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post #1 of 10

7/12/11 at 6:36pm

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so i just traded a fellow OCN member for a modular corsair 1000w psu and i usually attempt to buy the psu with the highest amps on one rail but this one has only 480 it seems on 2 12v rails

that isnt so much my question as i have never owned a modular psu

does it matter what sockets i plug into to get the proper power?

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7/12/11 at 6:44pm

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If its the one in my sig the its basically 2 500w psu' strapped together.
One runs CPU and 1 GPU and 2nd can run 2x GPU.

At christmas i ran i7 930 and 8800GTX on 1 rail and 2x5870 on the other,everything was overclocked as far as you could like and i had zero probs at all,wasnt hot and wasnt noisy.

Im not sure about combining rails etc but im sure its a no no.

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Corsair 1000W HX PSU	CM-Stacker 832 Flipped	Naos 3200 and G400 (no prediction)	Razor Destructor and Steelseries Qck
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7/12/11 at 6:45pm

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I am assuming you are the new owner of one Corsair HX1000W which is really two 500w power supplies in one. (3 if you want to get really technical) Blue plugs are for PCI-E and the black are for everything else. Each set of plugs should support 480w.

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7/12/11 at 6:45pm

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in terms of using the cables

what parts of the psu am i plugging into?

the ones i see that have 2 large 12v rails have 2 dif color slots to put it in

does this color signify the 2 dif large rails on the PSU?

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500K 4.6ghz	P67 Sabertooth	Asus 560 ti	4g Dominator Ram w/EKBlock
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
Corsair 120g force 3 ssd - Caviar Black WD 500g	Asus	Windows 7	21.5 Inch 1920/1080
Power	Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad
Corsair AX850w	M8	Spawn	Qck
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500K 4.6ghz	P67 Sabertooth	Asus 560 ti	4g Dominator Ram w/EKBlock
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
Corsair 120g force 3 ssd - Caviar Black WD 500g	Asus	Windows 7	21.5 Inch 1920/1080
Power	Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad
Corsair AX850w	M8	Spawn	Qck
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7/12/11 at 6:48pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkPhoenix

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I am assuming you are the new owner of one Corsair HX1000W which is really two 500w power supplies in one. (3 if you want to get really technical) Blue plugs are for PCI-E and the black are for everything else. Each set of plugs should support 480w.

ah see i wouldnt not have known that

it also comes with standard mobo cables correct? as in a few dif pin types for powering the mobo and the cpu

so i plug the non modular stuff into mobo as normal

the blue plugs go for my gpu and anything else

and black goes male and female molex for fan controller and other things

do i got it down?

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500K 4.6ghz	P67 Sabertooth	Asus 560 ti	4g Dominator Ram w/EKBlock
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
Corsair 120g force 3 ssd - Caviar Black WD 500g	Asus	Windows 7	21.5 Inch 1920/1080
Power	Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad
Corsair AX850w	M8	Spawn	Qck
View all

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500K 4.6ghz	P67 Sabertooth	Asus 560 ti	4g Dominator Ram w/EKBlock
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
Corsair 120g force 3 ssd - Caviar Black WD 500g	Asus	Windows 7	21.5 Inch 1920/1080
Power	Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad
Corsair AX850w	M8	Spawn	Qck
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7/12/11 at 6:53pm

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ah see i wouldnt not have known that

it also comes with standard mobo cables correct? as in a few dif pin types for powering the mobo and the cpu

so i plug the non modular stuff into mobo as normal

the blue plugs go for my gpu and anything else

and black goes male and female molex for fan controller and other things

do i got it down?

Sounds like you should be all set. I am pretty sure the modular cables are color matched to which set of ports they are supposed to fit in as well. (I can't remember if these were keyed or not though)

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
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OS	Monitor	Monitor	Monitor
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	ASUS MT276HE 27" 2ms(GTG)	ASUS MT276HE 27" 2ms(GTG)	ASUS MT276HE 27" 2ms(GTG)
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2x (SSD Vertex4, 128GB)	11 x (HDD 2TB) (18TB RAID 06)	ASUS Blu-ray Drive SATA BR-04B2T	Noctua NH-D14
OS	Monitor	Monitor	Monitor
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit	ASUS MT276HE 27" 2ms(GTG)	ASUS MT276HE 27" 2ms(GTG)	ASUS MT276HE 27" 2ms(GTG)
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
Logitech G510	Corsair Pro AX1200	Xigamatek Elysium	Logitech G700
Mouse Pad	Other
Ripper XL (or something)	Adaptec 51645 RAID Control
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7/12/11 at 6:55pm

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side note anyone have the EXACT date this PSU was released?

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i5 2500K 4.6ghz	P67 Sabertooth	Asus 560 ti	4g Dominator Ram w/EKBlock
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
Corsair 120g force 3 ssd - Caviar Black WD 500g	Asus	Windows 7	21.5 Inch 1920/1080
Power	Case	Mouse	Mouse Pad
Corsair AX850w	M8	Spawn	Qck
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500K 4.6ghz	P67 Sabertooth	Asus 560 ti	4g Dominator Ram w/EKBlock
Hard Drive	Optical Drive	OS	Monitor
Corsair 120g force 3 ssd - Caviar Black WD 500g	Asus	Windows 7	21.5 Inch 1920/1080
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Corsair AX850w	M8	Spawn	Qck
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7/13/11 at 3:14pm

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Some Google searches indicates it was announced Feb 28th 2008.. But it probably didn't ship until a little later.

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Samsung F1 1TB	Samsung SH-S183A 18x	Windows 7 x64	24" BenQ 2420HD
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7/13/11 at 5:01pm

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What are you actually going to do with this thing? 560s?

Because if so it basically doesn't matter. I am running this thing with an OC'd CPU and three 580s and can almost get away with it. (It shuts down in Serious Sam, of all games, and occasionally in Crysis 2, both only in Surround mode.)

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7/14/11 at 4:49am

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Diagram 1: shows Corsair HX1000 's two rails distribution

Diagram 2: shows an example of connecting two GTX480s.

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