Went ahead and picked up a Corsair AX1200i on the Egg today for $129 bucks. The Egg has many of the AXi series as refurbs. Seems about 15% of reviews on Amazon are bad stated the PSU shuts down randomly plus an established review site on Youtube had one melt an Asus X99 board along with the 59X processor. Ouch. I got a two year extended warranty so Corsair will get mine back if it does anything other than be flawless. I'm gonna start it out in one of my folding machines, x mining machine for about a month with every pcie cable maxed before I put it in a good build. I think I can't really go wrong, what you think?
I thought GPU mining was dead
it's probably fine
Screw buying a used power supply. The power supply is the backbone of the system and it just seems idiotic to build around a used unit. Why not just spend a bit more and get a unit that is new and not worn.
1 Like
I understand your point. But these are Corsair refurbs. I have 6 of their water coolers in my house right now. Never had a failure. This may be a first according to the reviews and if so, and there is truly a problem with a flagship $310 psu I will be waiting in line to get my new one when the word gets out. Corsair will not go so far as Seagate and get sued, they'll just give everyone that has one the option for a different power supply. I've seen stuff like this happen so many times before and I can't think of any company making more profit in the consumer PC products than Corsair. I think it's a smooth move. I really just hope the PSU works as intended. I have some PC Power and Cooling 910 watt PSUs in the shop the ran 24/7 mining for 8 years with every pcie/molex cable running wide open, watts at the wall at over 1000 and I would not hesitate to hook them up to a new 59x processor. Some things are just over built and "Platinum" power supplies are with some 200,000 hr advertised MTBF (mean time between failures), do the math, that a looooong time.
All I can say is I have noticed with too many of the pc hardware selling companies I usually go to selling way too much refurbished stuff for my liking and the worst part is they are not giving people a good discount on it either. Die commerce die!
Hopefully today I'll get some pics up. I unboxed the ax1200i yesterday and for all intensive purposes it looks new. It's been running a Heaven loop since about lunch yesterday. No software installed and I've done everything I could think of to cause it to malfunction. Old AMD 4 pin board, dual core processor overclocked to just below the melting point, dual unlocked overclocked gigabyte 6850s, overclocked 7850/7870 gpus wired with a cross of pcie cables, 4pin to 6 pin adapters, 6 fans on one 4 pin split 6 ways. Basically about the worst situation or best situation for me to find flaws, also placed fan down on a towel. I thought for sure it would fail but after about 4 hours I went back to see if it was still running and it was, further I placed my hand on the bottom of the psu that was getting 0 air and it was just barely warm. I did notice something that probably had a hand in some of these refurbs. The cables had clearly marked on the component side of the cable plug "for ax1200i only". I have been thinking about this and the only reason they would go through the expense of actually imprinting that on a cable is that in some way the cable is proprietary. I will investigate this further today. But I can just see in my mind "some" PC users just say going from a corsair cm750 to this power supply just pulling out the old PSU and plugging in the 1200i, anyone who reads this has to admit that the 1200i is a top tier PSU and the software caused fault rate might could be explained by "some" people not reading their owners manual when they're purchasing a one of a kind, virtual rail software controlled PSU. Granted one would think that a $310 PSU should work in any situation. I equate this to "some" people buying an AMD 9590 CPU and putting it in an old 4 pin motherboard and used their old AMD 675 black stock cooler. Destined to fail at no fault to the CPU but "some" people think that it's AMDs top end CPU and it's going to improve my computer. With any product there is due diligence on the part of the purchaser to first, research their purchase and second, install it correctly no matter how much inconvenience it causes them. Gonna buy me another 1200i as soon as I finish typing this. I will follow up on the cabling issue.
Modularity on the power supply side is not standardized, meaning that the connectors which plug into the power supply itself can vary from power supply to power supply(esp. if it's cross-lineup or cross-OEM).
If it fits, it doesn't necessarily work as wiring could be different and you might end up shorting something out if you try to use one power supply's modular cables with a different model power supply.
Refurbs Power Supplies, You don't know what that power supply has been through. Just pony up the extra few bucks to get a new one.
2 Likes
I seen these for about 2 years now. I'm sure there are tons of reason there's so many. I think it has to do with people upgrading, RMAs, and people who can't get them to work with motherboard X.
For a 300 dollar motherboard to 130 that's a steal!