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Thread ID: 115246 2011-01-09 13:58:00 PSU making hard disk like noises... urbanguerilla (16164) Press F1
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1168372 2011-01-09 13:58:00 The noises go away when I change Power Plan settings in Win7 to Powersaver, and if I stick it to Balanced... it only makes the noise as I make movements with the mouse whilst browsing... and it I set it on High Performance the noise is constant.

Is the 500W Coolermaster PSU that came with my Coolermaster 600 series case not powerful enough to run my i5 750 + GTX460 or is it just faulty?
urbanguerilla (16164)
1168373 2011-01-09 18:16:00 Probably the fan bearings. pctek (84)
1168374 2011-01-09 22:27:00 How old is the PSU ... and how much dust have the fan blades accumulated ? Maybe it just needs a good blowout to clear the dust out ... worth trying & costs nothing. SP8's (9836)
1168375 2011-01-10 00:34:00 squeeling capacitors at a guess. Alex B (15479)
1168376 2011-01-10 07:24:00 PSU is less than a week old.

Fan's fine... the sound is quite apparent on bootup when the PSU is accessing the HDDs. It sounds like a modem

AlexB, you're not far off I think... quite sure it's either the capacitors or coils, from what i've read elsewhere on the web.

RMA o'clock methinks
urbanguerilla (16164)
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