What's the World's Quietest PSU for Desktop PC?

[Zap]

Originally Posted by zephyrprime

They should make a power supply with the heatsink hanging outside of the power supply itself.

They do exist. I think I have one in my garage.

Trivia: [BFG Tech] was working on one, but going out of business put a damper on things.

Originally Posted by cheez

I went in the BIOS and enabled the Q-Fan Control for CPU and set the fan profile to "Silent". It was running at 2750 rpm. But after the BIOS change it's silent.

Aaaaand you found the #1 reason why everyone in enthusiast forums think the stock coolers are noisy. Yes, some can be, but most of the recent Intel units can be quite quiet with a fan profile enabled. Doesn't even have to be the "silent" profile either, but just has to be something that doesn't run it at 100% all the time.

[cheez]

Originally Posted by Zap

Aaaaand you found the #1 reason why everyone in enthusiast forums think the stock coolers are noisy. Yes, some can be, but most of the recent Intel units can be quite quiet with a fan profile enabled. Doesn't even have to be the "silent" profile either, but just has to be something that doesn't run it at 100% all the time.

It was noisy for me anything other than "Silent" profile. My mommyboard is Asus P5B Deluxe with BIOS year 2006.

I was shocked how loud the stock fan runs. It's a freakin hair dryer....

I was close to getting myself a DIY watercooling/chilling setup because of this mess but glad I found out that all I needed is some BIOS setting and change out the fan for $15.


cheez