I have decided to buy a Cooler Master RC-690 to rebuild my case in. My ultimate goal is to have a quiet, clean case (temps are already in the norm and I don't want to spend too much more money on fans/HSs. Now I currently have a PC Power and Cooling 510w (about 2 years old) and in order to get my comp to be quiet, I would like to get a new PSU (with more power and a larger, quieter fan) and I would also to like it to be modular to keep it clean. I was looking at a Cooler Master RS-750 from SVC and yes, buying it through DIY-Street . Does that look like a good PSU? My 510 I currently have handles my rig with ease and I have no fluxuations or spikes, so I know I have some headroom right now thus buying a 750W will give me even more (and combines with a larger fan, will make the PSU inaudible).

Looking good?

edit: If the above PSU is a good choice for my DFI then I might lower the output to the 650 version ($20 cheaper)

waaait a mo. Have you isolated the PSU as the main issue?

If you require a quiet psu the corsairs are the quietest i have owned. After the noise takers from Enermax.

There really isn't any issue. I would just rather have a quiet case at the expense of warmer temperatures (though when I do upgrade to water cooling, I have the choice to have both quiet and cold temps, but at the expense of a paycheck). I have isolated any noise "issues" to the PSU and the vc-re on my chipset. Since the chipset has very few upgrade options (if you know of any, please tell me!!) I have settled on leaving it where it is. The PSU, however, creates a very audible sound, and its fan is the sole creator of the 'tone' of my case. when cold booting and the PSU fan is at a minimum, my case is so silent I can hear the AC kick on in the house; I would like to keep that kind of silence even when my computer is warm and at idle which is not an option with my current PSU.

The main reason for upgrading to the RC-690 is to have a smaller, tighter case. This will help me have less standing air inside the case as well as use all drive bays as opposed to only using 2 of the 4 CD bays and 3 of the 6 HDD bays in my P180. This does decrease the expandability of my computer; but considering it can hold 5TB of HDD with todays top-of-the-line HDs, and I don't think I will ever need 5CD drives, I'm okay. Last note, since the HDDs are mounted perpendicular to the front of the case, my HD cables won't be mashed up against my GPU power cable and the perpendicular mounting of the cage widens the entire case itself, giving me more room to maneuver the cables I will have.


By the way, for angry: I used the DIY-Street link to SVC when I bought the case. expect a few nickels headed your way )

For chipset cooling, as long as you have only one video card, you can probably use a tower-type - at least, you could use the HR-05-SLI.

no no on the expert he wants the standard version not sli.

(I know as I used to have the mobo and the cooler!)

I meant if the regular tower types would not work for his setup, there's always the SLI version. But, you know better from experience

Is that cooler strong enough to not need a fan, or would you recommend me putting a small slow fan onto it? and the SLI one looks like it would fit better as I could place the heatsink in between my GPU and my SI-120 on my CPU. The standard model looks like I would have to move my GPU down to the lower PCI-E slot. That sounds good as it will free up my SATA 3 and SATA 4 connections on my mobo. Also to note, my CPU is stock and thus its idle temperature is so low that sometimes my CPU fan will cut off and just use the SI-120 in passive, and I'm thinking that that will have an impact on the HR-05.

I had an HR-05-SLI before, and I used it both passively and with a fan. I would think that if you have any kind of airflow around it, you should be OK at stock volts.