corsair AX1200I are they any good

not built a pc for over 6 years and will be running Asus ROG7 hero ,2x GTX960 also watercooling the hole thing maybe running x2 radiators, chip Intel 4790kdevils canyon , 3 hard drives to start with so a 1200w psu will see me good to cover every thing with some left over and hopefully last a number of years. and room to add stuff if needed ,
Thanks For Any Help / Advice
not got a pc/ tablet etc at mo due to being burgled so using tv internet to post this its a pain
 
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smokingtommy said:
not built a pc for over 6 years and will be running Asus ROG7 hero ,2x GTX960 also watercooling the hole thing maybe running x2 radiators, chip Intel 4960kdevils canyon , 3 hard drives to start with so a 1200w psu will see me good to cover every thing with some left over and hopefully last a number of years. and room to add stuff if needed ,
Thanks For Any Help / Advice
not got a pc/ tablet etc at mo due to being burgled so using tv internet to post this its a pain
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Still sounds a bit over the top, 850W will give plenty of room to spare.

EVGA G2 for example is made by Superflower and has a 10yr warranty.
 
Do not buy that Corsair. The OEM Corsair used for the ax1200i's and a few others left a lot to be desired. Didnt get great review with johnnyguru and few people on these forums have tossed them aside and gone with Superflower. IIRC the ax1200i struggled with tri crossfire 290X whilst the Superflower 1200w coped with quad crossfire 290X thats the difference. The new ax1250i (and 760i, 860i and 1600i) Corsair used a diff OEM and they are much better, but still not the best.

Please look at the Superflowers and EVGAs and get one of them instead
 
Unless its a seasonic made corsair I would stay away. 1200W is also massively over kill for that you have specified. You could get by with a 650W but an 850W would give you plenty of headroom. The EVGA G2 850W is made by superflower (Read excellent build quality) is fully modular and comes with a 10 year guarantee!
 
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Do not buy that Corsair. The OEM Corsair used for the ax1200i's and a few others left a lot to be desired. Didnt get great review with johnnyguru and few people on these forums have tossed them aside and gone with Superflower. IIRC the ax1200i struggled with tri crossfire 290X whilst the Superflower 1200w coped with quad crossfire 290X thats the difference. The new ax1250i (and 760i, 860i and 1600i) Corsair used a diff OEM and they are much better, but still not the best.

Please look at the Superflowers and EVGAs and get one of them instead
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The OEM for the AXi models is Flextronics who are very good. They score very highly on Jonnyguru.

I agree about getting a Superflower or EVGA though as they are excellent.
 
Thank you for the replys, im very greatful for the advice and help
p.s i know 1200w is overkill , i had a Tagon 1300w in my last pc which got stolen anyway it was fultless for over 6 years and really quiet and i never had to worry about if i had enough power when i added new items to it over the years ,and i just want to be in the same position with this pc. this is also why im looking at a bigger power supply
 
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The big problem with PSU's is future proofing and who to believe.

When I bought my 1st 650w, it was because the magazines showed all rigs with that. yet no single gpu rig I have owned has needed the headroom in my home. Roll forward and I have a faultless 650w PSU, but two GPU and am now being told 750w will do my two 7950.

But these will be replaced at some point if I go 4k, at the moment either two 290, two 290X or two 980, maybe two of the new 300 series AMD, and some of these higher end GPU's are being specced on PSU calculators as needing up to 1200w psu's, and we have the AMD vendor sporting issues powering four 290X with 1600w.
I have no idea whether I will be running an air cooled MicroATX with two 290's or ending up with a full ATX with three GPU's and two seperate water cooling loops and two 480 rads in future.

Personally I wonder the validity of speccing anyones power supply based loosly on what they currently have.

After all, in many choices more power costs less than a takeaway, and is just as efficient with someones power draw. If I had bought an 850w instead of my 650w, the extra outlay would have covered a chinese takeaway. The 850w would not have consumed any more elictricity as it's efficiency is the same as the 650w throughout most of it's wattage.

And here I am now looking at 750w PSU's which are £20 less than 850w and 1000w PSU's, and reading of people using 1200W plus power supplies with three GPU's as they attempt to get high frame rates with 4k monitors.

Right now I would not bat an eye at anyone buying 1600w PSU's because so far resolution is going up faster than GPU's can flaunt it. And new GPU's are so overpriced it takes the biscuit.
 
Would recommend a Superflower 850W also.

You can still add a lot to your PC without the PSU having trouble.

By the time 850w is not enough, there will be new connectors on the motherboard, GPU etc, so you'll need to replace it anyway.
 
Just saw this after posting my thread . Based on my personal experience of having 2 units fail in less than 2 months, I would strongly advise against choosing one.
 
My HX1050 blew up taking my computer with it (motherboard/cpu/graphics card) so I replaced it with another corsair that was doa. I have since replaced that with a superflower 1000w psu that is working, sort of. As for the noisy psu fan, the fan hardly ever comes on with 2 290's and a 4790.
 
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