Corsair has shown its first SFX form-factor PSU at Computex, the SF600.
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True to its name the SF600 is a 600W PSU, and it features a fully modular design and will carry an 80 PLUS Gold certification. According to the report from Tom's Harware Corsair is using a 92 mm fan with the SF600, slightly larger than the 80 mm fans found in standard SFX power supplies, but smaller than the 120 mm fans that SilverStone has been using in its SFX-L form-factor PSUs.
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This PSU was secretly powering the new Corsair Bulldog living room PC, also shown at Computex. Naturally there was no announcement on pricing or availability for this new PSU, but we'll keep you posted if anything official is announced.
FINALLY an SFX PSU at which I
FINALLY an SFX PSU at which I can look without crying bloody tears and vomiting heavily.
Thank Zeus! The SilverStone
Thank Zeus! The SilverStone SX600 is the only real competitor to this, and that sucker has been blowing up people’s hard disks according to reviews on NewEgg. Not only that, but people have been complaining how noisy the fan is.
Finally we have alternative. I really hope Corsair’s quality is to scratch.
SeaSonic OEMs more than 90%
SeaSonic OEMs more than 90% of all Corsair’s mid-tier and top-tier PSUs (like the truly GODLIKE AX and high-tier HX lines, for example), so you can bet your friggin’ ass these babies are of top-notch quality and also extremely reliable units.
Seasonic is the OEM for the
Seasonic is the OEM for the AX series. AXi is by Flextronics, HX and HXi is almost entirely CWT now, RM is a mix of CWT and Chicony: http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page447.htm
According to Tom’s Hardware the SF600 here is by High Power/Sirfa, makers of the SilverStone SX500-LG and all the other 500W SFX-L units that have popped up recently.
I never said anything about
I never said anything about the “i” suffixed series, and about “non-i” HX it’s a, pretty much, wrong info. BOTH the non-i AX and non-i HX (at least those that are above 650W) are SeaSonic’s OEMs. I’ve owned pretty much all of them in the range starting from 650W and all the way up to 1200W, so I know first-hand on my own experience of dealing with these units. I never was a liker of “i” series, though, because first two units I’ve had on my hands and tested (AX 1200i and AX 860i) were pretty badly calibrated and outright buggy units, and the software was pretty bad also. RM series, on the other hand, let me down only once, with a 750W unit. RM 850W unit was almost as good as the truly GODLIKE AX 850W (which, BTW, I still use in one of my personal six different builds I have in my house at this current moment). We’ll see, I guess. We’ll see how this SFX baby behaves when I get one on my hands. I really hope that it’s actually gonna turn out to be better than what you’re already marking it as.
The 750W and up units from
The 750W and up units from the HX line are CWT. Seasonic only made the 650W and lower HX units.
HX850: https://pcper.com/reviews/Cases-and-Cooling/Corsair-HX850-Professional-Series-Power-Supply-Review/Under-Hood
HX1050: https://pcper.com/reviews/Cases-and-Cooling/Corsair-HX1050-Professional-Series-Power-Supply-Review/Under-Hood
I said nothing about the SF600’s quality, just noted that the OEM is supposedly Sirfa.
1. Again, that info is
1. Again, that info is incorrect. I can’t say for the 1050W unit, but 850W HX is a definite OEM of SeaSonic.
2. If my memory is correct, Sirfa OEM’ed the ill-known “eXtreme” series of PSUs and those were UTTER GARBAGE, that’s why when you mentioned it I’ve jumped the gun almost immediately.
The HX850 is definitely made
The HX850 is definitely made by CWT:
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story4&reid=299
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/08/22/corsair_hx850_gold_power_supply_review/1
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Corsair-HX850-Gold-Power-Supply-Review/1602/1
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Corsair/HX850_V2/4.html
Sirfa has made junk in the past (same could be said of many OEMs though) but the High Power Astro line is well-reviewed (High Power is the retail brand of Sirfa) and I like my SX500-LG other than the slight clacking the fan makes and the semi-fanless function doesn’t work that well.
There is really something
There is really something very fishy and wrong going on with that 850W HX-related info. Because that is so wrong and outright untrue that it’s not even funny anymore. It’s like most of these sources got paid to belittle and down-talk the actual OEM to something of much lower level, which it really isn’t in the reality.
Seasonic is generally better
Seasonic is generally better regarded than CWT so if Seasonic was the OEM for the HX850 Corsair wouldn’t stand for having all these sites claiming it’s a CWT unit.
I don’t think Corsair cares,
I don’t think Corsair cares, mainly because these babies still sell like hot cakes and usually not many people dwell deep into the whole “OEM origin” thematic, so absolute majority of those who buy these units actually believe that Corsair makes them from scratch, that these units are 100% Corsair-invented hardware. “Ignorance is bliss”, I guess? Sheesh.
I currently use a Silverstone
I currently use a Silverstone ST45SF. If this one has a better fan, it is a no brainer upgrade for me. That thing is way to loud.
Modern Corsair’s PSUs not
Modern Corsair’s PSUs not only do have very good fans, but also most of the recent ones have automatic passive mode implemented (when overall loads are under 30~40% of particular PSU unit’s capacity – the fan just doesn’t spin at all). Let’s hope this one here SFX model has that too. That would’ve been simply PURRRRR-FECT.
Update: it’s been pretty much
Update: it’s been pretty much confirmed by Corsair (through Tek Syndicate’s stream) that this here SFX baby has the “zero RPM” automatic mode which makes this PSU absolutely silent until it gets loaded at 30% or more (pretty much just like it’s bigger brothers). When you’ll surf internet/watch lightweight streamed video or just play some light-on-graphics browser game, it’ll stay absolutely silent due to fan not kicking in at all. And, also, this baby’s fan is 92mm, and the unit itself has a “80+ Gold” rating. Looks like it shapes up to turn out to be a truly great SFX PSU, after all. Cannot wait to get my hands on one (or two, or maybe even three, lol) of these beauts.
“This PSU was secretly
“This PSU was secretly powering the new Corsair Bulldog living room PC”
If by ‘secretly’ you mean ‘Corsair listed it as a component and confirmed it would be sold separately when it was announced a week ago’.
I think he just meant that
I think he just meant that they did not give it much fanfare at all.