With apevia, they have not been consistent with designs. One of them would perform totally well with long term durability in question(a review of heatsink/exhaust temperatures and components would satisfy this curiosity), while the one that zap posted sounds like utter failure or a bad unit. (read a bit more, the rma replacement would melt and this is retail so it's a bad design)
exhaust temp, sometimes you add room temperature to exhaust and you get close to the temp that the heat sinks are trying to cool off. or sometimes you double the exhaust temp and you get close. So for a psu outputting 50°c exhaust air, I'd be weary of what capacitors it uses for long term durability. edit (in this case the chalk securing the components melts in the apevia @ certain loads and temperatures)
(I didn't read the full review, just those parts. There's not much to look at if the unit fails to deliver past 75% of it's capacity but in the previous pages to that review, it notes that it's housed in a plastic case and rated to operate at 40°c, that is unusual, the apevia unit I remember reading about also had neon lights or something. This might be trend, plastic clear cases with funky colors, see though case with neon lights.)
btw there is a corsair rep on the forums and a thread about corsair mail in rebates.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=620807
you receive a debit card from citi, and depending on how you use it you could end up with charges if you don't use up your balance after 6 months. you have to treat mir like they don't exist. one of our members got a wrong card that said something about a max limit of 1500. prepaid debit cards shouldn't have limits.
btw off topic I just noticed how tomshardware and hardforums/hardocp works.
there's a forum and they have some decent reviews (I know there are some benefits to reviewers. You get sent engineering samples for reviews and all that fun stuff) This is for advertisement purposes and publicity, could really help a product especially if reviewed by a respectable member.
Are we trying to get those benefits? is ocforums growing up? I'm still a pretty new member so I don't know all the ins and outs.
