Power supply recommendations

[Michael Hipp]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:38:48PM -0800, Bill Campbell took 31 lines to write:
>>
>>>On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Alan Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>>>Well, I'm not much of a hardware guy, but I know some of you are.
>>>>
>>>>The fan on my power supply has failed, so I need to get another. It is
>>>>a SKY HAWK SH250ATX, 250 watt. Should I just replace it with an identical
>>>>one, or are there recommendations for something different? (The system was
>>>>first booted up in May, 2001). Or maybe all power supplies are created equal?
>>>>I doubt that!
>>>
>>>We have had excellent results with ``PC Power and Cooling'' power
>>>supplies.  They're not the least expensive, but have proven very
>>>robust and reliable.
>>
>>On a similar note, if a PC has a 250 watt power supply, is it acceptable to
>>replace it with a quieter, say, 300 watt power supply?
> 
> 
> PC Power and Cooling has power supplies designed to be quiet.  We installed
> one of these on a new computer that I installed recently where the buyer
> was very sensitive to the noise level (btw, she's a 60+ psychologist who
> has been using Linux as her only OS now since Caldera eDesktop 2.4, and
> always tells her friends how much she likes it :-).

PC P&C makes very good quality power supplies. I use them regularly. But 
if you want quiet, they barely even make the list. Here are the hard facts:

   http://www.silentpcreview.com/article28-page1.html

For quiet - I mean *really* quiet, I use SeaSonic.

Note that quiet power supplies tend to be good power supplies because of 
the extra engineering required, higher efficiency, more attention to 
cooling, etc.

Michael