Monday, June 1st 2015
Corsair Announces RMi Series 80 Plus Gold Smart PSU Series
Corsair, the most awarded and recommended PC power supply brand in the world1, today announced the addition of the RMi Series PC power supplies to the company's award-winning line of PSUs. The new RMi Series PSUs raise the bar for what PC enthusiasts can expect from an 80 Plus Gold certified power supply with the addition of silent Zero-RPM fan operation, Corsair Link customization and monitoring, all 105°C- rated Japanese capacitors, and fully modular cables. The new RMi Series PSUs are immediately available in 650, 750, 850, and 1000-Watt capacities.
Building on Corsair's legacy of enthusiast class PSUs, the RMi Series PSUs are designed from the ground up to deliver 80 PLUS Gold energy efficiency, reducing operating costs and excess heat, while delivering superior electrical performance, thanks to extremely tight voltage regulation and minimal ripple noise. To do this, Corsair has used only industry-leading 105°C-rated Japanese capacitors, providing unwavering power and reliability for high-end PCs. This ensures the electricity reaching a gaming PC's power hungry components is as clean and stable as possible. The RMi Series PSUs are also stable, with a 140 mm fluid-dynamic-bearing equipped cooling fan that runs in Zero RPM fan mode, only spinning up when the PSU needs to and operating virtually silently at low and medium loads.
For those who demand extra control, RMi is equipped with Corsair LINK, Corsair's fully featured software suite, which provides real-time monitoring of the PSU's power consumption, voltages, temperature and efficiency; users even have the flexibility to customize the fan speed or switch from a default multi-rail +12V power delivery to a single rail power delivery.
RMi is also designed with a fully modular cable system which allows users to use the bare minimum number of cables needed to for a cleaner look and improved airflow.
The PSUs are backed by a comprehensive 7-year warranty and Corsair's comprehensive customer support.
Specifications
Building on Corsair's legacy of enthusiast class PSUs, the RMi Series PSUs are designed from the ground up to deliver 80 PLUS Gold energy efficiency, reducing operating costs and excess heat, while delivering superior electrical performance, thanks to extremely tight voltage regulation and minimal ripple noise. To do this, Corsair has used only industry-leading 105°C-rated Japanese capacitors, providing unwavering power and reliability for high-end PCs. This ensures the electricity reaching a gaming PC's power hungry components is as clean and stable as possible. The RMi Series PSUs are also stable, with a 140 mm fluid-dynamic-bearing equipped cooling fan that runs in Zero RPM fan mode, only spinning up when the PSU needs to and operating virtually silently at low and medium loads.
RMi is also designed with a fully modular cable system which allows users to use the bare minimum number of cables needed to for a cleaner look and improved airflow.
The PSUs are backed by a comprehensive 7-year warranty and Corsair's comprehensive customer support.
- 80 PLUS Gold certified: High efficiency operation for less excess heat and lower operating costs
- 100% all Japanese 105°C capacitors: Premium internal components ensure solid power delivery and long-term reliability
- Zero RPM Fan Mode: Allows for virtually silent operation at low and medium loads
- Configurable +12V rail options: Can be run in the default multi-rail +12V mode, or toggled to single-rail operation
- Corsair Link Digital: Advanced desktop application lets users monitor and log fan speed, voltages and power consumption, as well as control fan speed and toggle the +12V rail from multi-rail to a single +12V rail
- Seven year warranty: A guarantee of reliable operation that will last across several system builds
- Suggested Retail Prices
o 650W - $129.99 MSRP
o 750W - $139.99 MSRP
o 850W - $159.99 MSRP
o 1000W - $189.99 MSRP
23 Comments on Corsair Announces RMi Series 80 Plus Gold Smart PSU Series
Just stop it already Corsair is almost as bad as Thermaltake now when it comes to the amount of PSU series they have.
But at least they dont reuse the same name over and over again like Thermaltake does.
Its almost impossible to figure how the Thermaltake lineup works
Its a MESS!
www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page680.htm
Seriously... you know NOTHING about the product and assumes the worse. Fantastic.
As for myself, I know enough about analog and power electronics (from studying it for my degree) to get by and design a PSU. Sure, it would take me forever, and I'd probably shock myself a few times along way, and trip breakers.. maybe even a small fire for good measure, but I'd end up with something as well performing as an AXi, Superflower Leadex or Delta Platinum (since those would be my targets) for transient and ripple tests. Efficiency on the other hand.. above 70% is good enough for an amateur design as far as I'm concerned. It would also very likely exceed 1$/W....
Seriously, the CX850M for example did 47°C in the hotbox just fine. If you ask me, it far outperformed it's spec given it's only rated for a miserly 30°C. Would I buy one? No, I have higher standards, and the money to pay for said higher standards. Would I call it garbage like shilka does? No, because it's really not. Hell, even the CX750M which shuts down at 39°C (rated at 30°C as well, I must add) is a decent PSU: it shuts down gracefully when it hits it limit instead of exploding or setting itself on fire like some others like Raidmax or Hercules.
Too often this is the scenario I see (probably 5-10 times/week):
Customer complains that R9 290x is seemingly acting up, artifacting, shutting down, ect. Of course he powered it with a CX 750W because it's a Corsair! Corsair can do no wrong!
The worst i have used is mediocre and overrated, stop making things up.
I think its funny that you and others complain about what i have NOT said about the CX, but when anyone else bash it (which it does not deserve) no one says a thing.
I have multiple times had to defend to CX series when someone called it garbage trash or other such words.
If i hated Corsair or was biased would i defend them every time i saw anyone bash them when they dont deserve it?
Still, your initial response was somewhat uncalled for, especially since nothing is known about them besides that they are an RM series with some monitoring added.
This RMi is the pinnacle of such behavior. Really Corsair is going to take a cheap CX unit, put a semi-passive fan on it and change the name to RM to charge you more, and now put some BS monitoring software on it and charge you even more money. How about remove all that unneeded crap and put some good capacitors in the secondary?