SilenX Fans and PSUs

[psoucaco13]

Hello,

I recently came upon the SilenX Fans and PSUs (www.silenx.com). Is anybody using them? Any comments?

There are not many reviews from well established places (anandtech, toms,...), so I was wondering if they are worth it.

Isn't strange that they only sell them from their website and from only 3 other sites?


Thanks

 

[camara120]

I just ordered a silenx power supply and fan

my roommate has one and you can barely hear it unless you get your ear right next to it

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: camara120
I just ordered a silenx power supply and fan

my roommate has one and you can barely hear it unless you get your ear right next to it

What are his temps?

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: camara120
I just ordered a silenx power supply and fan

my roommate has one and you can barely hear it unless you get your ear right next to it

What are his temps?

Doesn't matter as long as his computer is stable. Temperatures are relative. My P4C 3ghz loads @ around 73 or 74C.

 

[Bar81]

Incredible PSUs. The only fanned PSUs that are actually silent (and yes, I've tried all the rest - Zalman, Seasonic, Nexus, etc) You simply won't find a better PSU out there if you value silence. I couldn't be happier with the performance as well as acoustics.

 

[NotSoSimple]

Nebor: 74*C! Please tell me your on air w/ overclocking.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: camara120
I just ordered a silenx power supply and fan

my roommate has one and you can barely hear it unless you get your ear right next to it

What are his temps?

Doesn't matter as long as his computer is stable. Temperatures are relative. My P4C 3ghz loads @ around 73 or 74C.

Stable for how long is the question. Running at a higher temp should, logically, reduce the lifespan of the components, but I could be way off. Also, stable today might not be stable this Summer or when you get some dust on your fans and heatsink and temps start to climb or when you introduce a hot new component like a hard drive or new vid card.

Also, those SilenX PSUs don't come with SATA power connectors which cost extra. Personally, I'd buy a Fortron and swap out the fan and add a rheo or fanmate.

 

[psoucaco13]

Could someone who is using this PSU let us know what temp they have?

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: psoucaco13
Could someone that is using this PSU what temp they have?

It's not the temp of the PSU I'd be worried about. I invested some cash in some expensive Nexus fans and, man, are they quiet even at 12V...but they don't push much air either. A Zalman ZM-2F at 6V pushes the same amount of air is almost as quiet and costs 1/3. Luckily I have a SLK3700-BQE with dual 120mm fans to make sure the heat from what little cooling the CPU gets is promptly evacuated, but I wouldn't use quiet fans on a case unless it had multiple 80mm intake and outlet fans or had 120mm fans...it'll turn into a toaster.

 

[DaveSimmons]

www.SilentPCReview.com is actually better at noise / temperature reviews than Toms and AnandTech, since that's their focus. The forums there also have some technically savvy quiet freaks.

 

[Shyatic]

I use their case fans... you can sit right next to them and they are dead silent. Best 80mm fans out there, and cheap too!

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: camara120
I just ordered a silenx power supply and fan

my roommate has one and you can barely hear it unless you get your ear right next to it

What are his temps?

Doesn't matter as long as his computer is stable. Temperatures are relative. My P4C 3ghz loads @ around 73 or 74C.

Stable for how long is the question. Running at a higher temp should, logically, reduce the lifespan of the components, but I could be way off. Also, stable today might not be stable this Summer or when you get some dust on your fans and heatsink and temps start to climb or when you introduce a hot new component like a hard drive or new vid card.

Also, those SilenX PSUs don't come with SATA power connectors which cost extra. Personally, I'd buy a Fortron and swap out the fan and add a rheo or fanmate.

Sure, the lifespan may be reduced, but this thing will be replaced within a year or two anyways. I don't have to worry about dust, since my case is dustproof (filters + pressure), and it's certainly not going to get any hotter, with 2 hard drives and an r9800 pro.

My CPU isn't really that hot, that was my point. It's just a temperature that my motherboard likes to tell me. My board reads about 10-15C higher than reality. Temperatures don't mean anything. As long as your system is stable, then it's fine. If you're measuring with some sort of external temperature device, as I did to find out my temps read way high, then your temps have a little bit more relevance.

I was really baffled when my processor was reading 74c, and I reached in and felt the chunk of copper right next to the socket, to find it was a little warm, not hot at all.

BTW, my system is near silent. I swapped a panaflo l1a into my Zalman 400w PS and control the panaflo with a fan controller, which I keep at about 7v. Sure, it might cook my power supply a little early, but again, it'll be replaced in one or two years, and it was only $100.

 

[NervousNovice]

The SilenX fan itself is NOT really that quiet. I've pluged that fan directly into the 12v rail, it was no quieter than the Antect Sonata's rear case fan (at 12v) that I had.

HOWEVER, when you purchase that SilenX fan, it comes with a connector between the fan and the 3-pin output. What is it? It's a resistor! How good is the resistor? Not really that good.

The noise level you get from using that connector at 12v is higher than removing that connecter while using your fan at 5v only. (The latter is what I'm doing now)

So the fan itself is not really that quiet. It's the extra transistor that makes it quiet. If you want really quiet thing, throw away that transistor and use the fan directly with 5v. (It is the voltage, not the fan that matters. And you ask: why buy SilenX then?)

P.S. If you use both the resistor and at 5v source, the fan wont' move.

And YES, at 5v, you just can't hear it. (And hence the Zalman PSU is the loudest thingy inside my pc now.)