Ah yes, that was power at wall socket. So way more than I need to budget for PSU capacity.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2010/1 ... -review/10

At idle even on an X560, the PSU should run in silent mode or fanless.

I was reading somewhere that the x6950 drew nearly 250 Watts at load! I'm hoping that this is an overestimation... Or perhaps the figure I was seeing was for the entire PC, which makes more sense.

At any rate, the impression that I'm getting here is that I can save some money by buying an X560.

I'm building a system with an i5 3570 processor, SSD + 5400RPM HDD, and a Radeon 6950. I can crudely estimate that under load, my system will probably draw less than 400W of power, but I rarely play games so it will probably be idling most of the time drawing closer to 200W. I am wondering if there ...

This is an interesting drive for me. I could use a 4TB drive like this. I have an Hitachi HDS5C030ALA and it's very quite. You can hear a little spindle sound, but it is not unpleasant. And the seek noise is virtually inaudible. I'm very happy with the acoustics of this drive. Hopefully this 5K4000 ...

I'm very interested in this as well. I don't understand what the Gelid rep meant by having to modify the VRM heatsink, so I'd like to see a photo that illustrates this. Alternatively, I wonder what other readily available products could suffice to cool the VRMs. The Accelero Xtreme Pro would be more...

Well, your idea does kinda make sense... the whine does go away when there appears to be some change in power usage. I'm not sure how well I can control this though. Incidentally, I got one of these supplies a while back, and it wouldn't even power my computer! When I RMAed it, they said that it was...

Oh, sorry, maybe I made myself confusing. It's DEFINITELY my power supply. I was using an Antec 350 W supply, which was fine, but the fan noise could get loud. When I pluged in the Anhanix SilenX, the squealing does comp from that supply, but at first I never bothered to actually install it in the c...

I actually went through the hassle of replacing the PSU with the Silenx, and closing up the case. The high pitched noise is much more tolerable, but definitely still there. It might be in my head, but I seem to get a headache when my computer is on now :? I've read about other power supplies where t...

I recently bought an Anhanix SilenX 14dBa 400W PSU, and so far, I'm not thrilled... the darn thing emits a nasty high pitched squealing (inductor noise, maybe?), that is loud enough to not only drive me insane, but overpower any fan noise that my PC makes. It only seems to happen when certain device...