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for a limited time only by an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 CPU and get a free three-month subscription to iracing.com available from participating retailers click the link in the video description for more details now my theory is that Corsair is calling this the 2013 edition because they weren't planning to make any more power supplies because the world was going to end in 2012 so they had to kind of scramble and figure out what they were gonna do when 2013 rolled around and all of a sudden they had to release new products because it did the world didn't end and in fact is still very much here that's not actually what I think happened but it's pretty funny so anyway this is the gamer Series GS 700 2013 edition Corsairs gamer series is mostly differentiated from the other products by the fact that it is more modding friendly so you can see that a lot of the messaging on the front of it is actually to do with there you go you can get a nice shot of that blue LED that's inside the fan there and you've also got bentonite Penta nice shots of the different colors that you can set for it as well so you can easily illuminate the fan in red white or blue which should be perfect for our for US customers UK customers Canadian customers who else has a red and white and/or blue flag those of you who have red white blue or any combination thereof legs feel free to chime in in the comments and let us know what you think of course they're really taking care of your sort of national pride that you have about your power supply this particular one comes with a corsair three year guarantee so it doesn't have that same premium warranty coverage does something like an ax series power supply does but it's more of like a more of a standard warranty so they're using an environmentally friendly package there's your warranty guide as well as some important safety information we've got an included power cable that feels reasonably beefy it's always nice to have that you know that reassurance of quality oh this is kind of cool if you're ever trying to put your plug through a wall which I've done with these before then you appreciate that this is the first time I've ever really seen one that's like a low-profile power supply connector that you're able to that doesn't have like a bulky square piece behind that okay anyway no one really cares about that I'm sorry zip ties as well as screws are included from anything eating your cakes there's that environmentally friendly carton that I was talking about before so this is a non module just like smacked the camera with the with the power supply packaging there so it's a non modular power supply making it not really suitable for the most aesthetically pleasing builds on the less you use a case that has excellent cable management options on conveniently many of course there's cases have excellent cable management options so you don't have to worry too much about that it also means that you're going to have to have this sort of rat's nest to deal with and tuck away somewhere but like I said as long as your case has that then you shouldn't worry about it too much in terms of included connectors you've got a 24-pin connector here you've got what the devil is this okay this is the back of a SATA connector I'll find that at some point here and then I'll get that get that fixed the cables leaving on this particular unit isn't really anything that special it's more of a value oriented power supply so there's a single four plus four or eight pin connector so you won't be plugging any sort of you know dual socket motherboards into it but I don't think you were expecting to do that if you're buying a gamer series power supply you've got two PCI Express six plus two pin connectors so these guys right here are able to be plugged into either a six pin or an eight pin on a graphics card making this power supply natively compatible with pretty much a single graphics card configuration in terms of SATA connectors you've got him two harnesses each of which has four connectors on it they're nice and closely spaced together this is something that I actually really like to see so many power supply manufacturers will have them spaced kind of like one here and one here and then you've got all this extra cable that you don't really know what to do with because generally speaking in most cases your drives are either really far apart where you've got a five and a quarter inch and then like a three and a half inch drive somewhere else entirely or they're really close together so it's nice to see that that little piece that fell off goes on the back of one of these connectors somewhere or doesn't maybe it's just an extra one that they snuck into the box see I thought it was I thought it was one of these that goes on the back here you can see it is one of those but it looks like it's just a random extra one it's a bonus oh wait there's more Corsair added extra value with this extra connector that doesn't do anything um this random I guess so two three pin molex plus floppy harnesses and relatively short cables on these ones but generally speaking I don't find myself routing molex connectors very far away from the power supply anymore anyway so here we find that single 140 millimeter cooling fan here on the bottom that has a hot that three-way illumination switch right there we're going to turn this on so we'll be back in just a moment so for those of you who don't know this is how to jump for a power supply you take the green pin connect it to any of the black pins flip the switch and she's on so that's the blue version now I wish Corsair included the other colors that you can because you can see right here that they've clearly planned much like their Dominator Platinum's with the changeable light bar module for you to be able to change that color there so maybe there's like a kid or something I don't know but anyway let's go ahead and press that lighting button on the back so it's right there oh yeah white red off that's nice it's nice to have the off option so blue right red and off just like that now you can see the fans not spinning it's nice to see Corsair include those kinds of premium features even in their more value oriented options such as the having the fan not spin up unless the power supply is under some kind of a significant load now it also uses again so sort of more premium features that you wouldn't necessarily expect on a value power supply it has a single 12 volt rail so that's capable of providing up to 696 watts which is almost the entire power delivery that the entire power supply is capable of it is also rated at temperate of up to 40 degrees and I don't think I ever even mentioned the 80 plus certification so this power supply is 80 plus bronze certified which is about what you'd expect again what's sort of a value oriented but still good quality power supply that you would buy these days so why did I bother getting my hands on this power supply because usually I take a look sort of at the high-end glamour products on this particular channel the reason is that we'll be doing a build guide and when I was shopping around for a power supply that would be appropriate for sort of if you're gonna go sort of good better best for like a better class machine this one really fit the bill it has the connectors I need it has the power output that I need it has good looks it has that customizability and it's from coarser oh I inherently figure it couldn't be that bad don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and I'm sure course they are super thrilled with me saying it couldn't be that bad about their product but hey it's not a bad thing