Well, I bought one... and I'm sending it back. Fast as hell, small as hell, loud as hell. I set this up in my quiet bedroom with my desktop PC inaudible and all I got was steady fan noise and chatter that rose and fell as background tasks in windows 10 kicked in. I tested it again in my living room ...

Anyone know where to get one of these suckers in Australia?!

MBM5 is claiming that my +12 is +16.32. Is this horribly bad? I dont know a huge deal about voltage rails etc, other than they need to be stable. 16.32 seems like a fairly large deviation. Im running a P4 3.06 (533fsb) with three harddisks, and a Radeon 9600. If that helps. Can someone perhaps post ...

hmm...
acutally, according to the Fry's outpost.com website, they dont carry the seasonics...?? or do they just not update their site enough?

koninc

haha you guys are frikkin' genius's! Thanks heaps, MikeC is right :) I visited fry's the other day, but no joy, but i didnt look hard, i was more wandering around in shock at the giant display of nerd-dom. MikeC -- you know this means I am out of the market for your spare Verax's, hope you dont mind...

Hi All,

Im in san diego until monday on business. Does anyone know anywhere which would sell face2face a seasonic 400W super silencer? I dont have time to mail-order a unit, it wont get here in time. Any help?

Thanks

koninc

Is there any info anywhere on the web about this thing which is in English?!

My german is terrible

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Hey all, I ended up dancing around the issue, and got an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe. Good ole' asus have gone with passive cooling on the NB, so I dont have to worry about it. However, this board puts the sink pretty close to the AGP slot... (see pic in this review) http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboar...

Hi All, I'm looking at getting a Canterwood board, and damn those things are expensive. The Epox and the ASUS boards have passively cooled northbridges, but they are horrendusly expensive (at least the ones i have found). There is an ABit board which has a reasonable featureset... but it has a damn ...

Ouch! Shipping to Australia from the states or canada, ive found, is horribly expensive. Its in the range of 40 USD, depending on how long I want to wait! I'll have to sit back and have a think about it when i get time. Incidentally, i recently moved my machine from my place, to my girlfriends place...

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Well, i took the plunge and got a 7000Cu. The dealer here in Australia said that they out-sell the AlCu 5 to 1, and that they werent even bothering to get the AlCu in. (this is the excellent www.pccasegear.com - they are aussies). Anyway, i got it and installed it on my 3.06, after panicking when th...

Hmm, yes, they are also available from www.pccasegear.com {an aussie website} - cheaper there too...

I actually meant those steel-backplated retention mechanisms... the site pcweltz listed doesnt ship to australia

Damn! Those guys dont ship to australia... anyone have any clues on finding these babies in AU?

Cyrix: Did you mean the AlCu model? Prices i have seen all point to the AlCu being the cheaper model.

pcweltz; what is a 'motherboard heatsink bracket'? Im interested in getting this zalman, but im not sure about whether the Cu, or the AlCu... Im scared about board warping, but what is your solution, and will it work? Is the zalman retention mechanism not very good? I do move my machine a bit, so i'...