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Thermaltake Silent PurePower 420W or COOLMAX 400W CX-400B?

Unfortunately, for reliability and quietness, I dont think any of the two choices will help you out. One of the PSUs that I have read about for silence and efficiency is the Seasonic Super Tornado 300W or 400W version. However, the 400W version may be outside of your price range as it hovers into the 90$ price point. I have the Antec TrueBlue480 and am thinking of buying the SuperTornado400W simply because it is quieter.

Hope this helps!
 
Yeah, those Seasonic's are ridiculously expensive. As for being reliable, I've never had an issue with ANY PSU being "unreliable"

So for me, it's a matter of being quiet and for a good price.
 
Hmm, perhaps take a look at teh SuperSilencer line of Seasonic. THey have an 80mm fan but its almost as quiet as teh Super Tornado and you get more watts for less price. Unfortunately, probably not at the 40$ range once again...

Ill give teh obligatory "www.silentpcreview.com" look at recommended PSUs for quietness. Perhaps you will find one that is in between the Antec and Seasonic that is at the 40-50$ price range.
 
If you wait until tomorrow, there is a $5 rebate on the coolmax and a $2 rebate on the thermaltake. At least thats what it says on their after thanksgiving day sale. I was planning on getting the coolmax myself.
 
Well I just went and got This One for 49 even shipped. It's Aspire, which no one really knows what to think of yet. They're fairly new, but the 500W version of this PSU (I got the 520) got pretty good reviews, and their Concord series of PSUs has been getting good reviews as well.

So far as I can tell, they just haven't been around long enough for anyone to make any long term judgements on em. Early feedback seems generally good though. Guess I'll throw myself on the testing pile...
 
The coolmax unit is going to be the quieter of the two, one 120mm with fan speed adjuster versus the TT's 2 80mm no manual fan speed adjustment. As far as better quality, I might have to give the edge to the TT based on the fact that it is exactly the same psu as the Enlight 420w from the design right down to the specs on the lable.

That said I ordered the Coolmax yesterday for the same reasons you mentioned quiet and a good price, also the reviews were decent. The TT/Enermax has those 2 80mm fans and I can't see how that can be very quiet. As far as it being able to power an nForce4 SLI setup in the future, I have no idea but that may be stretching it a bit.
 
Originally posted by: Jeraden
If you wait until tomorrow, there is a $5 rebate on the coolmax and a $2 rebate on the thermaltake. At least thats what it says on their after thanksgiving day sale. I was planning on getting the coolmax myself.
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I don't see the $5 rebate for the Coolmax
 
Yeah, me neither, says on the after-turkey day deals page it should have one:
COOLMAX 400W CX-400B, BLACK, Taurus CX Series Silent Power Supply
Avg. Rating:

Original price: $41.00
Promo price: $36.99
Before $5 rebate
Your savings: $4.01

Promo shipping: Free

But it doesn't show up at all on the product page.
 
I've decided to get a SLK3700-BQE which comes with a 350W antec Smartpower PSU. Its supposed to be a quiet case, so I'm assuming the smartpower is fairly quiet.
Do you think it would be worth it to get the coolmax, or will the 350w smartpower be sufficient (for both noise and power)?
 
Originally posted by: Jeraden
I've decided to get a SLK3700-BQE which comes with a 350W antec Smartpower PSU. Its supposed to be a quiet case, so I'm assuming the smartpower is fairly quiet.
Do you think it would be worth it to get the coolmax, or will the 350w smartpower be sufficient (for both noise and power)?
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Um, what will you have in this rig? An Antec 350 would power an Athlon 64 3200+, 6600GT, 1GB PC3200 system fine, but would have hell trying to feed an Athlon 64 3800+, 6800GT SLI, 2GB PC3500 system with a ton of optical drives, fans, HDDs, etc...

It kind of depends on the rig...
 
for $55 you can get the TT 480watt silent purepower w/ manual fan speed adjustment. It's a solid unit and performs quite well and can still be quiet.

EDIT: oh, i thought you were looking for something $40-50, not $30-40, hmmm...it may be out of budget but it will be worth it!
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm looking to upgrade my Antec TruePower 380 and want a quieter unit. Which should I get?

COOLMAX 400W CX-400B; $36.99 shipped
Thermaltake Silent PurePower 420W; $34.00 shipped

Rig in sig...will likely upgrade to nForce4 SLI within the next 6 months so I'd like to carry the PSU over with me.
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Those are both horrible..... the biggest problem is the obviously weak 12v rail; 12v @ 18A, you really wouldn?t want to run SLI setup and high powered CPU off either of them. Any 400 watt PSU should have at the very least 20A for it to be halfway useful. Neither of these units are really high quality; the TT is just an Enlight so its defiantly not anything special, I'm not sure about CoolMax's origins.

This Forton with dual 12v rails wouldn?t be a bad choice.
 
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