Best and quietest PSU over 600watts?

[ingeborgdot]

In your opinion what seems to be the best and QUIETEST psu today? I have read many reviews but they are all relative. I am looking for users opinions. Thanks.

[Mark H]

I have a Silverstone Zeus power supply and love it.

Mark H

[scuzzy]

If you can afford it, take a look at PC Power & Cooling Silencer series.

PC Power & Cooling PSUs are among the best that money can buy. Unfortunately, I can't even afford one. Otherwise all my computers would have one.

[Chandler]

My vote would go to the Corsair HX series.  They're quiet, high quality, high efficiency and have modular cables.

But do you really need 600W?  I'd be suprised if a decent 400W wouldn't be enough because most mainstream computers won't go over 200W peak draw.

[ingeborgdot]

Let's see 2 dvd burners, 1 floppy with 9/1 card reader, canopus advc 50 capture device, 1 digital doc 5+ fan controller and temp reader, 4 120cm fans, 3 500gb hdd, 1 esata 500gb hdd, 7900gs card, 1 pci sound card, Q6600 cpu, 4gb memory, plus will upgrade to and 8800 when necessary and some extra usb added ports and firewire.  When I did a psu calculator it said upper 500's for sure. 

[Chandler]

In that case, perhaps you should go for a high wattage PSU (especially considering the absolutely rediculous power consumption of GeForce 8800 series cards).  My recommendation for the Corsair HX-620 still stands, although a system with 3 7200RPM hard drives and a GeForce 8800 series card is not going to be quiet by any means.

[pat]

The manual for my new motherboard, Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe specifies a 600 watt power supply for a fully configured system. Whatever that may be.

I'm using a  SeaSonic S12 Energy Plus SS-550. I like it, it's quiet and seems to do the job nicely.

[Carskick]

What about the Antec EarthWatts 500 watt? $79 at newegg with free shipping. I just got done building a computer for a customer, and I used the 430 watt version. It was built as a highly efficient computer, so it didn't really need the power. It was an X2 4800+ BE, 2 500GB 7200RPM Hard Drives, a 7300GT, 1 optical, and a card reader/floppy. The powersupply was extremely quiet, cool, and stable. I'll bet the 500 watt version would be sufficient for you, and highly quiet and efficient.