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The Corsair AXi Series PSUs have a lot of premium features. They use a digital signal processor for better performance, they're fully modular, and have a zero RPM fan mode at low loads. But one of the coolest things about the AXi power supplies, is their compatibility with the new Corsair Link software. Today, we take a look at the Corsair Link 2 software, or just "Link" for short, and more specifically how it gives you the ability to monitor AC input, DC output, the temperature and the fan speed of an AXi power supply.

The first thing I want to do is open up the "Graph" tab and set what I want to monitor in the "Config Panel" of this tab...

The AXi Series of power supplies have completely changed how a desktop power supply works by taking out the slower, less accurate PWM controller and supervisor IC and replaced them with a state of the art digital signal processor. The following briefly explains the technology we use, the benefits of it and how it enhances your computing experience with the Corsair Link 2 software.

Why the Corsair AX760i is the World’s Most Advanced Desktop PSU:

The AXi Series of power supplies have completely changed how a desktop power supply works by taking out the slower, less accurate PWM controller and supervisor IC and replaced them with a state of the art digital signal processor. The following briefly explains the technology we use, the benefits of it and how it enhances your computing experience with the Corsair Link 2 software.

Why the Corsair AX860i is the World’s Most Advanced Desktop PSU:

With the holiday season approaching, I started thinking about the fact that I will soon become a Voyager as I go to visit family and friends. This reminded that I needed to plan ahead a bit if I intended to be a Survivor on my journeys.

In the past, before I had a gaming capable laptop, I remember being marooned at a relatives house with nothing to do while people slept off their holiday meals. I also remember thinking that it sure would be nice to have access to a computer and to my Steam account and be able to play my games. If you have a nice large flash drive, like a Flash Survivor® Stealth USB 3.0 or Flash Voyager® GT USB 3.0 then you have a solution that will fit into your shirt pocket!

The newly released H80i and H100i are the latest and most advanced all-in-one liquid coolers that Corsair has ever built. Building on the success of the previous H80 and H100, the new coolers benefit from improvements in performance, ease of use and increased functionality with built-in Corsair Link V2 integration. In addition to these improvements, enthusiasts will appreciate that the units are quieter than ever before.

Our very own internet celebrity Jeff Checchi explains the benefits of having an SSD in your system. To quote RW Labs:

"The SSD is the most important performance component found in a modern system today. Without it you do not even have a performance system."

Come on in and check out this interesting and informative video clip:

Discuss the video here or on the Corsair Facebook page.

Enabling Hardware Playback Mode on the Corsair Vengeance M90 Performance MMO and RTS Laser Gaming Mouse

If you’ve got an M90 you may have noticed that your profiles don’t work in some games. I explain why and show you how to use “Hardware Playback” on your Corsair Vengeance M90 Performance MMO and RTS Laser Gaming Mouse.

In an effort to prevent cheating most games today are designed to ignore input from third party software applications. This is not a bad thing as I’m sure you’ll all agree as most of those external programs are designed to help people cheat in game (bots, etc.). I’m sure most everyone has experienced this at one time or another. My personal favorite was getting shot out of my helicopter while capping a base in BF3 by a tank from across the map.

The Corsair Accelerator Series SSD cache drive software has been updated. The newest version now includes support for caching a secondary HDD. You can download the newest version of the Dataplex software, version 1.2.0.4 from NVELO.

As we've noted in the past, when enthusiasts see a fast SSD, one of their first questions is always "how fast are two of them in a RAID 0 array?" Of course, we've wondered about that ourselves and so has Jon Coulter over at Real World Labs. Jon recently put two Neutron GTX SSDs through his RAID 0 review test gauntlet, and they really shined while picking up the vaunted Real World Performance award.

Here are a couple of quotes from the article:

"A pair of these drives has approximately 10X the performance of a single Neutron with writes below 4K and reads below 8K...Sometimes RAID 0 can do amazing things 10X the low end performance is simply astounding.

The GTX has the most consistent and even performance of any drive I’ve ever tested no matter how much it’s hammered it always gives you consistent performance which is what we like to see."

Here's a small teaser, a blistering ATTO score. But, you'll need to go read the entire review at RW Labs to get the rest of the information.

Normally I use my blog posts to help educate people about our products or how to use them, but today I'm going tell you how Team Corsair is going to help sick kids by gaming for 24 hours straight!