If there is a weakness in the solder joints - Yes it can . If the board is properly made it should not . I run an XP90c on my A64 and have had no such issues , but I have seen it on a Shuttle SN45g when the cooler (proprietry heatpipe cooler calledan ICE ) was clamped down tight the machine would no...

They are actually not a bad cooler , they were just a bit fiddly to mount on a socket 478 .
I had one passively cooling a P4 3.2 northy on a P4P800 board - it should cool your chip with just the rear case fan , If the socket is the right way around.

Mine is socket 939 4600+ X2 CPU Id 20FB1 APIC 0 Revision BH9-E4 Processor AMD Athlon 64X2 4600+ (Manchester) Speed 2412.47 (201.04x12.0) Platform Socket 939 VCore 1.300v TCaseMax 57c TDP 75.0 Watts Hope this is of some use ! I forgot to add this cpu is only about 1 month old and is a warranty replac...

Try plugging the fanmate into an adaptor off one of the PSU. molex plugs.
That way you have a clean 12v to start with .

I have an X2 4600 (110 watt I believe) on an Asus A8N-sli Premium. It Idles at 38-40 and the highest I have had it is 55 . Antec Sonata (original) case , Thermalright XP90-C with NMB-Mat low speed fan on a Zalman Fanmate at just above the lowest setting . It has a couple of 7800 GTs in there so Sile...

On a Radeon 9800 XT in a Thermally challenged Sonata case - It cools the card impeccably down to about 7v (does not make much difference dropping from 12 - 7v ) at 5v (fanmate minimum) it cools ok for a while but if I loop 3D mark 03 demo it starts to artifact (sparkly dots on the Rhino and elephant...

Be careful 5900 ultras run way hot - A Zalman zm80 -d will not cool one without a fan . So I very much doubt that that one would . VF-700 cu does though , but is not fanless .

Thats the kind of marketing B/S I have come to expect from Thermaltake -
but not of Antec .
They will be selling 0db fans soon (measured at 100 metres )
Not good.
I just took my $$$$ elswhere !

It's a pity because none of their other coolers are any good to me because they use two
slots and I mostly use SFF machines (although I have a couple of full size machines) .
This cooler was looking pretty good.

RMA is obviously a lot easier in the US than in Australia .
Certain posters in this forum should remember that not everybody lives in the US or Canada , and things
become proportionately more complex with the increase in distance .

I have an old (2001) Philips Brilliance 202P4 no noise at all , although it is becoming brighter and brighter as time progresses - showing age I guess but it runs at 1600 x1200 at 85 hz for 12 hrs per day I would buy the same again , but it is no longer made. so I have been looking at LCD monitors ....

When are these supposed to ship ? or are they just something that Zalman has tossed into the wild to check for response ? I have a pair of 7800gtx cards in desperate need of something like that ! If it is single slot I also have an old Radeon 9800Xt in my SN45g2 Shuttle that I would put one in too i...

I did the Dual 7800gt thing - The increase in most games over single card is more like 10 - 15 % , The two together perform about the same as a 7800GTX (heat is about the same too) but cost more . I went the way I did because I bought 1 card one payday and the other the next . In benc tests the 2 x ...

Failed on A8N-SLI premium / Nforce4 SLI Chipset
Board is rev. 1.02
CPU 3800X2
Board and CPU work OK with Silverstone PSU
Same HE PSU works faultlessly on a 915 chipset Asus board

I used a laptop for several years - they are best used at a desk with a keyboard and mouse Especially if you are ancient like me - I no longer use one at all - I replaced mine with a Shuttle and a good quality 15 in LCD . I always use it at a desk but have to transport it accross town Quite often bu...

I was actually looking at one of these but decided against it . because it had a larger footprint than the Sonata I wanted to replace, the number of fans , the airflow design amongst other things - I decided to try and chase up a socket 478 Shuttle instead and rat the bits from the Sonata /P4P800-vm...

a/ I think you are correct.
b/ This damn thing looks wierd - looks to be a 10 inch cube + PSU

It has cost them one customer (only about 4 units per year) But how many others will drop Antec. I have found that Seasonic - Silverstone and Fortron make PSUs just as well and mostly cheaper. Although I am impressed with the Phantom 500 I have in my P4C800-E machine , but it did not play nice with ...

However, there had been times when I had nothing but the CPU, Motherboard, and Video Card powered up, and the PSU ran just fine. When I tried one It seemed to work fine then would just reboot or shut down after a while . this issue seems to be worst on Asus boards - only had it one day , took it ba...

I still think that unless AMD screws their die shrink up pretty seriously - AMD will at worst give Conroe a run for it's money - Mind you my old uATX Gigabyte system which is only a 2.8 northy with a 9800xt radeon runs just about everything out there including the latest games at both reasonable fra...

Now I am right back to the beginning again - Noisey PSU - 2 x loud video cards - etc. My latest build which has cost half a kings ransom (a couple of grand anyway) Has turned out to be my loudest yet ! NOW - the silencing cycle begins again . Maybe we should start "Silencers anonymous " or something...

Just happened to see a post about an HEC 480W psu at badcaps.com - That would have been a better soloution than the Silverstone I am using - looks to be pretty good according to that forum. Don't get me wrong the Silverstone is good - just a bit loud . I don't know if HEC is readily available in AU...

DFI NF4 Ultra-D

Excellent choice -380watts should be fine.
Personally I would go the next one up but it is more than likely not necessary .

I have had a Tagan in a P4 a couple of years ago (P4B-533/VM ) it worked ok But others on the ABX (Asus boards at the time) had issues it seems they were either very good or very bad . I have not had a P180 but it looks like you will need a PSU with long cables .Antec true Power is good quality reli...

I would have to start with Apple IIe and Amstrad 6128 - then my first home grown -: an AMD 12mhz XT and DOS 3.x with Norton commander (M.$ - who are they) - AMD have been around for a while , It was'nt till Intel's "Intel inside" advertising blurb that anybody much cared what the Brand on the CPU wa...

I will probably wind up with one of each - but I have had my share of issues with current generations so I hope they have the bugs out of these before they hit the market . I did not buy into presscott but I have a couple of Northwoods and an X2 Athlon . My loyalty is to my pocket not to any Multibi...

The Asus Nforce 4 SLI boards haveissues with quite a few Power Supplies - I have had not inconsiderable problems with a A8N-SLI premium (the one with the passive northbridge ) - the sound is ok but not HiFi - once you get the PSU issues sorted it is a wicked performer - get an Nforce4 ultra board un...

It's a bit late for me but I have had this problem (with an Asus A8N-SLI premium) The problem does not seem to be confined to the Antec PSUs but to a few others as well - But they all seem to be High end (expensive ones ) .A $50au Omni (abrand I had not heard of) booted my machine without issue - ye...

Have you bought your mobo yet ? If not think VERY carefully before you buy an SLI board as to whether you want - or need an SLI setup . If you don't need SLI buy a non-SLI board . SLI setups are prone to issues with compatabily with PSUs the non-SLI NF4-ultra chipset mobos do not seem to be as fussy...

From what my personal experience would indicate , I would have been better with a GF4 ultra cipset board , with a 7800gtx the performance hit from what I was reading is all of a couple (less than 10 FPS) . Actually I should have just bought a 7800gs for my old P4 and waited for the bugs to get irone...