Aussie retailers selling Ultra X3 800 Watt or 1000 Watt PSUs?

[karl_eller]

So I'm looking around for a PSU to replace my Thermaltake Toughpower 750 watt PSU. I'm wanting something in the 800-1000 watt range, single rail (or at most two), modular.

Right now, I have my eye set on the Ultra X3 800 and 1000 watt units. They meet all of the above requirements, plus throw in the FlexForce cables, which would be a god-send for cable routing. All the reviews I've read on the X3 PSUs (JonnyGURU, [H], etc) show it's a great PSU, with good voltage regulation and ripple.

However I've come across a minor little problem. Maybe my Google-Fu skills are weak, but I can't for the life of me find a single Australian retailer that sells them, and none of the bigger US retailers ship overseas except TigerDirect, and they don't accept Credit Card or Paypal for OS transactions. Which is limiting me to getting one from the US via eBay. That makes the problem of money. For an X3 800 watt from the US, I'd be looking at about AU$400 inc postage, where as I could pick up something like a Silverstone Decathlon 850 watt PSU locally for about AU$300 inc postage. Now I really like the Ultra X3, but it isn't worth an extra $100 over a DA850.

So does anybody know of either any Australian retailers that sell Ultra X3 800/1000 Watt units, or else US/European retailers that have reasonable overseas shipping rates?

Eller

[dinos22]

don't waste money on those

buy Seventeam 1000W PSU if you are after a big one or stick to something like Corsair HX620 or 750 they are great

[karl_eller]

The problem is the PSU needs to be modular. I don't have much room to hide cables in my CM690, let alone the horrible mess that comes along with most kilowatt PSUs.

And the problem with the Corsair HX620 is that according to most of the online PSU calculators, I'm going to be pulling somewhere around about 650 watts at full load (about 44-50 amps of that on the +12v rails), which is coming pretty close to the load limit of that PSU. And I want whatever I buy to be able to handle anything I throw at it for the next while (including whatever monster GPUs and OCed CPUs I might get my grubby little mitts onto). Hence looking at an 800-1000 watt unit.

Eller

[dinos22]

PSU calculators don't work

look at my sig for SLI benchmarks with quad at 4Ghz

and i also did single Card benchmakrs with 5GHz+ quad core and monster vcore and full OC on the card and the PSU would stay rock solid past 12v no worries (multimeter measured)

is 750W corsair modular i donno....that PSU handled a dual AMD FX dual core system and high end GFX card with 16xHDDS and whatever else ridiculous test they tries to put on it to see if it will freak out (Atomic magazine test >> a friend of mine works there as a tech writer). The PSU was pulling way past 800W from the wall and was rock solid with multiple days testing in succession hehehehe

they rate them for certain voltage but they handle more........

i would try and fit Seventeam in there if i was after a great PSU for sub $300 somehow heh

[karl_eller]

I'm using the eXtreme PSU Calculator (http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp) (full version, btw, hence +12v loads), and from everything I've heard it's fairly good as far as online PSU calculators go. And just going from a guestimate, it doesn't seem too far off. Q6600 B3 at 3.6 Ghz (1.55v) will pull somewhere around about 250-odd watts, OCed 8800GTX probably somewhere about the same, plus motherboard, 3 HDDs, a dozen 120mm fans, pump, etc, and you could easily see somewhere in the realms of 600+ watts pulled. And like I said, I also want something that can handle any components I could think of throwing at it in the future.

Eller

[adamsleath]

seventeam make some silverstones...im assuming they are well rated.

http://www.mtechcomputers.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=1_47&products_id=1661&osCsid=2fc95efdaa527051b882c2d266206f43
this one's modular is it any good?? it looks humungously big. :eek:

http://www.gamedude.com.au/prod_show.php?art_no=psSI1200_decathlon
look at this monster!:lol:

[dinos22]

here is a link on staticice for 1000W modular power supplies

http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=1000w+power+supply+modular

those silverstones should be pretty good :up:




seventeam make some silverstones...im assuming they are well rated.

http://www.mtechcomputers.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=1_47&products_id=1661&osCsid=2fc95efdaa527051b882c2d266206f43
this one's modular is it any good?? it looks humungously big. :eek:nice find :)

[Oklahoma Wolf]

don't waste money on those

I prefer the X3 1kW design to the Seventeam 1kW.

[g1raffe]

A moderately OC'd Q6600 and 8800GTX OC's won't get near 500W by themselves, and I'm with dions22 that online calculators generally aren't very good(crap), but if you want a 1KW PSU then there is nothing wrong with that! :D

Have you considered the 1KW TT Tough Power modular? You can get that in Aus for <$400 and it is better than the 1KW Silverstone Olympia afaik..

is 750W corsair modular i donno....that PSU handled a dual AMD FX dual core system and high end GFX card with 16xHDDS and whatever else ridiculous test they tries to put on it to see if it will freak out (Atomic magazine test >> a friend of mine works there as a tech writer). The PSU was pulling way past 800W from the wall and was rock solid with multiple days testing in succession hehehehe

they rate them for certain voltage but they handle more........
Well 800W AC from the wall would certainly be less than 700W DC being drawn from the PSU, and PSU's are rated in their output power. :)

The Corsair TX-750 isn't modular, but it is basically the same PSU as the 750W TT Tough Power he has now, both built off the same CWT design..

[karl_eller]

Have you considered the 1KW TT Tough Power modular? You can get that in Aus for <$400 and it is better than the 1KW Silverstone Olympia afaik..

The TT 1kW unit does look tempting, but most of the retailers I can see are charging $400+. Hell, I could pick up a SilverStone DA1200 for the same price. Mind you, if I could fit either of those monsters and still have enough room for the pump or not would be questionable :p: The TT would JUST fit, but I think the DA1200 would be a shade too big :P


The Corsair TX-750 isn't modular, but it is basically the same PSU as the 750W TT Tough Power he has now, both built off the same CWT design..
Non-modular is a big negative for me at the moment. 'cause I have a pump down next to the PSU, I don't have any spare room to hide excess cables, and the back of the case is messy enough as it is. But being single-rail is a plus, since it can deliver the power to where it's needed (CPU and GPU), rather than keeping nearly 40 amps for 3 HDDs and 2 optical drives :p:

Eller

[dinos22]

Non-modular is a big negative for me at the moment. 'cause I have a pump down next to the PSU, I don't have any spare room to hide excess cables, and the back of the case is messy enough as it is. But being single-rail is a plus, since it can deliver the power to where it's needed (CPU and GPU), rather than keeping nearly 40 amps for 3 HDDs and 2 optical drives :p:

Eller

i have a similar problem as you and modular helps a lot you are not wrong there :up: heh

[dinos22]

Well 800W AC from the wall would certainly be less than 700W DC being drawn from the PSU, and PSU's are rated in their output power. :)


meant to say 900W sorry lol