dirty fans

[oldman420]

i have an enermax true quiet psu it has gotton noisier over time is it the fans getting dirty or noisy bearings? any thaughts apreciated

 

[pavy]

depending on how old the power supply is, it could be your bearings. i haven't heard of dust causing noise in a p/su, but you can just vaccume it out through the vent slots and find out. if it continues, then you know it's the bearings.

 

[Tiamat]

In the past, dust has caused my psu to get louder (temp controlled fans) and hotter. I used a can of compressed air and I had to leave my small work area because of the amount of dust that came out of it! (slight hyperbole - but it was quite a thick cloud of dust. Dust gets trapped in teh heat sink of the PSU as well.

 

[oldman420]

thx im going to void the warrenty and pop the top clean it out and replace th fans.

 

[HardWarrior]

I had my PSU out recently and the sheer amount of dust in it was sickening. I'm starting to think that a fanless or water-cooled PSU might not be such a bad investment.

 

[SneakyStuff]

haha I used an air compressor on my friends case today, it blew out so much dust it looked like a sand storm , after I was done the thing was so clean you could see yourself in it But yes, dust + case components = problems.