Ultra X-Connect for $49.99 after $30 mail-in rebate

[phlashphire]

Originally posted by: Mucker
This PSU is kind of crazy for voltages:

+12v.......12.71v
+3.3v.......3.68v
+5v.........5.11v
+5v standby.....5.10

I e-mailed Ultra to see what they think. I'm taking it back to Fry's. It's beautifully made with outstanding cables, but is also pretty loud and the voltages are well????????

m 🙂

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but can't overvolting be as bad as undervolting?

 

[Polar2002]

Fry's is sending out the rebate forms Monday. I received mine on Sunday when I went there and picked up the envelope with the form in it ready for mailing.

 

[Smokin Gunn]

Ultra Products Forums Posting on the Max PC Review

I personally have an X-Connect 500W ATX PS and my voltages are well within the rated specs.
I use Speedfan to monitor & log my voltages and temps on all my systems.

And yes over voltages can be bad news for your components.

 

[xDanielx]

Did anyone ever get the rebate? I have yet to get mine from frys. :-(

 

[ElFenix]

spcr said the inside of these is kinda sloppy, though they didn't experience anything bad about their unit

 

[Mucker]

Never heard a word back from Ultra support. Just another polished looking website/company with no substance. Returned mine because of the wacky voltages and the noise, too loud for my taste. Considered a fan mod, but with those itty-bitty heatsinks inside, I'm afraid it would burn up. The high flow fans are there for a reason.....only my $0.02. My next PSU will either be the big horse Antec or Fortron. I'm glad I bailed.......

m 🙂

 

[Foghorn]

The Jan issue of Maximim PC really S#$t on this PSU. Pretty but poor quality power.

 

[Cardio]

They are only $56 at MicroCenter in Houston, no rebate. The early ones had stiff cables, not the later stuff. The voltages are right on, on the two units I have. Measuring voltages thru the MB is just not that accurate. A PS tester will usually give pretty different reading. The same PS will display different voltage reading on different MBs, which is usually more of a measurement to the accuracy of the voltage regulators on the MB or its sensors. A good PS tester costs a good deal more than a MB and is much more accurate. At least that's what we find.

 

[$pade]

first of all the maximum pc review used a pre-production version of the ultrax psu that was sent to them for cosmetic evaluation only. read the link for more details: http://www.ultraproducts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=106

I also jumped on this deal and here is my impresion:
-very powerful psu with 34A on the 12v rail (i had an antec true380 before this and my system randomly would not be able to boot into windows or it would randomly reboots. THis was just with my mobil 1.8 ghz @ 2ghz and 1.65volt. I now have it at 2.2ghz and upped the voltage to 1.7 and with this ultra x 500watt have not seen a sinlgle crash and windows loads perfectly every time. At first I thought my abit nfoce2 mobo was the problem but i guess it was the psu.
-very good looking psu with black glossy mirror finish
-I did not find this psu to be loud contrary to what other ppl reported. I like a quite system and with all my case fans and cpu fan on, i cannot hear this psu. So I turned off all case fans and my cpu fan to try to isolate the noise coming from the psu. I then noticed that the fan on the motherboard was still louder than my psu fan. Unless you have a completely fanless system, I don't see how this psu can be noisy.

now some bad parts.
-not sure if i have the latest version or not, but I think the cables are a stiff when compared to the regular wires on the traditional psu.
-using abit eq i get the following voltage readings
3.3v = 3.33
12v = 12.52 (this one concerns me but according to ATX specification, 12.6v is tha max allowable voltage on 12v rail)
5v = 5.13