From Jonnyguru
Performance (40% of the final score) - oh, this one's easy. 10. Functionality (20% of the final score) - Corsair was thinking of pretty much everything when they drew up this unit. It's fully modular, has that nice flat black cabling to help with cluttered cases, and has enough peripheral connectors to satisfy almost everyone. Going to have to do 9.5 here, because I'd like to encourage the addition of a multirail OCP enable switch on units this size. Value (30% of the final score) - Corsair expects these to hit the streets for around the $300 mark, with the MSRP being $329. Over at Newegg, this would make the unit a fair bit cheaper than the reigning king of the hill in the Silverstone ST1500 and competing a little bit on the high side with the other 1200W+ units being sold there. But, one must also remember that this is currently the only Gold rated 1200W unit being released right now. That makes this unit a very good value indeed. 9.5. Aesthetics (10% of the final score) - no complaints here. I like the way it looks a whole lot. 10.
| Performance | 10 | | Functionality | 9.5 | | Value | 9.5 | | Aesthetics | 10 | | Total Score | 9.8 |

Summary There is a whole lot to like about the new Corsair AX1200, and very little indeed to hate. Lots of power, lots of connectors, and all of those connectors come off if you want them to. And we can't forget about the efficiency, which just about outclasses everything else I've ever tested. Do you need any other reason to buy one? Let's face it - Corsair's new baby is made of awesome sauce, and I know you all want a taste. Stop reading my review and buy one, already! The Good: among the highest efficiency I've tested to date extremely low ripple lots of connectors fully modular - very stable
The Bad: - somehow, they're going to have to top this one... eventually
The Mediocre: - single 12V rails are nice... to a point. I think we're getting real close to reaching that point.
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