I need a quiet efficient PSU 350-400w and heatsink for AMD XP

IIRAGEII · Feb 22, 2002

any recs

windyridge · Feb 23, 2002

Enermax 400watt

VotTak · Feb 23, 2002

Yeah.. What is wron with Enermax? It's not good enough?

Darrenct · Feb 23, 2002

Hey look, two new guys...

Welcome to the Forums

Anyway, Enermax is your best bet... They are well known for being very quiet, as well as packing a lot of power.

Here are the best deals I could find for Enermax(quality is worth the money).
Enermax 350 Watt for $48

My recomendation:
.Enermax 430 Watt for $74

These power supplies also exhaust more air than most of the other brands out there

For a quiet HeatSink Fan, I'd buy the Alpha pal8045 Heatsink and put a low output fan on it. If your planning on overclocking, you will want to get a large noisy fan and put a rheostat(speed controller) on it. That way it is only noisy while being overclocked.

VotTak · Feb 23, 2002

Thnx for welcoming ...

I've been a member here for about 2 years. But because I mostly reading and not writing recenly I discovered that I have to reregister myself.

Rezman5 · Feb 23, 2002

Antec 400W with temp controlled fan...that way it is quiet when your running cool, but when it needs more RPMs, it just increases the fan RPMs. As for heatsinks, millennium glaciator II is very quiet and works great!

Ugmore Baggage · Feb 23, 2002

Zalman 6000 Cu has the quietest fan per cooling power. It can handle any current XP processor at full speed and most at "quiet" fan setting.

Even full speed is pretty quiet.

Note that this is the newer (larger) Zalman. I'm not sure the original version is 2000+ compatible.

I have the Antec PS and it seems pretty loud to me. By far the loudest part of my PC. Maybe if I had less junk attached to it, it would be quieter.

Darrenct · Feb 23, 2002

Ugmore Baggage said:
Zalman 6000 Cu has the quietest fan per cooling power. It can handle any current XP processor at full speed and most at "quiet" fan setting.

Even full speed is pretty quiet.

Note that this is the newer (larger) Zalman. I'm not sure the original version is 2000+ compatible.

I have the Antec PS and it seems pretty loud to me. By far the loudest part of my PC. Maybe if I had less junk attached to it, it would be quieter.

If your case is hot inside, the fan will run at higher speeds. Get some better case ventilation, and the PSU fan speed will lower.

William · Feb 23, 2002

Antec is my fav in the PSU market. Enermax's are great too.

Millenium Glaciator II is better than the Zalman. That or an Alpha 8045 is what I would get.

Darrenct · Feb 23, 2002

Here's a couple HSF links:

Alpha 8045

Quiet Fan for the Alpha

4 pin connector for fan

Artic Silver III compound

Thermal compund is important!!! You will see a 10 degree difference between AS III and a generic one.

Hoot · Feb 24, 2002

Darrenct said:
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Thermal compund is important!!! You will see a 10 degree difference between AS III and a generic one.

Not exactly Darren.

http://www.overclockers.com/articles531/

Hoot

Darrenct · Feb 24, 2002

Oh, I was going off of a different article I read... Of course, it was the one with the peanut butter and stuff, so I guess I shouldn't have trusted the reliabillity there.

Arkaine23 · Feb 24, 2002

PSU and HSF

Enermax 431w Whisper with 2 fans... 1 is temp controlled

Millenium Glaciator 2... high performer, low noise

Both of these could be had for a total of about $120 U.S., and worth every cent!

earthdick · Feb 25, 2002

Antec PP412X and Millenium Glaciator II.

I need a quiet efficient PSU 350-400w and heatsink for AMD XP

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