My Enermax 420W Noisetaker.

JamesL · Post by **JamesL** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:31 am

I've been roaming the site for a while prior to building my current rig and I thought I should contribute something back to the site.

And as a marketing student you learn facts like, ~80% of people will tell someone if they've had a bad experience with a product, whilst ~20% will tell others if they had a good experience.

Anyway, enough chit chat.

The biggest gripe (noisewise) I have with my build is the PSU, namely an Enermax 420W Noisetaker.

The 80mm exhaust fan was horrendous, I'll say it clicked a lot and made a huge racket. I've taken that out, and now the bottom 92mm fan is annoying me with it's whirring sounds, so that'll probably be replaced by a Nexus 92mm fan when I get around to it.

Just thought I'd share my experience with this, granted it could be a relatively isolated incident.

Oh yeah, with the Silverstone TJ06 case, the Enermax's CPU plug doesn't reach the mobo, least not the one for the MSI Neo2 Platinum.

v3n · Post by **v3n** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:41 pm

im very pleased with my 485w noisetaker and ive yet to hear it ramp up too

hightower · Post by **hightower** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:27 am

There's gotta be differences with noisetakers.. my 370w is very quiet and have not yet ramped up. Mine is with active PFC. Just because it's a noisetaker doesn't mean it's exactly the same, return your unit and get another..

JamesL · Post by **JamesL** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:17 am

I'm well aware this unit might be a discrepancy and an isolated instance.

But initially I couldn't be bothered returning it as I brought it from a vendor on the other side of the country.

Secondly, I've now voided the warranty with my small modification.

Compddd · Post by **Compddd** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:57 am

My Noisetaker 2.0 420W would ramp up during gaming sessions so I recently replaced it with a Antec Neopower 480W. So far the neopower is pretty darned nice, it doesnt ramp up during gaming and during idle sessions you can hear a faint whirring sound but thats about it. I suppose the only thing better would be a Phantom 500W.

Ned Slider · Post by **Ned Slider** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:03 am

I was so impressed with my noisetaker 370W, I've just ordered another. I guess there's bound to be variations between samples, but I can't fault mine

Ned

carrot · Post by **carrot** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:02 am

My noisetaker 370W is also very quiet when not ramped up. And it barely ramps up, no case fans either.