picked up a new Antec ps

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 8:43 pm

the ANTEC TRUE430 to be exact. i needed a bigger one to power all of the lights, fans, cathode tubes, etc.

hopefully it's as cool (no pun intended) as the reviews.

fearfox · Post by **fearfox** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 8:56 pm

sweet power supply

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 9:01 pm

I was just reading about this one, scored a bit higher than the enermax & a couple other high end units.

Hope it works out for you.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 9:08 pm

I have a 480 Watt True Power and love it... Have a Vantec Stealth here i need to put in and see how it does... Its only a 420 but i like the black look of the vantec's and teh adjustable fans are a major plus for me...

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 9:33 pm

i wanted to get one of the PS's with LEDs in the fans, but can probably mod it easy enough. has anyone here modded a PS with LEDs? should i even bother? hehe

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:46 am

Blade reviewed one

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:00 pm

yeah just dont touch the capacitors

I dont know why everyone is so scared to open a PS. As long as u dont touch nothing but the fan u'll be fine!

matt719 · Post by **matt719** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:43 pm

Hehe, i've touched them any times

Doesn't hurt, just feels really weird, like when you touch the end of coax that is live; it just covers your hole body and lasts longer

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:03 pm

I've opened a few old PSU's and removed the fans with no problems at all.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 10:50 pm

i got the PS today from newegg...took 3 days.

installed and all is running well. the PS is very quiet (easily drowned out by my cpu fan). the temp in my case dropped a whopping 4C under load (from 51C down to 47C) and 42C idle.

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 12:01 am

Congrats!

I love the Antec True power supplies. One thing I wish they included was a manual override for the fans. But that will be an option in their newer versions which they are working on now, see here. The TrueControl versions.

Front panel manual fine control over the +12, +5 and+3.3 voltage lines
Front panel manual fan speed control

Damn!