Can I buy a Seasonic PS in Australia

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Can I buy a Seasonic PS in Australia

Post by nac » Mon Jul 18, 2005 2:32 pm

Does anyone know of a store or online store that I can buy a S12 power supply from in Australia?

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Post by Funkdafied » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:14 am

Nope, it's not available in Aus.

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Post by Zorander » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:23 am

What's the next best (quiet) brand for PSU in Australia then?

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Post by nac » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:10 pm

Thats a pitty :(

That was going to be my next question as well.

If I cant find another one that is dead quiet I may have to go with a fanless (ie silverstone ST30NF or Antec Phantom 350/500).

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Zalman PSUs?

Post by Lou Sid » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:42 pm

The best I have come up with so far for Aus, are the Zalman 300W and 400W psus with Panaflo fan swaps and EAR fan mounts. But I did all the work myself. Unfortunately the Enermax Noisetaker AX series are also not available in Aus, except for the monster 600W version.

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Recommended PSU available in Aus

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Post by Lou Sid » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:57 pm

Zorander wrote:What's the next best (quiet) brand for PSU in Australia then?
Take a look at this "green" psu

http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 781#197781

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Post by Slayer » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:14 pm

Hi Guys

I too am looking at getting a seasonic s12 600w in Australia and have turned to importing one from overseas. The question now is does anyone know of a cheap/reliable online store that ships to Australia? At this stage I've looked into ewiz and silicon accoustics but was wondering if there were any other options as they both work out fairly pricey :(

thanks in advance

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Post by gitto » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:58 pm

I've dealt with Silicon Acoustics before to import a Smartdrive 2002 to Australia. Yes, expensive, but they were quick and friendly. IIRC it only took about a week once I had paid to arrive here. I used the Moneybookers service to transfer the money, which worked perfectly.

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Post by Tim_U » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:16 pm

Nope, Seasonic are not available in Australia from any retail stores. You'll have to order one in, if you can find an international shop who is willing to ship o/s.

I've just bought one of these:
485W Enermax EG495P-VE-SFMA Noisetaker $105

It's the Passive AFC version (rather than "Active" [aka the AX series]), but that doesn't make a difference to its performance, noise level or cost of electricity to you.

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Post by alleycat » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:32 pm

A guy at pccasegear told me last week that they'll be getting the Seasonics soon, so perhaps anyone interested can make some enquiries. Tell them to get some Nexus fans, while you're at it!

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Post by fergy » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:08 am

I'm importing a 500HT at the moment from koolnquiet in the UK - they have Nexus fans too. Prices are OK, but shipping costs add a bit of a burden!
There also seems to be Seasonic importer in NZ, but only of the smaller ones.
Look at www.koolnquiet.co.uk - Paul there is very helpful, certainly better than a US mob I found who quoted $254 for a S12-600 + $354 for shipping - like US$600 total !!

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Post by chylld » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:12 am

Seasonic S12 power supplies will be available in Australia from http://www.pccasegear.com.au within 3-4 weeks. :)

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Post by Slayer » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:05 pm

I gave up on geting a seasonic especially after reading the problems people were encountering on the DFI NF4 boards because returning the psu would not of been pretty.

I'm sitting around today awaiting the arrival of the Antec Phantom 500 I've ordered hope it turns out to be good :)

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Post by Tim_U » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:08 pm

chylld wrote:Seasonic S12 power supplies will be available in Australia from http://www.pccasegear.com.au within 3-4 weeks. :)
NOOOOOOOO!!! Don't tell me that! :x

Oh well, maybe it's the excuse I needed to build a new HTPC ;-) :lol:

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Post by starsky » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:23 pm

PCCasegear.com have a heap of Quiet PSU's, including the silenx and TT fanless
Scorptec.com.au sell a lot of Antec gear.
auspcmarket.com.au also sell a decent range, but not too many quiet ones.

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Post by Tim_U » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:59 pm

Yep, PCCaseGear are great, highly recommended.
AusPCMarket are also good. Huge range, but a bit pricier than other companies.

I bought my Enermax EG495P NoiseTaker from MacoTechnology in Sydney. Highly recommended too, my PSU was delivered the same day I ordered it!

485W Enermax EG495P-VE-SFMA Noisetaker $105

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Post by chylld » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:12 pm

yeh maco pccg and auspcmarket are all great retailers :) i got my latest psu from auspcmarket and actually drove out there cos i needed it asap.

i think once pccg starts listing seasonic power supplies, other retailers (like the aforementioned) will follow suit. just give it some time :)

Tim: at least this way you won't be tempted to upgrade for 3-4 weeks :)

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Post by Tim_U » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:20 pm

Hopefully you're right about other retailers following suit. I'd imaging that PCCG might even have a nice little import market to on-sell to other retailers. Certainly they'd be the only company importing them into Aust at that time. Lucky them! :)
at least this way you won't be tempted to upgrade for 3-4 weeks
True. It'll probably also save me an ear-bashing from my wife! ;) "There's only two of us in this house, what are you going to do with another computer?"

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Post by Slayer » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:33 pm

My Phantom 500 just turned up and is now installed in my htpc gosh didn't realise how loud my enermax was (the 475sfma) only noise producing thing in my system is the maxtor sata drive now (cpu has zalman 7000a which most of the time doesn't have the fan spinning)

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Post by Tim_U » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:35 pm

Lucky bastard :P

Where'd you get if from and how much did you pay?

Tim.

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Post by Slayer » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:38 pm

Tim_U wrote:Lucky bastard :P

Where'd you get if from and how much did you pay?

Tim.
:) got it directly from the importer Altech. Ended up costing me $250 delivered so cheaper/similar to what the seasonic 600 was going to set me back, kinda of glad I ended up with this option noisewise as any fan is going to be louder than this (the 8cm fan hasn't kicked in on it yet) although I'm going to have to keep my eyes on case temps for a little while. I'm considering running the desktop case lidless to keep it nice an cool (seeing as there's no fans it doesn't make it any louder (can here the hdd slightly more) Other than it being ugly I'm wondering if there are many downsides to doing this i.e will emi effect my hdtv tuner cards more etc.

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Post by Tim_U » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:42 pm

Good price!

Let us know how your temps go. What's the config you've got in your HTPC?

The system I've got in my sig is our HTPC at the moment. case temps hover around 30C.

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Post by Slayer » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:52 pm

Yeah keep in mind that's reseller pricing but a search on staticice revealed some places are selling fairly close to that price!

main specs of my htpc are

CPU - AMD64 3000+ Venice @ 2.5ghz (most of the time rmclock has it sitting at 1.7ghz at 1.1V) cooled by a zalman 7000a-CU fan spins at less than 1000rpm under load (can't read rpm accurately) but fan turns off most of the time at idle
Motherboard - DFI LP NF4-Ultra-D with a zalman Northbridge Cooler
Ram - OCZ 2 x 512mb PC3200 Value VX (probably a silly choice but the ammount it overclocks and the price was hard to refuse takes a lot of voltage and puts out a bit of heat though)
Video Card - Gigabyte 6600gt Passive Cooler PCIex
Sound card - Chaintech AV-710.. gotta have bitperfect :)
TV Tuner - currently DNTV Dual USB Tuner (two tuners on one bracket)
HDD - Maxtor SATA 300gb 16mb cache (suspended with some elastic but still noisiest thing in the pc grrr)
DVD - NEC 3250a (slowed down with nero cd-speed)
PSU - Phantom 500
Case - A crappy Aopen Desktop I got for $30 I spraypainted it black and it's doing the job for now :) I have no case fans at all and it really could do with atleast 1 but any increase in noise bugs me. It does have to 60mm mount in the back right near the cpu/ram/psu and it's very tempting to put a fan in there but I would need to find a fan that is quieter than the hdd. Final option would be to mount my 120mm papst somewhere (either a side blow hole or on the roof of the case. Main worry with this would be hacking a hole that big in the case at the risk it might be too noisy and at this stage I havn't seen any of the rubber fan mounts locally?

It's certainly tricky building a silent/high performance pc but I think I'm finally getting there it was much easier in the old days where I just chucked 20 high speed fans in the case and bought whatever hdd, video card without running multiple searches on spcr first :)

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Post by Tim_U » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:15 pm

Slayer wrote:main specs of my htpc are
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That looks nice! Kinda like a beefed up, 64bit version of mine. sorta ;)
at this stage I havn't seen any of the rubber fan mounts locally?
nup, none that I've found. I had EAR inc send me a sample box of HDD and fan mounts. They're really great. The other option is to use Ralf's cable-tie method to silently mount the fan. It doesn't help with hacking a hole in the case though... but for 30bucks, do you really care?
It's certainly tricky building a silent/high performance pc
True, but it's SO worth it in the end, isn't it! :)

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Post by starsky » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:43 pm

PCCaseGear - http://www.pccasegear.com are now stocking Seasonic S12 PSU's 430W and 500W.

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Post by Tim_U » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:56 pm

*grumble grumble* only three friggin weeks after i bought the enermax *grumble grumble*

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Post by chylld » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:06 pm

hehe i would laugh at you tim but i plonked down $231 for my fanless silverstone psu not too long ago. then again if i waited for the s12 i would have been without a computer for a few months :)

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Post by Laugh Out Loud » Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:04 pm

Woohoo, great news that Aussies can get these Seasonics PSU.

Just wondering how much noise improvement would I get moving from the Enmernax Noisetaker 420W -----> S12 430?

I was about to order the S12 430 until I found out that the PSU has ADDA fans, which replaced the quiet Yate Loon ones. :(

Also, how can I tell if the Phantom 350 isnt from the problematic batch? Ive been told to look for a blue sticker.

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Post by chylld » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:06 pm

i haven't heard either the s12 or the enermax personally, but given the popularity of the s12 amongst spcr members and the fact that the enermax is also called the 'noisemaker', i'd reckon there'd be a good deal of silence to be gained :)

if you're shopping for a fanless psu, i'd recommend the silverstone st-30nf over the phantom 350, it has a much better track record and i've been using one in my system without problems. if you must insist on the antec though, Rod over at lownoisepc told me that he's had no phantom returns, and he's sold double digits of them. that should be a safe place to buy them from, he's a cool dude plus he's aware of the phantom problems having had one fail on him himself :) just keep your fingers crossed and you should get a working phantom.

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