Silverstone ST40NF, 400W, Fanless, 80Plus Bronze, dual PCIe

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:37 am

Silverstone finally have an 80plus certified fanless PSU.
The combined 12V rail is only 324W but apart from that it sounds impressive.

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/ ... F&area=usa

kike_1974 · Post by **kike_1974** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:22 am

The ST45NF is a very similar power supply, with 50W more. It may not have the 80plus certification, but looking at the results in the reviews (for example this one at spcr), it meets the requirements for it.

I wonder why silverstone has launched this ST40NF when they already have the ST45NF for a similar price...

SST Guy · Post by **SST Guy** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:43 pm

Actually the ST45NF was certified as 80 PLUS Bronze PSU before the ST40NF and the price for ST40NF will be closer to ST30NF than to ST45NF.

Here is the link to all of our 80 PLUS certified PSUs:

http://www.80plus.org/manu/psu/psu_deta ... =62&type=2

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:10 pm

SST Guy wrote:Actually the ST45NF was certified as 80 PLUS Bronze PSU before the ST40NF

Thanks. I realised this just after starting this thread.

SST Guy wrote:the price for ST40NF will be closer to ST30NF than to ST45NF.

In the UK there arenâ€™t many stockists and Scan are probably the biggest vendor with the 40 and 45 being priced only Â£3 apart with the 30 Â£22 less than the 40. They have had occasional offers for the 30 as low as Â£86 in the last 4 months.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-38-165-0

SST Guy · Post by **SST Guy** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:21 pm

Hmm... I was not aware of Scan's prices. They seem to have priced ST40NF higher and ST45NF lower than our recommended retail prices.

rpsgc · Post by **rpsgc** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:56 am

I have the best price ever here, 0 â‚¬

No really, there just aren't any

Retailers are more worried in buying cheap and crappy or still crappy but overpriced 1000W PSUs than fanless ones.

kike_1974 · Post by **kike_1974** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:47 pm

Here in Spain I've found only two places where I can buy either the ST40NF or the ST45NF (and could not find both in the same shop), and the price is nearly the same for both PSUs, around 160â‚¬. Of course, with such a small number of shops to compare, it is hard to tell he real difference... But it is the only possibility here

Fanless PSUs are not quite popular, so the problem is that not many retailers offer them. And recommending someone a 400W PSU for 160â‚¬ in Spain, is something complicated... I know only two people in Spain who would buy such PSU, and one of them is myself

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