Silverstone ST30NF 300W Silent PSU reviewed

VL writes "Silence is golden as they say, but in Silverstone's case, it's, uh, silver. Will this silent PSU bring it, or will enthusiasts continue to be plagued with noisy PSUs? 'Initially I had some reservations of how a 300W PSU would handle our test system in real-world testing. Needless to say the Silverstone ST30NF 300W PSU got the job done efficiently and quietly, or should I say silently. It doesn't come cheap, ringing in at close to $150, but that's the price you pay for a high quality PSU that does not make any noise at all.'"

Comments

300W?

[kraiger]

Is this even applicable with high end systems today? I personally run a CPU at 3.5GHZ, have an ATI 9800XT, a DVD burner, a DVD player, multiple HDDs, etc. I just can't see a 300W power supply working for that type of application. Maybe for a low end system, but at that point you're not going to pay 150 bucks for a PSU in a low end system.

Needless to say?

[Radak]

Needless to say the Silverstone ST30NF 300W PSU got the job done efficiently and quietly...

Needless to say? Then why did you write a review about it? Or were you just padding your remarks with random babble to bring the word count up and to try to make yourself sound smart and competent?

Please, leave the verbiage to people who know how to do it, and just get right to the point.

Faulty review

[DaCool42]

This is not a very good review. They did not make any useful measurements of the supply, nor did they even crack it open to see if it's well designed.

For some reason they used an actual computer as a load. That is going to result in an inconsistant load and useless results.

They claim to have measured "power" with a simple DMM. You cannot measure AC power this way. What they probably measured was apparant power. This doesn't take into account inductive or capacitive loads.

The voltage table is useless because the amount of load is unknown and inconsistent between tests.

There is no measurement of electrical noise on the output - which is the only problem I have ever had with PC PSUs (besides outright failures).

Basically their only real conclusion as "all of the power supplies worked".