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What's the quietest non-watercooled PSU?
Zalman 300W or Antec ar something else?
Zalman 300W or Antec ar something else?
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What's the quietest non-watercooled PSU?
NoKtEm said:is there a big quality difference between enermax and antec? it seems like most people prefer antec but enermax is so much quieter..
DaedalusX said:you know what you could do, find a review on what the highest temp you can keep your psu at is before it starts to do some damage, then stick a temp sensor in any psu you buy... then get a fan in there that has a speed control (or you can use a rheobus)
Some of the PSUs that I work with... you can't hear them at all, and I've heard tons of them. So really, you have your options open, many brands have the fans running so slow that you can't hear it unless you are right up next to it with your ear.
Just out of curiosity though, why do you (or anyone else for that matter) care so much about having something the ABSOULTE quietest it can be? I mean I can see wanting something to be quiet because when you sit at a computer for a long period of time you don't want to be bothered with a loud humming the whole time. But to do research on making sure that EVERYTHING upon EVERYTHING is the absolute most possible quiet just seems a bit too far to me.
Berenices said:I bought a Zalman fan from Maplin which I used to replace my PSU fan. I used 3 inline resistors also from Maplin and now the psu cannot be heard. I have all my other fans running of the 5v bus eccept the processor whisch uses the Zalman resistor to slow it down. My system runs fine. Temps are;
Processor = temp sensor allways reads 52.C (poss broken i don`t know)
GPU = 37.C on 12v 45.C on 5v
(i upgraded to thermaltake all copper cooler on gforce)
The air out from my PSU is about 9.C hotter than the surounding air.
Hope any of this helps.
Next thing I will do is build or buy a metal box to quiten the harddrive.