My Corsair HX850w has been quite quiet the 1 and 1/2 months that I've owned it. Its fan only starts up when I put the PC under load, and it has never once shut off on me.
I'm starting to hear these random "click" noises, almost like the snap of static electricity or the clicking of a light switch. It makes ONE SINGLE CLICK NOISE, and then stays quiet.... This happens SOMETIMES when I start or stop a program, AKA putting the psu under load or relieving its load, or when I start or shutdown my computer. It doesn't behave like this everytime, its almost completely random.
The oddest thing is that I sometimes hear this when my PC is off too, sometimes 2-4 times an hour... I can't don't think its coming from the speakers, it sounds like a more metallic clicking noise, not a static "pop" of a speaker being charged.
I'm about 90% sure its the PSU, and don't know what to think of it. MOBO capacitors are not leaking or popped, and it doesn't sound like a hard drive click especially since it happens even with the PC off...) If its not causing any harm, I don not want to RMA it. I repeat DO NOT WANT to RMA. It functions perfectly fine in every other sense (sometimes the fan whines, that's it), and don't want to risk getting a WORSE psu through RMA.
Is this common in this PSU? What could it be? Most importantly, is it bad. I want to do anything that I can so I DO NOT have to RMA this psu.
I'm starting to hear these random "click" noises, almost like the snap of static electricity or the clicking of a light switch. It makes ONE SINGLE CLICK NOISE, and then stays quiet.... This happens SOMETIMES when I start or stop a program, AKA putting the psu under load or relieving its load, or when I start or shutdown my computer. It doesn't behave like this everytime, its almost completely random.
The oddest thing is that I sometimes hear this when my PC is off too, sometimes 2-4 times an hour... I can't don't think its coming from the speakers, it sounds like a more metallic clicking noise, not a static "pop" of a speaker being charged.
I'm about 90% sure its the PSU, and don't know what to think of it. MOBO capacitors are not leaking or popped, and it doesn't sound like a hard drive click especially since it happens even with the PC off...) If its not causing any harm, I don not want to RMA it. I repeat DO NOT WANT to RMA. It functions perfectly fine in every other sense (sometimes the fan whines, that's it), and don't want to risk getting a WORSE psu through RMA.
Is this common in this PSU? What could it be? Most importantly, is it bad. I want to do anything that I can so I DO NOT have to RMA this psu.
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