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| Thread ID: 115786 | 2011-02-03 05:58:00 | High Pitched Whine Is Driving Me Crazy! | icow (15313) | Press F1 |
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| 1174968 | 2011-02-04 05:04:00 | The chipset fan on my previous motherboard started getting noisy a few months after purchase, put a drop of olive oil in it and it's been fine for the past 3 years. :lol: | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1174969 | 2011-02-04 05:45:00 | might be worth trying. Or I can run the fans on my new gfx card to drown it out. I'm also looking at buying a x530 surround sound system if the gfx card doesn't that will. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1174970 | 2011-02-04 06:36:00 | If it is the fan you should probably do something about it anyway to make it last longer | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1174971 | 2011-02-04 21:17:00 | ok | icow (15313) | ||
| 1174972 | 2011-02-05 22:38:00 | And how about all the interferrance run bad mouthing power supplies that work O K for most people? Not very scientific, eh. | PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 1174973 | 2011-02-05 22:57:00 | put a drop of olive oil in it Just figured out that this is the F Word forum and not Press F1 .... and Agent 24 is really Gordon Ramsey ... :D |
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| 1174974 | 2011-02-05 23:24:00 | And how about all the interferrance run bad mouthing power supplies that work O K for most people? Not very scientific, eh. Just because the PSU works on Grandma's Celeron from 2002 doesn't mean it's a good PSU. 1) Cheap PSUs are overrated. When it says 350 watts it can probably only do 250 watts. This may not be a bad thing if all YOU want is 250 watts but the rating is still a pack of lies. 2) Cheap PSUs aren't good quality. They use crap capacitors which fail quickly. The heatsinks are too small. The fans wear out and seize up. 3) Cheap PSUs don't have proper protection. Because they are overrated, they often don't have overload protection, or they set the protection far too high, so that the thing can keep going even when it shouldn't be, and you'll think it's better than it really is. This means you can overload the PSU without noticing it, resulting in unclean power delivered to your computer, and shortening the life of the PSU (often rather quickly when it goes up in a shower of sparks). REALLY bad ones don't even have short-circuit protection. 4) Safety. There are a lot of ways a cheap PSU can go up in smoke. Overloading, short circuit, or just general bad quality. For example, The fan stops working (happens easily with cheap fans). The PSU overheats. The PSU doesn't shut down because they didn't put over-temperature protection on it. It catches fire. Your house burns down. 5) Money. You build the latest and greatest machine and then buy the crappiest PSU you can find because for some reason you think it's a good idea, and that Hyena looks great with the blue LEDs all over it. The machine runs OK for a week. You turn it on next morning, the PSU decides to explode for fun and so does your motherboard, hard drives and video card when the PSU sent a huge voltage spike through everything on the way out. Don't agree? Read the following article carefully. The perfect example of a really shitty PSU: www.jonnyguru.com |
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