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Corsair are using a Yate Loon D14BH-12 fan which is a 12 volt design – the fan can spin up to 2,800 rpm generating a whopping airflow of 140 cfm. The maximum noise is rated to 48.5 dBa, but Corsair should have the product configured to spin much slower.
Corsair are using a Channel Well Technology (CWT) design for this particular unit – the same company who also produced the first TX power supplies. Corsair have worked with SeaSonic in the past, and both of these manufacturers are capable of great designs. The transient filtering stage starts at the AC receptacle and consists of two Y and a single X cap. It is a capable configuration.
The main capacitor is from Panasonic and is rated at 105c, 470uF, 400V. We noticed a SBL1040CTP being used for the 5VSB output with a Nippon Chemi Con capacitor. All capacitors on the secondary side are actually Nippon Chemi Con. On the modular PCB, next to the VRM's, polymer caps are used. The cabling is fully sleeved inside the chassis and tied tightly to ensure fraying is not a long term concern.
They keep bringing them out. I know they don’t actually ‘make’ them, but their quality control is exceptional.
I am a little baffled with the modular implementation. why only 4 cables? its basically just a standard design with a few modular cables. Never seen this done before.
not complaining, its a good design, but why not have 2 or 3 native, and the rest modular?
This is a good buy for £90. it isnt without competition, but corsair do have strigent qualiuty control checks which I like.
CWT work well with Corsair, lets not forget seasonic too. I do agree that the modular design is very weird.