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today we're going to be unboxing a power supply from Corsairs builder series which I have never had a look at in the past this is the CX 430 and by Builder series what I'm assuming they mean is that it is ideal for building a system around it okay so there it's a nope no frills no gimmicks just straight this is a decent power supply go ahead and use it to power a system that you need to run for a long time sort of approach to things so let's see what Corsair has to say for themselves on the back it is ideal for home and office use okay and worryfree compatibility for your home desktop for your upgrading all that good stuff Quick Start Guide build a series with more than 15 years of building and 50 it's a single rail power supply which is pretty nice to see because it's a 430 watt range you do send tend to start seeing dual rail power supplies now while I'm not a huge fan of a single rail power supply all the way up until like the kilowatt ranges I do like to see single watt power supplies on the low end units and the reason for that is because a low end unit with two split 12-volt rails with a very low overall rating on the 12 volts overall low overall rating overall yeah with a low overall reading on 12-volt rails as soon as you split them you're gonna run into trouble where if you have even like a decent graphics card or you want to put like a high-end graphics card in it even though the 430 you want would be enough to power it sometimes you might run into trouble where one of the rails is getting overloaded so that was a long and drawn-out way of saying I'm really glad to see it has a single 12 volt rail in here we find some Quick Start Guide ish type stuff and that's pretty much it and then yeah yeah this is pretty much no frills although they do include sleeve cables which is really nice to see on a value unit like this we've got a power cord we've got to us and do not eat presumably some screws yet we've bought screws and even some zip ties so four screws to a fix to the case zip ties as well as a powered by Corsair sticker in there so that's pretty nice and then and here we'll untether the cables and find out exactly what kind of connections we have because if you're talking about a power supply that's just kind of for your value builder they're going to be concerned with things like well exactly what can i hook up to this thing as you can see right away it's quite small so even though it does have a 120 millimeter fan it still it still even looks kind of like like it looks even more huge than normal on this particular unit because it's actually shorter than it is why most power supplies are sort of more square so you can see right here the warranty is void if you remove this sticker and open up the casing you should never open up a power supply unless you're a qualified professional here we see some course our branding on the side the general specs of the psu itself are here so we've got 28 amps on the single 12 volt rail it's capable of providing 336 Watts of the overall 430 Watts that this power supply can support now you see high-end systems or high end power supplies that really lean heavily towards the 12 volt rail where they'll be able to provide almost their entire power through the 12 volt rail that kind of thing is not really necessary on the low end PSU like this because you're not going to be running high-end graphics cards which are really the ones that suck up a lot of 12-volt juice so on the back we find the power switch as well as a power plug you can see inside some of the coils some of the heat sinks all of that good stuff actually if I flip it over this way you'll be able to see inside a lot better yeah that's way better okay so let's have a look at what connectors we have on this guy first of all we have your standard 24 pin power connector we do have a breakaway 4 pin here so you can plug it into a 20 pin board whether you're using an ITX board or an older board because that's really what this is targeted at if you have an older system you need to replace the power supply you want something good reliable and go with something like this here is a yes success we have four plus four pin so that's an eight pin or a four pin power connector for the motherboard and then we have a single PCI Express and this is kind of nice to see look at that we've got a PCI Express six plus two so not only can you power a single mid-range graphics card if they ever do change the standard to a single eight pin on on like mid-range graphics cards we're going to be ready for that as well now in terms of other connectors we've got a hot so we have three molex four pins as well as one floppy connector and then on two separate cables and this is smart because most of the time when you're building a new system you're going to have your optical drive somewhere and then your hard drives like kind of somewhere else so this allows you to plug in two optical drives together and then two hard drives together which is really on like a 430 watt powered system going to be pretty much all you're going to see so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the CX 430 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips and that's it this whole time I was trying to find the warranty for the thing because I mean Corsairs big thing with their power supplies is they're super reliable they have their legendary customer and technical support which I can personally vouch for because I have used it anyway this particular unit unlike the high-end units which carry five and even seven year warranties has a two year warranty so that was just something I wanted to add