CORSAIR is one of the best known manufacturers in the world of hardware, and is well known for the quality of its products. In the field of power supplies, this is taken almost to the limit, since it is one of the few manufacturers that, sure of its proper functioning, provide them with a 10-year guarantee. Now CORSAIR has announced an update to its HXi family of power supplies , which are now fully digital and enhanced with several top-of-the-line features, including 80 Plus Platinum certification.
It would be quite complicated to explain the difference between a digital and an analog source in a launch article like this one (for that we already did a complete article explaining why a digital source is better than an analog one), but you should know that it is a It is quite a big step forward that this family is updated to 100% digital, as it allows better control of voltages and better efficiency.
CORSAIR HXi: the high end, higher still
CORSAIR’s HXi series of power supplies has always been considered high-end, and now it will be even more so with this new update. CORSAIR initially released two power supply models from this family, the 1500-watt HX1500i and 1000-watt HX1000i, both fully modular and 80 Plus Platinum certified for efficiency. With this power, you can already imagine that they are ambitiously designed for today’s modern high-end systems.
In addition to this, these power supplies can be controlled and configured through iCUE, CORSAIR’s unified software, allowing you to monitor all their values (including input and output power, as well as efficiency) and even configure the fan curve, which by the way comes from the factory with a semi-passive operation to guarantee the lowest possible sound level. Likewise, the software also allows changing the operating mode of the source in terms of OCP protection of one or more lanes.
Thus, building on the legacy of CORSAIR’s first digital source (the AXi family), these CORSAIR HXi offer the power, stability and efficiency that modern platforms require, as you know they are increasingly demanding in terms of power. Of course, these sources have 105ºC Japanese capacitors and, as fully digital sources, they have resonant LLC topology and DC-DC conversion , guaranteeing the best performance.
Availability, warranty and price
These new CORSAIR HX1500i and HX1000i power supplies are available now through the manufacturer’s online store, and will soon hit stores around the world that regularly carry CORSAIR products.
As we mentioned before, both models are backed by a 10-year warranty , and although the manufacturer has said that you have to check their website for updated prices, at the time of writing this article they still don’t have them, but since you will surely assume that they will be quite expensive power supplies, probably around 300-400 Euros.