Is there a way to increase my fan speed

[tigersty1e]

How can I increase my fan speed on my PSU?

 

[myocardia]

You can't, unless you've got one of the 4 or 5 PSU's that have been made with a fan speed adjustment knob.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
How can I increase my fan speed on my PSU?

Put a >300W load on it.

http://www.corsair.com/_images...vels_graph_399x302.gif

Why are you trying to speed it up?

 

[SerpentRoyal]

The 520 and 620 are set to run at very low fan speed up to about 70-75% load to give the illusion of a very quiet PSU. Therefore, the internal components run hotter. The Seasonic and Antec TruePower Trio PSUs use the same core topoly and high speed ADDA 120mm cooling fan. However, their fan controllers ramp up at a lower load. Antec starts raising fan voltage as low as 200 watts output.

 

[tomoyo]

Originally posted by: SerpentRoyal
The 520 and 620 are set to run at very low fan speed up to about 70-75% load to give the illusion of a very quiet PSU. Therefore, the internal components run hotter. The Seasonic and Antec TruePower Trio PSUs use the same core topoly and high speed ADDA 120mm cooling fan. However, their fan controllers ramp up at a lower load. Antec starts raising fan voltage as low as 200 watts output.

I don't think there is an illusion here, it's the exactly what you want for a quiet psu. Also, although the components may not run as cool, they're efficient and sturdy enough to handle such situations, otherwise the 5 year warranty makes no sense.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

The Antec and Seasonic units have the same efficiency curves...within +/-1.5%. Therefore, thermal dissipation should be similar between these models. These is no free lunch. Once the output power exceeds 200 watts, the CPU, GPU, and case fans will drown out any small increase in PSU noise.