I'm using my computer as a sampling station/audio workstation. I have a SeaSonic 350W Super Tornado and I want to stop the fan for better acoustics. Does anyone know how long I can do this before my PSU will heat up? The PSU will be powering an Asus A8V Deluxe, Athlon64 Winchester, one Samsung hard disk (I may add a second one in the future), a dual head NForce MX4000 video card, a WiFi card, and an E-mu 1212M sound card. I'm guessing the current draw for all of this will be relatively light.
I'm considering stopping my PSU fan
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Instead of stopping the fan, I would replace the internal PSU fan with one that you can control or that is max quiet to begin with like the Panaflo L1A. Just make sure you have it connected right - I almost burnt out one of my PSUs due to poor contact on a fan extension. Man, it was right on the edge of releasing its magic smoke... 
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It's pretty quiet as is, but I doubt that it's 120dB SNR quiet.
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I only need to stop it briefly. No more than five minutes. A mere 60 seconds would be good.
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I only need to stop it briefly. No more than five minutes. A mere 60 seconds would be good.
I'm considering stopping my PSU fan=I'm considering destroying my pc
NOT a solution. If you want better acoustics you should have bought a www.silenx.com PSU in the first place. No matter what sites "claim" about the quietness of Seasonic, Zalman, etc PSUs they are full of sh*t, those PSUs, as you know, are still quite loud.
NOT a solution. If you want better acoustics you should have bought a www.silenx.com PSU in the first place. No matter what sites "claim" about the quietness of Seasonic, Zalman, etc PSUs they are full of sh*t, those PSUs, as you know, are still quite loud.
Not only that but if you buy a fanless PSU you better have some excellent case cooling. A fanless CPU just moves one problem (noise from the PSU fan) to another (need excellent case airflow due to all the heat the fanless PSU is dumping inside the case) Fanless PSUs are pointless. Trust me, www.silenx.com They are the only PSUs that I have found (I've tried them all) that are actually quiet.
If I first crank the PSU fan, then I may be able to get it cool enough that that fan can be stopped for 60 seconds. On the other hand it might already be that cool.
It's your own PSU's death. I've had my PSU fan die before and it's bye bye PSU within about 30sec.
I stopped my CPU fan the other day and ran Prime95. The CPU temp stabilized at 57C, but when I stopped the front case fan it started to rise again.
I REALLY would not suggest this. I'll admit that I don't know if it'll work or not, but if it doesn't then you'll possibly lose way more than the cost of a real fanless PSU + a couple extra system fans.
30 seconds? The temperature in this room is well below the PSUs max operating temperature. Do you really think it can cook that fast?
Perhaps I will have to mount a thermal sensor in the PSU and see for myself how long the it takes to heat up.
While stopping it isnt a good idea, a friend of mine had her Compaq ps fan die (locked up), she ran it for about 2 months that way, 8-12 hours a day. I couldnt bekieve it, but it ran and survived. No other fans in the case either.
That's right, stopping your PSU fan.. sounds insane, because why do you think manufacturers even built them onto the PSU's in the first place?
If you don't mind, check this cheap-priced PSU out, comes with a huge fan, quiet enough, and has an LED flashing out of it, and the best part is, it's 500w!!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817192002
If you don't mind, check this cheap-priced PSU out, comes with a huge fan, quiet enough, and has an LED flashing out of it, and the best part is, it's 500w!!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817192002
Do some more research that psu sucks and you can take out ur psu fan but its very dangrous considering right when you plug in ur psu there is enough power in it to kill you instantly.
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You cannot stop the fan for days and leave it running with any kind of stress. There is a reason that fan is in there.
If Seasonic is too loud for you the only way to get quieter is to go fanless. Seasonic is already as quiet as you get. Dont be fooled, SilenX is horrible.
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I wouldn't advise stopping the fan all together. However, for my HTPC, I've modded my fan so it works from the 5v rail, I didn't even bother with the 7V mod. The fan starts fine and I've been running it this way, 24-7, for about 8 months now. Also, this is a cheapo PS that came with a $30 case. What can I say, I like to tempt fate.
However, my HTPC is not under an undue amount of load, it's only a 900MHz Athlon with an FX5200, PC100 memory, network card, sound card, and capture card. It never does anything very intensive. If you expect your system to do some real work, you should leave the PS fan alone, or replace it with a quieter one.
However, my HTPC is not under an undue amount of load, it's only a 900MHz Athlon with an FX5200, PC100 memory, network card, sound card, and capture card. It never does anything very intensive. If you expect your system to do some real work, you should leave the PS fan alone, or replace it with a quieter one.
Is the PSU really that loud? I've got a SeaSonic S12, and it's much quieter than my CPU/case/video fans. Why is the PSU fan even a concern? Did you shut off all the fans in your case?
If you really need things extra quiet for recording, I'd suggest getting KVM extensions and putting the system in a separate room.
You're an idiot. Fanless PSUs aren't voodoo magic. They pretty much just have better heatsinks. It takes time for a PSU to heat up after you stop the fan, and if you're not stressing it, you've certainly got a good 2+ minutes before there's much of a temperature change at all.
I take that back. You're an amazingly huge idiot. What, did you just happen to know the split-second your PSU fan stopped spinning?
I had the bearings go in a cheap Dell PSU fan and it started to make a terrible noise, so I jammed a pencil in it to stop the fan. I forgot about it and left the pencil in the back of my PC for over a week before the PSU died ... although I could see things were a little melty in there when Dell's next-day on-site service came to swap it out.
my sister's emachine's PSU fan stopped working and it was probably about 2-3months before it was noticed and there were no ill effects.
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not that i would suggest you stopping your PSU fan, as that would be a dumb thing to purposefully do unless your were trying to break something.
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not that i would suggest you stopping your PSU fan, as that would be a dumb thing to purposefully do unless your were trying to break something.
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