sound, honestly deafening. Corsair's RMA is top notch though, gotta give Yellowbeard some props, he was on it like white on rice.

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I like the fact that it has a power switch, Almost forgot what one of those were.

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yea i like the on/off switches, i was dissapointed when i got my antec that is didn't have one...
guess i was spoiled, so i hung it off it's own powerstrip...

tkx for the pics

Looking forward to this test, have bought this one to my pc:)

Going to see if I can throw a few OS's together and might bench the thuban/2 x 5970 rig tonight, have 30 liters. Maybe I will livestream if if i can get my livestream to work again.

whau, im curious at it.

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Originally Posted by Baron_Davis

Found his site: http://psychosleeve.com/

Yeah looks nice, and custom sleeving is $2.50 a wire. So how much would that be for this power supply?

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Why there aren't this things in europe :cussing:

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Originally Posted by FlanK3r

whau, im curious at it.

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It should be interesting as I was peaking over 1200w at blackops with 2 5870 and 1 5970 with a 6 gig cpu OC and ocing the cards hindered.

Not sure how long I will run it like that as I personally prefer to half load PSU's as thats where they are most effecient but we will give it a proof of concept run before I swap to a daisy chained setup.

More importantly for me I will be checking 24 pin connector for heat as one of my other single rail units has been getting hot lately with thuban even when daisy chained.

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Originally Posted by SubZero.it

Why there aren't this things in europe :cussing:

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only americans can produce that quality? :shocked:



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FYI: The above was a joke so calm the F down :yepp:

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Originally Posted by SubZero.it

Why there aren't this things in europe :cussing:

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Really? Which country is that? We have these PSUs here in Bulgaria for more than two months now.

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Originally Posted by DeathSpreadeR

Really? Which country is that? We have these PSUs here in Bulgaria for more than two months now.

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um I think he is referring to a PSU cable sleeving service.

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Originally Posted by saaya

hmmm looks incredibly underwhelming :P
the box looks dead boring and cheap, and so does the psu and cable set...
looking forward to see whats under the hood :D

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but who buys a psu for the box art? :P

I'm just a little sad this unit didn't become available earlier. Oh well, i'm sticking with my seasonic x-750 until I need more powah!

It's chewing up 2x 5970s right now on thuban no issues.

Unfortunately my killawatt has failed though.

http://www.livestream.com/chewsdisasterarea

LMAO!

You killed the poor killawatt? noooooooo

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Originally Posted by The Duke

LMAO!

You killed the poor killawatt? noooooooo

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Better than PSU, someone advised me I should use one for testing reviews, saved up that $30 for one and look what it got me......Back to square 1.

Have to take my word 2x 5970 on ln2 is harsh i guess :P

Almost ready to go full throttle.

Looping vantage now and still the psu has not faltered.

heh interesting ... I guess if a company would let me use 2 5970's I may kill mine as well.

dont think the smaller cards i review will kill anything lol


the 5970's good OC'ers on LN2?

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Originally Posted by The Duke

heh interesting ... I guess if a company would let me use 2 5970's I may kill mine as well.

dont think the smaller cards i review will kill anything lol


the 5970's good OC'ers on LN2?

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Nah one has a coldbug at 10C, I can cold bug it in 3d03 with an AC unit blowing on it.

1000 core on air brings the heat wattage wise though, i know the sytem pulls close to 1200 maxxed cards and cpu at 6 gig so o well give it a go in a few, almost done pretesting.

I'll be sure to hook the dead killawatt up for livestream though just so I have a cover story ;)

haha very nice ... can't wait for the test results :)

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Originally Posted by The Duke

haha very nice ... can't wait for the test results :)

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Starting to pour ln2 now.

live stream link in sig

this psu is amazing i guess

Hey mate! Nice pictures!!!

If possible, I need to know the rough length of the 24pin cable, 8pin and 6+2pin PCI-e cables for sleeving purposes

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Originally Posted by WaterFlex

this psu is amazing i guess

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Yah I was preety impressed, it ran flawless with X6 thuban cpu at 6150-6300 and 2x 5970 at 1000/1250 solo with no daisy chained PSU in loop :)
It was also nice not to have the 24 pin connector getting extremely hot as it does with another 1200 watter i have ;)

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Originally Posted by dingdong555

Hey mate! Nice pictures!!!

If possible, I need to know the rough length of the 24pin cable, 8pin and 6+2pin PCI-e cables for sleeving purposes

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I will get you measurements as soon as i find my measuring tape :)

Chew: Does your AX1200 emit a high pitched whine while under extreme load?

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Originally Posted by DMac84

Chew: Does your AX1200 emit a high pitched whine while under extreme load?

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No but it does make alot of clicking noises namely when you power switch on or shut down system.

I also found it isn't very fond of being daisy chained with another PSU other than that mine has had no issues and continues to run like a champ.

Seeing as my killawatt is dead i ran some vantage on ln2 with both the corsair and a pc p&C 1200 turbo with the fluke plugged in.

12v rail off load read 12.12 on my corsair, 12.11 loaded in vantage no daisy chaining same when daisy chained. Daisy chained issue was mainly booting, and most likely due to fact that second psu was just on all the time on gpu's, etc i didn't use my 24 pin adapter that triggers second PSU when psu 1 is turned on.

12v on pc p&c 1200 read like 12.21 and i saw fluctuations all the way down to 12.10 loaded in vantage daisy chained or not.

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Originally Posted by DMac84

Chew: Does your AX1200 emit a high pitched whine while under extreme load?

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Do you own a ax1200? I'm just asking because my ocz z series makes a whine depending on the load in 3d apps. I'm curious to because I'm looking at the ax1200 as a replacement. I've already rma'd my z series once and it still does that whine. Its really annoying

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Originally Posted by dingdong555

Hey mate! Nice pictures!!!

If possible, I need to know the rough length of the 24pin cable, 8pin and 6+2pin PCI-e cables for sleeving purposes

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All the same length it seems.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/ax1200%20request1.jpg

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/ax1200%20request2.jpg

Also I might note. I ran a sort of hotbox test by accident :ROTF: on a system (actually the one partialy seen in pic) doing a ram review, system ran well over 5 hours in prime 95 with the PSU not getting any circulation AKA passive, ETC some idiot placed it with the fan side against the wall ( idiot being me ).

Not only did it pass prime the PSU seems no worse for the wear, granted it was not pulling full load but you get the idea ;)

System consisted of a 860ES at 3800cpu/3600uncore, 4x2 gig ram an ssd and a 5970 which runs at full volts vgpu and vddr 24/7 due to low power state issues it has.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/ax1200/ax1200%20request3.jpg

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Originally Posted by Baron_Davis

Yes, yes...I know. Next PC I'm building, I'm going FrozenCPU single braid sleeving. It's really expensive ($400), but it should be worth it.

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Hire Martin to do your with the MDPC sleeving--should work out to about the same price.