The noise, THE NOISE!

slowrunner said:
So, reccommendations for a new psu please, as quiet as possible (fanless?), modular, and cheap as possible (this is coming out of my 24" screen budget).
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Especially with fanless PSU components would have to be very high quality ones and those are never cheap.
Even more when blocked exhaust fan forces PSU to suck in most of the heat produced:
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You should take out Dremel and replace that ridiculous stamped mesh with normal finger guard.

Graphics card is a passive HD3450, ...uld get it, the HD4670 was horrendously loud.Those tiny coolers with even smaller fans are always bad... especially when case is acoustical failure and big empty zero.
 
SpeedFan to regulate the RPM of fans when cooling is not 100% essential?

Yes you should change the RPM of the PSU fan, fo a quieter one. :D
 
Have you not got BIOS options with temp gauges to auto slow the fans down when not needed at full speed for cooling?

That helps keep mine silent a lot.
Only gets loud when I game now.
 
slowrunner said:
Case fans I cant hear untill I put my head right next to them, The only audible noise from it is the psu, the cpu fan, and maybe the spinning of the hard drives vibrating through the case.

Just tried running it with no case fans, no hard drives, the noise is the same!
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SpAceD said:
SpeedFan to regulate the RPM of fans when cooling is not 100% essential?
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xe-cute said:
Have you not got BIOS options with temp gauges to auto slow the fans down when not needed at full speed for cooling?
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Do people not read posts fully?
 
Change the fan matey. It's really straightforward, worst case scenario, you need to cut the fan wires of each and join. Sometimes it's a standard 3 pin fan connection inside the PSU.
 
just get some anti-noise padding for the inside of the case, iv got some loud-ish fans in my case but you can't tell with the padding.

if you want to change the fan on the psu, then just buy a bust psu from somewhere, something like a corsair or enermax, and swap the fans around
 
To all the people recommending changing the PSU fan - do you realise that this could lead to the PSU overheating and failing? Replacing the fan and it will send the fan speed out of whack!

They are designed to only work with the included fan...
 
MikeHunt79 said:
To all the people recommending changing the PSU fan - do you realise that this could lead to the PSU overheating and failing? Replacing the fan and it will send the fan speed out of whack!

They are designed to only work with the included fan...
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Depends totally on the PSU and replacement fan choice. It must obviously be done sensibly and carefully.

I've run several PSUs and replaced the fans with Yate-Loons with great success.
 
I'm not comfortable with the idea of chopping parts about in a PSU, especially when it could put everything in the rig at risk of going pop.
 
jellybeard999 said:
Change the fan matey. It's really straightforward, worst case scenario, you need to cut the fan wires of each and join.
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Worst case scenario is PSU cooking up and dying in way which fries every single component of the PC...
Especially when PSU in question is some old and probably very inefficient design.

vti_786 said:
just get some anti-noise padding for the inside of the case, iv got some loud-ish fans in my case but you can't tell with the padding.
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Doesn't work with acoustical failure-case... unless you also block every hole used by airflow.
(and making noisy component quiet would need filling whole case)
 
slowrunner said:
So, reccommendations for a new psu please, as quiet as possible (fanless?), modular, and cheap as possible (this is coming out of my 24" screen budget).
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seasonic. either sold as seasonic, or rebranded (corsair, silverpower, etc).

however I've had the bearings go on a seasonic psu, although I only had that happen once, and I've bought quite a few of them.

when the bearings go, it gets loud. either void the warranty and replace the fan, return the whole thing for repair/replacement (if under warranty), or get a new one :)
 
jellybeard999 said:
Depends totally on the PSU and replacement fan choice. It must obviously be done sensibly and carefully.

I've run several PSUs and replaced the fans with Yate-Loons with great success.
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Perhaps I was a little OTT with my previous post, I have had a PSU go bang, but this was because the fan stopped altogether.

I really think a replacement PSU would be the better option for the OP really, not everyone is confident when taking apart PSU's, as well as voiding your warranty as you have to break the label.

The Nexus Value 420W is both cheaper and quieter than the corsair... Go for this.
 
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