PSU making weird ass noise, Borked?

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  1. Vosse

    Vosse Well Known Member

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    Okay, so a few days ago my brother's custom mini-ATX rig I built about 3 months ago started making this weird ass noise.

    At first I thought it was the CPU fan , so I stopped the fan with my finger and that wasn't it.

    I then pinpointed the sound to the PSU
    which is linked below
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171031
    (was 40$ when I bought it)


    Just my bad luck or what? It's worked perfectly fine until a few days ago it's still practically brand new.

    Computer performance hasn't been affected AFIK but the noise is Really fucking loud as linked below looped twice (Note however it sounds a bit distorted due to increasing the volume of the recording by 150%)
    http://www.box.net/shared/qac6to2lh8

    so do you guys think it's borked and I should try to RMA it?
     
  2. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    never buy cooler master, all the stuff I ever bought from them died early.
     
  3. Vosse

    Vosse Well Known Member

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  4. Tatsujin

    Tatsujin Officer at Arms

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    How does a weird ass noise sound like?
     
  5. Vosse

    Vosse Well Known Member

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    Listen to the Box.net link I posted
     
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    Alchy Illustrious Member

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    If you have a can of duster/compressed air, blow some of that through it. If that doesn't fix it you'll want to replace it before it blows and kills everything attached to it.
     
  7. Vosse

    Vosse Well Known Member

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    Just straight through it eh? Like this?
    [​IMG]
     
  8. Alchy

    Alchy Illustrious Member

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    Both.

    Make sure it's off and unplugged.
     
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