How to Shut Your PSU Up and Make it Silent + Sexy!

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Ashton

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Hey guys, I've just done a very sucesful mod to my psu. It's a coolermaster extremepower 550W. When I first got it it was very noisy, and returns just sent me another noisy unit. One year later, when the warranty expired, I decided to have another crack at it.

I unplugged my pc, and removed my psu from the computer. Then I unscrewed and removed the top panel of the psu. This will void your warranty. You'll now have the open psu in front of you. Be careful what you touch. You'll have the top panel of the psu with the fan in front of you. Now unplug the fan and unsrew it off it's mountings. Then replace it with a $10 silent led case fan.

You don't need the 2-pin connector, just loop the fan cable outside the power supply and onto the motherboard/molex connector.

Reassemble the power supply, install it back in your pc, boot up and listen to the deep silence, and look at your sexy looking led psu.

Before:
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After:
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Ashton said:
You don't need the 2-pin connector, just loop the fan cable outside the power supply and onto the motherboard/molex connector.
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Hey dude...I think you may have missed a corner...

The problem that I have with connecting the PSU fan directly to the motherboard...is that it could eliminate...the controller that will speed up your PSU fan...when the temperature is higher than it should be.

That does not sound very Sexy to me.

I have replaced the PSU fan...by cutting the wires...and soldering them together... and applying electrical tape over the exposed wire...inside the PSU.

My reason (for doing this) was not to make it silent....but to replace a defective fan.
 
Yeah I understand that, however my case cooling (antec 900 + extra fan) is excellent. So I don't think I'll need variable fan speeds. The fan I found inside the psu was a no name brand, and I replaced it with a cooler master fan. I also cleaned out all the dust, something a warranty holder would never be able to do.

So I doubt the temperature would be higher than it should be.
 
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