Corsair VS650 650 W Active PFC 80 PLUS Certified Power Supply Unit - Black

I was going to opt for the VS450 until I noticed that the 550w version was maybe £2 more expensive (at the time of writing this, it is actually 97 pence cheaper for this 550w over the 450w version) - so make sure to check the pricing for the two of them!As soon as I placed the order, I was reading loads of mixed reviews on these Corsair VS series power supplies. Some reviews were positive saying they were extremely good bang for your buck, and others were quite negative saying things like they were unreliable. I'm aware that Corsair have had two different "styles" of the VS line, the older ones (which had a sticker with "VS" written in orange), and this current model with the more minimalistic styling. Most of the reviews I could find were for the older model, so I was contemplating cancelling this order and opting for another brand/model.Overall, the unit is pretty much silent at all times and she has had no issues. It powers her build absolutely fine and her specs are as follows (if you want to compare if it could handle what you're using):Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 7CPU: Intel Core i5 4690kRAM: 16GB HyperX DDR3 2400MHzGPU: MSI Gaming X GTX 1070SSD: Corsair Force 3 240GBHDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TBShe plays pretty light games (The Sims 4, Animal Crossing emulated etc.) - but she never has any issues with unexpected freezes/crashes/shutdowns, so overall it's holding up perfectly fine! I know that they always say not to skimp on power supplies, which is why I opted to go for this one rather than another brand at a lower cost. This unit had the exact cables that were required for my girlfriends build (including 6 pin and a 6+2 pin PCI power cables to power her GTX 1070).The fan on this unit reaches 30dB once under a full 550w load (which if you were using that much, you would probably get a higher wattage unit) - and at 350w usage, you're looking at the fan running under 20dB in volume. Another couple of nice features is that it is 80 Plus certified, and it also comes with a 3 year warranty.Hopefully this has been useful, and to finish off, I'll list each of the connectors found on the unit as a simple list so that you hopefully have all of the information you would need :)Connectors:x1 - ATX cable (24-pin) - 550mm ± 10mmx1 - EPS/ATX12v cable (8 pin [4+4]) - 600mm ± 10mmx2 - PCIe connectors (8 pin [6+2]) - 670mm ± 10mmx7 - SATA connectorsx2 - Peripheral connectors (Molex)x1 - Floppy connector

Corsair always impress me with the quality of their products and this one is no different. Its not their prettiest psu, but its also designed for use in their cases where the PSU is generally hidden.The good bits - every connection pin is customizable from smallest connection to largest - your CPU plug can be four or eight pins, GPU six or eight, for example. It is also generous with power plugs for drives.The wires come wrapped in a sort of mesh, which is rigid and flexible so you can sort of pose the wires as required, and don't need cable tidies as desperately, which is a very nice touch. The wires are also generously long, I could probably power a hard drive in the next machine over with these things. Plenty of wire to work around air flow and hardware requirements.The only real downside comes from this mesh and the sheer amount of cables - in a corsair case, this isn't too bad as there's empty space intended for all these big chunky unused cables. In a more standard, cheaper case like my backup machine, this would be a real problem, there's nowhere for those wires to go without sitting around and blocking airflow, some of them don't even fit in the dead space because the mesh and bulk of them makes them so inflexible.Still, as far as PSUs go that's a pretty minor and soecific gripe, if you're savvy with your cable-fu you'll not have a problem, and the high quality and general generosity of the wires and plugs outweigh this by a huge margin for me.

Well what can I say. Had a cheap and nasty 500W supply in my computer before I bought this one, and I'll explain. I'm running a good setup, Ryzen 2400 with 16Gigz on board an ASUS Mobo, but after upgrading my gaming card to a GTX 1660 my PC was crashing to the point of corrupting my BCD boot files, crashing out on every game after 10 - 30 mins. I don't take power supplies lightly as I used to work in IT and I've built a thousand and one but I was hoping it was a driver issue or bios update that was causing my problems... I was wrong. I exhausted every possibility apart from the supply and I mean I went in to every knuck n cranny to repair it before purchasing this pack. Wasting about 2 days in the process but I bit the bullet and this has fixed my problems immediately. Top quality pack and the cabling offers many future upgrades with 2 pcie 8x connectors . U can smell the quality a mile.away. buy it and save some time if you are in any doubts..........

I do build custom built PC’s in my spare time and I find that Corsair products are always top quality, this PSU isn’t an exception.The main thing I look in PSU is stability and noise levels. And this PSU is really quite which I’m quite pleased about.This PSU is not modular so there will be a lot of cables lying around which you would need to find space inside your case to tuck away.There’s plenty of interfaces available and connectors and cables are well made. The only downside is that it is slightly bulky. If you have not much space in your case I would recommend going for modular or semi-modular PSU.

This PSU is small in size but has a lot of performance in it as well as being 98% silent when running, I originally bought this because I was having BSOD issues with my pc and after much software and hardware troubleshooting/replacing turned out my 1000W PSU had somehow become faulty and was giving me random voltages from time to time, after replacing it first thing I can say is the cables are on the right side of the PSU so very easy to manage inside the case without cramming too much, plenty of connections for hard drives, a long with two 6+2 PCI connectors and overall the performance is great doesn't get very hot, size is compact for a 650W and the main connector for the power plug is very snug and tight so that ain't coming out unless you really want it too come out. 10/10

Superb n working nicely since purchased.

Como decía en la review de otro modelo que compré de esta marca, son buenas fuentes (tengo 3, de diferentes modelos). Esta la he tenido durante años con un procesador i5 3350p y varios modelos de VGA (el último una nvidia gtx 1060) y ni un problema. Muy silenciosa.

Fais ce qu'on lui demande, 4 mois que je l'utilise et je n'ai pas de défauts à signaler.Pas de bruit ou rien de clairement audible.

L'alimentatore ha un aspetto solido, la finitura nera lo rende gradevole alla vista. Non è modulare quindi bisogna dedicare un po' di tempo alla sistemazione nel case dei cablaggi inutilizzati non solo per dare un senso d'ordine all'interno del pc ma soprattutto per evitare che i cavi stessi vadano ad interferire con le ventole del processore e della scheda grafica

Ho usato questo alimentatore con una rtx 2060 e un i5 9400f e va una meraviglia, consigliato anche per il suo form factor se vuoi avere più spazio per nascondere i cavi