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 Hello. I have a CX550M psu. I built a pc before one week and everything working properly. Today, the fan of the psu started to spin very fast and become noisy. I am very confused as the power supply produce no heat at the back exhuast. Finally, I am using the pc as i was using it before. Can someone help please. Thanks.

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What are your specs?

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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12 minutes ago, Andreas_20 said:

 Hello. I have a CX550M psu. I built a pc before one week and everything working properly. Today, the fan of the psu started to spin very fast and become noisy. I am very confused as the power supply produce no heat at the back exhuast. Finally, I am using the pc as i was using it before. Can someone help please. Thanks.

I have a CX450M. The fan on it spins up if the computer starts drawing about 200-250W (so during typical gaming for my case). That's fine, if you're really annoyed you could mod a quieter fan like an NF-F12 in there (there are guides on youtube for that), but generally since PSUs last longer the cooler their components are, I don't mind some PSU fan noise.

 

Now if you're hearing it be loud at idle, that would be time to contact Corsair

We have a NEW and GLORIOUSER-ER-ER PSU Tier List Now. (dammit @LukeSavenije stop coming up with new ones)

You can check out the old one that gave joy to so many across the land here

 

Computer having a hard time powering on? Troubleshoot it with this guide. (Currently looking for suggestions to update it into the context of <current year> and make it its own thread)

Computer Specs:

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Mathresolvermajig: Intel Xeon E3 1240 (Sandy Bridge i7 equivalent)

Chillinmachine: Noctua NH-C14S
Framepainting-inator: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrid

Attachcorethingy: Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3

Infoholdstick: Corsair 2x4GB DDR3 1333

Computerarmor: Silverstone RL06 "Lookalike"

Rememberdoogle: 1TB HDD + 120GB TR150 + 240 SSD Plus + 1TB MX500

AdditionalPylons: Phanteks AMP! 550W (based on Seasonic GX-550)

Letterpad: Rosewill Apollo 9100 (Cherry MX Red)

Buttonrodent: Razer Viper Mini + Huion H430P drawing Tablet

Auralnterface: Sennheiser HD 6xx

Liquidrectangles: LG 27UK850-W 4K HDR

 

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4 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I have a CX450M. The fan on it spins up if the computer starts drawing about 200-250W (so during typical gaming for my case). That's fine, if you're really annoyed you could mod a quieter fan like an NF-F12 in there (there are guides on youtube for that), but generally since PSUs last longer the cooler their components are, I don't mind some PSU fan noise.

 

Now if you're hearing it be loud at idle, that would be time to contact Corsair

Hello. I agree with you. I wonder why this happen, as before one week, when i built the system, i couldnt even hear the fan.

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Just now, Andreas_20 said:

Hello. I agree with you. I wonder why this happen, as before one week, when i built the system, i couldnt even hear the fan.

I'm not sure. Perhaps you didn't notice it before because it was only running while other, louder fans were running.

We have a NEW and GLORIOUSER-ER-ER PSU Tier List Now. (dammit @LukeSavenije stop coming up with new ones)

You can check out the old one that gave joy to so many across the land here

 

Computer having a hard time powering on? Troubleshoot it with this guide. (Currently looking for suggestions to update it into the context of <current year> and make it its own thread)

Computer Specs:

Spoiler

Mathresolvermajig: Intel Xeon E3 1240 (Sandy Bridge i7 equivalent)

Chillinmachine: Noctua NH-C14S
Framepainting-inator: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrid

Attachcorethingy: Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3

Infoholdstick: Corsair 2x4GB DDR3 1333

Computerarmor: Silverstone RL06 "Lookalike"

Rememberdoogle: 1TB HDD + 120GB TR150 + 240 SSD Plus + 1TB MX500

AdditionalPylons: Phanteks AMP! 550W (based on Seasonic GX-550)

Letterpad: Rosewill Apollo 9100 (Cherry MX Red)

Buttonrodent: Razer Viper Mini + Huion H430P drawing Tablet

Auralnterface: Sennheiser HD 6xx

Liquidrectangles: LG 27UK850-W 4K HDR

 

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