Quiet and Effiecien

gdude324 · 01-12-2006, 01:35 AM

I'm looking for a quiet, and efficient PSU...mine right now is very loud and dont like it. I run and AMD Athlon XP1900 ,120 GB hard drive, and Radeon 9550 video card, looking for about 450 watts ish, any suggestions, looking more for quiet ness, im not running your "big ass gaming machine"...
thanks
-Greg

**Cromewell** · 01-12-2006, 01:49 AM

The OCz PowerStream 420W should be very quiet, my OCz 520W is completely unnoticable.

ergorest · 01-12-2006, 02:33 AM

I have a Thermaltake 450W and its quiet - well you can manually adjust the fan speed with the provided controller, meaning you can put a low fan speed on which equals no noise.

diduknowthat · 01-12-2006, 03:01 AM

my psu, in sig, is very quite, and it has 2 fans, but only 1 turns on, the other one goes on when it gets hot. You don't need a 500watt one for your machine, there are cheaper antec smart powersupplies, i think from 300 to 500 watts.

J0efrmcanada · 01-12-2006, 05:39 AM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817103939

85.75...

This power supply is sweet its not for an amazing gaming rig and has 430 watts, and its really quiet. I am a bit biased because i have had 2 other power supplies when i was makin my comp and the were an enermax and a ocz and both had problems then i bought antec...my saviour..its quieter then both of the other power supplies that i had and its nicer looking and was get this cheaper then the other two...but enermax and ocz fans don't get mad cuz its just bad luck....btw antec rocks..

**ceewi1** · 01-12-2006, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by J0efrmcanada

Will not wrk with a64 processors

Why do you say that? This power supply should work fine with A64 processors. I agree, it's quite nice. I've got the Antec Neo480 and am very happy with it. The 120mm fan keeps it fairly quiet. The 480 is probably a bit of overkill for gdude's system though.

Chris Chan · 01-12-2006, 01:23 PM

i'd recommend the seasonic SuperSilencer 300w, will be enough for your system and only $46. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817151014

01-12-2006, 01:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
gdude324 New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1	Quiet and Effiecien I'm looking for a quiet, and efficient PSU...mine right now is very loud and dont like it. I run and AMD Athlon XP1900 ,120 GB hard drive, and Radeon 9550 video card, looking for about 450 watts ish, any suggestions, looking more for quiet ness, im not running your "big ass gaming machine"... thanks -Greg

01-12-2006, 01:49 AM	#2 (permalink)
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01-12-2006, 02:33 AM	#3 (permalink)
ergorest New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 10	I have a Thermaltake 450W and its quiet - well you can manually adjust the fan speed with the provided controller, meaning you can put a low fan speed on which equals no noise. __________________ Unique Ergonomic Armrests and more!

01-12-2006, 03:01 AM	#4 (permalink)
diduknowthat formerly liuliuboy Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Massachusetts Age: 17 Posts: 6,463	my psu, in sig, is very quite, and it has 2 fans, but only 1 turns on, the other one goes on when it gets hot. You don't need a 500watt one for your machine, there are cheaper antec smart powersupplies, i think from 300 to 500 watts. __________________ Dell Latitude XT Convertible Tablet Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 1.2ghz CPU 3GB DDR2 677 Memory 120GB 1.8" PATA Hard Drive ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 Graphics 12.1" WXGA LED Touch Screen N-Trig Capacitive Touch/Active Digitizer

01-12-2006, 05:39 AM	#5 (permalink)
J0efrmcanada Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Canada Age: 23 Posts: 68	Will not wrk with a64 processors..but sweet http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817103939 85.75... This power supply is sweet its not for an amazing gaming rig and has 430 watts, and its really quiet. I am a bit biased because i have had 2 other power supplies when i was makin my comp and the were an enermax and a ocz and both had problems then i bought antec...my saviour..its quieter then both of the other power supplies that i had and its nicer looking and was get this cheaper then the other two...but enermax and ocz fans don't get mad cuz its just bad luck....btw antec rocks.. __________________ Processor - Pentium D 840 Motherboard - Asus P5LD2 Deluxe Wifi-Tv Tuner Ram- Corsair 5400 XMS2 DDR2 3(1 gb sticks) Harddrive(s) - 4 Caviar's at 500 gb each and a 74 Rap Sound Card - Sound Blaster X-FI Platinum edition Optical Drives - A DVD-Rom drive and a DVD-RW with dual layer drive both are plextor i believe Video Card - XFX 7800 GTX 256 Power supply - Antec 480 neoPower Case - Coolermaster Wavemaster Tower Case (Black) HSF - Coolermaster Hyper 6+

01-12-2006, 01:23 PM	#7 (permalink)
Chris Chan Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Michigan, USA Age: 16 Posts: 509	i'd recommend the seasonic SuperSilencer 300w, will be enough for your system and only $46. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817151014 __________________ desktop: Celeron 1.7/512MB/80GB/integrated/Ubuntu 7.10 server: P4 2.8/768MB/40GB/integrated/Debian Etch laptop: G3 500MHz/256MB/10GB/RageMobility/Debian Etch laptop soon: Sempron 2800+/512MB/40GB/integrated/Ubuntu 7.10 laptop soon: PII 300MHz/192MB/40GB/?/Debian Etch

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