Greetings fellow overclockers!
I recently bought a PC and am pretty satisfied with it, apart from the noise. I bought the Kaze Master II fan controller (after excellent advice from this very forum, namely EarthDog and MattNo5ss) and this helped reduce the noise considerably, however the problem remains. It seems now that the source of the noise is the PSU. It's again a "fan" humming sound, I think like the one the PSU is supposed to make when it starts but then subside, you know? Well, it doesn't. It keeps humming.
It is not a matter of dust or anything, I cleaned it quite thoroughly with the vacuum cleaner. Although there was an evil "dust bunny" underneath, there was no improvement after its removal.
I read somewhere that the CPU power saving features in the BIOS can cause the PSU to emit the noise and if they're disabled this may cure the problem. What are those features, though? I should also add that the motherboard comes with an EasyTune6 thingie, if anyone's familiar with it. Perhaps something can come out of that?
Any other reasons or suggestions? I truly hope it's something that can be solved softwarewise and not simply a faulty PSU that has to be replaced. It's still under guarantee, but it's nonetheless an inconvenience. I also wouldn't want to go so far as to open the PSU myself and oil the axis of the fan, as I saw suggested elsewhere. Of course, if any of those is the real cause, I'll go for it. Oh well.
My setup:
PSU: Coolermaster SilentPro (500W)
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 (s1155, 3,4 GHz, 8MB)
M/B: Gigabyte P67A D3 B3 (s1155, P67, DDR3)
HDD: HDD WD SATA II 1.5 TB 64MB RE4
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 Series 120 GB SSD (2,5'', Sata 6Gb/s, AGT3-25SAT3-120G)
OS: Windows 7, 64bit
(if any additional info is needed, please let me know)
Thanks again for all the feedback, I really appreciate all the help.
I recently bought a PC and am pretty satisfied with it, apart from the noise. I bought the Kaze Master II fan controller (after excellent advice from this very forum, namely EarthDog and MattNo5ss) and this helped reduce the noise considerably, however the problem remains. It seems now that the source of the noise is the PSU. It's again a "fan" humming sound, I think like the one the PSU is supposed to make when it starts but then subside, you know? Well, it doesn't. It keeps humming.
It is not a matter of dust or anything, I cleaned it quite thoroughly with the vacuum cleaner. Although there was an evil "dust bunny" underneath, there was no improvement after its removal.
I read somewhere that the CPU power saving features in the BIOS can cause the PSU to emit the noise and if they're disabled this may cure the problem. What are those features, though? I should also add that the motherboard comes with an EasyTune6 thingie, if anyone's familiar with it. Perhaps something can come out of that?
Any other reasons or suggestions? I truly hope it's something that can be solved softwarewise and not simply a faulty PSU that has to be replaced. It's still under guarantee, but it's nonetheless an inconvenience. I also wouldn't want to go so far as to open the PSU myself and oil the axis of the fan, as I saw suggested elsewhere. Of course, if any of those is the real cause, I'll go for it. Oh well.
My setup:
PSU: Coolermaster SilentPro (500W)
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 (s1155, 3,4 GHz, 8MB)
M/B: Gigabyte P67A D3 B3 (s1155, P67, DDR3)
HDD: HDD WD SATA II 1.5 TB 64MB RE4
SSD: OCZ Agility 3 Series 120 GB SSD (2,5'', Sata 6Gb/s, AGT3-25SAT3-120G)
OS: Windows 7, 64bit
(if any additional info is needed, please let me know)
Thanks again for all the feedback, I really appreciate all the help.