 today on my video blog I'll be unboxing the ever-popular HX1000. Now this is one of Corsair's older models of power supplies, but it's been such a staple for a high-end power supply for a long time I thought, what the hey, lots of people are gonna look at this so we might as well unbox it. So unlike their newer units it has a five-year warranty which you can see on the front. It's just regular 80 plus certified because back when this power supply came out we didn't have the bronze, silver, gold ratings for power supplies although I believe it would fall somewhere along the lines of where a 80 plus gold rating would be if it were to be re-certified today. Now let's get this open. First of all, let's have a look at the rest of the box. So the box comes in multiple languages here. Just getting the plastic off actually. Let's have a quick look at the back where they show you the amperage of all the different rails. So this has two 12 volt rails, okay, and they combine for a total of... oh they're each on separate sort of virtual rails on the power supply. Two separate sort of power supplies inside here are each 500 watts and of those 12 volts, 40 amps is dedicated to the 12 volt rail on each there. I finally got through that. Okay, so you can see we've got flat modular cables, 140 millimeter fan, truly independent dual transformer. So that's what I was talking about. Two 500 watt transformers, solid-state 105 degree capacitors, and a DC to DC converter. Okay, that's great. So here we go. Let's get this thing open. So first of all, we're going to find the user's manual which will contain information. Excellent. Then we find the little case that Corsair uses with their modular power supplies. Okay, so this stores all of the modular cables. So why don't we go through and see what we've got here. So we've got one cable that's two SATA, and then we have another cable that is also two SATA. Okay, and then we have how many of these? Let's just track these down here. Then we have four PCI Express 6 plus 2 pin for those. Then going a little bit further we have... okay let's get all the Molex ones out because then I can get sort of a better idea of what I'm looking at here. Okay, so we have two dual Molex connectors. So each of these have two Molex connectors. And then we have two quadruple Molex connectors that also have a small four pin floppy connector. So two of those. And then we've got...finally we have a couple larger SATA connectors. So these each have four SATA connectors on them. So you've got two of those. And then last but not least, just in case you have a motherboard such as the x58 classified from EVGA that needs two 8-pin connectors, you can plug this into one of your PCI Express modular connectors and get dual EPS 8-pin connectors because... and I'm about to get to the cables that are actually directly attached to the power supply... you have another EPS 8-pin connector there. So there you go. So you can have up to two of those. And then you'll also find two more hardwired PCI Express 6 Plus 2 connectors because frankly, if you're buying a 1000 watt power supply and you're not using a high-end video card, you need to re-examine your priorities. So it's a fairly thin 24-pin connector and it's sleeved all the way up to the end. And let's find out what other accessories we got. So here we have some zip ties, a Corsair case badge, and four thumb screws to put the power supply into the back of your case. You got a nice beefy power cable. And let's finally get the unit itself out of the box here. Take off the little... oh, it's taped down so it's not going to be quite as easy as I thought. There we go. Take that off. So here is the HX1000. So there you can see at the back we've got a fairly standard honeycomb grill arrangement. There's your on-off switch. There's your power plug. And then on the side you'll see it's an HX1000 watt. Duh. So there's your branding there. Then here is the 140 millimeter fan. It's got a little plastic cover. You can take that off and the Corsair sticker here is actually quite shiny. It looks really cool. If I could get this off in a reasonable amount of time. Yeah, there we go. It's kind of shiny. And then on the other side we will also find HX1000 watt. So this will be right side up, whether it's a top-mounted power supply or a bottom-mounted power supply as long as you're... yeah. That's kind of smart actually. Okay, then here you're finding all of the specs. Okay. And then on the front of the unit itself, here is all your modular connectors. So you can connect up to six of your Molex or SATA cables. And then you can connect either four more PCI Express for a total of six, or you can connect three more for a total of five and one EPS connector as well. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Corsair HX1000 watt.