Is your 450w PSU producing unusual sounds because it isn't suited for your requirements?
Is your 450w PSU producing unusual sounds because it isn't suited for your requirements?
Weird sounds aren't a positive indication. Is it a coil issue or what does it sound like? Record it, upload it to YouTube or something similar, and share the link here.
i switched webrowsers and listened. a chirping noise cause by rotation. thanks for your tweet.
NO. You are right in your suspicion. Chirping is not normal and could indicate early failure.
You may consider returning it: after checking a few other things.
However you didn't say if this is a new PC or if this is a 10yr old pc. If it's say 6yr old then guess the fan is beginning to fail.
You checked to see if the psu fan cause of the noise right? Did you open the case side to see if one of the other (3) fans in the PC aren't the fan causing the chirping?
(an old brushless fan failing makes a plastic fast rattling noise that is very noisy.. brrrrrrrr. so you don't have a failing brushless fan)
(i'm not sure what noise a failing double bearing fan failing makes because i've never had one fail before it got de-commissioned. Corsair has a new style brushless called "rifle bearing" also "fluid bearing" (both do not heave roller bearings) - i've
not
owned one i can't say what the failing noise is. )
Being a chirp: Either the fan is rubbing on something (in which case just tie your wires) or loose (screws loose allowing a rubbing chirp to be made) or or is actually failed the manufacturing process (the spindle is doing something very strange).
It is clearly the PSU, here’s a better video
Watch: https://youtu.be/LR14jJPGWzc