posted: May. 10, 2008 @ 1:26a 
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Thanks OP, I've actually never heard of the Basiq line before but it seems reasonable enough.
$28.24 after GCO for a 500W Antec PSU at +70% efficiency, sounds good to me haha.
Usually Antec gives a 3 years warranty, this is only 1, still wary but lets see.
Basiqs are good because they're made for Antec by Fortron-Source and contain Capxon brand capacitors, not the junk Fuhjyyu brand found in Antec SmartPowers and TruePowers (but Antec Trio, Earthwatts, Quattro, and Neo are also good, made by Seasonic). The only drawback to Basiqs is their possibly noisy fans -- mine, with Yate Loon fans, whine annoyingly even when cool.
larrymoencurly said:Basiqs are good because they're made for Antec by Fortron-Source and contain Capxon brand capacitors, not the junk Fuhjyyu brand found in Antec SmartPowers and TruePowers (but Antec Trio, Earthwatts, Quattro, and Neo are also good, made by Seasonic). The only drawback to Basiqs is their possibly noisy fans -- mine, with Yate Loon fans, whine annoyingly even when cool.
Good info. I'm still using an Antec Smartpower 2.0 350W PSU in a 24/7 system. It runs very quiet because the fans rarely spin up.
Were all Smartpowers bad, or just the earlier ones?
I use this PSU. I don't have any problems with fan noise, but I feel the cables could be better. Length, flexibility, layout could all be better.
Not bad...if you want to deal with Buy.com hassles
its a good little power supply fan is not noisy, i picked it up for 26.99 ar a few weeks ago but this is also a good price. the fans ARE NOT noisy, well they are a fan so they produce noise but no worse than any of the other PS that i have purchased for over 150.00 so its a good little unit.
dodgeman007 said:its a good little power supply fan is not noisy, i picked it up for 26.99 ar a few weeks ago but this is also a good price. the fans ARE NOT noisy, well they are a fan so they produce noise but no worse than any of the other PS that i have purchased for over 150.00 so its a good little unit.
Fan noise is too subjective to come to a conclusion in threads like these. A case fan that's too noisy for me is "silent" to my friend.
I have an Antec Basiq 350W, and compared to my Antec SmartPower 2.0, TruePower Trio, and Earthwatts, it's certainly the loudest.
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