I just bought a Coolermaster 330 to replace my parent's Hewlett Packard "purple place" box - the innards are getting a bit toasty so I figured best to try to prolong the life of them.
Unfortunately, the power supply in the old box gets jammed on the io shield area of the new one, the culprit being the fan on the PSU.
Considering it's only a 300W PSU which was entrusted previously with drawing all of the heat out of the system, I can't imagine it actually produces THAT much heat itself. If I removed the fan - aside from any other safety aspects such as being able to touch the inside of the PSU - would there be any real danger of serious harm from the heat produced?
At the moment they simply can't afford £35 for a new PSU, but I'm getting more and more concerned about the rest of the components. There's nowhere to install a system fan and the CPU and PSU fans both don't run as fast as they used to.
If there's any risk there's no way I'll do it - but I'd like to get the kit into the new case.
Unfortunately, the power supply in the old box gets jammed on the io shield area of the new one, the culprit being the fan on the PSU.
Considering it's only a 300W PSU which was entrusted previously with drawing all of the heat out of the system, I can't imagine it actually produces THAT much heat itself. If I removed the fan - aside from any other safety aspects such as being able to touch the inside of the PSU - would there be any real danger of serious harm from the heat produced?
At the moment they simply can't afford £35 for a new PSU, but I'm getting more and more concerned about the rest of the components. There's nowhere to install a system fan and the CPU and PSU fans both don't run as fast as they used to.
If there's any risk there's no way I'll do it - but I'd like to get the kit into the new case.