I want a silent PSU, preferrably with fanless mode. The system is very minimal: AMD Athlon 200ge, 2 RAM sticks, a bunch of hard drives but usually only one or two will be spun up at a time. No graphics card, I won't even connect a monitor to that thing. That should be under 50W, normally.
Ideally I want to run the whole thing fanless (35W TDP should be coolable without a fan, there are fanless coolers that allow as much - if not, I'll pop in a silent case fan with minimum RPM or underclock), so that means the PSU will be the noisiest part if it's not fanless.
Another notable thing is that I'm planning to keep that system running 24/7 so the PSU should hold up to that.
Price is, of course, still a factor so I'd like to keep it below $50 if possible... Given that my power consumption will be ridiculously low, the wear will be way less significant so I think even a "cheap" PSU should perform better than in an average gamer build. I might be wrong tho, because spinning hard drives up and down creates a rather high fluctuation and that might be bad (?), or maybe it doesn't matter because it's still way below 100W...
Ideally I want to run the whole thing fanless (35W TDP should be coolable without a fan, there are fanless coolers that allow as much - if not, I'll pop in a silent case fan with minimum RPM or underclock), so that means the PSU will be the noisiest part if it's not fanless.
Another notable thing is that I'm planning to keep that system running 24/7 so the PSU should hold up to that.
Price is, of course, still a factor so I'd like to keep it below $50 if possible... Given that my power consumption will be ridiculously low, the wear will be way less significant so I think even a "cheap" PSU should perform better than in an average gamer build. I might be wrong tho, because spinning hard drives up and down creates a rather high fluctuation and that might be bad (?), or maybe it doesn't matter because it's still way below 100W...