Swapping PSUs with custom cables

[SaPinYshMaZe]

Hi,

 

I recently RMA'd my Corsair AX860i after it started turning off due to overheating. However my vendor doesn't stock this PSU anymore and has therefore offered me an equvalent exchange. I was thinking of going with the new Corsair AX850 or AX1000. My question however is: will this be compatible with all my existing custom cables? I bought a kit of individually sleeved cables for the AX860i that I am using.  When I try to look online it seems it should be compatible but I don't feel 100% sure. Especially concerning the 24-pin ATX connector.

 

Anyone of you have any tips?

[SupaKomputa]

If it's from the same company i don't see why they have different cables. You can ask them anyway.

[TrigrH]

12 minutes ago, SaPinYshMaZe said:

Hi,

 

I recently RMA'd my Corsair AX860i after it started turning off due to overheating. However my vendor doesn't stock this PSU anymore and has therefore offered me an equvalent exchange. I was thinking of going with the new Corsair AX850 or AX1000. My question however is: will this be compatible with all my existing custom cables? I bought a kit of individually sleeved cables for the AX860i that I am using.  When I try to look online it seems it should be compatible but I don't feel 100% sure. Especially concerning the 24-pin ATX connector.

 

Anyone of you have any tips?

use this kit as a reference as to what is compatible:

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Accessories-|-Parts/PC-Components/Power-Supplies/Professional-Individually-sleeved-DC-Cable-Kit%2C-Type-3-(Generation-2)%2C-RED/p/CP-8920049#tab-tech-specs

[Spotty]

Corsair has a cable compatibility chart on their website. https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/psu-cable-compatibility

 

The AX860i uses Corsair "Type 3" cables and the AX850/AX1000 uses Corsair "Type 4" cables. The PCIe, CPU, and Peripheral/SATA cables are the same between Type 3 & Type 4, however the 24pin motherboard connector is different due to the Type 4 cable having additional sense wires. You won't be able to reuse the 24pin connector.

[SaPinYshMaZe]

16 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Corsair has a cable compatibility chart on their website. https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/psu-cable-compatibility

Yeah I tried that first but I don't think it's very good.

17 minutes ago, Spotty said:

 

The AX860i uses Corsair "Type 3" cables and the AX850/AX1000 uses Corsair "Type 4" cables. The PCIe, CPU, and Peripheral/SATA cables are the same between Type 3 & Type 4, however the 24pin motherboard connector is different due to the Type 4 cable having additional sense wires. You won't be able to reuse the 24pin connector.

I have seen information similar to this enough that I'm inclined to think it's correkt. However I've seen some conflicting info regarding the PCIe and CPU cables that also they come in a different Type 4 variant.

[SaPinYshMaZe]

48 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

use this kit as a reference as to what is compatible:

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Accessories-|-Parts/PC-Components/Power-Supplies/Professional-Individually-sleeved-DC-Cable-Kit%2C-Type-3-(Generation-2)%2C-RED/p/CP-8920049#tab-tech-specs

It's one of those kits that I'm using. And from what I'm finding it should be fine, as long as I swap my 24-pin connector.

[TrigrH]

4 minutes ago, SaPinYshMaZe said:

It's one of those kits that I'm using. And from what I'm finding it should be fine, as long as I swap my 24-pin connector.

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Series

 AX, AXi, CSM, CXM, HX, HXi, RM, TXM

 

[Spotty]

14 minutes ago, SaPinYshMaZe said:

I have seen information similar to this enough that I'm inclined to think it's correkt. However I've seen some conflicting info regarding the PCIe and CPU cables that also they come in a different Type 4 variant.

The difference between Type 3 and Type 4 PCIe & GPU cables are the Type 4 feature in line cable capacitors. This blog post from Corsair explains it. It also has a photo showing the change to the motherboard 24pin cable. 

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/blog/Explanation-of-RMi-New-Type-4-Cables

 

In-line cable capacitors don't make any difference to compatibility. Even though the stock Type 4 cables come with in line caps, the individually sleeved type 4 cables do not. Does not matter if they have in line caps or not.

Also not all stock Type 4 cables that come with the PSU have in line caps. The new RM (2019) does not as a cost saving measure.

 

 

8 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

Series

 AX, AXi, CSM, CXM, HX, HXi, RM, TXM

That's rather misleading.

 

The AX Titanium uses different cables from the AX Platinum, the AX1200 uses different cables and the AX Gold uses completely different cables again.

The AXi and AX1600i use different cables

There's 2 different versions of modular HX series PSUs which use different cables.
There's 2 different versions of RM series PSUs which use different cables.

 

Please look at the cable compatibility chart I linked to earlier. https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/psu-cable-compatibility

Edited April 22, 2020 by Spotty

[SaPinYshMaZe]

1 hour ago, Spotty said:

The AX Titanium uses different cables from the AX Platinum, the AX1200 uses different cables and the AX Gold uses completely different cables again.

The AXi and AX1600i use different cables

There's 2 different versions of modular HX series PSUs which use different cables.
There's 2 different versions of RM series PSUs which use different cables.

This. This is exactly why I get confused by this.

 

1 hour ago, Spotty said:

Please look at the cable compatibility chart I linked to earlier. https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/psu-cable-compatibility

Although I still don't like the chart because of everything has to have such similar names. AX Titanium and AX Platinum and also AXi... If i just have a PSU before me that chart does little to help me figure out if the cables I have will work with the unit.

[Spotty]

10 minutes ago, SaPinYshMaZe said:

Although I still don't like the chart because of everything has to have such similar names. AX Titanium and AX Platinum and also AXi... If i just have a PSU before me that chart does little to help me figure out if the cables I have will work with the unit.

These are the only two columns you need to worry about. The old PSU you have (AX860i) falls under "ALL AXi (Excludes AX1600i)". The new PSU you're looking at the AX850/AX1000 80+ Titanium falls under "AX (Titanium)".

 

 

 

The only difference in compatibility is the 24pin ATX motherboard cable.

[SaPinYshMaZe]

1 hour ago, Spotty said:

These are the only two columns you need to worry about. The old PSU you have (AX860i) falls under "ALL AXi (Excludes AX1600i)". The new PSU you're looking at the AX850/AX1000 80+ Titanium falls under "AX (Titanium)".

 

 

 

The only difference in compatibility is the 24pin ATX motherboard cable.

Yeah I figured but I wasn't certain. Thank you very much for the help. I think I'll contact my retailer and ask them for a AX1000 and then I guess i'll have to find somewhere to buy a new 24-pin that works for me.

 

Thanks so much for the help.