Far less than that number in the real world. Plus, what exactly do you plan on doing that requires you to have a 5820K? It's well accepted that more and more cores doesn't improve gaming performance as they are not well multithreaded. Even a quad core is superfluous. If you are building a system fo...

A couple of comments. Tom's Hardware is looking at instananeous power draw in their gfx card articles . While it's correct to say the overclocked GTX 970's drew up to ~240W of instantaneous power from the mobo and PEG connectors, the reality is the PSU's fan controller is usually based on temperatu...

I did read this part; I can hear my dehumidifier that's in the basement across my condo two floors up, so I have to say I have rather sensitive hearing. good luck with the water cooling rig! Not a single post of yours in this topic has been anything other than trolling. I am going to see if this si...

He has a very valid point. If you are trying to build a system that uses so much power, any decent PSU will be entirely drowned out by the noise made by the rest of the system. That is not a valid point. Noise produced by other parts does not eliminate noise produced by the PSU. It's only a valid p...

Im sorry you dont agree, im just trying to save you from needlessly buying, and troubleshooting 2 PSU's. Your setup will not have a more silent computer with 2 fanless PSU's. Enjoy your build. And I dont know where everyone else manners are; WELCOME TO SPCR!!!! I'm out. You didn't even read my open...

xan_user wrote:my only suggestion, is to use one fanned PSU. . and then enjoy the pump and radiator fan noise.

If your only purpose here is to be rude and unproductive I suggest that you move on.

timeless isnt old. so, external radiator fan and pump noise. don quixote keeps coming to mind. That's not a very productive bit of input. If you have a better suggestion, though, I am all ears. The guy with the Noctua build has a partition between him and the radiators. It is possible to build an e...

why are you trying to get a fanless PSU? the fans on 2 video cards will be louder than a decent fanned PSU... The system would be watercooled with 2 1080mm external radiators. That does include the graphics cards. I'm not interested in the old "something else in the system will mask the PSU noise" ...

It's a really bad idea. There have been attempts before on other parts of the Internet to run 2 PSUs and it is an extremely bad idea. As has been pointed out, you need both PSUs to start up together. What then happens if one PSU goes off and the other carries on supplying power? Or if one PSU has a...

Thanks for the responses. Here is an example build that seems as if it would necessitate a second power supply if I were to go with a fanless system: 5820K overclocked near stock voltage = 200-250 watts? (Unfortunately, overclocking review sites always go for excessive voltage. My opinion is that ov...

As for the fan change to FDB, I doubt this in itself will make much difference when the fan is spinning slowly. If however the fan gets worn over time, it should stay quieter than previous models. My understanding is that Seasonic has been using ball bearing fans which last longer than sleeve beari...

I am wondering if it's possible to power the GPUs' PCIe via one fanless power supply and the CPU, motherboard, fans, and so forth with another? I realize that GPUs draw something like 75 watts from the motherboard. So, if you have two GPUs that's 150 watts. With a 125 watt CPU that's 275 watts. That...