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by a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel dynamic ticket giveaway for a chance to win great prizes visit Intel gaming promo com to learn more welcome to my unboxing an overview of what might be the most quiet optimized power supply that we've yet encountered this is the new RM series from Corsair and it's kind of a replacement for the TX M v2 so that is their TX modular series so as you might expect it is a modular power supply which means the cables are not pre attached and what you also might not expect is that it has what Corsair is calling their hmm 0 rpm fan mode so they've brought this down from the ax and ax I Series to the RM series so your fan actually is not even going to spin up at all until you reach about 40 percent load so this is your typical power supply fan curve compared to their zero rpm fan curve now with all of that said this isn't the first time we've ever seen this feature in fact it's been around for kind of a while the power supply in my system doesn't have its fan spin up until it's under a fairly significant load but it's the first time that we've seen a manufacturer optimized for silence in a way that goes beyond having the fan not spin so we've actually got a closed cell foam inside here for packaging and we're going to go ahead and open this baby up so what Corsair has done is they've optimized the fan blades on the 135 or 140 millimeter fan whatever they're calling it they're usually around the same size to reduce turbulence okay so it's not the first time we've heard a manufacturer say yes optimized fan design or okay but what they've really done is they have hand selected the components inside the power supply to not only not make noise with the actively moving stuff but to not make like weird electrical buzzing noises and whining noises which are often referred to as coil whine even though there's a wide variety of components inside electronic devices that can cause this kind of noise so that means and I don't know if you guys have ever seen this before but I certainly have I've seen fanless power supplies that make annoying noises in fact my power supply which is an XFX thousand watt Platt them has a ticking noise that is audible even when the fans not spinning at all but I personally appreciate this kind of an optimization and I'm excited to find out if it actually ends up working so let's take you guys on a bit of a tour of the product itself they've got a little warning sticker here that says yo the fans not spinning it's okay because it's designed to do that we've also got a nice open honeycomb mesh at the back and it otherwise looks pretty much like any other course our power supply they've got a bit of sort of rounded corner thing going on and those are M logos on the side are right side up regardless of how you install it in your system on the front of the power supply or back or whatever you want to call this on this side you find the modular interface so your 24 pin cable goes here you have five spots for either four plus four pin for your CPU or six plus two pin for PCI Express so that's four total PCIe and one TPU connector five peripheral connectors and a corsair link connector another thing that's a little bit unique and special about this power supply is the fully flat modular cables even the 24 pin is using a flat cable design that is extremely low-profile I love this even going back to Corsairs original HX series power supplies they had the flat cables on molex and SATA however this is the first time I've personally seen the flat cable approach taken with 24 pin as well as with 6 + 2 C nice flat there's your 8 wires and otherwise it's completely flat as well as the 4 + 4 pin this makes cable management easier even if you don't happen to have a case that's great for cable management so kudos to Corsair for thinking of that and implementing it because it's actually not that easy to get factories to do things like this there's a lot of there's a lot of ease of assembly stuff that goes along with color coding things which is why they like to color code them at the factory and manufacturing level so there's a little tidbit for you guys in terms of included connectors we've got two 4-pin molex harnesses each with four connectors on them and then we have three SATA harnesses that are somewhere in here okay two of them have three connectors on them and the last one has four connectors on it it also has the corsair link cable included remember guys unlike the ax i series this is a deep gold instead of platinum and it doesn't have quite the same degree of integration with course or link but it will allow you to see things like fan rpm monitoring and power usage monitoring which is kind of nice and then finally you've got one CPU cable and four PCI Express six plus two pin connectors and you should be able to pretty much fill this baby up with all that stuff to molex to a floppy connectors if you really still feel the need for those a QuickStart guide as well as some included cable ties of course our case badge and some included screws last thing I wanted to show you guys is is sample only so this is a sample power supply is the distribution of the rail so it's a single 12 volt 70.8 amp rail that is capable of providing the entire 850 watts that this power supply can supply so that tells us that the 3.3 volt and 5 volt rails are actually derived from the 12 volt rail this is an approach that we've been seeing for quite a while here it comes with a five year warranty something I often forget to mention in my unboxings and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the rme series power supplies from corsair these are silence optimized that's the biggest thing you need to remember don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it and let me know in the comments do you even care if your power supplies silent I do but that doesn't mean everyone does so like to hear what you think