BTW I had asked Delta in Chennai to check on the Giga Superb 460W. He said its not in the official Gigabyte India catalogue or something and is probably a direct import. AFAIK this PSU seems to be available only in Bangalore.
thanks eddy. I’m waiting for the dust to settle in my clouded mind before i choose which low powered route to go- carputer or fileserver 
No wonder these lamington road dealers were so zonked when i asked them about a gigabyte powersupply 
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the carputer also means getting a TS LCD though
Chaos, where in Bangalore did you buy this from?
what abt finding a gigabyte india rep and hounding him to get the power supply 
i think ankit infotech in s.p. road normally stock up on these, me got mine a couple of months back from there.
Umm sorry for bumping the old thread but does anyone know how good the pov black diamond 400 watts is against the gigabyte superb 460 watts ? I read somewhere that the pov black diamond series are seasonic oems, but i need confirmation, coz the gigabyte superb aint available here. Any help would be great :).
Didn’t want to start a new thread..
I am going for a low-budget cool n quiet cpu
ASUS m2a-mx (post probably)
AMD athlon 64 le-1600 (if I can find it in delhi)- 45w runs even without a fan, idles at 10C
1 ram stick
80 gb sata laptop HDD(quiet and efficient)
Now with such a config it wld be a disaster to go for a noisy PSU.
I won’t be using pci/gfx cards, just one very efficient cpu with 1 ram stick and the mobo. So wattage ain’t a issue..
plz plz suggest a quiet PSU. I don’t care abt quality/reliability one byte. Am willing to mod. Just the psu has to be very very VERY silent.
budget for psu - 1k , extendable to 1.5
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I suppose a VIP one should be fine - seems they have some sort of active fan control as posted previously in these threads
Oye greenie, if you get one, open er up and post the internals. Might get one too 
nah, me got an 80W fanless from czar
^^Phew and finally… 
Can an 8ow do??? Wat is it powering??
via c3- his old carputer rig. me havent gotten it yet
Greenie, don’t count on that PSU to power too many devices though
I have load tested it with the Via CPU/Mobo, 5.25" ODD, 2.5" HDD and a couple of USB devices…
It did not drop voltage till this point , but I am not sure if that tiiny thing can take any more… 
should run perfectly stable for your intended usage though (I assume a 3.5" HDD, CPU, Mobo and a couple of USB devices)
mesa planning to run a 3.5" HDD, DVD writer , a 5W Incandescent lamp off 12V, and the board + proccy itself. will it need a fan if not adequately ventilated 
ewwww
I guess that will start overheating the MOSFETS
BTW why a DVD writer and an incand. lamp on a headless hidden setup? why not just stash it away in a shoebox somewhere out of sight..with a low load, it would hardly need any ventilation so no fan headaches…
Ideally a download/NAS rig ( I am assuming you are not going to use it for browing or regular desktop usage etc) would sit in a corner just hooked to a router/switch simply serving files to other desktops/laptops on the network as a network drive
In addition, it would provide you a Remote desktop (or a browser based intereface prefereably) to allow http/ftp/torrent downloads
And perhaps, In addition , a perfectly clean metastripping proxy server 
meh, will put in a wallwart for the lamp then. Like i said , this is going to be camouflaged as something else thats why i need the lamp for.
I can run a DVDRW right ? So that i can write stuff straight off the NAS rather than transfering it over LAN and writing
Hmm, it should, nevetheless, I’ll try it out with a ODD and 3.5" HDD since i have tried only 2.5" + ODD