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

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

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[hvatum]

The topic of silent power production has been an important one to the computer community recently.

Yes, the topic of silent power production has been an important one to the computer community recently. Right alongside in-home cold fusion and perpetual motion machines. Oh wait, did you mean silent power conversion?

There was a story about power supplies earlier

[ReformedExCon]

I remember that the story was discussing how the advertised wattages of these power supplies were pretty much lies or gross exaggerations. So we're talking about 500W of power without cooling, but how much power can be drawn until the thing dies from heat exhaustion? And can the 500W output be sustained for extended lengths of time?

Also, does anyone find really strange that slashdot would put the CSS definition files in the images.slashdot.org domain? One computer I use shows Slashdot completely stripped down. This one shows it "normally". Any way to get rid of advertisements and images without losing the formatting as well?

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.

I WANT a loud power supply

[dirtsurfer]

I live in an old apartment building with thin walls and I have very loud neighbors who work the late shift.

I want my power supply to be loud. I need as much white noise as I can get.

Slashvertisement?

[Anonymous Coward]

This powersupply looks nice but what is the news? The article even mentions that this is not antecs first silent power supply. There are also completely silent PSUs made by other companies with better efficiency than this.

Re:"silent"

[Cave_Monster]

This fan is off most of the time but when the insides heat up it will be turned on until the temperature is below the set limit. When running, the fan's speed will vary automatically based on how hot the PSU is, so even it is running it may barely be audible because the fan is spinning slowly.

So they have mostly eliminated the need for a fan by using some good heat dissipation methods. Though if you are running your PC for extended periods of time or your PC is tucked away under a desk somewhere where it doesn't get much air flow, I would expect the fan to be humming away as normal.

It is not silent

[Anonymous Coward]

It has a fan.

If that fan is moving, noise is generated.

Ergo it is not silent.

QED.

Hmmm

[yum]

Do you really need that much power?