Corsair TX750W Power Supply

Internals

Opening the housing reveals a standard Channel Well topology, one that has proved quite successful. This topology is starting to get a little older, but it continues to provide good and stable power with decent efficiency. There are three heatsinks instead of the usual two, with the two on the right replacing what is traditionally a single heatsink. The topology makes it very difficult to see the components, since there's always a large heatsink obscuring the view. We would need to remove the heatsinks from the power supply to provide better pictures of the various components, but we were able to make out the labels with a bit of work. The input filtering stage is well built and CWT doesn't change much with the topology since it works just fine. There is a single Matsushita capacitor in the primary, but that is about it from what we can see. Nippon Chemi-Con, a Japanese high-end capacitor manufacturer, makes the secondary caps.

We have seen many of these designs in our test lab to date, and they always performed well. Even though the arrangement of components may be somewhat busy, the outcome with CWT products has always been good. Perhaps that is why CWT has been so successful with this topology. Another one of her complaints has been the heatsink design, since the fins obscure the component and block airflow. In fact, the temperature readings later in this review will support this complaint, since the left heatsink in the secondary stage reaches up to 75°C (and that's in a room temperature environment).