If the fan guard is your only concern at this point and not the fact that the fan on these s12-500's is now ball bearing based... thats the least of your worries. Why void a VERY nice 3 yr warranty for mere vanity? Seasonic is great when it comes to handling RMAs. Keep the fan guard and better spend...

I bought some of those 3 blade Delta 92mm and 120mm fans a while back just to play with. The whole 3 vs 5 vs 7 blade controversy is negated by the fact the bearing (double ball) chatter/noise at ANY reasonable "SPCR" voltage I tested is subjectively louder then airflow generated by this fan. My bott...

Funny you should mention that. Yes, I do live VERY close to the Apple manufacturing plant in Elk Grove. I can show you my rig ;P DAMN hope those UltraXs are still damn quiet =[ I have the Natural Keyboard Elite, and the clatting is getting annoying. I'll shoot you a PM when it gets close to me bein...

Based on my experience with AMD XPM notebooks, with the BIOS and your tweaking of the PowerNow features in Windows (assuming you are running Windows XP or 2003 on it), it can be fairly silent. The main thing will be how you set the threshold's for when the CPU fan kicks on and your throttling of the...

Just curious if anyone has tried any of the fan based laptop coolers that runs off your USB port... and has a controllable fan speed dial. I bought a bobo one at a computer show over a year ago. It's all plastic and extremely light, and had 4 sleeve bearing fans. Controllable with a speed dial, so I...

I bought one for the novelity a long time ago. The main issue will be: are the heatpipes anywhere near your major sources of heat on the bottom of your notebook? Look where the heatpipes are in the pic. If your CPU and RAM are towards the middle or edge, this thing will do almost no good. Most noteb...

Now if Apple can get an ibook to match the pricing parity of the low end PC notebooks... and yeah I own their lowest end $999 (when they first came out) ibook G4 so I know what it's really worth.

I just got the UltraX a while back. Maybe Logitech switched manufacturers or something since the other threads recommended it (back in 2003), but subjectively the thing is far from quiet. My loudest keyboard in my collection is Microsoft's original Natural keyboard. Circa 1997/8 I think is when I bo...

Which review was Bean referring to that mentions caution about using sleeve bearing fans on heatsinks? I was trying to see if any mention was made about the fact that Panaflo and Papst fans, although sleeve bearing, use "custom" sleeve bearings which should have much greater life (in the type of lub...

I've been patiently trying all manners of keyboards for a long long time to find something that will match my HP's laptop keyboards (which is 4 yrs old) quietness.... with no luck so far. Came across this: http://www.btc.com.tw/english/news_17.htm http://www.btc.com.tw/english/2-7-07keyboard.htm#630...

Sorry fellas. Forgot about the duty fees. So the cost is prohibitive for getting seasonic a3s there. I guess those noisetakers are your options. Though if any of those UK vendors sport Zalman or Nexus psu's, maybe go that route instead?

Howcome when I sent my A2 back, they wouldnt give me an A3, only tinker with the innards of the A2? (replace the fan controller, but leave the super red fan) Wow. So you got back the same serial numbered psu? Its likely they swapped out the entire circuit board (not just the fan controller), leavin...

coolgav, Another option is the Epox kt600 board. It can as low go 1.40 on vcore. Nothing lose to the 1.10 on abit though. If I have to run my xpms at high clock speeds, I run them on the epox boards (whatever they would run stablily at 1.40 or 1.50 vcore) The epox have a large passive heatsink on th...

I assume you tried to drop the vcore on that asus to the lowest (1.55) to see if it can run 11x200 stable? Those asus boards typically boot xpm's at 1.60 from my experience, but if it can run 0.05v less, it should help drop an extra C or two. I got rid of all my asus boards as i wanted kt600 boards ...

If not getting a mother board with onboard video is an option as per greeef, then your options are limited to the super low end cards from nvidia: fx5200 cards (per shathal and from looking at newegg.com a while back) ati: Rage series cards (from experience in having to upgrade dells that only took ...

How about we all email that company to send some samples to SPCR? Too many of these "review" sites (eg, NOT SPCR) have the most worthless PSU reviews. It pains me to understand why these companies bother sending these units out for review to sites other then places like SPCR that do a rather fair an...

Sorry to hear that unregistered. I have a batch of A2's I just sent back to SeasonicUSA for RMA. It will be interesting to see my experience with getting A3 replacements in the next week or two. In positive news, I needed some more psu's so I just got in a batch of retail A3's which work great the l...

I may recommend you email the folks at http://www.siliconacoustics.com They have the correct A3 revisions that work well. I know, I ordered a batch from them several weeks ago. Their web page states they ship internationally, so it is just a matter of how much you are willing to spend on the shippin...

Too many variables. My take: 1. if you want a more compact case get the antec 2. if you want the ability to use 120mm fans get the antec - though people would argue the 2 80mm rear fans may hold *some* advantage 3. if you like the idea of having your hard drives partially decoupled without requiring...

I have some commerial paper cutters at my office used to trim stacks of print outs for manuals. Put the sorbothane in, pull the handle and typically cuts clean and straight in one pass. Though it does require some force on the pull down. Course how many of us have such a tool like this at home?

--- 1. are you using UPS? ---2. why are you using UPS ? ---3. does UPS makes a sound??? 1. APC SmartUPS (I have over half a dzoen of them just for home) 2. I like the pretty LEDs!!! Especially when they flash due to the almost common brown outs due to AC kicking on during summers (I rent the house ...

The Undervoltable Motherboards page (and table) has finally been updated again. We all owe thanks to jojo4u who painstakingly compiled the info in this rich forum and sent it to share with everyone. Thank you jojo4u . 8) Nice job! A suggestion (to MikeC): using some PHP script to make this remotely...

These are all AMD Athlon/XP boards in production unless stated... Boards I can confirm: Epox 8KRA2+ (just ended production FYI) VIA KT600 vcore 1.4 to 2.1 @ 0.025 increments via BIOS Epox 8KRAI KT600 vcore 1.4 to 2.1 @ 0.025 increments via BIOS (I would hope that Epox allow 1.1 to 2.1, but to dream ...

I am sorry to hear that. Did you try calling to see if there can be such thing as a BATCH RMA? Problem is I cannot afford for all these machines to be without a PSU for more then a day. I only have a few spare PSUs on my bench. So I would have to RMA only a small subset at a time. But hey, I guess ...

One thing Seasonic could do field a better reputation by those burned by the A2 issues... is to offer some kind of advanced replacement program to replace these PSUs to RevA3. I just emailed them and they have nothing in place for something like this. I cannot fault them though, it is a logistical a...

For those that RMA'd the A2 for an A3.... 1. did Seasonic cross ship or do an advanced replacement? (defintions vary by manufacturer) 2. did Seasonic issue a call tag to pick the unit up from you? (eg, send UPS or FedEx to come by your work or house so you do not fork $ for the shipping costs back t...

Thats quite a statement that the A3 is not ready for prime time. Considering there are those that are now recieving the A3s from RMA swaps... wow how much more can Seasonic afford to screw up with the competition getting so tight on features and performance.

I use them only in aluminum cases. It greatly reduced the low frequency resonance transferred from the psu to the chasis. The one thing that kit fails to provide is any additional silicon for any other support contact points to the psu, which will vary by case. But thats being nit picky for those of...

In this case, no news is not good news. I've been asked to stay mum, but I think this is safe to say: Rev A3 is not on the stands yet for good reason. Did you sign a NDA or is this simply out of courtesy since they sent you sample PSUs to test? I'm sure those of us waiting to RMA our A2's for some ...

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If what you have now works, why change it unless you've been monitoring your temps during the past summer and you have a baseline to say it needs better cooling?