Thermaltake Silent Purepower TR2 W0070 430W Power Supply is rated 4.5 out of 5 by 2. Rated 4 out of 5 by DavidStahlman from Love these. I have been putting Thermaltakes in all of our custom built machines for years. Thermaltake Xaser Silent PurePower (480W) Silver Housing Xaser Edition: Features: Designed for AMD K7 and Intel ATX +12V 1.1 and ATX 2.03 version (Fully Support Pentium 4). Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) Peak Output: 550W; 2 adjustable manual fan speed control in the front and rear side of the case. (from 1300 rpm at 25°C~ 4800. Thermaltake Butterfly 480w not very quiet Power Supplies (PSUs). This unit is def not silent, i got everything hooked up fine, but i think i am gettin a lot of nosie from the fan in the bak of the psu, does anyone know how to make this queiter? Without disconnecting? Ps- Im using a Tt 480w Pure Power psu in my AMD rig, it seems to be.
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- The Good: Excellent cable management system; gale-like PSU- and case-fan output at maximum settings; manually adjustable fan speeds as well as automatic settings; tons of smooth-flowing power; built-in coloured LED lighting for fun.
- The Bad: Instructions in the manual are a bit sketchy, but still informative enough to get the job done.
- The Verdict: If you're looking for a PSU and case fan upgrade or planning to build your own box from scratch, the powerful - and colourful - LED-lit Butterfly package is well worth a look.
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- Reviewed on: Cicero (Future Shop) 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 PC with an Intel D845GERG2LK motherboard, 1GB of PC2100 DDR memory, an ATI Radeon 9800 video card with 128MB of video memory, Windows XP Home, a Maxtor 300GB SATA hard drive running at 7,200 RPM, and a KDS Rad-7c LCD panel.
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Thermaltake Xaser III Silent Purepower 480W specifications: 480 W. Available Now with Thermaltake Silent Purepower?420w ATX Power Supply Option Other Power Supply Options also available. 4 channel adjustable fan speed Control knobs Adjustable Temperature Alert Alarm Function. Power Supply for Intel Dual Xeon CPU @ ATX 12volt 24pin.
A computer's power supply used to a be a boring grey box with lots of wires coming out of it that hid meekly inside the case - but not any more. Thermaltake is catering to those who regard their PC as a piece of modern art as well as a work or gaming powerhouse. Aplikasi gpp satker 28-04-2017.
But the company's Purepower 480 Butterfly power supply isn't just for the hard-core PC hobbyists who cut a Perspex window into the side of a computer case and install things like glowing neon tubes to jazz the machine up. The power supply and cooling fan package is also perfect for serious overclockers, people who want to reduce the noise generated by a PC, and those who simply want to neaten up the inside of the computer and make it easier to install new cards and components.
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The Purepower 480 Butterfly package is much more than a mere power supply unit (PSU). It actually has three main parts - the PSU, a high-powered case fan and a panel with a pair of rheostat dials that fits into one of the drive bays on the front of a PC.
The core component is, of course, the PSU. Rather than the utilitarian bare steel of standard power supplies, the Purepower 480 has a slick black enameled case with orange fan blades. It's also EMI-shielded so that it won't interfere with sensitive components in the PC, and Thermaltake has beefed up the heat sink to make it more efficient. All the components are top-notch, with a mean time between failure rating of 75,000 hours for the unit as a whole.
And while the name may suggest something flimsy and delicate, the Butterfly is no lightweight. High-end retail computers usually ship with a power supply rated in the 300 watt range, but the Butterfly can pump out up to 480 watts. And that's 480 watts sustained - the peak output is 550 watts. It's perfect for the most power-hungry Intel or AMD processors and motherboards, and offers lots of flexibility in terms of adding extra cards, case fans, and both molex connector- and bus-powered devices.
I run a power-conditioning UPS on my test system, but that just guarantees a clean flow of electricity to the power supply. It doesn't mean the flow of power from the PSU to internal components will be smooth - that depends on the quality of the PSU's electronic guts. I did some basic monitoring, and based on my tests, Butterfly owners should have nothing to worry about in this respect - it's a solid PSU that can pump out power well within the specifications of the latest chips and components. The 12 volt circuit's sensor fluctuated slightly between 11.875 volts and 12 volts, but that fluctuation is well within tolerances. The 5 volt sensor showed the circuit operating at a constant 5.052 volts, and the 3.3 volt sensor was also rock-steady at 3.231 volts. The CPU core (which requires the supply to be in the range of 1.55 volts) stayed precisely at 1.494 volts, and the CPU I/O sensor (rated for around 1.5 volts) measured a constant 1.523 volts - again, both well within the manufacturers' specifications. There's also automatic over-voltage protection in the PSU that trips if the current fluctuates beyond safe settings for any reason.
The ability to provide lots of clean power is of particular note for overclockers - people who tweak the computer's BIOS and other settings to run the main processor and video chips at speeds that exceed the manufacturer's recommendations. Overclockers are usually video game fanatics who want to run the latest games at the best possible resolution without sacrificing frame rates. Overclocking a chip is tricky and requires a stable power supply
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Overclocking also typically generates a lot of extra waste heat, which calls for extra fans and even special pump-driven liquid cooling systems to keep the computer's components from literally baking themselves. At 480 watts, overclockers can add several extra fans or a decent cooling system without taxing the PSU, and the Butterfly package has great cooling abilities as well (which I'll get to in a moment).
The Butterfly has lots of internal power connectors, whether you're overclocking or just have lots of drives to hook up. It has a full array of connectors for both AMD and Intel systems, including both power connectors and PSU-monitoring sensor hookups for the latest motherboards, along with a whopping count of nine molex power hookups for ATA drives or internal cards that require power for built-in fans (such as high-end video cards).
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On an interesting note, it also has a pair of connectors for new Serial-ATA (SATA) hard drives. SATA drives are just starting to appear now on retail shelves, but they're expected to replace older IDE/ATA drives in the next few years, which means the Butterfly should be a reasonable long-term investment.
Thermaltake has done a fantastic job with its cable management system. Related cables are bundled together and pre-wrapped in a sort of mesh tube. For example, all the motherboard sensor cables are meshed into one bundle, the drive power connectors are in another, and so on. The tubes keep everything neat and tiny inside the PC, but there's still enough slack for each cable at the end of the tube to make connections easy. The mesh is also colour-coded to match instructions in the manual telling which connectors are for the motherboard, drives, sensors, and so on, which makes setup easier.
The cable management system is an enormous improvement over PSUs that simply have a mass of cables snaking randomly out of them - as I noted soon after installing the Butterfly, when I had to re-open the case to swap in a new graphics accelerator. The cable wraps kept everything tidy, and I no longer found myself longing for a machete to clear a path to the motherboard.
The power supply's tricks don't end there. It has twin 80-millimetre fans, one facing out the back of the computer to draw in fresh air and a second blowing down from the underside of the PSU to keep air flowing over the motherboard and add-in cards. The fans can be automatically controlled by the computer to save power through a sensor cable that plugs into the motherboard. They're set to run at 1,300 RPM at 25 degrees Celcius, and can spin right up to 4,800 RPM if the temperature starts to really climb.
The fans can also be controlled by the two-dial rheostat panel that installs in a standard drive bay on the front of the computer (one dial controls both PSU fans). A simple cable from one of the rheostats connects to a controller cable on the PSU, and that's it. You can use the rheostat dial to override the automatic settings, pushing the PSU fans faster or slowing them down. The rheostat doesn't give you as much peak fan speed as the automatic setting, though - the sensors in the Butterfly reported a maximum speed of 3,056 RPM at full power using the rheostats, but spun much faster when the rheostat cable was disconnected and the PSU went into automatic fan-control mode.
You also have to be careful not to set the speed too low. The rheostat will spin the fans down to 751 RPM on the lowest setting, low enough to allow a major heat buildup in my P4 3.06 GHz machine and trigger alarms in the motherboard monitoring panel. If you're using the manual rheostats settings, I'd strongly advise installing CPU temperature monitoring software (available free from most motherboard vendors' Web sites). The software runs in the background and will sound an alarm if the power or temperature gets beyond recommended limits, and a control panel lets you see the power flow and temperature in various parts of the PC whenever you like.
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Heat won't be a problem if you set the rheostats properly, though. The dials give you the flexibility to set up the fans to cool the computer properly without running too fast and creating extra noise.
The PSU fans push tons of air, but they're extremely quiet thanks to a twin-ball-bearing design. At full blast I could hear them, but at lower RPMs they were so quiet that the noise from the Pentium 4 chip fan inside the computer drowned out the PSU fans.
The second rheostat dial controls the X-Blower case fan that ships with the Purepower 480 package. The fan didn't look like much when I first examined it - it weighs almost nothing and the orange fan blades make it look a bit cheap. But once it was hooked up my doubts were blown away by the gale the unit generated. Rather than a traditional propeller-like fan, this unit is a drum-fan like the one built into home furnaces or automotive air-circulation systems. The drive spindle is at one end, where it can't block airflow - air comes in through the other open end of the drum and is exhausted from the PC through the bladed sides of the hollow drum (a plastic shell surrounding the drum only lets air escape out through a vent that is aimed out the back of the PC). The drum sits vertically inside the PC and it's much deeper than a standard fan (it measure 80-by-80-by-70 millimetres), but it didn't interfere with any boards or components in my system.
As I said, the X Blower's drum is extremely powerful. In my tests it spun at 4,878 RPM at full power (and was noticeably loud) even though Thermaltake rates it at 4,500 RPM max. It also spun at 2,622 RPM on the lowest rheostat setting according to my motherboard's sensors, even though its lowest spin rate is supposed to be 2,100 RPM (part of the difference could have been my motherboard sensors themselves, which are only a rough guide). But even at 2,622 RMP, the X Blower was all but silent (it's rated at less than 17 dBA). The company gauges the airflow capacity at over 25 cubic feet per minute at a pressure of up to 7.5 mmH2O, and says the fan generates 41 dBA of sound at full power.
Using both the drum fan and power supply fans at full power, the average internal PC temperature dropped from around 38 degrees Celcius to an average of about 27 degrees within about a minute. The CPU fan speed also dropped by about 700 RPM. Using a mid-range setting on both rheostats, which keep the fans almost silent, the temperature crept up to nearly 30 degrees Celcius on average (the CPU fan also speed up by about 400 RPM on average to compensate, creating a bit of extra whine).
The Butterfly also jazzes up a PC with some extra colour - fun for PC-tweakers, and a neat conversation piece if your PC is part of a living room entertainment system. It has LEDs inside the PSU that are programmed to pulse and shift randomly between seven different colours. It's not exceptionally bright light, but with the Purepower 480 running you'll see the colours through the fan opening in the back of the PC.
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It's even more dramatic if you have a window in the side of your computer case. The PSU has a removable X-shaped piece of metal on one side that covers a Perspex plate. With the cover removed, the lights shine brightly out through the side of the PSU.
The entire installation of the Butterfly package takes about 15 minutes. Unplug the old power supply from the wall and take the cable off the back of the computer, remove the side of your computer's case, and take out the four screws holding the old power supply. Remove the PSU carefully and lay it on the table by the PC, leaving the wires connected for now if possible. This requires some delicate handling, but I prefer this route because there's less chance of forgetting to connect a cable, or of hooking one up incorrectly (a trick I learned the hard way when replacing a spark plug wiring harness on a car years ago). Once the old power supply is out, bolt the Butterfly into to open PSU slot. At this point, you can start unhooking the old PSU's wires one at a time, connecting the appropriate cable from the Butterfly in its place before moving on to the next cable. This way, you'll know exactly which motherboard couplers the various sensor wires and power feeds should plug into.
Once all the wires are connected, unbolt the existing case fan and install the Butterfly's drum cooler. Then install the rheostat panel in an open drive bay (its dials make the front of a PC look a bit like an old-style radio, with a volume and tuning knob). Run the cable from one rheostat to the connector on the PSU, and the other to the connector on your drum fan. Replace the cover, boot the PC back up, and that's it.
Overall, the Thermaltake Purepower 480 Butterfly adds some fun and flash with its built-in lighting system. But it also stands on its own as a solid power supply for serious tweakers who have a lot of gear connected to their PCs, or who like to push the thermal limits by overclocking their chips. There's lots of power, the output is smooth, the adjustable fans can crank out tons of air or be slowed to a whisper, and the cable management is the icing on the cake. If you're looking for a PSU upgrade or planning to build your own box from scratch, the Butterfly is well worth a look.
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