One of the best group regulated psus made out there. Definitely a budget psu, but top of the line budget. I'd say a recommend for almost all builds except I don't know the actual noise levels.

Well, considering the price, i don't see a point of buying this vs the X-650. Take a look - US$139, that is $165 with 19% VAT (the typical VAT in Europe), converted to € it is 128 euros. Add a profit for the seller to that and we are at 135-140€ range. Seasonic X-650 is 130€. So unless you ha...

This is an amazing psu and also great review Mike! I really like how the OTP was able to protect the psu from dying in extreme conditions. I feel like a lot of the psus out there list protections, but don't actually provide many of them. I'm going to strongly consider an X-560/660 for my next pc bui...

I'm most likely going with the pc-q08 myself for my nas system. I already have a quiet unused psu I can put into the case so it's all set to be done later. It is a little big, but size helps when you're trying to keep a machine quiet also.

Also the chenbro is 2X70mm, not 80mm, which is even worse.

i heard supermicro is planning a few cases with platinum psu's; but i haven't heard anything about planned release dates yet... though they still list their 1400w gold level case/psu combos as coming soon, and they've been on the market for months... dont know how much credence to actually give any...

I was kind of expecting this after 80plus gold became kind of routine for many psu makers and they put out a 220v version of platinum. Interesting efficiency numbers selected for 80plus platinum at 90-92-89% efficiency for the 20-50-100 range respectively. So it's not quite 90plus. ;) Maybe they'll ...

Erm, just wondering, but why get a low 65% efficiency unreliable psu over something a bit more expensive, but far far better?

Try this MB if you're thinking about the chenbro ! Supermicro X7SPA-H-O Atom D510/ Intel ICH9R/ RAID/ V&2GbE/ Mini-ITX Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182233&Tpk=Supermicro%20X7SPA-H-O Whoa whoa, $195 for an atom?? At that point it's far more worth it to go H55 ...

I'm surprised anyone actually pronounces it with one syllable. That's like pronouncing Nike like Mike. Lol I just noticed your username. We have a spathi on board who likes silence! That totally makes sense because that means you aren't hearing scary aliens invading you...only ones sneaking up on y...

Definitely beating a more than dead horse at this point. Agree to disagree time I think and it's clear the OP didn't know what he was getting at the time and had some issues, but there's nothing conclusive about anything here regarding the board outside of 1156 limitations.

If it's still in the warranty period, just RMA it. Also imho, it's better to just design a system that will still be at a safe temp even if one fan goes down. Even my cpu could easily do fanless in my current system without an issue. Then if you do lose a fan, just replace it when possible without a...

Turn off the caps. :p
It's probably the fan wasn't spinning. Some fans don't spin up when the voltage is too low and if you have warnings on, it'll complain about a lack of fan. You probably want to just open the case and verify that the fan wasn't spinning when the error came on.

No one notice the build design quirks and hints? Doesn't it look like it's made by Lian Li somehow? Materials and design solutions etc? It quite simply screams like a cheaper Lian Li. I quite surely would bet that Fractal is ordering this from Lian Li factories to be made. There is even a "Made in ...

IMO, a server case should allow easily changing a single failed HD. That looks tedious in this case. *sigh* That's another consideration and one reason I got interested with the Chenbro ES34069 in the first place. Only problem is the Chenbro looks like it'll require more serious modding for a spcr ...

Umm... Array: 230x223x350mm Q-08: 279x333x407mm The Array is a little narrower, a lot shorter, and a little less deep. If you were installing your PC parts in the PC-Q08's packaging box, sure. Actual case dimensions for the PC-Q08: (W) 227mm x (H) 272mm x (D) 345mm D'oh! Whoops. Lol thanks for repl...

Figures that there's growing pains. New chipsets and form factors always seem to have some nagging issues. I think waiting for a fixed bios and maybe a board revision or two would definitely be a good idea.

Hmm, for a moment I thought this was actually a lot smaller than the Lian Li PC-Q08, but it's actually slightly wider, slightly deeper, and moderately shorter. I guess the main difference in the cases is the accidental space for an optical drive which also adds space for a full size psu. It looks li...

This is my #1 choice for sff board right now unless some other mobo makers comes out with something that tops it in the mini-itx h5x arena. Intel's H57 is obviously pointless with no voltage controls. It's also nice to have integrated wifi 802.11n if needed. I want to pair it with the Lian Li Q08 cu...

I ended up picking up a couple Hitachi 7k1000.C 2 platter drives just to see how they were and return if needed. Unfortunately I lack tools to do any measurements so I only have some subjective thoughts. When comparing the drive against a Seagate 7200.11 3 platter 1TB without changing aam settings: ...

I am actually really interested in this case now. The 6 3.5" drive bays make this an almost perfect raid case. The only minor negative is a lack of hot swap, but honestly that's not something I majorly care about. Also the Zotac H55 combined with this case is almost a match made in heaven. 6 Sata po...

I've been scared away from deskstars since the old ibm reliability problems. But it's obviously been long enough since that time period. There's been numerous deals for the 1TB hitachi recently, the only issue is a lack of good reviews regarding noise and performance. I'm highly interested in the 2 ...

Well firefox 3.6 is now in rc1 candidate. It seems very stable imho and should be final very soon. Also most extensions are now compatable with it.

I'm also extremely interested in ZFS with Opensolaris and iSCSI. I used the Linux "appliance" OpenFiler (basically a customised rPath build that can be ruin on bare metal or virtualised) to build a software RAID5 NAS box with iSCSI, NFS, RAID-1 CF cards on an IDE adapter for boot/system devices, RA...

I'm really looking forward to building a new high power + silent machine with some westmere variant on a native chipset with usb3 and sata3 combined with an SSD. It's certainly brought a new shift because of the huge random read and write benefits over magnetic storage, not to mention the advantage ...

Personally I'd say not insane at all. But I want to do the same thing. My goal is undervolted dual core westmere on a mini-itx board in a small boxy raid case with quad sata drives + ssd boot disk. I'm also extremely interested in ZFS with Opensolaris and iSCSI. That's really the paragon of software...

I'm under the impression that the PSU side of SATA isn't changing in any way that would affect cabling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA Ya I haven't heard a single comment about changing the psu connector. It makes sense since it's already pretty small and if anything, most sata devices are...

Hard OCP has first review. Thought it important enough to post this that I created account for first time after 3 years of reading SPCR but not allowed to post a link until get 3 posts on this board. Replace first two spaces with . and rest of spaces with / www hardocp com article 2009 09 25 season...

Hooray Seasonic made an announcement for availability of X-series. Looks very promising with the no fan mode and slow fan modes. Only concern is I can imagine such high efficiency parts are going to be expensive! Let's hope their tech will migrate around to their cheaper psus over time too.

Any new word on these new gold certified Seasonic PSUs? Or news on any 80 plus gold PSUs. There are dozens of them listed on the 80 plus site, but not a single one seems to actually exist. Not quite true. There are the OCZ Z-series psus that are gold. However they seem awol in serious psu reviews a...

Besides the semi-infamous Chenbro mini-itx server case, I have seen very little that's promising for a 4+ hard drive server that's in a small form factor. Has anyone seen a good server case for 4 hard drives in a mini-itx or micro-atx form factor that looks promising for silence? I really dislike th...