silentpcreview.com claims the 500w and 600w s12's use a louder yate-loon 120mm fan than the other models, but I have not noticed any radical noise change as of yet compared to their older virtually silent tornado series. The fan spins @ 910rpm, so low that the measurement appears in red blinking text in the hardware monitoring section of my BIOS.
From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Subject: [H] Antec TruePower is OUT Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:40:40 -0500
So, I have lost all faith in Antec's power supplies. I have three of them here...two of them have died in the last two weeks. They exist in different ZIP codes, so it wasn't a surge. Both are behind UPS. The first simply stopped providing a high +5v rail, the second went snap, crackle, pop, and smoke tonight while I was typing an essay. Both were True550's...two dead within two weeks is enough to scare me away. I was even willing to forgive the first failure...but not two.
So what did I replace it with? A Seasonic S12 600W. $188 shipped next-day air from Newegg. I would have liked to have gone with a PCP&C Turbo-Cool 510W, but that would have been >$250 by the time you include next day air shipping. Sparkle/FSP doesn't make a unit that provided the sort of current/rail combinations I was looking for.
Luckily, my hard drives appear to have survived the failure. I have no idea if the motherboard/CPUs/RAM/cards are still OK, as my emergency FSP 400W is out on loan, and all other power supplies are back at home.
Bleh.
Greg
