SPCR

I'm looking for a cheap, silent psu. I have an older version of the thermaltake purepower 420, and it's killing me. The best choice seems to be the nexus value 430, but I found these chieftecs at a really low price (~50$). I cannot post a link, but you'll find them on the chieftec website. They have 140mm fans, the more expensive ones have cable managment, too, but I'd stick with a cheaper model. I think they're made by delta, which is good, as far as I know.
I have a chieftec case, which Is great, like most of the chieftecs I've seen and tried (except for the stupid HDD cage design...), so I'm expecting that the psu will be of the same (good) quality.

Please help,
Akos.

I went into a store, they had one on stock, the price was really attractive, it looked ok, and I thought, what the hell... I could return it if it sucked. And it doesn't. It makes my two nexus realsilent fans seem loud in comparison. SPCR should really test this... It's cheaper than the nexus value, and has more juice. And it seems almost inaudible to me (but I don't know if my standards are high or not ). It has no bling, but who cares... This really could be a winner for budget silent pcs.

What is the exact model you got?

I did recently bought Chieftec Green Angel 300W (CTP-300-12G) as found a favourable review by German SilentHardware site, but perhaps I should have took the warning in the review about short cables more seriously since it seems impossible to use this in Antec NSK2400.

mine is aps-500s, the green stuff is probably the series with the green fans. mine is this: http://www.chieftec.com/APS135.html they have both modular, and regular versions. I have the cheap regular version (400w and similar are even 10-20% cheaper)
I have a chieftec bg-01-b case. got it for ~24$ second hand. the new one is bundled with a 350w psu - I didn't get that, don't know how good that is. The case is pretty tall, i didn't have any cable problems, except for the 4 pin cable that's required for intel cpu's, that one has a 6pin connector too (looks like the one for graphics cards, but I'm not sure if it's the same thing, I'll look into it...), and that's hanging halfway between the connector on the mobo, and the psu. I have a regular atx board.
After like 6 hours of use, I have to say I just LOVE this psu. I don't know too much about voltages and stuff like this, but it's silent as hell... it should be... it's 500w, and my system (e5200, 9600gt OC'd, one hdd, one dvdrw, few fans, wifi, few usb stuff, p45 mobo) hardly draws 170 in idle, but I couldn't hear a difference at 100% gpu&cpu load either.

I couldn't find ANY reviews on the net about these psu (the one I've got), so it must be something new. Anyway, if the admin reads this, SPCR should test one of these. Mine rocks my socks and it's cheap. And my card didn't crash a single time since I got it (I had a crash or two a day, nothing serious, no rebooting, just the application crash, and win7 driver error message)

edit: I'll post some pics of my system, once I've installed a new cpu cooler. If I'd show you the DIY horror I have right now, someone will probaly kill me. The cabling seems long enough for me, even for larger cases.

It's a Sirtec. It's decent.