That has to be the coolest build I have read about in a long, long time. Awesome writeup and seeing the temp improvements on the PSU was really neat.
Thanks!
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That has to be the coolest build I have read about in a long, long time. Awesome writeup and seeing the temp improvements on the PSU was really neat.
Wow, amazing build, awesome ideas and insane dedication. You should show your build on the smallformfactor.net forum, many SFF-minded people there that would love to pick your brain !Here is a link to the build post, you can skip down if you'd like to the power supply section for the information and pictures. http://www.totalgeekdom.com/?p=3676
Yes, very impressive. Can you provide details about the Sunon fans you used for the power supply?
Seriously, that some crazy good stuff you did here...
very impressibe build.
Wow, amazing build, awesome ideas and insane dedication. You should show your build on the smallformfactor.net forum, many SFF-minded people there that would love to pick your brain !
Thanks!
I was stuck in that same boat of waiting on Silverstone and Corsair and hoping something better was going to come along, I just couldn't wait any longer. From a cost standpoint I don't completely understand what Silverstone was thinking using 2nd and 3rd tier cheap capacitors, we're talking differences of cents, not dollars. Putting in premium Japanese capacitors would have cost them at most just a couple dollar difference. Why on earth on a $130 power supply they chose to cheap out on something so critical I don't know.
Here is a link to the build post, you can skip down if you'd like to the power supply section for the information and pictures. http://www.totalgeekdom.com/?p=3676
Thanks for sharing! Your Lego build was very cool.
There was a discussion on manufacturer's choice for capacitors in which we participated as well over at jonnyGURU if you haven't seen it already. It helps explain our position on capacitor choice.
While you, me or other people on this forum would, many wouldn't since they only see "600W = 130$". Also, I'd not be sure I'd be willing to spend 20$ more for a higher quality component I can't feel, see, hear, measure or otherwise experience the benefits from, since it's extremely difficult to test the difference in real life.On the other hand I would have been more than willing to pay $140 or $150 for the unit if it already had the highest grade capacitors available.
While you, me or other people on this forum would, many wouldn't since they only see "600W = 130$". Also, I'd not be sure I'd be willing to spend 20$ more for a higher quality component I can't feel, see, hear, measure or otherwise experience the benefits from, since it's extremely difficult to test the difference in real life.
If this topic is an indication, the lack of top-end quality caps allround is the least of its problems.
I'd probably pay $20 more for an always on fan and higher grade caps, etc if I had that choice.
Hopefully the Corsair SF600 should be out end of this month and will be a better solution.
Hopefully the Corsair SF600 should be out end of this month and will be a better solution.
Well, shit.Just called Corsair about their SF600 PSU and the new ETA has been pushed back to April/May 2016. Looks like Silverstone is the only way to go at this point in time...
Thank you. I don't know the part numbers off the top of my head, but here are the details of the fans.The small Sunon fans I added to the side of the PSU case are 40x40x10mm and are 5800RPM units (@27 DB).The replacement fan for the ADDA is a 80x15mm Sunon, 3000RPM (@35 DB).
I did a little research and found these Sunon fans that fit the dimensions. I believe these are the ones that were used in @totalgeek 's rebuild of the SFX 600 PSU. Please correct me if I'm wrong.Yes, very impressive. Can you provide details about the Sunon fans you used for the power supply?
Just read your build and it was pretty amazing the amount of customization you have done in the entire build. Very impressive. If you don't mind, can you also list the capacitor values you used and how many of each were needed for the replacement? I understand from reading your build guide that you had a ton of research you had to do in order to find out what you needed, maybe you can save us the headaches of tracking down all that information?
Thanks totalgeek. I will surely be doing quite a bit of reading before I tackle the task. Thanks for all your help, you sir are a good man. Cheers!
Damn this psu is delayed again? And to April/May? WTF. I want to buy a compact yet good PSU, and heard the Silverstone one is full of problems and horrors. Now I have to keep using my current ATX psu.
Something's very wrong if a Skylake CPU (91W TDP) and GTX 950 (90W TDP, OC version about 100W max) can't be handled by a 300W PSU. Have you tested this or concluded by looking at the power consumption pulled from the wall with another PSU ?I'm running an htpc in a streacom fc10 case, which previously was just using skylake integrated gpu and the streacom fanless psu.
I added a gtx950 for extra madvr capability, but with that the fanless psu had to go.
I started with an sfx 450 and the noise from the always on fan was unbearable. The sfx300 was borderline not powerful enough for my skylake + gtx950 build at peak power so I went with the 600 as it was the only "semi fanless" sfx psu I could find that would fit inside my case (the 500 is a little too long).
1. The SFX-L PSUs are the quietest for now, the SFX PSUs have the fan-modded Silverstone 450W 85+Gold as the quietest, but it may be unstable in high ambient temperature environments. I don't have experience with the 300W versions (I believe there were two) but one was noticeably noisy, the other was not.1 - Is the sfx 300w appreciably quieter? Wouldnt the fan be spinning higher since my system would be putting the 300w under a higher % total load?
2 - Has anyone figured out a way to mod the 600 with a quieter fan?