Thermaltake Silent Pure Power 480

[GhandiInstinct]

I'm looking into buying this PSU for my A64 3500+, Neo2 Plat rig. Can anyone who has knowledge or experience on this PSU give some advice in regards to: Stability, reliability, compatability? Thanks.

 

[Demo24]

Iv got a 420w and its pretty nice. Its not really that loud unless your gonna have your ehad right next to it then it will probably be annoying. Seems pretty reliable to me.

 

[Lyfer]

I just bought one from zipzoomfly for my A64 3000+/Chaintech board/Radeon 9700. It works fine, rock stable voltage with no stability issues (knock on wood). I've had it for about a week now, its $56 shipped which I think is a great price. But for your budget (since your going socket 939), you should spend a little more for the Fortron FSP530W for $75 which has adjustable pots and a 120mm fan for extreme silence. The TT480 is pretty quiet too btw.

 

[stillkicking]

I've had one for several months now. It is with an Intel 3.0 Northwood, MSI Neo2-PFISR, 2 hard drives, 2 optical drives, 9600 Pro, Zalman CPU fan, and 6 case fans. As you know, this PS has an adjustable fan control. I keep mine at the lowest setting. The case fans make so much noise that anything else is buried in the background but I did disconnect all of them once just to see what the Thermatake sounded like. It was there but very quietly. If you turn the fun control up it begins to get noisy fairly fast.

The one big surprise was that the 12 v is higher than I expected. It reads a near constant 12.45. The 3.3 and the 5 are both just slightly over. All these numbers are within the 5% range that I have read are the limits you want to be within.

I've never had a PS go bad so all the horror stories I hear about mean little to me. The Thermaltake does its job and that's what I bought it for. I've no complaints. Mine was purchased from New Egg during one of their socalled sales. That knocked a couple of bucks off the price. I see Directron usually also has a decent price on this PS. Good luck with yours.

 

[GhandiInstinct]

Thx guys. But my budget isn't that high lol. My system is as follows:

TT Tsunami $125
Athlon 64 3500+ $350(when it gets back down, AMD is crazy to overcharge for $459 now)
Neo2 Plat $150
9800 Pro or X800XT Free(from friend)
Mouse/Keyboard $60
PSU TT 480 $55
Corsair 1GB 3200 $160
74GB Raptor $158 minus $20 rebate
Monitor - Dell 17" free I already had
Sound - Audigy Free(from friend)
DVD - Samsung 16x $29
CDRW - TDK 24x I already had

Total = ~ $1105 (not expensive at all lmfao)

 

[DragonFire]

Newegg was selling the 420W for $37.00

 

[GhandiInstinct]

But with these new high power required AGP cards coming out I think 420 won't be sufficient. Fast CPU and other peripherals make 480 a necessity for smooth running. Agree?

 

[stevty2889]

A qualitly 420W PSU should be pletnly sufficiant. I am still using my 350W enermax to run my rig. (2.8E @ 3.5Ghz, 1 Gig of PC4000 RDRAM, 2x36GB Raptors, DVD burner, and 6800 GT.)

 

[whattaguy]

I have a the 480 running

4 hard drives
P4 2.4 @ 2.66
2 Optical drives (CDRW, DVDRW)
1 Floppy
1 IDE controller card
3 sound cards
Zalman CPU heatsink
2 Case fans
1 usb hub
ATI 9800 pro

It's been stable for about 8 months...no crashes.

 

[GhandiInstinct]

Yea but the 480 comes with an SATA power connector the 420 doesn't

 

[DeeSlanger]

The 420 and 480 both have 18A on the 12 volt....

 

[Goi]

Who makes Thermaltake PSUs? I don't think they're that bad, but perhaps just not up to Enermax/Antec/Sparkle/Fortron quality.