News Seasonic's latest big and silent 1,600W PSU gets a quieter 120mm Noctua fan upgrade

[Admin]

Seasonic and Noctua show off the Prime TX-1600 Noctua Edition power supply, which will arrive in Q4 2024.

Seasonic's latest big and silent 1,600W PSU gets a quieter 120mm Noctua fan upgrade : Read more

 

[CmdrShepard]

That's not an upgrade, that's a downgrade.

Seriously, as much as I like Noctua brand (I have a CPU HSF), they produce some of the fans with the worst sound profile out there -- the buzz / clicking they have even on low RPM is annoying the crap out of me and before someone says no it's not my fan. I had a lot of different Noctua fans (CPU, case, radiator types) over several years and all of them exhibit this because their bearings suck. On the other hand Corsair 14cm fans that I got with Obsidian 800D are some of the quietest fans I ever owned even after 10 years of 14+ hours a day.

 

[umeng2002_2]

I do t get the obsession with silent PSU fans. That's something you never hear over all the other fans and choke noise.

 

[CmdrShepard]

You sir are deaf if Noctua fans are great for you.

I do t get the obsession with silent PSU fans. That's something you never hear over all the other fans and choke noise.

My PSU fan doesn't even spin up until it reaches more than 350W load so most of the time there's literally nothing to hear. And once you fire up Cyberpunk 2077 and it starts drawing 750 W from the wall outlet the video card fans are the noisiest thing in the PC anyway.

 

[jlake3]

Higher cost and benefits that don't show up clearly on a box. My Noctuas are definitely the most expensive out of all the fans in my collection, and while the ones set up as intakes are quieter than my case's stock fans and my CPU cooler has lasted forever (it started life on a Core 2 Quad and is still going strong!), I didn't have a clear mental image of the sound difference just from the specs on the packaging.

 

[HWOC]

It's great to see that finally they've put in a Noctua in an official capacity into a power supply. The only non-Noctua fan in my current PC is the one in the Seasonic PSU, I wish they sold lower end Seasonic models with Noctuas. I've gone all Noctua over the years, having used dozens of fans of numerous brands over several decades. I've never experienced buzzing or clicking or any kind of annoying sound out of them. I guess different people find different sounds annoying.

 

[Notton]

It doesn't have to be Noctua.
I could live with NMB fans in a PSU. Do they still make fans under that brand name, or has it changed?

Noctua's advantage is definitely in the smooth bearings and high static pressure fans.

 

[35below0]

I do t get the obsession with silent PSU fans. That's something you never hear over all the other fans and choke noise.

If the case fans are quiet, and the CPU fan(s) are quiet, and the PSU is making noise...

No offense, but your fans are loud. Or maybe it doesn't matter to you. To me it matters a lot. I don't want to hear anything if that's possible.

...of course once the GPU fans spin up, all bets are off but at that point there's lots of noise coming out of the speakers so it's ok.

It's great to see that finally they've put in a Noctua in an official capacity into a power supply. The only non-Noctua fan in my current PC is the one in the Seasonic PSU, I wish they sold lower end Seasonic models with Noctuas. I've gone all Noctua over the years, having used dozens of fans of numerous brands over several decades. I've never experienced buzzing or clicking or any kind of annoying sound out of them. I guess different people find different sounds annoying.

Well, i have. Kinda. I think i screwed up my 140mm fan somehow. I don't know what i did but the Low Noise adapters were involved, and i know the CPU fans actually stopped working on at least two occasions.

Now i got the fan working properly, but it makes a LOT of noise above 1200rpm.

So, either there are DUD Noctuas out there, or people manage to screw something up, or they can wear out very quickly. This noise is approaching Intel stock cooler levels.
The fan was quiet before, even at 100% duty, so something must have gone wrong.

 

[umeng2002_2]

Even when I turn all my fans down, I still never hear the PSU fan. It should only ramp up under high power draw. And if have high power draw, odds are your other fans are already spinning faster.