A new PSU

Does no one do comparitive testing for noise at all, really frustrating as I've always bought PSU's that generally are said to be quiet, but never end up being so.

JonnyGuru frustratingly really doesn't go into detail about noise, nor seems to keep an up to date list of what he considers the best psu's in a given range so impossible to really say from his reviews what the quietest/best choices are at the moment.

The Antec Truepower he says is "whiny" but compared to what, and at what loads he doesn't go into.

£86 for a 750W Antec, or £130 for a very similar Seasonic one that may or may not be quieter.

For all the effort he puts into PSU reviews, a £30 decibel tester so you get the same lab, with the same psu testing machine with comparable results would give pretty definitive results.

Specs wise the Coolermaster silent pro gold suggests its excellent and quiet but he reckons its quite loud, but 1db louder than the quietest psu, or 10db, I have no clue, seeing as the 1000W silent pro gold is a great price. I have no clue what PSU to get at all.
 
I dont hear my PSU over the low noise of an H50 cooler and 2 Noctua P12s

If its louder then i'll not be happy and probably sell the Antec on
 
the Antec TruePower New Modular series are supossed to be very quiet. At least my 650w version is. I cannot hear it, not even when i shut down all my cpu and case fans and leave the cpu on passive cooling. The only thing I hear is my gtx 460 which is famoues for being a very quiet gpu, especially on idle
 
SeeknDestroy said:
the Antec TruePower New Modular series are supossed to be very quiet. At least my 650w version is. I cannot hear it, not even when i shut down all my cpu and case fans and leave the cpu on passive cooling. The only thing I hear is my gtx 460 which is famoues for being a very quiet gpu, especially on idle
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Thanks, the more I read/hear I do keep hearing good things about the Antec but, its just so frustrating, JonnyGuru is supposed to be one of "the" sites because they test "properly" yet ignore noise testing entirely. Likewise every PSU no matter how far back you go seems to get a 8 or a 9, if they highlight bad things about it or not and because theres PSU's from 3-4 years ago with 9's vs new psu's with 9's, and he/they won't make a comparison or even hint at what they really would recommend, its worthless.

I mean the end of all the recent reviews just says, this is X price and mentions 3-4 others at a similar price, yet won't actually say "this is $20 more, its well worth it, best PSU out there", or "the Corsair is $30 more, this is rubbish compared to it".

Then the fact that while they test "properly" they still don't test in a real live actual computer and say, this had the best everything on the bench, but that translated to exactly 0Mhz extra stable overclocking, etc, etc.

The coolermaster silent pro gold, specs wise looks immense, 92% efficiency, designed to be silent, 1000W for £110, 5 year warranty, then their review mentions it might get loud at higher load.

Then you have this, capacitors lose maybe 10% of their effective capacity every year. So a 1000W psu will only be good for 700-800W in a few years.

Theres really no clear advice on psu review sites which way to go, and despite them bagging on a couple things in the review it still gets a very high score and recommended in other reviews.

The Seasonic looks like everyone thinks its the best thing since sliced bread, but in the UK its like £120 for a 750W, but supposedly the fan doesn't turn on below 20% load at all. Will the £120 pay off and I get a silent psu that stays at 750W for a decade, or will the £110 be the best value money I ever spend, or are they no better than a £86 Antec. There isn't a review out there that will give me the slightest clue.

Having just got a case that was well reviewed, but arrived faulty(power button will not work at all) and I really hated installing into and using and is far too small in areas, I'm just so fed up with buying the wrong thing off half arsed reviews.
 
Sorry to hijack thread a little, but saves me starting a new one on a similar topic!

Having trouble with my pc and the only component I haven't changed is the PSU. I don't plan on keeping the pc for much longer, but the pc crashing/not turning on at times is really starting to bug me.

What are the OcUK PSU's like for a stop gap??
 
for a stop gap you can get dirt cheap PSUs. My first and second pcs had a case that came with a psu for £25! Both never had any problems but then the hardware was hardly demanding back then (matrox mystique 220 then voodoo 2, 1 hard drive and a cd drive)
 
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