Samdy Gray
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« on: Monday, July 14, 2008, 15:41:37 » |
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What's the best cheap PSU to get that's reasonably quiet (well, preferably as near silent as possible)?
My current PSU sounds like a hovercraft and with it only being 350w I think it's struggling.
Looking to spend about £30.
Cheers in advance.
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« Reply #1 on: Monday, July 14, 2008, 16:12:07 » |
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I was just about to ask if anyone had a spare 350w ATX PSU that they didn't want (save me buying one) as I have one that seems to have blown (it smells of burning at least which I think is the give away) failing that where can I get one cheap ??
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« Reply #2 on: Monday, July 14, 2008, 16:42:42 » |
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For Power to the people.... http://www.ebuyer.com/product/20083 £6.48p inc VAT cheap as chips. For Sam http://www.ebuyer.com/product/102994 £21.99 inc VAT I have used several of these and the are pretty much silent and good value indeed good voltages and loads of connectors for the old molex 4 pins as well as 1 sata connector too or If you wish for a bit cheaper but with 2 sata's then http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135453/ I personally havent used one of these but the specs look fine for anything less than a quad core and dual graphics set up. |
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« Reply #3 on: Monday, July 14, 2008, 17:10:48 » |
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For Sam http://www.ebuyer.com/product/102994 £21.99 inc VAT I have used several of these and the are pretty much silent and good value indeed good voltages and loads of connectors for the old molex 4 pins as well as 1 sata connector too Was looking at that one earlier actually but a few reviews saying it was anything but silent put me off, but if you say it is then I'd rather believe you than some numpty who's left a review on ebuyer. Cheers JJ! |
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« Reply #4 on: Monday, July 14, 2008, 17:14:51 » |
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Not a problem Sam, I have used probably 8+ of these and they sound as quiet as any I have used TBH, very steady voltage too which is a big plus point. The onyl word of caution...Ebuyer sometimes use different suppliers for their own brand stuff (though I believe this not to be one of thse items), so what some people get may not be exactly the same as what others get, this said....I have always had exactly the same make and they are fine, certainly a vast improvement on your own 747 taking off you currently have  |
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 08:34:18 » |
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Am I correct in thinking that if I replace the 350w with a 300w that all will still run ok, the pc (P4) is only running 2 x DVD drives, HDD & older Nvidia card, so not too much ?
I'm sure I'm correct in thinking that you only have to start going up to 350w / 400w + etc when you start loading the pc with cooling fan's lot's of drives etc etc
This is just to confirm my thinking is correct as I don't usually worry about PSU's, whatever comes in the case !!
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 08:46:06 » |
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I use a 550w psu and I have an overclocked motherboard/processor, 2 hard drives, 2 Nvidia7600GT graphics cards and 2 dvd drives, plus 5 case fans and 2 heatsink fans.
In short, you'll be fine.
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 10:14:08 » |
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As Si says.
I have a dual core E6750 overclocked to 4ghz, 2 hard drives on SataII, twin SLi 8800GT graphics cards, 2 big coolings fans, watercooling all running off molex or Sata connectors on a 500w power supply, that little lot draws only 400w power on full power in games.
PC's dont draw as much power as a lot of crappy websites/magazines will tell you, download a power supply/power draw tester like the Asus one and you will be surprised.
I would expect an on P4 or an Intel celery processor with dual dvds, hdd and old graphics would only pull about 200-220w max.
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 20:58:55 » |
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Went for a Hiper PSU in the end and also ended up buying a new Coolermaster case with two 12cm fans.
Swapped it all over this evening, it's now running virtually silent and a good 15ºc cooler under load. Gave the heatsink a fresh load of thermal paste as well whilst I was at it.
Only got the one case fan running at the moment though because the other two are too loud!
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« Reply #9 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 08:36:54 » |
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I am the same Sam, I have 3 "virtually silent" fans in my case even running them at 5v instead of 7v or the 12v standard they are still too loud for my liking so I have disconnected them, my PC runs cool anyway but I like it that way with the amount of overclock my Processor and memory have.
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 09:54:23 » |
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Mine run at 25db which is far too loud. Been meaning to change them but I can't really afford it at the moment. Also want to change the fan in my psu as it's too loud. I might just get a new psu though.
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:07:21 » |
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All my fans run at 15-17db as I made sure I bought them specifically, I am still waiting for my watercooling to turn up then I can turn all but my case fan off, I havent measured my DB level but I would say its about 20db which is too loud for me, I have a 12db PSU and it is pretty silent really I can cope with that level!
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« Reply #12 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:15:31 » |
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The fans I've turned off are one 80mm and one 120mm. The 80mm is supposed to be silent but it's not. The 120mm fan was a £1.50 jobby off ebuyer and the reviews said it was 'virtually silent', yeah right. I'm going to get a couple of new ones next month and get some decent rubber mountings as well to stop the vibrations. Think I'm going to need a fan controller as well. Also my CPU fan was revving quite high, but then I found I hadn't clicked the heatsink back on properly  I only found out when it got above 70ºc (max temp set in the BIOS) and the PC turned itself off. |
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« Reply #13 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:35:03 » |
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Have you tried running the virtually silent fan at 7x or even 5v Sam can make a huge difference in noise levels.
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« Reply #14 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:42:15 » |
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How do I go about that?
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