Seasonic fanless PSU - noises ? other quiet alternatives ?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:09 am
I need my PC dead silent as I use it for recording/mixing and do it many time late at night,
so dead quiet means I can listen to the music at very low levels and still be able to mix...
After replacing the intake/outtake fans (both are now 80mm running under 1000rpm) and the XPU cooler (Arctic Freezer LP 11 - very quiet), it became so silent I can only hear the hard drives motors...
but all this with the the 80mm PSU fan modded to run at 800rpm...
I'm afraid this is too low for such a cheap PSU so I would like to get an adequate, silent PSU for my system.
I checked for two options:
Seasonic S12II-520 (120mm fan)
Seasonic X-Series SS-460FL (fanless)
Basically I wouldn't mind spending the money on the fanless models but I read about these X model producing all kinds of whining and buzz noises (presumably from the PS coils?) while Youtube also demonstrates some bad experience of noises in the various X models...
What would you recommend getting for minimum to no noise ?
I really need it as silent as it may get, and wouldn't mind the price.
Thanks !
so dead quiet means I can listen to the music at very low levels and still be able to mix...
After replacing the intake/outtake fans (both are now 80mm running under 1000rpm) and the XPU cooler (Arctic Freezer LP 11 - very quiet), it became so silent I can only hear the hard drives motors...
but all this with the the 80mm PSU fan modded to run at 800rpm...
I'm afraid this is too low for such a cheap PSU so I would like to get an adequate, silent PSU for my system.
I checked for two options:
Seasonic S12II-520 (120mm fan)
Seasonic X-Series SS-460FL (fanless)
Basically I wouldn't mind spending the money on the fanless models but I read about these X model producing all kinds of whining and buzz noises (presumably from the PS coils?) while Youtube also demonstrates some bad experience of noises in the various X models...
What would you recommend getting for minimum to no noise ?
I really need it as silent as it may get, and wouldn't mind the price.
Thanks !