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Review of Silent 400w Power Supply
SnowPunk98 writes "OCModShop has done a review on a SilenX 400w 14 dBA PSU "The power supply doesn't boast any flashy designs or cool colors however that is not the purpose of this power supply. Silence is what the main goal of the unit is and there are tons of features to help achieve that.""
Until I turn it on.
400 watts, silent, and smoking!!
Now I'll be able to listen to my 5 case fans that sound like an Harrier hovering above my house! That stupid power supply fan was screwing everything up....
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The flashy colors make power supplies better - period.
The purpose of a power supply is not to be quiet - if that was the purpose I'd just make one that didn't work - the purpose is to provide electricity to the components in a computer. Duh.
The anti-salmon
...someone posts a power supply mod whereby they've hooked up 3 strings of flashing LEDs, a plexiglass window, and an air horn.
Their power supplies are really quiet too after a good slashdotting!
Some of us just can't sleep without the soothing turbine noise of a plethora of fans. Hope these things don't catch on, I'll be hooked on Ny-Quil within a week...
I've never _heard_ of this power supply! (get it?)
CB
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their website is pretty silent too!
A whisper? I have voices whispering to me all day long; it's pretty hard to ignore. "Get a rifle and climb up the water tower", or "Flick that lightswitch two more times", or "Get a load of the *** on her!", or "Time to reline your tinfoil hat". If my power supply were this annoying, I wouldn't get anything done around here at all...
If a computer is turned on in the forest, and no one is there to hear it,,, does it make a sound.??
Or
If the computer that isturned on in the forest crashes, will the squarles cuss out Windows and the Bears mawl on Bill Gates???
This Sig for rent.
Meanwhile somebody over at Ars Technica will brag about how he stepped it up to 412.5W, but needed a jet turbine cooling system to prevent it from melting the bezels on his PC case.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
"maybe it's like those people who drive obnoxious SUVs.. overcompensation."
your analogy is a bit flawed. people who drives SUV's have small penises. If you actually have a powerhouse machine (quad xeon i think would count) then it is very fitting for it to sound like it.
however if you had say a single processor celeron that had a 6x120mm fan array which swallowed passing rodents whole, then i would be forced to redefine you.
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
"My "#include " beer glasses from thinkgeek"
You, sir, are a true geek.
Your #include beer glass is almost as cool as my big chipped plastic mug with Apple printed on the side in the most horrible pink color ever seen.
If you are 100% positive that you will neither use all that stuff, nor re-sell the PC before it's obsolete, a pair of horizontal wire clippers can provide a very simple solution to your problem. :)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I bet CmdrTaco had some grudge aginst the site and just wanted to see it get slashdoted.
can you hear people breating from 3 feet
Well, I can definitely hear my wife snoring 1 foot away. Does that count?
Write boring code, not shiny code!
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As opposed to those darn Jedi metrics?
Karnal
I just read the link to the stealth advertising that you gave. I actually don't find this type of advertising objectionable. While it is slightly devious it is better than trying to con me into thinking that all women that drink Miller Lite beer have big boobs...
Thanks. My monitor is now covered in Dr. Pepper.