The quest for the ultimate power supply

Those of you who remember the 770W Hiper Type R spinning up a paltry 16 drives last month may be assuming that the lower sticker wattage-ed 750-watt Corsair would suffer a similar fate.

But unlike the Hiper – which was evidently powered by croissants, cheese and wine -- the Corsair 750 didn’t surrender. In fact, once connected to Big Willy and asked to power the ridiculous thing, it managed to get all 24 hard drives spinning up and POST first time.

The machine booted into Windows without any hassles and when asked to run our benchmarks did so on the first attempt, without a sweat. Had the unit been sweating in the literal sense, we wouldn’t have noticed, thanks to its 8cm fan spinning faster than anything we’d ever seen in a PSU. Usually it’s almost silent, but under intense load it’s a screamer.

We can safely conclude that this power supply runs on miracles instead of electricity. For a more accurate conclusion, we point to its single and epic 12 volt rail (rated at 60 amps) and say it’s made of sterner stuff than models that use multiple rails.

This is the George Gregan of the power supply world. Small, perhaps; but pulls more than its own weight in the power department.

12V1 – 60A

RRP: $215