Crappy PSU

[Bruno_A]

Hey guys, I have a crappy 1:life 600W PSU, and the "silent fan" is not silent at all, so, I was wondering if I could just replace it with an ARCTIC PWM fan or something?

 

Many thanks, Bruno.

[Sir Asvald]

Such an ironic name for a PSU, it'll give your PC 1 life.. 

 

Anyway, get a better PSU. Changing the fan will only make it quite.. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I've seen some people just replace the fan and have the motherboard control it. So, you can, if you don't mind voiding the warranty. And just don't do anything stupid and electrocute yourself. We won't be held responsible.  

[EnergyEclipse]

13 minutes ago, bruny06 said:

Hey guys, I have a crappy 1:life 600W PSU, and the "silent fan" is not silent at all, so, I was wondering if I could just replace it with an ARCTIC PWM fan or something?

 

Many thanks, Bruno.

I shall warn you now that is can be exceptionally dangerous to replace components, even if just a fan inside a PSU without previous experience doing so. Accidentally bridging main capacitors can be fatal as even Linus has mentioned before. I've torn apart many PSUs before to salvage fan headers and SATA power connectors before, but it always scares me still.

 

Also, many PSU fans use that of 2 pin fan connectors, so you would probably have to learn about 'crimping' the different headers on. Fan size can be odd also as some can have odd sizes like 135mm ect.

 

Just buy a modern PSU with a zero fam RPM mode (I strongly doubt your system will ever consume even near 600W so if you do get another 600W zero fan rpm PSU the fan will probably remain off anyway), the dangers to return ratio isn't worth it. Sorry dudes to sound lame D:

[Bruno_A]

 

16 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I've seen some people just replace the fan and have the motherboard control it. So, you can, if you don't mind voiding the warranty. And just don't do anything stupid and electrocute yourself. We won't be held responsible.  

Thinking about it, I'll soon be able to upgrade my PC, so maybe I should just get a new one, I just wanted to replace the fan in the meanwhile as the noise started kind of bothering me...

[Bruno_A]

18 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

Such an ironic name for a PSU, it'll give your PC 1 life.. 

 

Anyway, get a better PSU. Changing the fan will only make it quite.. 

 

12 minutes ago, EnergyEclipse said:

I shall warn you now that is can be exceptionally dangerous to replace components, even if just a fan inside a PSU without previous experience doing so. Accidentally bridging main capacitors can be fatal as even Linus has mentioned before. I've torn apart many PSUs before to salvage fan headers and SATA power connectors before, but it always scares me still.

 

Also, many PSU fans use that of 2 pin fan connectors, so you would probably have to learn about 'crimping' the different headers on. Fan size can be odd also as some can have odd sizes like 135mm ect.

 

Just buy a modern PSU with a zero fam RPM mode (I strongly doubt your system will ever consume even near 600W so if you do get another 600W zero fan rpm PSU the fan will probably remain off anyway), the dangers to return ratio isn't worth it. Sorry dudes to sound lame D:

Yeah, I should probably get a new one, can you guys recommend me a nice one from Aria PC? But please not a super expensive one, I know that the more you spend, the better it will be, but I won't pay £100 for a PSU

[Sir Asvald]

7 minutes ago, bruny06 said:

 

Yeah, I should probably get a new one, can you guys recommend me a nice one from Aria PC? But please not a super expensive one, I know that the more you spend, the better it will be, but I won't pay £100 for a PSU

https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Power+Supplies/Modular+650W+or+less/550W+Corsair+CX550M+Semi+Modular+PSU%2FPower+Supply+?productId=67321

[EnergyEclipse]

13 minutes ago, bruny06 said:

 

Yeah, I should probably get a new one, can you guys recommend me a nice one from Aria PC? But please not a super expensive one, I know that the more you spend, the better it will be, but I won't pay £100 for a PSU

Lol dude realistically, who really needs food and a house? Go and buy yourself a Superflower 2000W PSU and you'll never have to worry about fans again. There so cheap Linus even made a sling shot out of 1200W PSU once!

 

No but almost certainly @Abdul201588 's suggestion, having modularity to PSUs has proven godlike for many of my system builds and with Corsiar standards you'll be a goods 

[Bruno_A]

19 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Power+Supplies/Modular+650W+or+less/550W+Corsair+CX550M+Semi+Modular+PSU%2FPower+Supply+?productId=67321

Thanks mate

[Bruno_A]

10 minutes ago, EnergyEclipse said:

Lol dude realistically, who really needs food and a house? Go and buy yourself a Superflower 2000W PSU and you'll never have to worry about fans again. There so cheap Linus even made a sling shot out of 1200W PSU once!

 

No but almost certainly @Abdul201588 's suggestion, having modularity to PSUs has proven godlike for many of my system builds and with Corsiar standards you'll be a goods 

Yeah, food is overrated