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Old 03-16-08   #11 (permalink)
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I would like to think that people are intelligent enough to realize that there are fans on PSU's for a reason...

They do make PSU's that are designed to run fan less, but even those get fairly hot, and don't pack much of a punch wattage wise.

If you want to get clever, you could water cool a PSU... If you but a block on everything that gets warm... But that seems to be more hassle than its worth...

You could probably get away with replacing the fans in your PSU with some lower Dba... Just make sure that the replacement fan is the same thickness of the original, and very similar air flow... A decent after market fan will push more air that most stock fans...
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That's actually quite exaggerated. It was the case years ago, but even then it was rare. Usually the user had to be doing something really stupid for something like that to occur.

These days PSU's have come a long way and with all their protection in place, they will shut down before any of these sort of things could possibly occur.
In the last year, I've seen 3-4 cases where PSU took out a system component like video card.
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That's actually quite exaggerated. It was the case years ago, but even then it was rare. Usually the user had to be doing something really stupid for something like that to occur.

These days PSU's have come a long way and with all their protection in place, they will shut down before any of these sort of things could possibly occur.
Tell that to my last computer that got fried (MoBo, CPU and Video card) by a 3 week old PSU about a year ago.
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