I am absolutely stunned that you've come to the premier quiet-computer website on the English-speaking internet and are arguing with long-time members, moderators, and review staff over the noise of a component because of a review published by a website with absolutely no skill, knowledge, understa...

NeilBlanchard wrote:Hello,

You should really look at the SPCR reviews -- the Enermax is significantly quieter from idle up through any realistic power level that you might be using.

I'll read them, thanks.

True. But in that review, the Silencer seems quieter both at "idle" (low load) and full load. So it could be reasonably quieter than the Enermax. http://techreport.com/r.x/psus-0708/noise-idle.gif Both were below ambient at idle, there is no way to tell which was actually quieter in this test. :rol...

True. But in that review, the Silencer seems quieter both at "idle" (low load) and full load. So it could be reasonably quieter than the Enermax.

So Silencer (and Zalman and BFG) could be quieter than Enermax...

Take a look: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15208/15

What are your opinions on these results?

But the Thermalright MTBF is 60,000 hours, while the Scythe S-FLEX MTBF is 150,000

Hammy wrote:Anyone out there want to say a few words about the S-Flex (SFF21E maybe)? The price here in Finland is about the same as the P12s.

Buy S-FLEX: better bearing, good airflow and good pressure.

Danamics LM10 has been released today: http://danamics.com

Price is about €280 (about $360), not really cheap.

I want to bring to your attention the X-Spice Croon PSUs: http://www.x-spice.com/lang-en/produkte.html The CROON BF Series combines uncompromising performance and high efficiency with ultra silent operation. With up to 850 Watts and four independent 12V-power rails, the CROON BF handles even high en...

That's a very long thread, haven't had time to read all of it. Is it mainly the 1TB version that's giving the problems? 1 TB, 640 GB etc. yeah some of the bigger ones. Still... people are also complaining about some of WD's bigger drives in that very thread, as well. It seems you take your chances....

lechuck wrote: I suggest, that you do an estimate how much 'W' your componets will need, then you'll see if you need 500W PSU anyway.

Overclocked Intel Core i7, ATI HD 4850 (one day maybe Crossfire)

to be honest, I wouldn't trust any company that would rate a passive power supply for usage on a continuous basis at anything above about 450W. remember, even if the power supply is 80% efficient, at 500W DC output the heat output from the PSU is going to be >100W, even with solid caps the PSU is g...

Moon GT wrote: I've heard that about every single manufacturer.

Yeah, but the defective Spinpoint F1 units seems to be above the average of the defective units of other disks. Just read here: viewtopic.php?t=41140 but you can read things like these on many forums on the web.

And according to this it is also more silent than the Spinpoint F1: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14380/14 and uses less power.

I would take the WD Caviar Blue 750 GB instead. Any particular reason?? I chose the Spinpoint F1 because (a) I'm a subscriber to MaximumPC, and they've given it they're "Best-of-the-Best" status; and (b) SPCR has the F1 under its Recommended Hard Drives. The Spinpoint F1 has a "Mr. Hyde behaviour" ...

guises wrote:Well there's the Antec Phantom 500:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article241-page1.html

It does have a fan, but the fan only turns on if the PSU gets too hot.

Yeah, that's semi-passive but it is discontinued now.

I think so powerfull passive PSUs are useless. Why? If you need so much power, you'll have plenty of heat in PC, so you'll need many fans to take the heat out. I use passive PSU - an 300W Etasis model. My PC can run 100% passive only at idle where it uses about 70W (from wall). While gaming I need ...

zstadt wrote: HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1tb

I would take the WD Caviar Blue 750 GB instead.

I've found these: Silentmaxx Fanless 560 (German site: http://www.silentmaxx.de/produkte/leise-netzteile/luefterlose-netzteile/fanless-560w.html ), 560 W Tecnoware FANLESS 600 (Italian site: http://www.tecnoware.com/dettaglio.asp?idf=41&ids=16 ), 600 W Do you know other 500+ W completely passive PSUs?

I bought this disk (PATA version, 160 GB) to replace the disk of my laptop that failed ( ) and I think it is very silent.

There's a review on Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsu ... spx?i=3452

Available at 850 W, 950 W, 1050 W and 1250 W.

850 W page: http://www.enermax.com.tw/english/produ ... p?PrID=113

[...]

SILENT ready!
Ultra-quiet 13.5cm fan with intelligent RPM control guarantees cool performance and silent operation.

[...]

It would be an interesting review

I've also found this Lian-Li TR-5B: http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/pr ... dex=81&g=f

I don't know if it is good or not.

Unfortunately I need a "hardware" controlled fan controller, while I read the t-balancer is software controlled. If somebody knows a "hardware" controlled fan controller - with auto adjust - which is better than this NZXT Sentry LX, it would be a good catch (it's not so nice it does use 2 5.25'' bay...

A video of a Nanoxia under water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGe17F1qI6s (you can also find other videos like this on youtube).

Anybody make sense of that? From their website, Nanoxia seem like nice fans, but until their dB claims get verified by SPCR, I would be cautious before getting any. He's saying I should try to take a look at the forums of pcsilenzioso.it (it's a sort of Italian SPCR) because maybe there are some co...

osmium76 wrote:Prova a farti un giro sul forum di pc silenzioso, io non ho guardato ma ci dovrebbero essere rece comparative degli utenti. Io ho curato una rece velocissima di due Fractal Design.

Not everybody can speak Italian here

Now the site is www.nanoxia.net Technology: http://nanoxia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=11&Itemid=6&lang=en "Nano Technology Bearings", "Balanced rotors", "Makrolon® frames and blades" etc. Nanoxia seems to be very popular in Europe, somebody who is using these Nano...

4W per channel=bad Not true auto adjust (uses hard coded profile)=bad Has same view angle problem as Zalman MFC-2=bad Eats 2 bays and only gives 5 fan control = WTF were they thinking. All in all poor value for money and simply badly designed. What fan controller with auto adjust would you recommen...