2009/1/28 Roger Lancefield <rlancefi...@gmail.com>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >> I'm swinging towards an Xilence 480W PSU [1] from aria for £26, but >> >> not sure if it's (a) worth the extra money for a quieter PSU, and (b) >> >> if 480W will be sufficient for stability? >> >> 480W is way over-powered to keep that lot working to be honest. >> >> Do go for something quiet - nothing worse than a cheap PSU whining away. >> > > > After a no-brand PSU burned out on me, and then after receiving two bad > (i.e. dead on arrival) Xilence PSU units from QuietPC* a year and a half or > so back, I decided to start devoting a bit more resource to my machines' > power supply units. By the way, talking about Xilence, I also took delivery > of one of their case fans that had bad bearings. I'm not very impressed with > the quality of that company's products and now avoid them like the plague. > (*QuietPC, on the other hand, were very good, initially swapping the units > and then giving me a full refund without any hassle. They also sent a > courier to collect the duff units). > > I suspect that my main desktop is a little more power hungry than yours, > although not a great deal so, and it's all humming (actually, very little > "humming") along beautifully using a Nesteq "Semi-fanless" 450Watt PSU. > Nesteq are expensive compared to the generic, Chinese-made units, but the > build quality is superb, and the modular cabling is a welcome relief after > those multi-tentacled, brightly-coloured looms resembling David Seaman's > ponytail on a bad hair day. My unit is also very quiet indeed (in fact > inaudible over the case fans and CPU cooler, despite all of these being good > quality "quiet" items). > > The QuietPC technician claimed that Nesteq's units have a significantly > more stable and reliable supply than the typical no-brand, £15-£20 jobbies > and thus can be used in setups that would normally require higher-rated, > cheaper units. I have no way of accurately verifying such claims, but my > 450W Nesteq has run my (home-assembled) main desktop with its dual-head > NVidia 7600, 2GB RAM, dual-core CPU, single HD and DVD writer, 1 x 120mm and > 1 x 92mm case fans, large Zalman CPU cooler, etc. absolutely fine. No > mysterious lock ups or shutdowns, or any other apparent electrical > anomalies. > > You do have an extra hard-disk, and my Nvidia card is passively cooled, so > I'm not really sure how our machines' respective power requirements compare. > But anyway, if you're interested: > > http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/powersupplies > > Cheers > > Correction: my Nesteq unit is not from their "Semi-Fanless" range, but from their "Power Plus" line (Model No. ECS 4501).
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