Corsair entering the PSU market?

[Pinnacle]

Looks like



hardocp.com

[manomanx2]

what can i say, the more the merrier?

[perkam]

The "I'm gonna put 10 12v rails on my psu" trend has got to stop.

Someone needs to make one with 4 12v rails and 25A on each and be done with it.

Perkam

[nn_step]

if it isn't good, they can go home

[Ominous Gamer]

Would have been nice to give proper credit to [H]ard since that is where you are leeching the image from.

[Pinnacle]

Would have been nice to give proper credit to [H]ard since that is where you are leeching the image from.

Thx, smartguy

I guess you havent been here long enough to know I get brain cramps and forget to post the link sometimes

[Micutzu]

The "I'm gonna put 10 12v rails on my psu" trend has got to stop.

Someone needs to make one with 4 12v rails and 25A on each and be done with it.

Perkam

ATX 2.0 regulations limits the current on each 12V rail to 20A unfortunately.

[biohead]

then why are mine both 22A :o

[Micutzu]

It's actually 18A and not 20A.

ATX 2.x specs include the recommandation to not use more than 18A on one 12V rail, due to safety considerations (so no more than 200W will be available on one single wire).

1.2.1. Increased +12 VDC output capability
System components that use 12V are continuing to increase in power. In cases where
expected current requirements is greater than 18A a second 12 V rail should be made
available. ATX12V power supplies should be designed to accommodate these increased
+12 VDC currents.

Thank god not all manufacturers follow these recommandations, especially considering the rail splitting inside the PSU is in almost every case very simple and it affects the line regulation pretty bad.

By the way, the 620W Liberty has two rails that can provide maximum 22A, but not simultaneously .. they are limited by the rest of the electronics, total maximum 12V load is only 36A and not 44A as some might be lead to believe.

[biohead]

I guess they're 'combined' automatically when using just one videocard which is never just rail 1 + rail 2.

lol @ not more than 18A. Ive seen 50A at zippies??

[Redbeard]

if it isn't good, they can go home

It'll be good.

[r3w4]

Hopefully it won't be a ripoff like the Powerstreams.

[Entity_Razer]

Hopefully it won't be a ripoff like the Powerstreams.

what are you talking about? IIRC OCZ powerstreams rocked the house....

Everyone knew them allmost all ran them... Never heard anything of a ripoff??

[Bar81]

Well, with the upcoming monstrous requirements of DX10 GPUs now is a great time to get into the PSU game and it looks like everyone wants a piece of that pie.

[Minnyboy]

Was just a matter of time imo for Corsair to enter the race...

Looks like all the "big" names have entered the PSU race to supply their RAM with enough juices

1st there was OCZ.... Then Mushkin... Then Corsair...

Next you know there'll be a Kingston ValuePSU line....

So, the question is:












Who are they biting off for their psu design/manufacturing??

[Vapor]

The "I'm gonna put 10 12v rails on my psu" trend has got to stop.

Someone needs to make one with 4 12v rails and 25A on each and be done with it.

Perkam

So, what, a 1500W PSU?

Mushkin/FSP's implementation is fine, multiple rails at low amperage which 'merge' (more like divert from what I can tell) to one large one at high amperage....all the power you need, but without the crappy efficiency at idle.

This might be decent though....who knows?

[NickS]

Seriously, they need to end this 4x +12v rail crap. One powerful 12v rail is better than multiples any day, so why don't they make them that way?

Nick

[Tony]

The "I'm gonna put 10 12v rails on my psu" trend has got to stop.

Someone needs to make one with 4 12v rails and 25A on each and be done with it.

Perkam

looking into it bud, the issue is once you get that high the psu its self is huge.

OCZ will launch the VGA psu real soon also which added to the 700W game extreme gives you 80A+ over the 12V lines which should be enough for any one.

[Tony]

Seriously, they need to end this 4x +12v rail crap. One powerful 12v rail is better than multiples any day, so why don't they make them that way?

Nick

Nick im sorry but you are off the ball here, there are official standards that we have to follow plus there are not 4 seperate rails as such, there are 4 lines of OVP and OCP as we have to protect the cables that feed the juice out of the PSU to the mobo etc.If we just had 1 line with OCP and OVP the cables would be huge coming out of the psu to cope with the load they may have to carry.

the 700W game extreme really have 2 rails if you want to call it rails but it is split with 4 seperate OCP circuits and Its actually a VERY strong PSU..

[NickS]

Oh, really? I was going to say, 4x 12v rail's would be overkill. 2 is fine. That's interesting though, labeling the OVP & OCP, etc as a seperate "rail."

Nick