Help me decide - 400W SUper Silencer or Tornado

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CoolColJ
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Help me decide - 400W SUper Silencer or Tornado

Post by CoolColJ » Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:58 am

Should I get a Seasonic 400W Super Silencer now

or wait till the 400W Seasonic Tornado is out?



I'm building a new quiet, but powerful system, and it would be nice to have it ready for Half Life 2 :)

Not sure what case I'm going to get but right now it's between one of the New Antecs, Sonata or GMC Trinity/Neo
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Post by Ralf Hutter » Fri Sep 19, 2003 4:31 am

I've got the 400W SS right now and it's awfully darn quiet. You'd have to have a mighty quiet system to be able to hear the difference between that and the few dB quieter Tornado. Is there another advantage to the Tornado? The airflow from the 120mm fan maybe?

Of course HL2 won't be out too soon so you could always afford to wait a bit for the Tornado.
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Post by CoolColJ » Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:43 pm

Well the only difference between the Tonado and SS I can see, is the fact the 120mm on the Tornado is mounted inside the case, and at full speed moves 60+cfm vs the 30+ cfm of SS. The sound DB is about the same for both at full speed too.

So thinking between the lines, the Tornado needs more CFM since it has smaller heat sinks than the SS, but this means that as an extra bonus the Tornado would act as a nice air mover for the whole case as well :)

Well I'm just making an educated guess, comparing the 400W SS to the 300w Tornado. The 400W Tornado may well be noisier and thus be more or less be in line with the 400W SS, but with more air flow.

I guess you are right, there isn't much difference either way, except the bonus case airflow :D

Hmmmm
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Post by engseng » Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:37 pm

Very good....Now if only I can find the Seasonic PSUs in Malaysia...
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Post by Zhentar » Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:03 am

Actually, HL2 is supposed to be released the 30th.
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Post by moshen » Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:41 am

its delayed until christmas zhentar :(

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/28497/
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Post by Zhentar » Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:32 am

Yeah I know. A company not releasing software by the intended release date? Thats a new one :roll:
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Post by joesgarage11 » Sat Sep 27, 2003 4:39 am

its delayed until christmas zhentar
The bad news: I have to wait another few months for HL2. :cry:
The good news: I have some more time to upgrade my computer.

Remember when a 1.4Ghz Athlon and GeForce 2 was a killer gaming rig? :wink:
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Post by Zhentar » Sat Sep 27, 2003 8:21 am

I remember when a Pentium Pro 200 was badass....

I'd like to go back to that time you speak of, then my computer would actually be pretty impressive!
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Post by engseng » Mon Sep 29, 2003 12:50 am

Anyone knows when does the 350W or 400W Super Tornado comes out?
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Post by deeseeel » Tue Sep 30, 2003 3:58 pm

I was told by a Seasonic representative at Computex that they would appear in the US market next month (October). He left me with the impression that they were already out in Asia, but I may be wrong about that.
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Re: Help me decide - 400W SUper Silencer or Tornado

Post by jerryk » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:56 am

CoolColJ wrote:Should I get a Seasonic 400W Super Silencer now

or wait till the 400W Seasonic Tornado is out?
If you can wait you might want to, but the Super Silencer is pretty darn quiet. After I installed one in my system the Panaflows became the noisest fans in the box.

jerry
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Post by Putz » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:30 pm

Bump, because Half-Life 2 still isn't out :roll:
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Post by CoolColJ » Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:24 am

:? :x :cry:
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Post by burcakb » Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:53 am

At the rate Valve is going, you'll go through two more rigs before HL2 :)
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Post by CoolColJ » Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:11 am

Well at least I have a blissful quiet system now :)

Antec sonata, original PSU with Panaflo Mspeed fan swap.
3.2 gighertz overclocked and quiet!

Just need to upgrade my videocard , and it will be fine. But since I have a Zalman heatpipe on my Radeon 9800, it maybe a while before I upgrade
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