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Leo_Dahlin
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I have an old Corsair CX500W that gets noisy for no reason when i'm surfing the web for about 2 hours.

The fans ramp up and it start to whine a little. 

It's pretty old and dusty, so my question is, can i open it up and spray some canned air on it and clean it up? I don't know much about PSU cleaning.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

Second PC: EVGA Reference GTX 680, i7 2700k, 16GB DDR3, Corsair 300R, Corsair CX500W, Windows 10

 

Laptop: Acer Aspire 5750G, GT540M, i7 2630QM, 6GB DDR3, Windows 7 

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3 minutes ago, tv15dsi said:

Well... yes.

You should be able to clean it out with canned air without any problems.

Here's a tech yes city video about cleaning a psu:
 

 

Okay but he is not using canned air tho. But it will probably work fine.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

Second PC: EVGA Reference GTX 680, i7 2700k, 16GB DDR3, Corsair 300R, Corsair CX500W, Windows 10

 

Laptop: Acer Aspire 5750G, GT540M, i7 2630QM, 6GB DDR3, Windows 7 

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12 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

can i open it up and spray some canned air on it and clean it up?

open up no

clean with canned air yes

dont open up a psu if you dont know what you're doing

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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I would suggest you clean out your PSU because if that thing blows your computer can go with it

Laptop:

https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=133907654097
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/24131312

Desktop: TO BE BENCHMARKED

 

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7 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

Okay but he is not using canned air tho. But it will probably work fine.

He's using something cheaper, waaaay cheaper than canned air.
But its the same thing, except you need to wait ages before any liquid on the cheaper stuff will dry

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Grammar xD
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2 minutes ago, tv15dsi said:

He's using something cheaper, waaaay cheaper than canned air.
But its the same thing, except you need to wait ages before the cheaper stuff will dry any liquid.

I used canned air to clean all the psus and entire computers I fix so canned air should work fine just be sure to clean off the heatsyncs and fanblades good and also the grilles that cover the fan and back of the power supply so theres nothing blocking the intake and exhaust

Laptop:

https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=133907654097
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/24131312

Desktop: TO BE BENCHMARKED

 

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28 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

open up no

clean with canned air yes

dont open up a psu if you dont know what you're doing

hehehe, you do not want to see my psu in another computer. I have opened it multiple times to do stuff and now I have it running with bare cables straight to the motherboard lol. I have kept them in place with zip ties but mainly hazard tape to secure it. The PC works great tho...

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1 minute ago, Brennan_Price said:

hehehe, you do not want to see my psu in another computer. I have opened it multiple times to do stuff and now I have it running with bare cables straight to the motherboard lol. I have kept them in place with zip ties but mainly hazard tape to secure it. The PC works great tho...

as long as you're still alive `-`

just hope no "whoops" happens

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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as long as you're still alive `-`

just hope no "whoops" happens

haha, yeah we can only hope. Agreeably it is a crap PSU from some prebuilt system but I have had no problems with it and is reliable as anything. I have shorted it out many times, cut up the cables because a mouse chewed the connectors and it has even become a power supply for loads of desk fans when in the summer. They are just to name a few things that have happened to it in its previous life lol.

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2 hours ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

I have an old Corsair CX500W that gets noisy for no reason when i'm surfing the web for about 2 hours.

The fans ramp up and it start to whine a little. 

It's pretty old and dusty, so my question is, can i open it up and spray some canned air on it and clean it up? I don't know much about PSU cleaning.

If this CX500 is powering the build in your signature then please replace it like naow

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On 2016-04-11 at 6:58 PM, STRMfrmXMN said:

If this CX500 is powering the build in your signature then please replace it like naow

No i have an EVGA 750W G2, the CX500 is powering a GTX 680 and i7 2700k.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

Second PC: EVGA Reference GTX 680, i7 2700k, 16GB DDR3, Corsair 300R, Corsair CX500W, Windows 10

 

Laptop: Acer Aspire 5750G, GT540M, i7 2630QM, 6GB DDR3, Windows 7 

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43 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

No i have an EVGA 750W G2, the CX500 is powering a GTX 680 and i7 2700k.

680s PRODUCE EVEN MORE HEAT THAN A 980TI AGH

 

That low temperature tolerance still applies there. Unless the 680 machine is used only very occasionally I'd replace it soon. 

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