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I have only used NE twice. They did not impress me with the first shipment at all....this was the email trail for my first order.

May come up at 52% of size, increase to full and youll see where I made comments on it as you scroll through. This was a 3-4 Business day shipment. UPS did their part in making sure it was a 4 day shipment as it sat in 2 locations more than 1 full day.

I do all of my computer stuff shopping at New Egg. I have never had any problems with them. Since they are more or less local to me here in Cali, if it's in the warehouse here, I get it next morning if I order before 10 a.m. my time, and that's paying the 3 day UPS unless I get an item with free shipping. But if it comes from their New Jersey warehouse, it can and will take the full 3 to 4 working days to get here. I always get 4 invoices from The Egg. Order confirmation, Payment confirmation, Shipping notice and Tracking notice. Which is fine, I never print them out but they stay in my "Inbasket" until I get receive the order. I have never had any reason to call or e-mail them with a problem with an order, because I have never had one. They did send me 500Gb SATA drives once when I ordered 320Gb ones but they didn't up the price so I didn't say anything.

UPS of late has been getting spotty at best. Our regular driver has had bits of 3 other routes added to her regular route. And they don't always pack the truck right so sometimes she has to go back to a location late in the day that she's already been to in the morning, because a box is buried. And yes some of the stuff we get sent to the video store must sit for a day in some UPS warehouse somewhere because our vendors will ship a box that has, in the past, been to us the next morning, and now it takes one day to get to us. Put it this way: I will not pay any extra for air shipping, regular ground is fine because it's not going to get to me when they say it will anyways.

One big reason I love digital downloading my games: instant gratification.

Oh, some people have never had problems with Ultra X Connect PSU's, but the 500 watt X Connect that took out my AV8, the CPU and the video card kinda spoiled it for me with Ultra. I have no problem with the concept of a modular PSU because, really, it's not like you are constantly changing the plugs, right? I had an Antec that is still working fine in a friend's rig (too small wattage for when I built my KN9 SLI) Chris.

my ultra that went bad was a 500 w x connect too. but i got it fast guru went nuts with alarms. the older versions of guru did the reports to text etc. i could read it it said my 5v was acting up. this version on my an9 dont have the report. just alarms etc.. unless it saves it to its folder auto. i dont know. but the older versions you had the option tab from the gui on your desktop. i cant run guru on my an9 if it runs at start up my system freezes. or if i try and run it while any of my security is running it will freeze my system too.. if i turn off all security and let my system sit and calm down for a few minutes then i can start it.. i dont like not having it. but turn it off most of the time while gaming and if recording.. i like to pop it on from time to time and see temps and fan speeds.. but my bios is set to monitor different things too so its all good. i set it to beep for ever thing but only to shut down if the cpu gets to hot or fan stops working. i think guru does not like multi core cpu's. it was acting up before i ever added any security so..

i got my modular units it was the thing back then and uv glow etc. but after owning and reading hard wire is better. and again them big thick wires all in the middle of every thing and normally they are not long enough either .its almost impossible to hide them or pull them back etc to look neat.. so i will not buy them any more.. my modular ocz 520 modstream works fine. its in my kn8 system now. was in my ai7-ic7g systems before that.

ya new egg and said shipping. ups will take longer than said. if its 3 day shipping it should be ordered by early tuesday. or you might not get it until monday and if ordered on a friday you might not get it until the next wednesday.. its 3 business days and after the order has been processed and they say processing can be up to i think 24-48 hours..

but it always comes and im normally happy happy

well i my self have had a few problem with the egg now. just in the last 12 months now and the last item i got to. if anyone remember my 285? and all they can do for me is offer me is $10 off my next order? WTF!! if there shipping department cant pack it properly in a box. then what can they do right at all then? it seem anything i got from the egg that got shipped from the Cali warehouse was improper packed and came a day late.

and all they can say is we can give you $10 off your next order. if thats the best they can do they dont need my next order and beside there so call rma department is another thing i have problem with as well but that would take up this topic. bad enough i have so far with what i feel about the egg now.

i now have a new place were i go to get my stuff from i think. but you have to be a business to order from them. which i now am rofl!! but thats how i got my 2nd lcd from and cheaper then the egg could do to. even after paying tax on it and i got it the next day. there called Infotel distributors there a division of TD. which are located here in Illinois and only a few hrs away from me.

but thats the 1st thing i have gotten from them so far but i would like to get more cause i have my own specialist to call on and they send me email on specials all the time. but the egg needs to teach there shipping people how to pack there item the right way. i had so many thing that would come that had little to now packing inside the box to protect my stuff i order.

like the ram i got this last xmas it had some brown paper that laid on top off the ram which did nothing to protect it from the shipping from Cali to Illinois at all. guess im lucky the stuff works when i get it from the egg.

I agree 100% with chris. I have been dealing with newegg for years and only had one time have something take to long. I'm here in Pa and if they ship out of NJ I have the next day. From Calif it will takes 3 days.

But lets get back to the PSU I have 3 Modular PSU and I love them. Again I will say this that PSU thing is so over rated. I run AB9 QardGT with 500w PSU. It has in it a 6600Q, 2 DVD, 4 HDD, floppy, 8gb mem, 2-4850/ 512mb, 3-120mm fans, & 1-200mm fan and runs 24hrs a day & 365 days a yr. Plus the PSU is over 3yrs old and still running (Antec). I will not pay more than 80.00 for a PSU no matter who makes it a waste of money. I read and listen to people all the time saying I have to get 1000w or more PSU to run my computer. I can buy 3 good 650w PSU for the same price of 1000w PSU and do as good as job as the 1000w PSU.

Been building computers over 20yrs and "Again the PSU thing is over rated"

this can be true but some can say that certain manufactures are more prone to failures then other to though. like the Ultra brand with there psu even though i do have a standard ultra 600watt that is just sitting taking up space now. but it is to small for me to use for anything.

since the 12volt rails are way to low on amperage for any good use. even for my server it is since the BFG 6800 ultra is a power hog. the aspire 680watt with its 18amp 12volt rails is just getting by on it and it wont even run on my main rig at all.

since the 285 demands much more amps then that even more then the 8800gtx i had. that the other thing that comes into play when your looking into a psu is that, the amp on the 12volt rails and if it is a true 80% rating as well. i know my OCZ is just enough to keep it going but im out of psu so if it goes down so do i, well as gaming goes i will be down or done that is

but i would like to get a good dependable modular psu since that way i can only have the cable i need and use. and what i dont need or use unplug. and what other are saying about the cable is that tension in the connector of the cable will loose its tightness and become loose. even if you dont even mess with it, over time it can get loose and start to corrode up and then that will lead to bad things.

if yours are still working then your 1 of the lucky ones then. since i know from over in the evga forums alot of other have had the x series of the ultra brands and had nothing but troubles with them and then went and got a antec or corsair and there problems disappeared.

it would be nice if there was a way that you could just order your psu with the cable you want and the 1 you dont need wont be bult into it. i know that would be a customized psu and would cost more but i beet that some will pay for something like that still.

Well what pissed me off about that order.....

I place the order on Monday..................................


Found that their ad states 99% of order are shipped out same day..........


Thats 2 of the 3-4 business days right there.

I recieve my Invoice on Friday...........................................


On Sunday, I recieve a response to my inquiry about my order................................


They never addressed the reason for the delay in placing my order to be picked up by UPS. They also did not put any sort of RUSH on it to try and make up for the delay, hence UPS did their job to get it delivered in the alotted 3 business days.

I recieved this item on a Tuesday, thats 8 days from ordered to recieved.

They never apologized for the delay in shipping, only the delay in responding to my inquiry.

They never gave me a discount on my next order.

SCAVENGER1
I have 4 Utlra LSP (Lifetime Series Professional) ATX Power Supply 2-650w & 2-750w. I paid I think it was like $50 or $60 for each one. They all still working and these ones are not modular.

Greybear
That sounds more Ewiz than Newegg. I order most of my stuff from Newegg 1st. I do use Mwave, Zipzoomfly, 3b tech, and Ewiz. I did give up on Tiger Direct yrs ago to high and to long to get stuff. Like I said only one time it took like 5 or 6 days with Newegg. It started out UPS went to DHL and I got it in my mailbox from USPS. Plus that was coming from NJ maybe 175 miles away. I just place and order tues and had it fri from calif.

They did send me 500Gb SATA drives once when I ordered 320Gb ones but they didn't up the price so I didn't say anything.

LOL