Corsair AX1200i Power Supply Review

Corsair is known in enthusiast circles as a premier supplier of high performance memory and has risen to become one of the most talked about power supply brands around. Corsair was able to establish such presence through rigorous design standards, excellent support, and the use of quality OEM’s such as Seasonic and CWT. Since its entrance into the PSU field, Corsair has established a number of lines of power supplies to address and overlap just about every market segment with its GS, CX, VX, TX, HX, and AX lines. Today, Corsair has for us a revamp of one of the launch products in the AX line of power supplies, the AX1200i (CP-9020008-NA). This power supply is produced by Flextronics.

Flextronics International Ltd. is an electronics manufacturing services provider, which makes it a bit atypical from the general consumer SMPS OEM, founded in 1969 and headquartered in Singapore. Flextronics provides a wide range of manufacturing, supply chain management and procurement, logistical support, and technical support services for industries ranging from automotive, to medical, to consumer electronic, and industrial component production. Some of its more familiar customers that it provides manufacturing services, or outright production for are familiar to many users including Lenovo, Lego Group, Microsoft, RIM, LG, SUN, HP, Kodak, Verizon, Amazon, Samsung, Siemens, Apple, and many more. Flextronics subsidiary FlexPower, was founded in 2005 and Flextronics claims that following the acquisition of Friwo and Coldwatt, plus internal growth and development that it is now the "4th largest power supply company in the world." However, its production of products for the consumer SMPS market is still rather limited with Corsair bringing the first product from Flextronics/FlexPower to the enthusiast we have seen to date.