Jesus Pimp

Can anyone recommend a super quiet power supply? I would consider water cooling but it's too much of a hassle.

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Redjake

Enermax or Sparkle have the quietest fans I've ever heard (or not heard). My old Sparkle was completely silent (unless you put your ear RIGHT UP to it), and my current Enermax is barely audible.

You sure it's your PSU thats making the majority of the noise? Check your CPU fan also.

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Speed_Gibson

be quiet! power supplies
link in english via google (most of the other hits were in German)

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Jesus Pimp

My CPU fans is almost silent. It's POS. Which Enermax model are you using?

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Redjake

I'm using a 430 watt model. Not sure of the model number or any of that (the box is at home). Any of the "NoiseTaker" models should do the trick.

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sixate

Not if you have a lot of shit to power up in your PC. The NoiseTaker that I bought was dead silent! Because the flaming pile of fucking shit didn't have nearly as much juice as my 470watt Vantec to power my system. It wouldn't boot my PC. The NoiseTaker I bought was also a 470watt PSU.

Vantec>Enermax

Lasereth

Don't start this crap again. Just one person has a faulty PSU and the rest are automatically bad? What if 1 person bought a Vantec and it didn't power up their system? Does that mean that all Vantecs are bad? No.

The only reason "Vantec>Enermax" is because you got a shitfaced bad one. I've heard nothing but good things from Enermax customers.

-Lasereth

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sixate

The dude I sold mine to loves it. It works perfectly for him, so it wasn't a bad PSU. It just doesn't have a much power as my Vantec, and that's a fucking fact.

MahlerIsGod

Because I have a POS Dell computer, I couldn't just walk into any CompUSA and buy a PSU. After searching and hints, from this board and others, I found these guys:

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/home.htm

I got the Silncer 410 and it works great. The only thing I hear is my CPU Fan, barely, in the background. My 2 cents

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Redjake

Well I can say my Enermax has more power than your Vantec, and that's a fucking fact. I'm running 8 LED 80 MM fans, Abit NF7-S motherboard, Barton 2500+, SoundBlaster Live! card, IDE Controller Card, GeForce 4 Ti4200 128 MB, SIX hard drives (160 Gb, 160 GB, 160 GB, 120 GB, 80 GB, 20 GB), a cold cathode, 48X CD-RW, two extra 80 MM fans in the PSU itself, one extra 60 MM fan in the back, 768 MB PC2700 RAM (3 X 256), and a fucking partridge in a pear tree. And my GET THIS: 430 WATT ENERMAX powers it FINE. The air coming out the back isn't even hot. Therefore mine is better than yours. Because it's powering more than yours and it has a lower Wattage rating.

See how immature this can get? Give it up, you got a shitty Enermax, and there's not much you can do about it (but sell it to a friend). I happen to know someone who got a shitty Vantec as well. It happens.

Not to mention my Enermax is barely audible. Give it up, man. Shit happens to everyone. Just because yours didn't come with enough Molex connectors and didn't power your system doesn't mean they all suck.


So stop bashing Enermax over and over. I'm not bashing Vantec because my friend's was a POS!

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sixate

I'll never stop bashing Enermax. They fucking suck. So you better get used to hearing me say it.

And we honestly don't know if my or your PSU is more powerful. Unless we switch PSU's and test it we'll never know, so please stop talking out of your ass.

And if we really want to nitpick, my vid card uses waaaay more power than yours, and I have more cathodes, almost as many LED fans, and I have one more CD rom than you. I'll bet my ass I could add a couple more HD's and my PSU wouldn't even blink. Lastly, my monitor is plugged into my PSU.

Are we done pissing at each other yet?

Lasereth

Hmm. Redjake has facts to prove his point, and you don't. Who's talking out of their ass?

I know 1 person that had a Vantec fail. I guess that makes Vantec suck from now on. Vantec PSU's suck everyone, don't buy one!

-Lasereth

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sixate

Good of you to talk shit while I was editing my post.

Redjake

Cathodes count for 10 watts or so. You don't even have as many fans as me. Each one of my hard drives are 35 watts. Adding a "couple more hard drives" to your setup wouldn't even be nibbling at my setup.

I'm not talking out of my ass. I have results to prove my premisses. You have talk.

I'm just saying that you don't see me saying "Vantec sux" because I know someone who had a bad one. So stop saying "Enermax sux" because your's didn't meet your expectations. It would be <i>slightly</i> different if EVERYONE'S Enermax PSUs weren't good. But your's was the only one that I've heard of.

Stop being immature.

Just because one Lamborghini's engine block cracks doesn't mean they all suck.

I'm not "pissing" at you. I'm trying to get you to act like a fucking educated consumer.

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sixate

I have 7 80mm fans, and a 92mm. Like I said, almost as many.

I'm educated enough to know Enermax sucks my balls.

Lasereth

Obviously not educated enough, then! Just because one product fails doesn't mean that the rest suck. I ordered an Athlon XP the other day, and it came dead on arrival. Does that mean all Athlon XP's suck? No. It doesn't take that much effort to realize that, either.

Let's just call it a day and say that we agree that POWMAX and RAIDMAX PSU's suck.

-Lasereth

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sixate

I'll agree with that.

Redjake

I can't believe you are a moderator

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analog

...and I can't believe you guys are arguing and getting pissed off over a fucking computer power supply.

Also- last I noticed, simply stating an opinion (such as _____ sucks my balls) is not against the rules, no matter how much you disagree with it.

There's way too much flaming coming from all sides- any more of it and the thing gets locked down.

Thanks a heap.

-analog.

Mondak

I love this thread.....

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Redjake

Hey, I never said that anyone was breaking the rules! I didn't even report anything to a moderator. It just baffles me that someone with the intelligence to say "...sucks my balls" in a sentence has moderator priveleges at these forums. I thought a certain level of etiquette was required to be a moderator (not to mention a certain level of maturity)

you can call arguing back and forth "immature" but I think saying "sucks my balls" like a fourth-grader definitely takes the cake.

lock this thread if you want, I'm just trying to explain myself and my opinion on the matter. I hate when people are misinformed due to someone's foul and biased opinion.

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sixate

Hey, I'm just letting the thread starter know that Enermax isn't all it's cracked up to be, and there are other/better options. Just because I'm not an Enermax fanboy that doesn't mean that I don't know shit.

I always like how people try to act mature by saying someting I say is immature... So lame. Please try to tell me you never said that something/someone sucks your balls. We all say stuff like that. So please get over it.

Lasereth

You may think you're letting the thread start know that Enermax isn't all it's cracked up to be, but in reality all you're letting him know is that yours failed to deliver. Why not just say that yours came broke, so you might want to be wary? Then we'd all grasp the opinion and consider an alternative. But you're simply classifying every Enermax product as being shit because of one malfunction. That's bias, and biased recommendations are useless!

-Lasereth

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theburner

I bought a 540 Watt Sparkle that couldn't even power up my system. What a hunk of crap. I will never buy another Sparkle again, and recommend nobody else does either.




/Flamebait. Actually did buy a 540 (550?) sparkle and it rocks the house. Not enough Molex Connectors, but for $3.50 you can solve that issue. BUY A SPARKLE FOLKS..

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shakran

this thread is hilarious.

Sixate, what the hell are you running that you need SEVEN 80mm fans? My computer's run pretty hard and has a lot of crap in it, and 3 do the job for me. . .

Redjake

I have 12 fans in my computer The more the merrier. Seriously though, if I turn all those fans down with my rheobus, my CPU temp goes up 10 C on occasions......that's a lot in the computing world. Not to mention my 160 GB Maxtor HDs run hotter than a midsummer night's dream

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analog

Thank you for being amiable.

Immaturity is relative, often situational, and can frequently belie intelligence.

Just because he said it sucks his balls makes him neither "like a 4th grader", nor stupid.

No one owes apology for their opinions.

Just have fun and enjoy the place, ok? No reason to get all knotted up over this. The world will keep spinning.

Thanks!

hu-man

Anyway,
I just took out my PSU (I have a Chieftec Dragon cabinet), opened it up, DID NOT TOUCH THE CAPACITORS!!!!!!, and changed the lousy crappy noisy fan with a 12db NoiseBlocker one. Works like a charm, and now I found out that the radiator in my room is fucking loud with all the cluckcluckclucking of the water...
I also changed my graphics card cooler to a passive Zalman one, one less fan to worry about. Next step is replacing the CPU cooler with a silent Zalman one, and my computer is dead silent. Until then, I turn down my fan to 40%, works great as long as I'm not powergaming. The temperature rises to about 40 C when surfing etc, but that's not bad at all.
Finally, I'm going to buy some resonance and vibration padding - that should do the final trick.

Dilbert1234567

i found the queitest PSU ive ever seen

only has one fan, 120 mm

its made by coolmax, it comes in several sizes

COOLMAX 300W CX-300, SILVER, Taurus CX Series Silent Power Supply; 1 x 120mm fan, 3 Speed Fan Control Switch ( Auto, Low, Medium).

here is a link to it on new egg

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...159-011&depa=0

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