Dedicated PC room considered harmful. Be part of your family even if you’re ignoring them with your headphones on. Put in the work and manage your cables so the setup looks presentable. Get a nice looking chair and not a Gamer Chair. Get furniture.

You just made me realize something. Before I moved out I had my PC in my room and I’d spend an unhealthy amount of time there. After I moved to live with my girlfriend, I had no option for a room where I would be isolated with my PC. So it’s in a shared space, I can game just as comfortably, but the fact that I’m not isolated makes me pause the game every so often and just talk to my girlfriend.

I don’t game that much anyway these days, not addicted or anything, but even when I do immerse myself, there’s always this impulse to take a break and socialize.

I’ve manually cranked up all of those fans to 100%, separately and in conjunction. I don’t understand what’s so unbelievable about a faulty fan bearing in a PSU

It truly is the fan in the PSU. I may not be pulling all 500W at once, but that fan is struggling. I swapped my fans to sub-30 db fans thinking that was the culprit. It’s not. It’s not the HDD either. I literally took the side panel off and stuck my ear near every potential noise source. Believe me, it’s the PSU.

It’s a low end model, it’s old, it could simply be a dying bearing. Whatever the case may be, it’s dying, and I’m not about to disassemble a PSU to swap a fan and kill myself in the process lmao.

Thanks for pointing out underusing the PSU. I actually went ahead and checked clearesult’s test report, and assuming I’d be pulling 200W most of the time (pulling this out of my ass), efficiency for that load is 91.05%. Pulling 500W in a long, demanding gaming session with this PSU means efficiency of 91.2%, a negligible difference.

Source

A 650W variant costs 111€. 750W is 125€. 850W is 135€, the same as 1000W with current discount.

I’d be happy to go for a cheaper 850W PSU, but this is kinda the best deal right now for me.

To be clear. I’m not hell-bent on that 1000W PSU. I’m happy with a different option, but price to wattage ratio leans me to that choice.

As pointed out, thanks to a sale at a given retailer, they’re both almost exactly the same price right now. 132€ for Corsair, 135€ for be quiet!

So price to wattage, be quiet! just makes more sense even if I’m not going to use all the potential. I’m aiming to run it at a smaller load for better acoustics.

On top of that, I’m trying to account for beefier components in the future, avoiding having to buy a new PSU yet again.

Dokładnie taki miałem plan na instalację tego potwora ;) Dzięki!

Dark Power is unfortunately way out of my budget. Pure Power will have to suffice :)

Tests for this model are pretty much all praising it for its quality, and user reviews are excellent as well. Only complaint about the be quiet! seems to be about very stiff 24-pin cable, but that won’t be an issue in my case anyway, I can route it without tight bends. Looks like that’s gonna be what I get :) Thanks!

Thanks!

What is that soundbar? I’m planninya similar setup and this one looks like just what I need size-wise (stuff I found is humongous)