Corsair Released List of Haswell Compatible Power Supplies

Earlier we wrote an article about how because of Intel Haswell’s new C States, specifically the C6 and C7 state, that older or more budget power supplies (PSUs) would not be able to use these states due to the super low power requirements to use them. Intel Haswell’s C6 and C7 states lowers the idle power consumption down to 0.05 amps from 0.5 amps with Sandy and Ivy Bridge. You can read about it here. Now companies have been scrambling to get out a list of compatible power supplies since when listing specifications on them they do not tell us what the lowest amps they can operate at without triggering under volt protection. Of all the big name power supply manufactures Enermax has the first to release a list and with Haswell about to be launched, Corsair has given us an extensive list on which ones are certified and which ones are not.

 

Here is Corsair’s list of compatible power supplies:

 

PSU Series	Model	Haswell Compatibility	Comment
AXi	AX1200i	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	AX860i	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	AX760i	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
AX	AX1200	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	AX860	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	AX850	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	AX760	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	AX750	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	AX650	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
HX	HX1050	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	HX850	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	HX750	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	HX650	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
TX-M	TX850M	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	TX750M	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	TX650M	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
TX	TX850	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	TX750	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	TX650	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
GS	GS800	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	GS700	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	GS600	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
CX-M	CX750M	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	CX600M	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
	CX500M	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
	CX430M	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
CX	CX750	Yes	100% Compatible with Haswell CPUs
	CX600	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
	CX500	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
	CX430	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
VS	VS650	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
	VS550	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
	VS450	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating
	VS350	TBD	Likely compatible — currently validating

 

Now as you can see as you scroll down the list that not every PSU is compatible but Corsair is working on validating if it is or not. As I expected all the high end PSUs from Corsair are compatible but some of the lower ones while it states that it is likely they do not know for sure. I’m sure this list will change in the next few weeks to make sure it can handle the C6 and C7 state of Haswell, but as I wrote in previous articles is Intel has instructed motherboard manufactures to have in their BIOS the ability to turn these off. So if for some reason your power supply is not compatible, you will not have to buy a new one to take advantage of Haswell. You will just not be able to run it as super low power consumption.

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