 All right what's up internet today we're going to be talking about Corsair power supply units and what the heck is the difference between their different lines depending on how you count they have 14 different lines some of those lines have different colors so there's the kutii x gray or the cx green to top it all off they refresh the lines but they keep the names so an rm from 2013 is very different from an rm now the latest rm is the rm 2019 so they change the insides but they keep the names and the naming system is not intuitive it's very difficult to understand is an ax better than a tmx is that better than a hx but definitely once you hear vs you think oh that's no good whenever a manufacturer puts v in a name you know that they want to imply value and value it's just code for this is what you get if you can't afford anything else before i begin i'm going to be talking a lot about 80 plus in this video and i'm sure you've seen it plaster everywhere on most psus 80 plus is a certification for efficiency so once you see that on a psu it just means that that psu will be 80 efficient all the time at least 80 percent efficient there are six levels to the 80 plus certification there's 80 plus white or the base level 80 plus then bronze silver gold platinum and titanium the difference in efficiency between the different colors is just a matter of a few percentage points so even getting a 80 plus titanium you won't be able to make up the difference in cost just based on the power savings and while 80 plus is just really a question of efficiency most people tend to look at the colors also as a mark of quality in general a titanium psu will last much longer will run quieter will be more efficient definitely and will be better all around for your computer than let's say a bronze psu or even a gold psu so while 80 plus is a measure of efficiency it has become a stand in for quality as well and finally a disclaimer for psus the topic is really very technical Japanese capacitors ripples in the voltage wave of the cables i'm trying to keep this as simple as possible number one for myself and number two because this is just supposed to answer for an average pc user what the heck psu should i buy so if i do get some of the technical details from i'm sure you'll correct me in the comments and i've tried to gloss over or ignore a lot of the quasi mysticism involved there's a lot of it's supposed to be technical but there seems to be a lot of emotion and basically just take my word for it kind of thing about psus and i've tried to stay away from that will just be very basic but at the same time useful for the average consumer okay so we're starting out on the lower tier of the corsair power lines these are the budget units and we'll start with a vs series the vs is really like i stated once you hear v you know that's going to be kind of a doubtful don't get me wrong it is 80 plus it's the basic 80 plus or 80 plus white but the design is old the interior circuitry is old so corsair hasn't bothered to update it and actually it only sells it the vs line outside of the united states so kawai kawai sa mga third world builders kagaya natin and you can tell that yes it just meets a bare minimum quality that you need to get rated as 80 plus and you know you might use it on an office computer but you definitely would not want it in a more high end computer next after the vs line is the tv line which is basically just an upgraded vs specifically the active power factor correction circuit and what that upgrade allowed corsair to do was they now met the 80 plus bronze certification so the cv line is bronze certified beyond that there's not much difference between the cv line and the vs line next is the cx line and this is basically the best of the budget lines from corsair it's actually the latest cx cx 2017 actually can meet silver certification but for some reason it's just advertised as bronze so you can get a sense that the internals are better than the cv or the vs lines the cx line actually comes in gray or green you want the gray color because that's the newer color the vs line also comes in gray or green gray is also the newer version of that line yes we're creeping up to a bit more premium market because the cx line does come with modular options modular options are great for any builder because they allow you to only use the wires that you need so it simplifies cable management it also reduces the clutter inside your case so airflow is generally better and modular power supplies are generally more expensive than semi modular or non modular the cx series does come with a sleeve bearing fan which is noisier than some other fan types on the market you know to be honest when you talk about cpu noise there are a lot more potential things in a computer to be noisy about and if you're buying a cx you're probably just you know it's will be for an office computer it won't be for a computer for load so generally those kinds of users don't really care so much about the noise of a system next up is the gs line and Corsair targeted this towards the intro level gamers it had rgb which is the automatic feature you want to have when you're appealing to the gaming market it was a bronze psu its fan was ball bearing so a bit quieter it also had fan management so at tour loads the fan would spin slower and thereby creating less noise again this line has been discontinued but some of the features have been carried on to the existing txm line all right so those four are really the budget line of Corsair the vs cs cx and gs lines up next are the mid-range psus and we start with the cs line these come in a semi modular option so a bit more premium than the previous lines these are gold certified and they earn high marks from reviewers for having a high load on the single 12 volt rail which is what you need to look at if you're concerned about powering your graphics cards because the 12 volt rail will be the one to supply power to your graphics card the cs series also has fan management as well and so it's really a very good overall vanilla psu quality is a bit more assured than the previous lines and if you're sort of on the fence you don't want to spend a lot of money but again you want an assurance of quality then the cs line is probably what you're looking for next is the txm line this is actually a revival there was a previous tx line which Corsair discontinued but it revived it in 2017 under txm it's also gold certified but this one comes with all japanese capacitors again a synonym for quality when you're talking about psus these also come as semi modular and the fan is a 135 millimeter rifle bearing fan so not as quiet as some of the other fans but these generally tend to last longer this is the same type of fan used in the more expensive rmx line so again you sort of come to this gray area why would i get a txm over a cs unit both of them are gold certified both of them sound okay both of them seem like yeah okay good enough quality is assured and i have no good answer for you yes you can say that the txm has all japanese caps and therefore it will probably last longer and there are some minor changes between the txm and cs series but for value for money i honestly can't give you a straight answer you're if you can afford it generally get the txm over the cs and we come to the upper range of Corsair's lines some of the lines that i mentioned as upper range or higher and are actually only considered mid-range let's say in the states or in europe but i'm coming from the philippines where high end you know something that may be considered mid-range elsewhere is own is already considered high end here so the beginning of the high end power supply unit is the rm series and as mentioned in the intro they recently got a refresh the latest version of the rm is the rm 2019 and generally this is the psu we recommend here at hardware sugar you know if you're a pc aficionado and you're really into computers and you expect to run your pc at load we generally already tell you to get the rm this is a gold psu and actually there were minor changes between the rm 2018 and the rm 2019 and the 2019 version is actually cheaper they thinkered around a bit with the rm to make it a bit more affordable but still maintain the quality one of these changes was a change in fan as mentioned it's uses the 135 mm rifle bearing fan which is a bit noisier but lasts a bit longer the rm does not have capacitors in its cables and apparently you want that because it counteracts the voltage ripple again i don't want to be too technical and i don't want to pretend i really know something about something that i don't but even reviewers generally say that not having the capacitors in the cables are not a deal breaker and rm 2019 was also updated to support modern standby with modern standby allows you to wake your pc from sleep much faster and it allows you to maintain a network connection while the pc is asleep so you can still be downloading files and things like that a small step higher than the rm series is the rm x these ps use do have capacitors in their cables so they smooth out that voltage ripple that we talked about earlier making things maybe a bit more efficient the signal is clear there's less noise and the fan use is a bit more expensive so it's quieter but really minimal difference between the rm and rmx lines if you really want to get technical about it the manufacturers are different for the capacitors of the rm and the rmx lines the rm uses tiappo elite caps whereas the rmx uses nipon chemical caps so again very technical when it comes to ps use and for the last two mainstream lines these are really the top tier of corsairs offerings we have the hx line which is basically an rmx but it's platinum rated its fan is a big bigger at 140 millimeters it's also very quiet and based on the memory reviews online people really really like the hx 750 it apparently a very quiet psu even running at full load and finally we have the ax line which is the best of the best for corsair it's titanium rated it has a zero rpm mode where the psu will automatically not spin its fan if it doesn't need to thereby ensuring quieter operation if you're just you know typing or browsing operations which don't need a lot of power the fan itself is 135 millimeters it's a fluid dynamic bearing fan and for the ax 2019 the refresh of this line corsair added a little something where they included magnetic labels you can turn your psu upside down but because you have that label you can just magnetically stick it onto the side so it it won't be apparent that you flipped your psu very minor changes really you're buying the quality of the titanium rating if you can afford an ax why the heck not but even for enthusiasts we just usually recommend the rm or rmx lines because the hx and the ax seem to be a lot pricier so those were the mainstream offerings of corsair but they do have an sf line the sf line is for small form factor computers the mitx builds which are actually becoming more and more popular the sf line comes in gold and platinum certifications they are fully modular generally if you're building these very small computers then the parts will be pricier because you know the manufacturers have had to miniaturize some components to get the graphics card to fit and the psu to fit and things like that so if you're building an sff build then you already know going in that things will be a bit pricier than your larger desktop brethren and because corsair knows that you will pay for the quality it's all japanese capacitors again they're fully modular the ratings are higher gold and platinum compared to some of the other lines we do actually sell sf series psu seared hardware sugar and they have been quite popular the sf series also comes with zero fan mode which is becoming more and more common in high-end psu and the last three lines are basically just variants of lines you've already talked about these are the rmi, hxi and axi lines the eye just means that you can connect them to the corsair iq software and through that software you can monitor the temperature the wattage and the fan rbms of the psus you can also switch from multi rail to single rail but most users won't need to do that these three eye lines are for those users that really need to have all the information about everything that's running on their computer if you're not that type of user then the benefit to you is really minor for the price difference of the eye series compared to the plain rm line or the plain hx line you know it's hard to justify the cost of getting the eye series so that's it all the 40 and corsair power supply lines i hope i've been able to distinguish some of them and why one line is generally better than another line if you in doubt you know i just say get the rm rmx series don't worry about it don't think about it anymore it'll last you a long time and if you can afford it then the hx which is platinum rated or the ax which is titanium rated then you know if you can afford it why the heck not go ahead and get that but for most users within that sweet spot that you know you're making a rig and you want to be assured of the quality then the rm or rmx lines are what you're looking for don't stress about it they're good psu's some people on the internet will disagree but again there's so much chatter about psu's they are literally black boxes which people like speculating about and having different opinions about but at the end of the day man just get an rm get an rmx and you'll be fine thanks for watching