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Old 12-31-2008, 05:13 AM
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Default Good PSU for Pro Tools PC

I currently have a Thermaltake 430W PSU in my Pro Tools PC...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153023

I was a good budget buy at the time, and has an excellent rating, but it's starting to get real noisy (but more of a high hum then a noisy fan kind of thing. it's very clean, it's possibly bogged down by the 3 hard drives, DVD drive, and Quad cpu....

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Asus P5K
Intel Q6600 PSU
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 cooler
1 Promise ATA PCI card controller
2 WD IDE hard drives hooked up to the promise card (80GB and 250GB).
1 WD SATA hard drive hooked up to system board (160GB).
1 DVD-R drive hooked up to system IDE.
Fanless video card (MSI NVidia 7300LE), nothing fancy, no extra power required on it.

I know the +12v rail on that Thermaltake is pretty low at 18A, so I'm thinking it's just not dealing well with the drives. The more I'm doing on the computer, I can hear the PSU humming a little louder.

What PSUs do you guys have in your machines, and how are they holding up? I have heard the Corsairs are some of the best out there. Just looking for some opinions. I guess I'm willing to drop up to a $100 on it. Always hurts to have to drop money on something like this instead of putting it toward a new mic, preamp, or whatever else. ;(
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Default Re: Good PSU for Pro Tools PC

Enermax Infinity 720 watt PSU here in both my machines.

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Old 12-31-2008, 11:25 AM
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Default Re: Good PSU for Pro Tools PC

I tend to use Antec PSU's, Thermaltake and Coolermaster units. For my audio box's I use 500w or more.
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Old 12-31-2008, 12:19 PM
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The Corsair TX750 w.
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Old 12-31-2008, 04:33 PM
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The Corsair TX750 w.
I went with the Corsair TX650W.

That should do the trick. Can't wait to get this struggling/suffering Thermaltake out of this machine.
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Old 12-31-2008, 04:39 PM
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I have the Corsair 520HX, extremely quiet! You probably made the right choice audible hum in a power supply circut is usually not a good thing long term.
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+ 1 for Antec, but good to hear the Corsair PSUs work well!
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