On 15/12/12 12:27, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
My machine died the other night, reasonably gracefully, and having decided it must be the PSU I went and bought the only matx one locally in stock.
Its 300 Watt, which is what the old one was, and it works but is unbearably noisy. So I am thinking of replacing with a 200 Watt Xilence, which is reviewed in some german mag as being exceptionally quiet.
Question: will 200W be enough? Its an i3, one hard drive, no optical, no graphics card and a gigabyte main board in a mini-itx case. My intuition is that it will be just fine because this is such a minimalist setup, but I know nothing about power or how to measure what the draw is.
The other choices seem to be silverstone, but they only make them 400W +, and that is certainly over the top. There do not seem to be any fanless ones in this form factor.
Is this a standard size PSU or a custom size? I've got a standard sized Xilence 480W which is quiet and works well. I got it from QuietPC.com - I've brought several things from them (quietpc) and they do some good quiet stuff though I expect from what you said that even their minimum output PSU is way over capacity for what you need. Also, all their cheap PSUs seem to be out of stock until the end of the month.
HTH Steve