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so here it is folks arguably the best power supply in the world the ax 1500 I from Corsair is winning recommendations and Editors Choice Awards all over the place including the first ever perfect 10 out of 10 at my favorite power supply review site Johnny guru.com and the reason goes far beyond its 80 plus titanium efficiency rating a global leader in tech recruiting is celebrating geek pride by giving away 10 amazing tech prizes for more info visit the modus Facebook page or modus com but what's 80 plus titanium lioness I've never heard of that before let alone seen a product with that sticker on the box great question 80 plus certification showed up that one very little attention was being paid to the relatively low efficiency of power supplies at the time something that caused pcs to output more heat and consume more electricity it started out as a quick and dirty certification that promised a power supply would be at least eighty percent efficient at low medium and full load so twenty fifty and a hundred percent since then even though the ATX 2.0 specification only requires efficiency in the 65 to 70 range performance power supply makers have continued to strive for greater and greater efficiency 80-plus titanium is currently the highest bar to strive for enquires efficiency of 90% 92% 94% and 90 percent at loads of 10% 20% 50% and a hundred percent respectively aside from the debatable importance of titanium versus platinum gold or silver efficiency from a power bill savings perspective though one amazing thing about this unit is that due to its efficiency it can actually deliver its entire capacity off of a normal 15 amp circuit so you don't have to get a fancy high current outlet installed in your house just to max out your power supply like what we've seen in the past efficiency isn't the only story when it comes to performance though some 80 plus power supplies are efficient but suffer from poor voltage regulation and excessive ripple which can cause instability and damage or even destroy your other components in the long term not an issue here though even though low ripple and strong voltage regulation are more difficult to achieve with higher capacity power supply units Corsairs use of a state-of-the-art DSP allows the X 1500 I to dynamically manage its own performance to achieve a no compromises experience for its users and you also get to use coarser link to monitor power in power efficiency although I suppose they just derive that from the first to fan speed temperatures and even send yourself emails if any of those things go out of whack Nido physically the first thing I noticed taking the unit out of its box is how large it is at 224 millimeters long it's the biggest power supply that I've ever used and one of the biggest I've ever seen make sure if you're planning to buy one that there's room in your case for not only the unit but also the modular cables that need to stick out of the end of it the sides are unadorned save for the Corsair ax branding and on the top you won't find much of anything other than a simple sticker with a breakdown of how much of the unit's total capacity can be delivered on each of the main rails as well as the usual safety certifications of note here is that the entire 1500 watt capacity can be delivered on the 12 volt rail set sail for graphics card city am i right the fan on the bottom is a custom 140 millimeter unit with a fluid dynamic bearing and a blade design that is optimized for maximum airflow at low noise levels I mean honestly though I don't know why anyone bothers putting this on their fan packaging anymore isn't that about like saying a car is optimized for maximum power with great fuel economy I mean who is optimizing their fans for minimum airflow at maximum noise levels anyway that's not the main selling point of the fan for me anyway I'm more interested in the fact that it doesn't even turn on until around 30% load so your power supply can be kicking out 400 plus watts of power and be running completely fanless ly silent neat at the back is a honeycomb grille a standby switch and that usual larger c19 power cord socket and then finally on the opposite end we've got the modular interface with a whopping 19 connectors with varying levels of usefulness the normal stuff is here 24-pin connector six peripheral connectors that can be used to connect a total of 24 SATA and molex devices with five quad SATA cables and three quad mullux cables included in the box we've got two spots for eight pin CPU connectors and what wait a minute that's ten eight pin sockets that can be used to connect up to ten PCI Express eight pin connectors and two EPs eight pin connectors at the same time more on that in a moment wrapping things up back here we've got a self-test button a USB port for corsair link software monitoring and another monitoring port alright so back to those PCIe connectors Corsair includes a great variety of ribbon style flat black PCIe cables to accommodate almost any kind of configuration you've got four standard lengths single 6 + 2 s2 longer single 6 + 2 s and then - double 6 + 2 s which are fine for most parts that have two connectors to reduce cable clutter so you're just running one cable but don't try to use those ones on an r9 295x2 you'll want to run two separate cables for that because it consumes so much power now I wouldn't have minded Corsair mixing things up a little bit in terms of the variety of the other included cables maybe a couple of dulce de Zoar like a variation or two with tighter spacing between the connectors or something like that but this is a very minor complaint and overall the modular cables included give you a lot of flexibility in terms of cable management when building your PC no matter what kind of case you're using and they look absolutely fantastic with every single one of them not just the PCI Express ones but even the 24 pin being that flat ribbon style with all black wires very very nice now I'm going to break tradition a little bit here and do the conclusion of this video before the actual end so stay tuned to find out why but here it goes do you need this power supply no course not whatever it can do there are other less expensive ways to do that's it that's all there is to it but do you want this power supply the fact that you're still watching this video would indicate that perhaps you do and not entirely without cause yes there are other ways to deliver 1500 watts of power to a PC but they lack the elegance sex appeal and sheer technological wow factor of this one so there you have it it's the best and it comes with a price tag to match but at least you get a seven year warranty this sweet cloth bag and a case badge that you can stick to your case with pride because you officially have a two hundred and twenty four millimeter EP you can't even see what I'm doing but I think you guys know what it is but of course you didn't come to Linus tech tips to hear about my decades of experience as an electrical engineer and see a detailed teardown of the power supply nope we're going to be doing a packaging test as a follow-up to my ever-popular test on the ax 1200 I where I threw it out of a moving vehicle but this time we're upping the ante this is the aptly-named 400 yard water balloon launcher from BAM launcher pick this up on Amazon and we are going to be flicking a power supply with it so I've got my lovely assistants Luke and Nick the power supply is in here we are going to show you the power supply when we're done with this but the point of this exercise is uh let's just you haven't tried this before so you'll have to just bear with us we're on the roof here are you guys good yeah oh that's unfortunate so it's not really designed for power supplies and more for water balloons but I think still think it performed admirably given the circumstances you can see that the folded-over marketing flap didn't actually fare that well in the in the fall and the oh wow yeah the outer carton in general is just kind of coming apart here in fact the inner carton is having a little bit the trouble here as well but let's go ahead and so the point of this is you know what you're going to spend a bunch of money on a super you know high end power supply you want to make sure that when it arrives you're actually going to be powering up your rig with it as opposed to dealing with shipping damage RMA so you can see here the cables themselves immaculate the power supply and it's okay my cat chewed on it but other than that pristine huh soft foam totally not damaged capable of handling multiple Falls and the power supply itself once again Corsairs packaging exceeds no loose parts my expectations in fact a lot of the internals of this power supply to even check out in they're actually like glued in or siliconed in so I was I was pretty confident it was going to survive but of course following from this kind of a height or wherever it fell from eyes there's no guarantees alright guys so if you enjoyed that kind of goofing around then I've got great news we have officially named our new toys games and challenges channel so if you want to see more of it you can head over to channel super-fun linked in the video description and subscribe there our first video firing actual water balloons with our launcher will be coming soon and we've got lots of great stuff lined up including an automatic gumball machine some sweet rubberband guns and much much more so be excited for that or don't but if you're not excited for it then probably don't subscribe or maybe subscribe anyway and then give us a chance to win you over and then if you don't like it you can always unsubscribe but one way or another the usual link to price to get availability for the ax 1500 AI is in the video description below the like dislike and share buttons which you should use accordingly also in the video description is a support link where you can buy a t-shirt 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