Silent 500W Power Supply

NightRyder writes "To cope with the increased power demands of today's processors and video cards a 500W silent power supply has been released by Antec. The topic of silent power production has been an important one to the computer community recently, especially concerning the increased hardware demands by new game and operating systems. Considering the processing demands of something like, *cough* Windows Vista, its important to be able to keep your computer cool without it getting loud."

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Direct link to Froogle with Price Sorted Low to Hi

[Work Account]

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Antec+Phantom+ 500+(PHANTOM+500)+500-Watt+Power+Supply&btnG=Searc h+Froogle&scoring=p

Buy the highest efficiency p/s with a 120mm fan

[Brian Stretch]

You're better off buying a high-efficiency power supply that has a 120mm thermistor-controlled fan. Seasonic's S12 500W is my current favorite. The 120mm fan is virtually silent at moderate loads and not too bad at higher loads. High efficiency means less waste heat for the fan to need to cool and lower electric bills.

Re:There was a story about power supplies earlier

[nametaken]

This newest incarnation of the Antec Phantom line has an 80mm variable speed fan. Its in the article.

Seasonic S12

[clarkie.mg]

Fully agree. The excellent (french) hardware site http://www.matbe.com/ has just tested yesterday the 600W version and it squashes the competition :

http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/250/seasonic-s1 2-600-watts-l--alim-parfaite/

Even if you can't read french, look at the figures especially the one concening the silence, it's almost as silent as a fanless yesico!

A better review

[alexo]

here

Hmmm

[yum]

Do you really need that much power?