EDITOR’S CHOICE
AWARD
CORSAIR AX1500i PSU
RRP: $449.99 | Website: www.corsair.com
Test Machine
• INTEL Core i7 4790K
• GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC Force
(F6)
• INTEL 730 480GB SSD
• Windows 7 64-bit SP1
I
t’s not normal that you’ll
find a PSU review in
TheOverclocker. In fact we
make it a policy not to test PCUs
simply because the equipment
required to thoroughly test one
is ridiculously expensive and it
only serves that purpose
and nothing else.
Fortunately though, PSUs
within the overclocking
community gain popularity
through a very organic manner
where a single or a group of
highly respected overclockers
find themselves using a
specific PSU repeatedly to
achieve very high scores and
or perhaps even world records.
It is something that is rarely
discussed other than in passing
where a PSU either lives up to
the overclocker’s expectations
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or fails during a live competition
and thus is never \