Quiet Power for Silverstone LC-11 or LC-04 media PC case

idolclub · Post by **idolclub** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:35 am

The Silverstone LC-11 or LC-04 media PC case come with a 240W Power supply, it is a TFX PSU. But in this review:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article228-page5.html

This 240W TFX PSU is very noise, so I want to change to another quiet PSU, I find another Silverstone TFX 300W PSU for this case, in this link:

http://www.sundialmicro.com/silverstone ... 3_492.html

But I don't know this 300W PSU is quiet or noise, anyone has used this 300W TFX PSU or has any review about this PSU?

Thanks!

arrikhan · Post by **arrikhan** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:04 pm

idolclub wrote:The Silverstone LC-11 or LC-04 media PC case come with a 240W Power supply, it is a TFX PSU. But in this review:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article228-page5.html
This 240W TFX PSU is very noise, so I want to change to another quiet PSU, I find another Silverstone TFX 300W PSU for this case, in this link:
http://www.sundialmicro.com/silverstone ... 3_492.html
But I don't know this 300W PSU is quiet or noise, anyone has used this 300W TFX PSU or has any review about this PSU?

Thanks!

I've ordered the LC11m w/optional 300W PSU and dropping an AMD 64 3200+ in it. I'll be sure to let you know how noisy it is, but if you find a quieter solution, please inform us !

egghat · Post by **egghat** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:20 am

quote from the article: "PSU fan a bit too loud "

I have the LC 04 and I think exactly the same. It's *a bit* too loud, but not much.
I guess swapping the fan would help enough, but the fan is only 10mm thick and it's difficult to find an 80*80*10mm fan, especially if you're looking for a quiet one. I have a Zalman fan from their graphic card coolers, but haven't found time to install it.

Your mileage may vary, cause my system is rather cool (Low power mobile Sempron < 25 watts) and a passivly cooled graphic card and a notebook drive, so my system shouldn't consume more than 70 watts even under full load.

And I'm not sure if the PSU in the LC04 and the LC11 are the same.

Bye egghat.

idolclub · Post by **idolclub** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:41 am

I just replace the Power Supply from 240W to the Silverstone TFX 300W PSU.
http://www.sundialmicro.com/silverstone ... 3_492.html

This new 300W PSU is very very quiet. Before I can hear the PSU FAN noise @ 5M, but now I can't hear any PSU FAN noise @ 1M, so this 300W PSU is a quietest PSU. Now I only can hear the noise is from the Seagate 400G S-ATA hard disk.

hmsrolst · Post by **hmsrolst** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:47 pm

Based on this thread, I bought one of these 300W PSU's for my LC-04. It's much quieter, and interestingly I think it runs a tiny bit cooler. I'd also strongly recommend this over the 240W version that came with my case. Many thanks!

arrikhan · Post by **arrikhan** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:17 pm

hmsrolst wrote:Based on this thread, I bought one of these 300W PSU's for my LC-04. It's much quieter, and interestingly I think it runs a tiny bit cooler. I'd also strongly recommend this over the 240W version that came with my case. Many thanks!

I agree, the 300W PSU I have finally received in my LC11M is quiet-ish. I've turned down (thinking of turning off the CPNS7000B alcu fan) to the lowest voltage with the fanmate2 (whilst leaving c'n'q do its job), and the same with the case side case fan in the box. I can just hear the PSU fan and am looking into slowing it down with a minor modification.

NOTE: just hear = VERY quiet moment in a movie.

There is no HD in this beasty (using i-RAM) so the fans are the only things I could hear.

Arrikhan

Ol · Post by Ol » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:20 am

This seems...odd.

Presumably the PSU linked to, here is the same as the 300w you can get bundled with the case...which I got, but the PSU I got is hardly quiet. I can easily hear it the full length of the room, about 8m, even over the fairly high levels of background noise.

Did I just get unlucky and have a noisy sample? I have a UK 240v version, does anyone with a quiet one have european or american? 240v/110v?

Any advice on making this beast quieter welcomed..

hmsrolst · Post by **hmsrolst** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:08 am

Mine is American purchased at Sundial Micro. It's marked 110-240. I could hear it sitting next to the PC is, but certainly not from across a room. I didn't use it long, because the PICO with external brick became available, and it's silent!

arrikhan · Post by **arrikhan** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:13 pm

Ol wrote:Did I just get unlucky and have a noisy sample? I have a UK 240v version, does anyone with a quiet one have european or american? 240v/110v?

Any advice on making this beast quieter welcomed..

Did you upgrade the PSU yourself or buy the LC11 already supplied with the 300W? I'm running on 240V (Aust) and bought w/300W already installed and can check labelling if you want me to.

Arrikhan

Ol · Post by Ol » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:04 am

arrikhan wrote:
Ol wrote:Did I just get unlucky and have a noisy sample? I have a UK 240v version, does anyone with a quiet one have european or american? 240v/110v?

Any advice on making this beast quieter welcomed..
Did you upgrade the PSU yourself or buy the LC11 already supplied with the 300W? I'm running on 240V (Aust) and bought w/300W already installed and can check labelling if you want me to.

Arrikhan

I bought the LC11M supplied with the 300w psu installed, are there any easy-to-see labels on yours? When I looked all I could see was a label on the smaller fan, probably not worth going to much trouble to find a label.

Cheers,

-ol

pelago · Post by **pelago** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:26 am

Now I'm confused.

I thought that the 300W would be louder than the 240W, because the 300W has a 40mm and an 80mm fan, while the 240W has just the 80mm fan. But people above are saying the 240W is louder than the 300W. Which is it?

Is there more than one 240W PSU and more than one 300W PSU for the LC-04/LC-11?

nutball · Post by **nutball** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:20 am

EDIT: eep, didn't see the age of this thead!

pelago · Post by **pelago** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:56 pm

Sorry for the bump, but I really need to know before I buy an LC-04 - which should I get for the quietest PSU, the 240W or the 300W?

borrible · Post by **borrible** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:43 am

pelago wrote:Sorry for the bump, but I really need to know before I buy an LC-04 - which should I get for the quietest PSU, the 240W or the 300W?

Well I tried both, the 300 Watt psu originally delivered with my LC11 case and a replacment 240W.
The 300W was extremly noisy, unbearable, really. When I tried to replace the fans (one small 40mm at the back, and a 60 or 70x10mm inside)
I destroyed the PSU in the process. For replacment I ordered the 240watt, which has no fan at the back, only a 80x10mm fan (i think).

Much better! You can barely hear it.. I'm really happy with the 240W version!

Cheers

phil

hmsrolst · Post by **hmsrolst** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:28 am

My 300W has only a single fan, but it may be that the design has changed. As I said in my earlier post, it was a lot quieter than the 240, although not quiet enough. I switched to a PICO and, of course, it's silent.

arrikhan · Post by **arrikhan** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:33 pm

hmsrolst wrote:My 300W has only a single fan, but it may be that the design has changed. As I said in my earlier post, it was a lot quieter than the 240, although not quiet enough. I switched to a PICO and, of course, it's silent.

A PICO??? Can you elaborate?

Arrikhan

hmsrolst · Post by **hmsrolst** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:58 pm

I have a low power Pentium M system and I use one of these with the 80W:

http://www.short-circuit.com/categories/pscombos.html

There are quite a few threads on the forum that you can locate by searching on "pico." Here's a recent one:

viewtopic.php?t=37157&highlight=pico

pelago · Post by **pelago** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:35 am

hmsrolst wrote:My 300W has only a single fan, but it may be that the design has changed. As I said in my earlier post, it was a lot quieter than the 240, although not quiet enough.

It sounds like there must be two different versions of the 300W PSU (and maybe two different versions of the 240W PSU too), which would explain the different experiences people have had. Oh well, I've already ordered the 240W version of the LC04 anyway, so we'll see how quiet it is.

borrible · Post by **borrible** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:42 am

Good luck then! Hopefully you'll get the quiet version as I did. And if its not, it shouldn't be too hard to change the fan.

pelago · Post by **pelago** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:46 am

Are there any identifiable model numbers on the PSUs for these cases? If there are indeed two different 300W PSUs and two different 240W PSUs, hopefully we can distinguish between them by model number, not just how different people experience noise.

borrible · Post by **borrible** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:48 am

I'll check the information on my 240W tonight and post it here.

borrible · Post by **borrible** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:44 am

pelago · Post by **pelago** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:41 am

Thanks, so that's the quiet 240W one, right? Do you still have the loud 300W one that you destroyed, to post labels from?

What about hmsrolst or any other owners?

borrible · Post by **borrible** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:19 am

pelago wrote:Thanks, so that's the quiet 240W one, right? Do you still have the loud 300W one that you destroyed, to post labels from?

What about hmsrolst or any other owners?

Yes, thats the quiet one. Unfortunately I threw the 300W away...

pelago · Post by **pelago** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:19 am

I've just got my case and my 240W PSU is the same model ENP-2224B as borrible's, and it seems nice and quiet to me, hurrah. I notice that it also has a couple of SATA power connectors, unlike the PSU supplied at the time of the original SPCR review.

pelago · Post by **pelago** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:26 pm

pelago wrote:I've just got my case and my 240W PSU is the same model ENP-2224B as borrible's, and it seems nice and quiet to me, hurrah. I notice that it also has a couple of SATA power connectors, unlike the PSU supplied at the time of the original SPCR review.

I may have spoken a bit too soon. The fan in my Silverstone ENP-2224B is making a bit of an annoying noise. It's a sort of rattling noise, which sounds a little like HDD seek noise. (No, it's not my HDD! I've tested it with the HDD unplugged, and the noise stops if I stop the PSU fan moving with my finger).

It's an 80x80x15mm fan inside, an ADDA AD0812MB-D70. Has anyone successfully changed the fan in one of these PSUs, and/or know of any quiet 80x15mm fans?

nutball · Post by **nutball** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:30 pm

I bought one of the NMB 80x15mm's from Dorothy (http://www.dorothybradbury.co.uk). It's ... OK, not silent like a Nexus 80mm by any means, but it's a bit quieter than the stock fan. You'll need to use a fan controller or 5V trick to quiet it down from stock speed. I've got mine on a Fan-Mate. It's certainly audible in my bedroom where my LC-04 is, though it's not what I'd call intrusive (it doesn't stop me sleeping at all)

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