Overclockersonline.net Updated: 2011-07-30 22:20:28
|
Corsair power supplies have long since been a favorite among computer enthusiasts, overclockers and casual users alike, and have built quite the reputation for being affordable, yet top-tier performing power supplies. Corsair’s HX series of power supplies is a rather long standing family including units from 450W to 1000W, today we’ll be looking at the 850W variant. The HX series, or the prof...
The HX850W power supply for Corsair is truly amongst the best. More units than I can either recall or count have passed through our hands here at Overclockers Online and perhaps only one, or two are at all comparable to Corsair’s HX850W unit. While Co...
|
|
xbitlabs.com Updated: 2011-07-30 22:20:29
|
The Corsair HX850W has no serious drawbacks. Its voltages are stable and there is low output voltage ripple. It is highly efficient and offers a lot of connectors with which you can connect three graphics cards and about ten hard disk drives using no adapters. The only thing I can find fault with is that the fan is...
|
|
|
Closing a gap in its lineup of enthusiast-class power supply units (PSU), Corsair recently introduced new 750W and 850W models, bridging its existing 620W and 1kW variants. Not only has the company waded into a very lucrative high-end segment with thes...
Justifying its premium branding, the Corsair HX850 comes with a seven-year warranty from local distributor Corbell. It's not cheap however, with an online retail price of around US$195. For that price though, you know what you're in for and the HX850 c...
|
|
Computerpoweruser.com Updated: 2011-07-30 22:20:29
|
4 Over the past few years, Corsair has slowly but surely expanded its power supply lineup, with products ranging from the affordable CX400W to the high-end HX1000W modular PSU. Corsair’s latest offering, the HX850W Professional Series, isn’t quite as po...
|
|
|
& Specs A little over a month ago Corsair announced two new PSU's to join their extremely popular HX line-up. The HX750 and HX850 are two models designed to bridge the rather large gap between the original HX620W unit released in 2006 and the HX1000...
They say that some things get better with age, and in the case of Corsair's HX series at least I'm inclined to agree. The HX620W was a great PSU, the HX1000W even better. But when it come to designing and building the HX850W Corsair have realy pushed the...
|
|
|
Corsair HX850W is a power supply with modular cabling system and high-end components promising up to 90% efficiency, launched to compete with Antec Signature series and Seasonic M12D series. Let’s see if it survives our tests.It is very important to no...
Corsair HX850W is an impressive power supply, being to this date the power supply with the highest efficiency that we’ve ever tested, beating Seasonic M12D 750 W and Antec Signature 650 W. The reason why these three models achieved efficiency above...
|
|
|
Good day, my loyal readers. Once again, it seems that Corsair has sailed their latest and greatest into my harbor, and I intend to give it a good run through the load tester to see what it's all about. This time, I'm looking at the HX850, the newest o...
fantastically efficient, 12V ripple suppression second only to a very few high end units, very, very stable regulation, good value...
loose heatsink screws yet again...
The long wait for a modular 850W unit from Corsair is at last over, and I do hereby declare that this unit was worth waiting for. Not only is this the most efficient Corsair I've ever looked at, it's also the best performing. Now, all Corsair needs is...
|
|
|
Corsair has been known among enthusiast circles as a premier supplier of high performance memory for quite some time and has recently risen to become one of the most talked about power supply brands around. Corsair was able to establish such an amazin...
The Corsair HX850W represents the newest edition to Corsairs flagship line of power supplies and it along with the TX750W plug the obvious gap that had previously existed. In filling this void Corsair had a lot to live up to as the HX620W was probably...
|
|
|
Six years ago Corsair first entered the PSU market with the HX520W and HX620W, both of which products were marked as a great success for the company. Today the company offers six series of power supplies, but the HX series remains alive. In fact, Co...
The Corsair Professional Series HX850W Power Supply proved to a solid power supply and was able to meet the 80Plus Gold efficiency ratings!...
|
|
|
CMPSU-850HX ATX12V & EPS12V Power Supply (850W)Lowest Price:$165.99High Price: $203.00View 11 sellersCorsair continues to bring a full line of high quality power supplies, memory components, cases, cooling components, SSDs and accessories to mar...
The most notable upgrades to the Corsair Professional Series HX850 power supply are increased efficiency (80 Plus Gold versus 80 Plus Silver) and the ability to run in silent, fanless mode when the load is ≤20%. The HX850 PSU delivers very good efficiency...
|
|
|
Greetings once again, good peoples of the Interweb. As you can see, today I'm revisiting a Corsair power supply I first saw back in 2009, the . Back then, the HX850 boasted 80 Plus Silver efficiency; being based as it was on the CWT DSG platform. As...
easily passed Gold efficiency in the hot box, excellent ripple control, excellent overall voltage stability, tons of modular cables...
initial cost is looking a mite on the high side...
Corsair's update to the good old HX850 has been a good move. The new unit performs a little better, offers higher efficiency, and is still that same excellent build quality we've come to expect from Corsair. It's not perfect, but there are very few thi...
|
|
|
Even though the original Corsair HX850 power supply received the 80 Plus Gold certification, Corsair decided to downgrade it to the 80 Plus Silver certification, as the manufacturer felt the 80 Plus Gold levels couldn’t be sustained at high temperature...
The new Corsair HX850 Gold performed slightly better on our tests than the original HX850. Efficiency was higher at full load (at other loads it remained about the same), but the biggest advantage of the new version is that we didn't see the high noise le...
|
|
|
Corsair has many PSU lines these days, it is a large chunk of their business. Amongst the product lines there is the Corsair Professional Series HX PSU. Slightly overhauled, the SKUs are re-injected into that line-up being all updated, one of them...
Final Words & Conclusion The new HX850 definitely belongs where it is positioned, in the professional series. The power supply does what the doctor ordered, it's really silent (unless you put 100% load on it) and the efficiency was very respectable...
|
|
|
Corsair is known in enthusiast circles as a premier supplier of high performance memory and has risen to become one of the most talked about power supply brands around. Corsair was able to establish such presence through rigorous design standards, excelle...
The Corsair HX850 Gold is another very good product among Corsair's power supply lines. However, the unit that this unit is set to replace was a really good product and that makes it really difficult for this product to stand on its own. Indeed, while thi...
|
|
|
Corsair has been a major player in the power supply market since 2006. The release of their two first PSU products, the HX520 and HX620, proved to be a great success at the time, quickly making Corsair one of the favorite brands amongst enthusiasts. Today...
|
|