The PSU is a Corsair RM1000x that I just bought from Amazon, and the fan is the Noctua NF-A14 FLX. The fan never turns off, and it's pretty loud. I went ahead and installed it without the dampening cable, so it's full force, but I'm wondering why it's always on. Even in the manual, it states that it will only turn on at 50% load, but it's way below that. I tested the actual connections, thinking the sense signal was messed up, but everything is good. The fan is just always loud. I'm thinking I should've gotten the Noctua NF-A14 ULN instead, but I bet that one would always be on as well, even if it were quieter. All the fans in my PC are Noctuas, and that stupid PSU fan makes the most noise. This thing is loud as shit. What should I do, anons?
>he opened up the psu
I feel like a bit of a moron, since I soldered the PSU fan connection directly into the fan cable, instead of the extension cable, which I could've used as an adaptor. I wish I knew the name of the fan connection, because I could buy another fan and just use that adaptor.
>being a pussy bitch
Honestly, now that I think about it, such a setup wouldn't be too bad for a dedicated gaming PC, because the volume of this fan is 19.2 dB, while the stock fan reaches that volume around 650 watts, but I primarily use my PC for other tasks. Now I'm thinking about modding in an off switch for the fan into the fan positive cable, but I don't know how I'd set that up. Maybe a little toggle switch. I bet I could also use that in conjunction with a resistor to introduce a low-noise option.
hey retard
use one of these
if loud use two
What is the resistance for the NA-RC11? My 140mm fan comes with an NA-RC10 and an NA-RC11. On my Fluke 179, I'm reading around 100 ohms on the positive lead, so I'm guessing the NA-RC12 is effectively a two-in-one of the NA-RC10 and NA-RC11 to save space.
oh nvm youre just some thick skull contrarian cunt
Wouldn't it be based to be able to manually adjust PSU fan speed with the flip of a toggle switch at the back of the PSU? All I would need to do is attach the positive lead of the fan to the toggle switch, and attach two leads going towards the connector, one with a 2 watt 100 ohm resistor inline. (The fan should only pull 0.96 W maximum, but I'd install a 2 W resistor to keep myself from getting any headaches.)
>le based if i le solder le switches
you dont impress highschool trannies here , go back
I am a 23-year-old man, but I would love to have a high school tranny girlfriend. I just saw a girl who appeared to be middle school aged at this Southern Baptist church I work for alone by herself (I'm not even a christcuck.), and I saw her feet, unfortunately in socks, in flip flops. I would've loved to have gotten a chance to sniff her feet for hours and slobber all over her feet for hours, but had I spoken to her, likely a lot of people in the church would've found out eventually. It's not like I'm a pastor there, where I would benefit from a certain level of immunity.
kys pedo
She looked like she was 12 or 13.
>modding in an off switch for the fan
thats fucking retarded
I would turn it on when I'm doing 4K gaming on my RTX 3080. I got a good price on this thing, since the previous owner couldn't figure out how to get any of the DisplayPorts to work. This card does have issues with the DisplayPorts, though, but after using Display Driver Uninstaller, installing the latest drivers for the GPU, and cycling the computer on and off multiple times, I finally managed to get it to work reliably, and I even have G-SYNC working on a FreeSync monitor.
wtf r u talking about. this thread is about a PSU fan and youre talking about the deal you got on your GPU
OP what do your parents do for work just curious
I work with my Dad as a dishwasher. He's the chef at a local church. It's funny, because he works for a Baptist church when he's a Catholic, and I'm not even Christian.
how many wires was the psu fan? how many is the noctua?
PSU fans don't need to follow the same wiring conventions as case fans, so they probably had a PWM fan in there and you replaced it with a variable voltage fan.
I imagine they also had a proprietary mode of communication between the fan and the PSU. If they actually go this far to fuck over consumers for wanting different fans, then fuck Corsair.
Untrained people shouldn't really be inside PSUs anyway.
>he hasn't opened up PSUs and CRTs.
ngmi
You're retarded, but go off.
I can't really return the PSU, unless I try to resolder the connectors for the original fan, but I feel like that would be a waste of time and effort. What do you think of the toggle switch idea? It would still be annoying to constantly have the fan at max RPM during gaming, though.
Why a switch and not a potentiometer?
I've also thought of this. I'm thinking modding this PSU was a mistake. I should've just bought a titanium PSU that would rarely have the fan spin up. I spent $26 on the Noctua after taxes, but I got the brown one. Had I gotten the black one, and tried to return it, they likely wouldn't have noticed. I could try to return it, but they would be pissed if they recognized the fan were different. I could try resoldering the old one back in, but I'd hate to reverse my work.
Honestly don't know why you even modded it in the first place.
I wanted the fan to be ultra quiet. I ended up with a fan that is on full blast all the time.
just connect the fan header to your motherboard and use software to control the fan to speed up as your GPU temp goes up.
unless you do some CPU heavy shit then you can link the curve to that instead, GPU temp is basically linear with power consumption.
You wanted an ultra silent fan, so you replaced the fan that would be off most of the time anyway.
Yeah, not making much sense there.
That's already one of the quietest psu's, I have the same one in pic related and I literally never ever hear the PSU fan, even with an absolutely quietmaxxed setup. 14% fan speed idle and 49% fan speed at 100% load for 8+ hours, and the PSU still isn't audible over a12x25's at like 700rpm, I even waterblocked the chipset fan for noise reasons and the PSU still isn't even on my radar
At the beginning of Quiet Quest™ I considered getting a passive/solid state PSU or a waterblocked one (if that exists) but Corsair PSU's barely run the fans under like 450w anyway, and when it does run it's quieter than radiator fans so there's no real point. Chipset fan noise was surprisingly the loudest thing in the case
Literal exact same PSU, system was on and hestsoaked when I took this pic (fan not spinning)
this
i have the older hx750 platinum, corsair psu fans virtually never turn on. op you ruined your brand new psu to make it infinitely louder lmfao
I'm going to resolder the old fan onto the same connection and return it, because I just bought this 1200W Titanium Be Quiet PSU for $250, minus the $30 shipping and not including sales taxes.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/386002013000
What kind of dumb fuck replaces the fan on their psu and then complains about the noise?
fuck around and find out, you shouldn't have bothered in the first place