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Today I bought a new EVGA Supernova NEX650G. I really like it, but the fan on it is loud even on idle.  My old PSU had a really nice quiet fan, but it wasn't able to handle my 280x. Is it normal to be that loud?

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never owned one myself but normally PSUs are not that loud

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define loud and what you are doing is it loud when you idle on the desktop or in games?

It's almost louder than my 3 Fractal Design 140 mm fans. And it' idle on desktop.

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you may need to get one of a higher wattage.... i know sometimes when a psu is pushed to its limits the fan needs to fun at a ridiculous speed to keep it cool which can damage the motor causing excess noise. if not that check to see if the thing has a software thing that you can control the fan curve and maybe its set to run at max the whole time

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It's almost louder than my 3 Fractal Design 140 mm fans. And it' idle on desktop.

thats strange it could be a bad fan but i have no experience with the smaller evga psus

 

 

edit: quick google showed that the psu was noticeable loud at even 50% load so that is most likely the problem as hammerslap1 said

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thats strange it could be a bad fan but i have no experience with the smaller evga psus

 

 

edit: quick google showed that the psu was noticeable loud at even 50% load so that is most likely the problem as hammerslap1 said

It should be entirely fixable by just replacing the fan.

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Yea ofc the NEX650G is a super loud PSU. Just return it if you don't like it.

 

thats strange it could be a bad fan but i have no experience with the smaller evga psus

 

 

edit: quick google showed that the psu was noticeable loud at even 50% load so that is most likely the problem as hammerslap1 said

Oh... Well it's not that big of a deal because I wear headphones, it was just strange to me that this fan is loud.

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Oh... Well it's not that big of a deal because I wear headphones, it was just strange to me that this fan is loud.

Well you might get annoyed of it somewhere in the future, just for 20$ you can get a 750 G2 thats million times better quality/performance wise along with a semi-passive fan mode. If you can return it do it imo.

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Well you might get annoyed of it somewhere in the future, just for 20$ you can get a 750 G2 thats million times better quality/performance wise along with a semi-passive fan mode. If you can return it do it imo.

Nah it's okay I was just surprised how louder it is than my old PSU.

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