<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Silver Spec but Gold Strength, Power Saving PSU-CORSAIR HX750W Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Past few years, power supply products had big change.</p>
<p>Users can see more and more power supply brands in the market and spec is going higher and higher.</p>
<p>Few years ago, the manufacturers started to promote APFC and after then the high end power supply uses modulized design.</p>
<p>These two years, power saving becomes the power supply new spec.</p>
<p>80 Plus is the most popular one to count power efficiency of power supply.</p>
<p>CORSAIR is long history memory brand. His DRAM product has very good reputation in the market.</p>
<p>Even though CORSAIR just enters power supply market for few years, its products are good quality and stability.</p>
<p>COASAIR divides his power supply into 3 series.</p>
<p>HX series is the highest. It’s in modulized design. High quality also means high performance.</p>
<p>TX series has non modulized design, bigger watt and fair price.</p>
<p>VX series watt is smaller than TX. It’s suitable for users who have budget concern.</p>
<p>Last year you could see many CORSAIR power supply discussion and most strings are HX750W.</p>
<p>Recently, CORSAIR announced HX850W, but this review is still HX750W.</p>
<p>750W in watt combination and market price will be more acceptable for users.</p>
<p>Let’s look at the package first. It’s a bigger paper box.</p>
<p>Currently, most power supply provides 3~5 years warranty. HX750W has 7 year warranty. </p>
<p>It shows COSAIR’s confidence with their quality system.</p>
<p>HX750w also passed 80 Plus Silver certificate. Now the most common spec is Bronze certificate.</p>
<p><img src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2969/chx750w01.jpg" alt="chx750w01.jpg" /></p>
<p>Accessories</p>
<p>High quality cables pack, multi lingual manual, cable ties, screws and power cables.</p>
<p><img src="http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8656/chx750w02.jpg" alt="chx750w02.jpg" /></p>
<p>Modulized cables</p>
<p>4 X PCI-E 6+2 Pin</p>
<p>12 X SATA</p>
<p>8 X 4 Pin</p>
<p>2 X Floppy</p>
<p><img src="http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8758/chx750w03.jpg" alt="chx750w03.jpg" /></p>
<p>Power supply packed by flannelette bag</p>
<p><img src="http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7083/chx750w04.jpg" alt="chx750w04.jpg" /></p>
<p>CMPSU-750HX body</p>
<p><img src="http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7910/chx750w05.jpg" alt="chx750w05.jpg" /></p>
<p><img src="http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2897/chx750w06.jpg" alt="chx750w06.jpg" /></p>
<p>Cables extended from power supply</p>
<p>1 X ATX 24/20 Pin</p>
<p>1 X EPS/ATX12V 8/4 Pin </p>
<p><img src="http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8400/chx750w07.jpg" alt="chx750w07.jpg" /></p>
<p>Back side deign is common cellular holes.</p>
<p>Active PFC in 110~240V</p>
<p><img src="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8080/chx750w08.jpg" alt="chx750w08.jpg" /></p>
<p>Modulized cable connectors</p>
<p>If they have some instruction stickers, that will be easier for users to understand clearly.</p>
<p><img src="http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3488/chx750w09.jpg" alt="chx750w09.jpg" /></p>
<p>12 X 12 cm silent fan. The rotation rate is controlled by watt utilization.</p>
<p>Noise level, below 525W is 25dBA and 525~750W is 26~34dBA</p>
<p><img src="http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1074/chx750w10.jpg" alt="chx750w10.jpg" /></p>
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<p>It’s between 5.05~5.08V, about 0.59% range.</p>
<p><img src="http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1165/chx750wvolt5.png" alt="chx750wvolt5.png" /></p>
<p>12V</p>
<p>It’s between 12.42~12.55V, about 1.04% range.</p>
<p><img src="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2959/chx750wvolt12.png" alt="chx750wvolt12.png" /></p>
<p>HX750W 3V and 5V voltage vibration range is very low. </p>
<p>It’s really impressive.</p>
<p>You have to pay attention to that 12V consumption is much higher as OC LGA 1156 to 4GHz.</p>
<p>12V voltage drop is only 1.04%. HX750W is the best in my past experience in using power supply.</p>
<p>The whole platform full speed loading is over 700W. </p>
<p>HX750W body temperature is still low, around 40 degree C by hand-touch feeling.</p>
<p>Also, power supply back temperature is around 55 degree C. It’s acceptable range.</p>
<p>12cm fan speed acoustic is hard to hear. It’s rare performance for such high power consumption as HX750W.</p>
<p>The last part is using accurate power meter to measure.</p>
<p>Standby</p>
<p>5V measurement is 5.14V. It’s a little higher than MB value, 5.08V.</p>
<p><img src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9991/chx750w5vidle.jpg" alt="chx750w5vidle.jpg" /></p>
<p>OCCT full speed</p>
<p>Voltage range is between 5.14~5.15V. Voltage rise 0.01V comparing to standby.</p>
<p><img src="http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8296/chx750w5vfull.jpg" alt="chx750w5vfull.jpg" /></p>
<p>Standby</p>
<p>12V measurement is 12.12V It’s a little lower than MB value, 12.55V.</p>
<p><img src="http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7664/chx750w12vidle.jpg" alt="chx750w12vidle.jpg" /></p>
<p>OCCT full speed</p>
<p>Voltage range is between 12.12~12.13V. Voltage rise 0.01V comparing to standby</p>
<p><img src="http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7930/chx750w12vfull.jpg" alt="chx750w12vfull.jpg" /></p>
<p>As using meter, 5V and 12V are very still during standby and full speed.</p>
<p>Even the voltage change is only 0.01V. According to this measurement result, HX750W voltage stabilization is very high level.</p>
<p>Especially the 12V vibration range, very few power supplies can be as stay still as HX750W.</p>
<p>CORSAIR HX750W Conclusion</p>
<p>Good</p>
<p>1.CORSAIR package and accessories are good quality and also provides 7 years warranty.</p>
<p>2.Modulized design and 100% Japanese solid capacitors usage.</p>
<p>3.Passed 80PLUS Silver certificate and transfer efficiency is 90.02%</p>
<p>4. Temperature-controlled fan is very silent in normal usage. Even it’s hard to hear noise in full load condition.</p>
<p>5.Voltage vibration range is very low in high load. Especially the 12V is really impressive.</p>
<p>Weak</p>
<p>1.4 X PCI-E 6+2 Pin connectors are too less.</p>
<p>2.Matte paint outlook is easy to be scratched.</p>
<p><img src="http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5913/chx750w15.jpg" alt="chx750w15.jpg" /></p>
<p>Performance ??????????</p>
<p>Components ??????????</p>
<p>Specification ??????????</p>
<p>Outlook     ??????????</p>
<p>C/P Value   ??????????</p>
<p>Someone think why I don’t use professional equipments to test power supply.</p>
<p>Maybe instrument test make readers feel more professional and credibility.</p>
<p>However, I think many brands power supply have made many test before selling.</p>
<p>If I use the same configuration as users real usage and test it in full load condition, it will be close to reality.</p>
<p>I used to suffer that a power supply passed professional instrument test, but has stability issue as installing to computer.</p>
<p>There is one more mystical thing. CORSAIR HX750W package shows 80 Plus Silver Certificate.</p>
<p>When I check in 80 Plus website, HX750W is Gold certificate and the power transfer efficiency is 90.02%.</p>
<p>CORSAIR designed it by Silver level, but some items have achieved Gold level.</p>
<p>It caused HX750W got Gold in 80 Plus, but still advertise it as Silver certificate.</p>
<p>This way is different as some brands only care about 80 Plus certificate but not product design and components.</p>
<p>CORSAIR HX750W owns high quality and high performance. Also, its package and components are good as well.</p>
<p>Plus above Silver level power efficiency, even though it’s 750W, but the power consumption is not much higher than low watt PSU during usage.</p>
<p>CORSAIR also provides 7 years warranty. You can see the vendor is very high confident with HX750W quality.</p>
<p>The CORSAIR HX750W price is around 150 USD.</p>
<p>But for middle high power supply, I think CORSAIR HX750W is still a very good C/P value product. </p>
<p>It’s in your must buy list if you are looking for same segment PSU. <img src="/assets/uploads-legacy/emoticons/smiley.gif.f48988bc9f0a933ee8c95d6f744c3df1.gif" alt=":)" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://www.xtremehardware.com/forum//post/195409</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.xtremehardware.com/forum//post/195409</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[windwithme]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:47:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Silver Spec but Gold Strength, Power Saving PSU-CORSAIR HX750W Review on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:37:35 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>HX750W product spec</p>
<p>+12V only 1 loop and total is 62A. The max is 744W.</p>
<p><img src="http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/250/chx750w11.jpg" alt="chx750w11.jpg" /></p>
<p>The test configuration is GIGABYTE P55A-UD6, the very high end spec in LGA 1156 products.</p>
<p>In the beginning, I planned to use LGA 1336 with Gulftown CPU to do the power consumption test.</p>
<p>However, base on my recent experience, when OC LGA 1156 to full speed, the 12V consumption is extremely high.</p>
<p><img src="http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/93/chx750w12.jpg" alt="chx750w12.jpg" /></p>
<p>UD6 has USB 3.0 and SATA3, latest MB spec.</p>
<p><img src="http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/2137/chx750w13.jpg" alt="chx750w13.jpg" /></p>
<p>Configuration</p>
<p>CPU: Intel Core i7-870</p>
<p>MB: GIGABYTE P55A-UD6</p>
<p>DRAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT CMG4GX3M2A2000C8</p>
<p>VGA: GIGABYTE GTX260 OC SLI</p>
<p>HD: Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB</p>
<p>POWER: CORSAIR HX750W</p>
<p>Cooler: Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme</p>
<p>OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit</p>
<p><img src="http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1205/chx750w14.jpg" alt="chx750w14.jpg" /></p>
<p>OS system set up</p>
<p>CPU 200 X 20 =&gt; 4000.6Mhz</p>
<p>DARM DDR3 2000 CL8 8-8-24 1T</p>
<p><img src="http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8057/chx750wos1.png" alt="chx750wos1.png" /></p>
<p>OCCT V3.1.0</p>
<p>POWER SUPPLY mode, Shader Complexity 8</p>
<p><img src="http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/251/chx750wos2.png" alt="chx750wos2.png" /></p>
<p>Above spec is the configuration for this review. It shows the power consumption status during test.</p>
<p>I use Power Angle measure number to the reference.</p>
<p>Enter to OS desktop - 230~231W</p>
<p><img src="http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/6519/chx750widle.jpg" alt="chx750widle.jpg" /></p>
<p>Running power supply test item in OCCT</p>
<p>i7-870 OC 4GHz, quad physical cores and quad HT virtual cores run in full speed plus GTX260 SLI 2WAY and GTX260 PhysX - 707~730W</p>
<p><img src="http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/2664/chx750wfull.jpg" alt="chx750wfull.jpg" /></p>
<p>Power Angle measure data is only for reference. </p>
<p>It only measures the approximate power consumption value. It’s not very accurate.</p>
<p>Even I didn’t use 3WAY SLI to reach the max 3D performance by full system load.</p>
<p>However, install one more GTX260 for PhysX also can increase some power consumption. It’s also some help for high loading test.</p>
<p>OCCT test result</p>
<p>CPU voltage variation</p>
<p>Standby is around 1.36V and full speed is always stay at 1.38V</p>
<p>CPU voltage vibration range is related to MB voltage quality.</p>
<p><img src="http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7755/chx750wvcore.png" alt="chx750wvcore.png" /></p>
<p>3.3V</p>
<p>Max is 3.34V and it’s between 3.3~3.31V during test, about 1.20% range.</p>
<p><img src="http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8411/chx750wvolt3.png" alt="chx750wvolt3.png" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://www.xtremehardware.com/forum//post/195408</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.xtremehardware.com/forum//post/195408</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[windwithme]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:37:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Silver Spec but Gold Strength, Power Saving PSU-CORSAIR HX750W Review on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:13:10 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Past few years, power supply products had big change.</p>
<p>Users can see more and more power supply brands in the market and spec is going higher and higher.</p>
<p>Few years ago, the manufacturers started to promote APFC and after then the high end power supply uses modulized design.</p>
<p>These two years, power saving becomes the power supply new spec.</p>
<p>80 Plus is the most popular one to count power efficiency of power supply.</p>
<p>CORSAIR is long history memory brand. His DRAM product has very good reputation in the market.</p>
<p>Even though CORSAIR just enters power supply market for few years, its products are good quality and stability.</p>
<p>COASAIR divides his power supply into 3 series.</p>
<p>HX series is the highest. It’s in modulized design. High quality also means high performance.</p>
<p>TX series has non modulized design, bigger watt and fair price.</p>
<p>VX series watt is smaller than TX. It’s suitable for users who have budget concern.</p>
<p>Last year you could see many CORSAIR power supply discussion and most strings are HX750W.</p>
<p>Recently, CORSAIR announced HX850W, but this review is still HX750W.</p>
<p>750W in watt combination and market price will be more acceptable for users.</p>
<p>Let’s look at the package first. It’s a bigger paper box.</p>
<p>Currently, most power supply provides 3~5 years warranty. HX750W has 7 year warranty. </p>
<p>It shows COSAIR’s confidence with their quality system.</p>
<p>HX750w also passed 80 Plus Silver certificate. Now the most common spec is Bronze certificate.</p>
<p><img src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2969/chx750w01.jpg" alt="chx750w01.jpg" /></p>
<p>Accessories</p>
<p>High quality cables pack, multi lingual manual, cable ties, screws and power cables.</p>
<p><img src="http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8656/chx750w02.jpg" alt="chx750w02.jpg" /></p>
<p>Modulized cables</p>
<p>4 X PCI-E 6+2 Pin</p>
<p>12 X SATA</p>
<p>8 X 4 Pin</p>
<p>2 X Floppy</p>
<p><img src="http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8758/chx750w03.jpg" alt="chx750w03.jpg" /></p>
<p>Power supply packed by flannelette bag</p>
<p><img src="http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7083/chx750w04.jpg" alt="chx750w04.jpg" /></p>
<p>CMPSU-750HX body</p>
<p><img src="http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7910/chx750w05.jpg" alt="chx750w05.jpg" /></p>
<p><img src="http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2897/chx750w06.jpg" alt="chx750w06.jpg" /></p>
<p>Cables extended from power supply</p>
<p>1 X ATX 24/20 Pin</p>
<p>1 X EPS/ATX12V 8/4 Pin </p>
<p><img src="http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8400/chx750w07.jpg" alt="chx750w07.jpg" /></p>
<p>Back side deign is common cellular holes.</p>
<p>Active PFC in 110~240V</p>
<p><img src="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8080/chx750w08.jpg" alt="chx750w08.jpg" /></p>
<p>Modulized cable connectors</p>
<p>If they have some instruction stickers, that will be easier for users to understand clearly.</p>
<p><img src="http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3488/chx750w09.jpg" alt="chx750w09.jpg" /></p>
<p>12 X 12 cm silent fan. The rotation rate is controlled by watt utilization.</p>
<p>Noise level, below 525W is 25dBA and 525~750W is 26~34dBA</p>
<p><img src="http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1074/chx750w10.jpg" alt="chx750w10.jpg" /></p>
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