Corsair RM PSU Review & Live Load Testing - first video in the new office and I finally get the sunmoon out to torture some PSU's!
Corsair RM Series PSU Review & live load testing
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mihapiha
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I have the Corsair AX 1200i.
I must say that these cables with the two 6+2 PCIe Pins on one end and only one connector on the other are meant for 6+8 pin for graphic cards. If 2x 8 pin power is pulled the PSU will shut down. So I am forced to used more cables...
Is that true with the RM series as well?
I must say that these cables with the two 6+2 PCIe Pins on one end and only one connector on the other are meant for 6+8 pin for graphic cards. If 2x 8 pin power is pulled the PSU will shut down. So I am forced to used more cables...
Is that true with the RM series as well?
Nice video Tom I really enjoyed waiting for the fan to spin up and a great point mentioning how much various systems actually pull from the wall. It's becoming far more informative than just saying 'it has a zero-RPM fan mode'.
It would be nice to install Corsair Link on the testing laptop so you can compare the PSU reporting with the PSU tester and it might help explain what the Link stuff is for because I don't even really know what happens when you hook it up to a PSU.
It would be nice to install Corsair Link on the testing laptop so you can compare the PSU reporting with the PSU tester and it might help explain what the Link stuff is for because I don't even really know what happens when you hook it up to a PSU.
I dont have an internal to external cable dude.....
mihapiha
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As you may see in my signature I'm using 3x R9 290X cards, and if I connected one of those cables to 2 cards 8-Pin it will shut down mining LiteCoins. I had to flip the cables around so it remains in two cards but is in the 8-pin in one and in the 6 pin in the other...
Ive never ran 3 cards but 2 cards on daisey chains is fine dude - Ive run 690's and the MARS/Ares cards this way too. Maybe its because the 290's are silly power hungry
I got way to excited when I saw this is the first video in the new office, friggin muppet I' am. But anyway, watching it now. DING!
Hahaaa nice description of the loosing your case badges, these videos always end up in me having a chuckle. The other day it was something about being simple but no not that type of simple, that got me as well. Hehehe.
Hahaaa nice description of the loosing your case badges, these videos always end up in me having a chuckle. The other day it was something about being simple but no not that type of simple, that got me as well. Hehehe.
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ComputersAndCircuits
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Where can you get one of those testers? I search for SM-5500ATE and get a whole bunch of China links that are all dead ends lol
In china....... lol
mihapiha
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Maybe so. Might be because of LTC mining to. I mean I get like 750W pulled from the plug with F@H and 1080W with LTC mining... Probably mining Litecoins is the worst case scenario, and for that it just was a little too much
Excalabur50
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Totally Effin Awesome video Tom!!! I watched this with avid attention as I have wanted to see you do power supply testing for yonkers, and for a first time video you covered everything real well and people who watch this video can now take away the fact that if they buy one of these units that they are buying quality.
Im also looking forward to the day you do testing similar to what used to happen where the psu's were overvolted and tested under heat conditions in older OC3D vid's and naturally that is when you are totally confident in what you are doing.
Just remember though we all had to crawl before we could walk and then run.
Great job mate love where OC3D is heading and loving the ride.
Im also looking forward to the day you do testing similar to what used to happen where the psu's were overvolted and tested under heat conditions in older OC3D vid's and naturally that is when you are totally confident in what you are doing.
Just remember though we all had to crawl before we could walk and then run.
Great job mate love where OC3D is heading and loving the ride.
Prathamesh Patil
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nice review man. Just was curious if you will test an AX1200 vs AX1200i and CM V1000. Just wanted to know if the CM V1000 unit(Seasonic) and Corsair AX1200(Seasonic) are better than AX1200i(Flextronics) ?
Very specific request. The AX1200 is a flex unit too btw.
But no I wont be testing those. In fact I wont be flooding the site with PSU reviews - Ill just do the odd one here and there because I have all the other products to think about too.
Prathamesh Patil
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ok thankyou ttl
One more thing to ask you.
I am running FX-8150 on asus CHVz+5970+560ti(physx) but when i bought it all 3 years ago, i made a mistake of buying AX1200 which is such an overkill for my setup. Could you tell me how much 5970 draws power when oc on full load ? e.g oc of gpu/mem : 900/1250 ?
paullongy326
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brilliant test session really enjoyed it ,its not often you see anything like this and for us the retailer which just take the results on the box and accept and trust they are reasonably correct but yes it was superb to actually see it being tested +1 vid
Really nice video ..as always 
Just a tiny tiny little bitty thingy: In the future, can you please do a test at around 80% load?
When I choose psu for myself or advising others, I always aim for around the 80% mark. Seems like a good middleground where you buy what you need, without beating the crap out of it everytime you max out the system. (Maby loose the 20% load test).
Just a tiny tiny little bitty thingy: In the future, can you please do a test at around 80% load?
When I choose psu for myself or advising others, I always aim for around the 80% mark. Seems like a good middleground where you buy what you need, without beating the crap out of it everytime you max out the system. (Maby loose the 20% load test).
