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Corsair jumps into the power supply market...

High-end memory maker, Corsair, made a big splash when it announced that it's going to jump into power supply market with two new power supplies. The new Corsair HX620W and HX520W power supplies feature enhanced modular cables. Corsair is throwing the new HX620W and HX520W at enthusiast gamers, workstations and file servers. Three +12V rails are present on the HX620W and HX520W. THREE. At a maximum 50 amps output rating on the HX620W and maximum 40 amps output rating on the HX520W. Both power supplies have two PCI Express power connectors and have been tested with ATI CrossFire and NVIDIA SLI system configurations. An engineer at Corsair at the bright idea of allowing you to only use the cables you need. So, you can take those extra useless cables hanging around in your case, and shove them into a drawer and forget about them. After that you can marvel (if you have a window on your case) how clean your case looks. Power supply cooling is provided by a single 120MM double ball-bearing fan for silent operation while keeping the ambient temperatures at around 50 degrees Celsius. Efficiency is rated around 80% with an active PFC and the MTBF is 100,000 hours. Corsair’s HX620W and HX520W power supplies are available immediately from various online retailers for around $169.95 and $119.95 respectively.