( 9 reviews )
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Posted: Dec 21 2008
The Earthwatts 430 is very quiet. I can hardly hear the fan when it is on. It is power efficient as advertised. My server dropped power usage from 42 watts before installing the EarthWatts to 34.5 watts after (at idle as measured at the plug). The wires are a good length so it's easy to route them nicely in the case. I highly recommend this power supply: Quiet, efficient, low cost, and plenty of power. What else do you want in a power supply?
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Posted: Dec 14 2008
Working fine but the instructions could have been a little more thorough. My Dell 4600 uses a 20pin connection so I broke off the 4pin and mistakenly thought it went to the 4pin connection on the other side of the board. I cut the nice/neat loom and pulled the 4pin over to find it didn't fit, spliced on my old plug and the pc didn't start. Then I found the proper 4pin(two yellow, two black) tied up with the pci-e plug I didn't need. Plugged it in and pc started up fine, so I guess I didn't hurt anything. Should now have plenty of power for the AIW tuner card, TV Wonder, SoundBlaster and the Q-see DVR card. Every slots full on the old Dell now. Don't know why the video card fan quieted down unless it just liked the power boost, it's quit sounding like a coffee grinder. Alls well that ends well I guess.
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Posted: Dec 5 2008
Bought this to replace PSU on a Dell E510 (which sucks) and it is doing a great job this far. It has power connections for both SATA and IDE so that is a plus I have a pretty basic set up so 430 Watts was plenty Not bad
