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Hey guys just got a new Corsair GS 700 and the noises coming from it are god awful, I did a google search and saw others were complaining about the noise and apparently its just the fan spinning up. But honestly it sounds like no fan I've ever heard spinning up, its a hideous ticking noise followed by a sharp shrill .. then goes dead silent. With the side of my case on, being a fractal its all lined with thick stuff, I don't hear my asus gtx 670 at all even with a very aggressive fan curve set up, I can barely hear the corsair fans on the H100 radiator, I cant even hear the little fans on the sabertooth motherboard that I've heard others complain about, but the Corsair GS .... I can even hear it over my headphones while listening to music. Maybe I have just the wrong amount of load on it to make it constantly switch on and off?

Anyways I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same issue with this PSU and been able to perhaps adjust something to make the fan constantly spin or reduce the noise in any way.
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Woah what a coincidence i bought one just there on Saturday. I couldn't be bothered getting an RMA so I just opened it up and put another fan in but this time I ran the fan from the motherboard. The power delivery is fine as it handles my phenom 955BE and my GTX580 fine
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I had one temporarily while I waited on a RMA, and the one I had did the same thing. I think it was actually the fan spinning down that made the annoying noise on mine, but since it is a temp controlled fan it kept spinning up and then spinning down and making that noise. I think I finally just put an external fan under it to blow cool air in there and keep the internal fan from turning on.
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