Corsair PSU's Really That Bad ?

Been running a TX 850 for 3 years, no issues. Probably averages 14 hours a day. 5 year warranty. Hoping it goes pop before that. Previously I had a PC Power and Cooling 650W that lasted 5 years. Similar usage. I think having a PSU of which its top output in watts (especially across 12v rails) is well above what you need extends its life.Which I why I always go big on PSU's, I don't think it's a component you can cheap out on as it's the guts of your gaming PC. A poor quality unit can take out other components when it dies.

All that said I would buy Superflower next with Seasonic innards.
 
Armadillo said:
I'm on my 4th unit.

2 TX650 both died after around 1 year.
Replacement TX650 from Corsair had a dodgy fan
Free upgrade to HX750 is ok so far.
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I've been running a TX650 for a few years now, and it's been running fine!

Amazing how everyone can have such different experiences :)
 
I have the AX860i and been running it for well over a year and its as silent as the day I picked it up. Spends most of its time in fanless mode and only kicks the fan in when under real load, the other 2 PC's in my house both have corsair PSU's in them and are over 18 months old and running just fine.
 
anthony566 said:
I have the AX860i and been running it for well over a year and its as silent as the day I picked it up. Spends most of its time in fanless mode and only kicks the fan in when under real load, the other 2 PC's in my house both have corsair PSU's in them and are over 18 months old and running just fine.
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I absolutely adored my AX850 fanless mode, it always silent all times on idle as well as full load. :D The fan never kicked in at full load below 50% or 425W.
 
I've had about 6 corsair psu's in my time all fine till the last unit I bought, an ax unit, went pop after six months. Really disappointed in Corsair of late they used to be the goto brand for a whole range of computer parts. In the last few years they have really cheapened the brand both in terms of quality and branding (that awful new 'tribal' logo wtf were they thinking?' Tend to avoid now
 
Got a Corsair HX750W which I've been using since my first system build back in 2009 and it still seems to be going strong. I thought I'd heard a bit or coil whine after first building it but turns out it was a GPU instead.

Also got a Corsair CX430W which is a couple of years old, again chugging along nicely.
 
I Have a hx620 from 2006/7, its been through many motherboards cpus fans vga cards and open and closed water cooling and its never missed a beat and never heard a thing from it.
I have been toying with the idea of another 290 so I just grabbed a hx1000i
(I know 850 would have done but hey) and as soon as any load was put on the cpu or graphics card (even a you tube video) the PSU had a buzzing emitting from the psu, a vibrating cap as corsair call it. I tried all things suggested on there psu forum.

some of them made me raise my eyebrows tbh, disable eist and c1e, wtf, how is that acceptable that to potentially cure an ill on the platinum power saving psu I may have to run my oc'ed cpu at full chat 24/7.....anyway made no difference

also enable vsync on card, so I cant use my dk2 then?? what about peeps with shiny new gync or upcoming freesync?? ......also didn't work

anyway I digress, I even popped it in my daughter pc, same thing so maybe its a trait of these or its duff.
TBH it wasn't a very loud buzz at all sorta like crickets off in the distance but the pc in in a very quiet room in a very quite desktop and its all I could hear.

also to note is 2 out of the 4 akaska viper fans which sit quite happy at 600rpm on a fan curve had coil whine from hell with any rpm below 1100 rpm so its winging its way back from where'st it came and im back to golden silence with the trusty old hx620 for now.

think I'm gonna give an evga p2 1000 or g2 850 a try
 
expieriences from me and people i know

RM850 - zero issues
3/4x cX 430 - zero issues
860i - didn't like my old 2011 rampage at all and would constantly refuse to boot but be rock solid in other configs
HX 1000 - fan occasionaly got stuck at 100% sounding like a jet plane, load was nowhere near half, and it usually happened on desktop.


be 'quiet' however... had a friend who went through 4 before giving up and getting a refund, complete garbage.
 
Nothing wrong with the mid/higher end Corsair PSU's.

I've got 2 TX 650V2's and 1 AX 750 which I've had since release, no issue's what so ever and when you consider the excellent service Corsair provide I'll always recommend them.

Highly recommend the AX/HX series, RM are good too.
 
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Zaim said:
Nothing wrong with the mid/higher end Corsair PSU's.

I've got 2 TX 650V2's and 1 AX 750 which I've had since release, no issue's what so ever and when you consider the excellent service Corsair provide I'll always recommend them.

Highly recommend the AX/HX series, RM are good too.
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There are usually better options than the Corsair RM for the same/similar price. i.e EVGA/Superflower.
 
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