I'm putting together my next workstation and as my current Supermicro X5DAE
(dual 2.8g Prestonia) triple-head (Matrox Parhelia AGP) system has never, ever
had an unplanned outage (no BSODs, no Explorer dirt-naps, no power or thermal
fails, no anything!) I'm sticking with the same brands for the next one.
So I'm going to use the Supermicro X6DA8-G2 board
http://www.supermicro.com/products/m...5/X6DA8-G2.cfm
in an SC743S1-645 case.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/c...C743S1-645.cfm
with one of these, in case anyone's interested:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/media_cent...id_lp_pcie.cfm
driving three 21" tubes.
It's the case I'm wondering about.
Living with an SC762 case
http://www.supermicro.com/products/c.../SC762-420.cfm
for the last 2 years has been "special" ;-) The case itself was fine, but the
power supply is a loud sonofabeeyotch, and I'd sure like to avoid that this
time around.
So I thought I'd at least ask: has anyone been near enough to an SC743S1-645
or similar case to know if the power supply they use is in fact "low noise"?
(in an absolute sense - even my SC762 is "low noise" compared to a 747 ;-)
Thanks for any real-life experiences...
/daytripper