Overview
The Corsair CV450 packaging is trimmed out in yellow and black along with a picture of the included unit. The front of the package is mostly devoid of information, save for the 80 Plus Bronze seal. When we check the 80 Plus website we do find this unit listed so we will be seeing how this unit does in that regard a bit later on. The rear of the packaging looks like it has a bit more going on. Indeed, we see a few advertising points repeated over and over again in different languages followed by an efficiency graph, a fan noise, graph and the power label (reproduced below). The side of the package has the connector counts (reproduced below) for this unit. Lastly, this unit is covered by a short 3 year warranty.
The Corsair CV450 is advertised as being a single 12v rail power supply with a capacity up to 36A (or ~96% of the unit’s capacity) if necessary. The minor rails (5v and 3.3v) have a capacity of 20A each and the combined capacity of those two rails is 110W. Combined with these outputs, we find that this unit has 2 PCIe connectors, 7 SATA connectors, and 3 Molex connectors.
Once we open the Corsair CV450 packaging we find the power supply, mounting screws, power cord, and “user manual”. The “user manual” covers 26 pages in 11 languages. All that is covered is stipulations and restrictions on the warranty. The documentation is completely useless. So, let’s move on to the unit itself now.